We are many. We are one. We have seen what has become of this world, and who is responsible. We demand punishment. We demand repayment. We do not forget.

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Wuckster CarolinaC TEBramble WilliamJJackson trfoxtrot CJG1988 SallyMason1 Sephuran minusfractions HardeeBurger CelestriaUniverse jinnis painebook sacredlilac OutrageousOllo Holly_Gonzalez Wolfwhistle

Welcome to the first round of SD:BTOR. We're keeping it very simple:

Using the bolded bit of text above as the opening lines to your tale, write a sci-fi story with a minimum of 1000 words.

No specific sub-genre required for this one, write whatever kind of sci-fi you like. Curious where you guys'll take this one.

Submit your stories to [email protected] in .doc or .docx form, or as a Google Doc, or by copy-pasting into the body of the email.

The deadline for this round will be May 1st, 3:30 PM PST/6:30 PM EST/10:30 PM UTC/10:30 AM NZT.

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Judges—MadMikeMarsbergen, ashiqtnt, Nablai—will each eliminate one person from their pool of contestants for this round. This means a total of three people will be eliminated in Round 1.

MadMikeMarsbergen will judge the following:

painebook, HardeeBurger, TEBramble, Wuckster, CarolinaC, sacredlilac

ashiqtnt will judge the following:

Wolfwhistle, minusfractions, trfoxtrot, Holly_Gonzalez, SallyMason1

Nablai will judge the following:

OutrageousOllo, Sephuran, WilliamJJackson, CelestriaUniverse, jinnis, CJG1988