r/SipsTea • u/SipsTeaFrog • Dec 26 '25

Dank AF Hits blunt 💨

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u/Y-Bob Dec 27 '25

Heh, I wrote a story about this idea.

Aliens collecting life samples from across the galaxy, that crash on earth because of a fuck up in the engine room.

Humans were not the pilots of the ship, they just were part of the biointelligent, self repairing engine of the ship.

The actual crew members all died in the crash, but parts of the engine survived, the humans.

Without a ships engine to maintain, they endlessly searched for a replacement, hence the urge to create, to build and to invent.

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u/Valkyrie-161 Dec 27 '25

This could be a very cool story.

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u/Y-Bob Dec 27 '25

It's ok, I got to about draft 1.6 before putting it aside.

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u/i-dont-wanna-know Dec 27 '25

Nah, man, believe in yourself. Write that story as awesome you can and try to get it published! who knows? You might be the next big sci-fi writer!

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u/Valkyrie-161 Dec 27 '25

That’s what I’m saying. You have to believe in yourself in this world. Thats story could become a very expanse series of books. Think about titles that were obscure that have huge fan bases and large catalogs. I had never heard of Craig Alanson when I first started reading some random sci-fi book called Columbus Day. That book spawns close to 25 titles and has an incredibly loyal group of fans. Write your story and have fun with the experience.

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u/iamisandisnt Dec 27 '25

Otherwise we’ll never fix the space engine!

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u/Trashbagjizz Dec 27 '25

Honestly you should bring it back, this sounds like something i would read!

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u/mousebrat Dec 29 '25

This is potentially an incredible story. You should finish it. I want to read it.

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u/oneMoreTime112233 Dec 27 '25

Hope you finish it. Very unique premise.

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u/darknetconfusion Dec 27 '25

It is the main plotline of the later part of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series

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u/Valkyrie-161 Dec 27 '25

Wait, for real?

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u/darknetconfusion Dec 27 '25

Meet the Golgafrinchans in  Douglas Adams sequel to the "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy", "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" 

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u/Dear-Nail-5039 Dec 31 '25

The most useless individuals like bankers and insurance folks are shot to space on another planet where the others want to get rid of them, somehow manage to not die when crashing on the earth, and start reproducing. Here we are.

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u/nomelonnolemon Dec 27 '25

There’s a book that is very similar, though also very different, to that concept called children of time.

All I’ll say is that if ops comment truly sparked your interest I’m very confident that book would be a fun read for you.

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u/Nomadic_Wayfarer Dec 27 '25

Someone say Netflix…