Space opera silliness
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newnumber6So, some of you might have noticed (particularly by some of my icons) that I have a soft spot for crossovers, even cracktastic ones. So, after the super-team one I couldn't resist...
The Ultimate Space-Opera Crew!
My challenge to you is: Similar to the super-team challenge, assemble a starship and crew from your various space-based fandoms. However, you can only use each fandom once (but given how few space based TV shows, you can count different shows or movies set in the same universe as different fandoms, so long as they don't share a large number of main characters). You can also use books, if you so desire. For comics, Marvel Universe as a whole counts as one fandom, DC Universe as another, and other comic universes as separate ones, but the characters should have some space connection.
Choose:
1) Your Ship: Choose any space ship you want, but it should be big enough to hold your crew, and choice of ship might influence what members of your crew you need (if your ship has no weapons, a weapons officer isn't needed, and if your ship needs someone with telepathic powers to fly it, you should have one of those). Characters who are directly integrated into the ship itself (an onboard AI, or physically attached like Pilot in Farscape) are included, but nobody who could have a destiny separate from the ship.
2) Your Crew:
Each member of your crew must also come from a different fandom (however, you can use the same _character_ in more than one role, it's your crew. You can also use multiple people sharing the same role, so long as each individual on your crew comes from a different fandom).
Exactly what roles you need to fill is up to you, but here are some suggestions:
a) The Captain
b) First Officer
c) Pilot(s)
d) The Tactical/Weapons Officer
e) The Doctor
f) The Science Officer
g) The Alien (the one whose role in the story is to reflect and comment on humanity from an outside perspective. This could be an actual alien, a robot, or some kind of particularly odd human)
h) The Everyman
i) Soldier-type(s) for planetary missions and in-ship fighting
Every member of your crew should, in their existing fandoms, have had some experience on a spaceship of some kind. But this is an internet game and people will break rules all the time.
3) Your Mission: The mission statement for your crew should doesn't have to come from a SF fandom, but you should have one that makes sense for your characters and your ship.
4) (Optional) Any explanations for how and why they got together.
My choices:
1) The ship: The Andromeda Ascendant, Andromeda. While the show was iffy, I always really liked the ship. Nanotech, drones and slip fighters, and FTL travel. Plus, it comes with its own AI that can run the ship with a minimal crew (although there's room enough for many people).
2) The crew:
Captain: You know, as much as I know he wouldn't be suited for a big ship, I just can't think of anyone I'd want more than Malcolm Reynolds from Firefly. I mean, my next choice after that is Jean Luc Picard, and he's a little too stuffy for my tastes, or Commander Adama, but I don't care for some of his politics, plus I want to use someone else from BSG. And, dagnabit, I want somebody from Firefly, and I think it works out to the only ones I can really use being either Mal as Captain or Zoe as first mate. But I love my Captain. So he's in. Maybe he got chosen accidentally.
First Officer: Captain Reynolds deserves an unfailingly loyal First Officer. So I have to go with Chewbacca! Well, maybe not, that'd bring up too many Han Solo comparisons. But I can't think of anyone in particular I'd want to have, so let's give us... Commander Ivonova from Babylon 5.
Pilot: Star Pilot Grainger, from the Hooded Swan novels. One of my favorite characters... abraisive, sarcastic, unlikeable, misanthrope, but a good pilot and very smart, particularly about science. Plus, he's got an alien symbiote in his brain that talks to him. Oh, and he's a near pacifist, at least personally speaking. Also, John Crichton from Farscape would be another, but I'll talk more about why when we get to 'Everyman'.
Those are the ship pilots, anyway. The fighter pilots would be a bunch of no names, but one of them would be Starbuck from Battlestar Galactica. Maybe someone from Space: Above and Beyond. I'd have to go with the guy Richard Morrison played, though, if I could have him before the injury that made him unable to fly again.
Doctor: I'd have two on-board physicians. The first would be Dr. Prilicla, from the Sector General series. He's an empathic, insectlike creature from a very low gravity world who uses gravity belts, and everyone always seems to like him. I'd also like Dr. Julian Bashir, genetically engineered genius doctor from Star Trek: Deep Space 9. Plus, Alexander Siddig is awesome. I think they'd work well together.
Communications officer/linguist: Hoshi Sato from Enterprise, one of the few good things about the show.
Tactical Officer: Bean, from Ender's Game and the Ender's Shadow subseries. He can have command of the slipfighter pilots and keep the whole battle in his head, knowing where to strike. It was a toss up whether to choose Ender or Bean, but I just like Bean a little more.
Science Officers: Dr. Samantha Carter, SG1, and Dr. Rodney McKay, Stargate Atlantis. Because they're a hoot when they're together, and again, they bring the much needed talent of being able to remember past episodes and learn from science encountered along the way.
Engineer: I was really tempted to use Kaylee from Firefly, but I think Andromeda's systems need someone a bit more intensively trained than her 'I just know how stuff works, is all' method. So I'm going to go with The Engineer from the comic series The Authority. Not only should she be able to get Andromeda to do whatever, she can put up a hell of a fight in a battle. Plus, she'll probably have the knowhow to integrate tech from various universes (like the Dr. Device) into the mix, and is possibly the reason they've been going to different universes in the first place.
The Alien: 7 of 9 from Voyager. Resident Borg expert, assists in engineering.
The Everyman: John Crichton, Farscape. Cause anyone who can quote popular culture while in deadly danger is an asset. His official role would probably be a secondary pilot, and particularly for when you need to find wormholes. Or anyway, I'd imagine his 'wormhole sense' would probably translate into 'excellent slipstream travel instincts' in Andromeda. But if not, he's useful for finding wormholes and transporting the ship across different dimensions.
Planetary Exploration Team: Well, actually, different people already on the list would go on planetary missions, particularly Grainger. But for members not already on the list, I'd like a Green Lantern (DC Comics, let's go with the John Stewart version cause I know him best from the cartoon). Probably a few others, too, but I'm getting tired.
I'm going to post my explanations before my mission because it makes more sense that way.
4) The cracktastic explanation!
The Daleks have learned about alternate Earths to break through and try to EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! all non-Dalek life in every universe, ever. One of their first targets is a Star Trek universe (a parallel one) where they encounter the Borg. They defeat them easily, but in doing so and learning the vastness of the multiverse they realize one fact. There aren't enough Daleks to destroy everyone who deserves it in their eyes (which is pretty well everyone but the Daleks), even at normal breeding paces, before the multiverses end naturally. So they decide to take a few pages from the Borg book and assimilate new Daleks. These imperfect Daleks are designed with a 'once everyone else is gone we'll destroy you too' button.
So the Daleks start spreading and destroying. After consuming some parallel universes, they eventually hit on the one that the Authority is from. They hit Earth first, as they always tend to do for some reason. The Authority tries to intervene, but get beaten, badly.
The Engineer is the only one to escape, riding the Carrier through to another dimension. Only she's followed. Recognizing the Daleks from the TV of her world, she escapes from world to world, until finally she realizes they're tracking her and sets a trap for them... taking them to a universe devoid of life and detonating the Carrier's power source, scribbling over the universe with a new one. She takes a gate to save herself in the last second, but the collapsing universe makes her wind up in the Panoptichron, from Exiles (Marvel). There, she taps into the files and downloads them into herself, monitoring the Dalek threat and trying to find a universe with the Doctor in it (since she liked the TV show), or failing that, a new ship and crew that can defeat it. She uses the projections of the panoptichron to figure out who from which universes would best be put in any of the roles. For some reason Malcolm Reynolds is chosen as the ideal captain.
Unfortunately, the Daleks are picking up on her spying. So she picks up a starting crew, unsticks them from their own times, and lets loose into a new dimension before sealing off the Panoptichron from any entry (including her own), and boarding the Andromeda (which is taken from the first ep when Captain Hunt is the only one alive. He gets killed off early, probably while giving a big speech to the Daleks they just exterminate him), and that's when Captain Reynolds officially takes command even though he has no idea what he's doing).
Phew. Okay, I know it's pretty lame, but I did the best I could in about half an hour to whip up an explanation that covered everyone being together. ;)
3) The mission: Travel through different parallel universes acquiring expertise and searching for anything that can help defeat the growing Dalek horde. In particular, Andromeda finds itself leading a ragtag fugitive fleet, looking on a lonely quest. Looking for a shining planet, called Earth. But their quest is harder, because they need to find the Earth of one particular dimension, where they can find the one man that the Daleks fear. A quirky little alien who has a particular interest in the country England.
Oh, and I'm also showing off these new icon. The first is the one I'm using now for my first 'rotating' icon slot, but I'm posting it here in case I change it. I also made this other SG1 one based on a lame joke:
The Ultimate Space-Opera Crew!
My challenge to you is: Similar to the super-team challenge, assemble a starship and crew from your various space-based fandoms. However, you can only use each fandom once (but given how few space based TV shows, you can count different shows or movies set in the same universe as different fandoms, so long as they don't share a large number of main characters). You can also use books, if you so desire. For comics, Marvel Universe as a whole counts as one fandom, DC Universe as another, and other comic universes as separate ones, but the characters should have some space connection.
Choose:
1) Your Ship: Choose any space ship you want, but it should be big enough to hold your crew, and choice of ship might influence what members of your crew you need (if your ship has no weapons, a weapons officer isn't needed, and if your ship needs someone with telepathic powers to fly it, you should have one of those). Characters who are directly integrated into the ship itself (an onboard AI, or physically attached like Pilot in Farscape) are included, but nobody who could have a destiny separate from the ship.
2) Your Crew:
Each member of your crew must also come from a different fandom (however, you can use the same _character_ in more than one role, it's your crew. You can also use multiple people sharing the same role, so long as each individual on your crew comes from a different fandom).
Exactly what roles you need to fill is up to you, but here are some suggestions:
a) The Captain
b) First Officer
c) Pilot(s)
d) The Tactical/Weapons Officer
e) The Doctor
f) The Science Officer
g) The Alien (the one whose role in the story is to reflect and comment on humanity from an outside perspective. This could be an actual alien, a robot, or some kind of particularly odd human)
h) The Everyman
i) Soldier-type(s) for planetary missions and in-ship fighting
Every member of your crew should, in their existing fandoms, have had some experience on a spaceship of some kind. But this is an internet game and people will break rules all the time.
3) Your Mission: The mission statement for your crew should doesn't have to come from a SF fandom, but you should have one that makes sense for your characters and your ship.
4) (Optional) Any explanations for how and why they got together.
My choices:
1) The ship: The Andromeda Ascendant, Andromeda. While the show was iffy, I always really liked the ship. Nanotech, drones and slip fighters, and FTL travel. Plus, it comes with its own AI that can run the ship with a minimal crew (although there's room enough for many people).
2) The crew:
Captain: You know, as much as I know he wouldn't be suited for a big ship, I just can't think of anyone I'd want more than Malcolm Reynolds from Firefly. I mean, my next choice after that is Jean Luc Picard, and he's a little too stuffy for my tastes, or Commander Adama, but I don't care for some of his politics, plus I want to use someone else from BSG. And, dagnabit, I want somebody from Firefly, and I think it works out to the only ones I can really use being either Mal as Captain or Zoe as first mate. But I love my Captain. So he's in. Maybe he got chosen accidentally.
First Officer: Captain Reynolds deserves an unfailingly loyal First Officer. So I have to go with Chewbacca! Well, maybe not, that'd bring up too many Han Solo comparisons. But I can't think of anyone in particular I'd want to have, so let's give us... Commander Ivonova from Babylon 5.
Pilot: Star Pilot Grainger, from the Hooded Swan novels. One of my favorite characters... abraisive, sarcastic, unlikeable, misanthrope, but a good pilot and very smart, particularly about science. Plus, he's got an alien symbiote in his brain that talks to him. Oh, and he's a near pacifist, at least personally speaking. Also, John Crichton from Farscape would be another, but I'll talk more about why when we get to 'Everyman'.
Those are the ship pilots, anyway. The fighter pilots would be a bunch of no names, but one of them would be Starbuck from Battlestar Galactica. Maybe someone from Space: Above and Beyond. I'd have to go with the guy Richard Morrison played, though, if I could have him before the injury that made him unable to fly again.
Doctor: I'd have two on-board physicians. The first would be Dr. Prilicla, from the Sector General series. He's an empathic, insectlike creature from a very low gravity world who uses gravity belts, and everyone always seems to like him. I'd also like Dr. Julian Bashir, genetically engineered genius doctor from Star Trek: Deep Space 9. Plus, Alexander Siddig is awesome. I think they'd work well together.
Communications officer/linguist: Hoshi Sato from Enterprise, one of the few good things about the show.
Tactical Officer: Bean, from Ender's Game and the Ender's Shadow subseries. He can have command of the slipfighter pilots and keep the whole battle in his head, knowing where to strike. It was a toss up whether to choose Ender or Bean, but I just like Bean a little more.
Science Officers: Dr. Samantha Carter, SG1, and Dr. Rodney McKay, Stargate Atlantis. Because they're a hoot when they're together, and again, they bring the much needed talent of being able to remember past episodes and learn from science encountered along the way.
Engineer: I was really tempted to use Kaylee from Firefly, but I think Andromeda's systems need someone a bit more intensively trained than her 'I just know how stuff works, is all' method. So I'm going to go with The Engineer from the comic series The Authority. Not only should she be able to get Andromeda to do whatever, she can put up a hell of a fight in a battle. Plus, she'll probably have the knowhow to integrate tech from various universes (like the Dr. Device) into the mix, and is possibly the reason they've been going to different universes in the first place.
The Alien: 7 of 9 from Voyager. Resident Borg expert, assists in engineering.
The Everyman: John Crichton, Farscape. Cause anyone who can quote popular culture while in deadly danger is an asset. His official role would probably be a secondary pilot, and particularly for when you need to find wormholes. Or anyway, I'd imagine his 'wormhole sense' would probably translate into 'excellent slipstream travel instincts' in Andromeda. But if not, he's useful for finding wormholes and transporting the ship across different dimensions.
Planetary Exploration Team: Well, actually, different people already on the list would go on planetary missions, particularly Grainger. But for members not already on the list, I'd like a Green Lantern (DC Comics, let's go with the John Stewart version cause I know him best from the cartoon). Probably a few others, too, but I'm getting tired.
I'm going to post my explanations before my mission because it makes more sense that way.
4) The cracktastic explanation!
The Daleks have learned about alternate Earths to break through and try to EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! all non-Dalek life in every universe, ever. One of their first targets is a Star Trek universe (a parallel one) where they encounter the Borg. They defeat them easily, but in doing so and learning the vastness of the multiverse they realize one fact. There aren't enough Daleks to destroy everyone who deserves it in their eyes (which is pretty well everyone but the Daleks), even at normal breeding paces, before the multiverses end naturally. So they decide to take a few pages from the Borg book and assimilate new Daleks. These imperfect Daleks are designed with a 'once everyone else is gone we'll destroy you too' button.
So the Daleks start spreading and destroying. After consuming some parallel universes, they eventually hit on the one that the Authority is from. They hit Earth first, as they always tend to do for some reason. The Authority tries to intervene, but get beaten, badly.
The Engineer is the only one to escape, riding the Carrier through to another dimension. Only she's followed. Recognizing the Daleks from the TV of her world, she escapes from world to world, until finally she realizes they're tracking her and sets a trap for them... taking them to a universe devoid of life and detonating the Carrier's power source, scribbling over the universe with a new one. She takes a gate to save herself in the last second, but the collapsing universe makes her wind up in the Panoptichron, from Exiles (Marvel). There, she taps into the files and downloads them into herself, monitoring the Dalek threat and trying to find a universe with the Doctor in it (since she liked the TV show), or failing that, a new ship and crew that can defeat it. She uses the projections of the panoptichron to figure out who from which universes would best be put in any of the roles. For some reason Malcolm Reynolds is chosen as the ideal captain.
Unfortunately, the Daleks are picking up on her spying. So she picks up a starting crew, unsticks them from their own times, and lets loose into a new dimension before sealing off the Panoptichron from any entry (including her own), and boarding the Andromeda (which is taken from the first ep when Captain Hunt is the only one alive. He gets killed off early, probably while giving a big speech to the Daleks they just exterminate him), and that's when Captain Reynolds officially takes command even though he has no idea what he's doing).
Phew. Okay, I know it's pretty lame, but I did the best I could in about half an hour to whip up an explanation that covered everyone being together. ;)
3) The mission: Travel through different parallel universes acquiring expertise and searching for anything that can help defeat the growing Dalek horde. In particular, Andromeda finds itself leading a ragtag fugitive fleet, looking on a lonely quest. Looking for a shining planet, called Earth. But their quest is harder, because they need to find the Earth of one particular dimension, where they can find the one man that the Daleks fear. A quirky little alien who has a particular interest in the country England.
Oh, and I'm also showing off these new icon. The first is the one I'm using now for my first 'rotating' icon slot, but I'm posting it here in case I change it. I also made this other SG1 one based on a lame joke:
