Space Opera writing prompts

Space opera is big rooms and bigger feelings. Pick a prompt, name the empire, and let your group write a war it can't win.

1. An empress receives a marriage proposal from a planet that has never existed.
2. A starship captain wakes from cryosleep to find her crew has aged forty years and her enemy is now her grandson.
3. The galactic library is hiring assassins.
4. A junior diplomat is sent to negotiate with a planet of immortal children.
5. The empire's tax inspector arrives at the rebel base.
6. A pilot defects, then realises she has carried her own war with her.
7. Two rival admirals discover they are clones of the same dead general.
8. The throneworld receives a distress call from itself.