@Chicken_Raptor
Aww, you scrapped that? Sounds like it would be interesting if you wrote it. Maybe a fun challenge too, because I'm imagining having to keep track of three small governments.

@Jelly
Wow, you've done a lot of brainstorming! I like the idea of the scavenging pirates vs. the king. Sounds like there could be a lot of room for comedy too, if the pirates know next to nothing about the culture(s) and inventions of that planet. ^^

@Aveture
I like rats. Sentient rats are even better. Still, poor Speck, being a lab rat couldn't have been fun. And ooh, stories with original races are always interesting. Or even classic races that've been modified so much as to be original races.

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I've been writing and/or brainstorming five different stories on and off for a while, some of them since 2012. My favorite one at the moment is about an alternate (or future) humanity where everyone is made of either a solid metal or mineral. The story takes into account the actual properties of those metals and minerals, so it's been a lot of fun figuring things out, like how a mercury person could exist in this world without being a puddle, or how an alkali metal person could exist without being a danger to everyone and themselves. And of course, these people live on a low-gravity planet because otherwise they'd be super-heavy mofos who couldn't move without breaking themselves, lol. Even then, they're still pretty heavy--one of the characters is an osmium kid who has to use a special wheelchair to get around paved areas, because if he walked, he'd cause property damage with every step. Anyway, as much as I want to, I can't post this story in the forums because the plot indirectly (and sometimes directly) criticizes social norms, which could be seen as political. :p

...But I am gonna post a story about androids, because no writing board is complete without androids. ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ