Worldbuilding Weekend Prompt #136 - Ark
Welcome to the next in an ongoing series of writing prompts in the Worldbuilding community !
I'm aiming to post one of these each Sunday. They aren't a replacement for the excellent daily prompts from @worldbuilding they're just an extra opportunity if you have a writing itch you want to scratch. 😀
Image generated by AI in Wombo.art
The prompt this week is - Ark
An ark is just a container. The Ark of the Covenant (wherever it might be hiding) was an ornate box holding a couple of slabs of stone. But the better known Ark is the one built by Noah (or maybe Utnapishtim, or Ziusudra, or Manu, or Deucalion, depending on which version of the flood myth you're reading) which collected up pairs of animals to survive the catastrophe. Apparently the unicorns didn't get the message in time.
In modern times, an Ark of sorts has been built in the form of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Some discussion has been had about putting an Ark on the moon, to preserve genetic samples and seeds to repopulate the Earth in the event of a catastrophe.
Tell me about an Ark from your setting ! What is the imminent disaster ? How much warning is there, or is the Ark being built just as a precaution ? Who is building it, and on whose orders ? What is being put in the Ark, and (probably most important of all) how successful is it ?
Just to add a bit of spice to things, the two entries I most like (and are linked in comments to this post, so I can find them !) that are posted by midnight (GMT) next Saturday will each get a prize of one Hive SBI.
This link will take you to the FAQ where you can read more about Hive SBI - it's a project I thoroughly support because it gives both the donor and winner a steady trickle of passive income paid out in the form of upvotes on posts.
Guidelines
I stole these guidelines straight from @worldbuilding prompts (I hope that's okay !), I couldn't have written them any better myself....
- Prompt replies may be anything! Art, game assets, stories, worldbuilding details, fake wiki entries, maps... whatever you want to create!
- Please ensure you reply to this post with a link to your reply
- Posting in or cross-posting to the Worldbuilding community is highly encouraged
- Use the hashtag #worldbuilding
- Prompt replies can be any length.
- AI images to illustrate your posts are fine, as long as they are credited to whichever software you used to make them
- Posts using AI to create the text are not acceptable; these prompts (and community) are a way to expand and have fun with human imagination, and I firmly believe AI will never be able to replicate the human spark.
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It can be a lot of fun to mix and match our prompts with some of these other community prompts.
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