Worldbuilding Weekend Prompt #83 - 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. 😀

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The prompt this week is - Ark

Most of us heari9ng the word "ark" will think of an old chap and his wife in a big wooden boat collecting up pairs of animals. But an ark is really just a safe place to store and protect something of value. In Biblical terms, the Ark of the Covenant is another good example. But it's also used in modern terms to describe places like the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which keeps preserved seeds to ensure the genetic diversity of crops. Science Fiction is full of examples of arks as well, whether underground facilities, orbiting stations or ships journeying to far stars carrying the seeds of human life.

Tell me a story of an ark in your setting ! It could be any genre, and there are lots of different ideas you could play with here, so have fun !

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.

Some other neat communities for writing that you might want to check out are:

• Freewriters
• Scholar and Scribe
• Tabletop / DND
• The Ink Well

It can be a lot of fun to mix and match our prompts with some of these other community prompts.