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Aug. 29th, 2006 08:07 pmbliumchikThe Ultimate Space-Opera Crew! Yes, it's similar to the last meme, but this one is much better for newnumber6's fiddling.
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.
Now that I think of it, I have a surprisingly small number of fandoms involving spaceships.
The Ultimate Space-Opera Crew!
The Ship: Red Dwarf. No question. Of course this sort of makes the pilot redundant, since Hal the senile AI handles it. Anyway, the Red Dwarf is a HUGE MOFO of a mining ship. "It could eat Copenhagen, and have Helsingor for afters." And it's painted bright, bright red.
The Captain: Willy Wonka. He had a glass elevator! It totally works! Besides, can you just imagine it?
First Officer: Kif from Fururama. "Kif Kroker is a hard working, long suffering alien Lieutenant of the DOOP who does all the hard work and takes the rap for problems usually caused by Captain Zapp. Zapp considers him to be his most loyal friend when in fact Kif views him as a jackass. Among Kif's many unknown and un-noticed talents is his expert hairdressing and makeover skills. He is smitten with his current girlfriend Amy. He has no bones and is supported by a system of inflated bladders."
The Tactical/Weapons Officer: Ender Wiggin. I haven't read the last book, but I think we'd have to snag him at age 20 or so, pre-marriage. He'd have periodic bouts of angst because he really doesn't want to do any more killing, but he'd be damn GOOD at out-maneouvering things.
The Science Officer: Kin Arad, from Strata, by Terry Pratchett. She's got a brilliant scientific mind and is well-versed in the doings of the sort of technology that creats mountain ranges (she signed her name in one when she was younger). Over 200 years old, essentially immortal except for unfortunate accidents, things like skin colour are pretty much optional (but she has to wear a wig, cos the immortality tech doesn't work on hair). Basically I just wanted someone very, very clever.
:The Alien: The Librarian, from Discworld. He was on Leonard Da Quirm's big moon-flying contraption thing. He likes bananas and says "ook" a lot, meaning anything between "yes, please, with extra gravy" and "I'd swear there was a rainforest here just now..." - also, his preferred form of attack consists of sitting on your shoulders and unscrewing your head by the ears. On no account must you call him a monkey.
The Everyman: Arthur Dent, from Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. He pretty much is The Everyman, permanently befuddled, desperately in need of a cup of tea, was more or less abducted in his dressing gown, which he's been wearing for a few million years...
Soldier-type(s):
The Stainless Steel Rat, Jim Digriz himself. Star of an old and little-known series by Harry Harrison, he's like Houdini, Moist Von Lipwig and Samuel L. "motherfucking Snakes" Jackson rolled into one.
Jayne Cobb, of Firefly. Rude and crude and likes his guns a little too much. Good to have behind you in a fight - actually, better to have in front of you in a fight.
The Shrike, from Hyperion by Dan Simmons. It's this weird spiky metal monster thing, and it's here for Creepifying value.
3) Your Mission:Chocolate! That's the stupidest- What about copious stacks of money, how does that- I'm all for- Ook! What did he say? Banana chocolate! What a wonderful- I'm surrounded by morons. What about peaveful exploration? That's a good mission. What kind of pansy-ass mission is that? I'd really like a cup of tea right now. *beep* message accepted.hey, no, that's not our mission - dammit, Hal, how do you reset this thing?!
4) Alright! This is gonna be good! *grin*
Willy Wonka was playing with an experimental candy that was literally like flying through space. Due to an unfortunate industrial accident involving grated mango and a hypomanic oompa loompa, he is now aboard the Red Dwarf, where Hal took a liking to him and named him captain, since everyone else on board had died in a freak gazpacho incident. The Improbability potential of this event dragged Arthur Dent along just as he was pouring his first cup of tea in several million years.
Meanwhile, Kif Kroker and Kin Arad found themselves trapped in a space shuttle after fiddling with wormholes in their respective universes. Well, it was Zapp doing the fiddling, but Kif got sucked in, as per usual. Wonka stops to pick them up.
Jim picked up Jayne while escaping from a prison complex that exists in several universes. He figured, at the very least, he could use him as a human shield. As it turned out, someone has to keep the pursuit occupied while Jim deals with the trickier locks. Ender Wiggin gets caught in a Space-time anomaly and dumped on their raft as they float away from said complex. Jayne argues for pushing him overboard, but at that point Jim picks up a signal from his Thumb (a device his mate Ford Prefect lent him). They hitch a ride on the Red Dwarf.
The Shrike and the Librarian just sort of turn up, the former because it's freaky as shit and the latter because the Red Dwarf has a digital library on board.
Their adventures must be a sight to behold.
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.
Now that I think of it, I have a surprisingly small number of fandoms involving spaceships.
The Ultimate Space-Opera Crew!
The Ship: Red Dwarf. No question. Of course this sort of makes the pilot redundant, since Hal the senile AI handles it. Anyway, the Red Dwarf is a HUGE MOFO of a mining ship. "It could eat Copenhagen, and have Helsingor for afters." And it's painted bright, bright red.
The Captain: Willy Wonka. He had a glass elevator! It totally works! Besides, can you just imagine it?
First Officer: Kif from Fururama. "Kif Kroker is a hard working, long suffering alien Lieutenant of the DOOP who does all the hard work and takes the rap for problems usually caused by Captain Zapp. Zapp considers him to be his most loyal friend when in fact Kif views him as a jackass. Among Kif's many unknown and un-noticed talents is his expert hairdressing and makeover skills. He is smitten with his current girlfriend Amy. He has no bones and is supported by a system of inflated bladders."
The Tactical/Weapons Officer: Ender Wiggin. I haven't read the last book, but I think we'd have to snag him at age 20 or so, pre-marriage. He'd have periodic bouts of angst because he really doesn't want to do any more killing, but he'd be damn GOOD at out-maneouvering things.
The Science Officer: Kin Arad, from Strata, by Terry Pratchett. She's got a brilliant scientific mind and is well-versed in the doings of the sort of technology that creats mountain ranges (she signed her name in one when she was younger). Over 200 years old, essentially immortal except for unfortunate accidents, things like skin colour are pretty much optional (but she has to wear a wig, cos the immortality tech doesn't work on hair). Basically I just wanted someone very, very clever.
:The Alien: The Librarian, from Discworld. He was on Leonard Da Quirm's big moon-flying contraption thing. He likes bananas and says "ook" a lot, meaning anything between "yes, please, with extra gravy" and "I'd swear there was a rainforest here just now..." - also, his preferred form of attack consists of sitting on your shoulders and unscrewing your head by the ears. On no account must you call him a monkey.
The Everyman: Arthur Dent, from Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. He pretty much is The Everyman, permanently befuddled, desperately in need of a cup of tea, was more or less abducted in his dressing gown, which he's been wearing for a few million years...
Soldier-type(s):
The Stainless Steel Rat, Jim Digriz himself. Star of an old and little-known series by Harry Harrison, he's like Houdini, Moist Von Lipwig and Samuel L. "motherfucking Snakes" Jackson rolled into one.
Jayne Cobb, of Firefly. Rude and crude and likes his guns a little too much. Good to have behind you in a fight - actually, better to have in front of you in a fight.
The Shrike, from Hyperion by Dan Simmons. It's this weird spiky metal monster thing, and it's here for Creepifying value.
3) Your Mission:
4) Alright! This is gonna be good! *grin*
Willy Wonka was playing with an experimental candy that was literally like flying through space. Due to an unfortunate industrial accident involving grated mango and a hypomanic oompa loompa, he is now aboard the Red Dwarf, where Hal took a liking to him and named him captain, since everyone else on board had died in a freak gazpacho incident. The Improbability potential of this event dragged Arthur Dent along just as he was pouring his first cup of tea in several million years.
Meanwhile, Kif Kroker and Kin Arad found themselves trapped in a space shuttle after fiddling with wormholes in their respective universes. Well, it was Zapp doing the fiddling, but Kif got sucked in, as per usual. Wonka stops to pick them up.
Jim picked up Jayne while escaping from a prison complex that exists in several universes. He figured, at the very least, he could use him as a human shield. As it turned out, someone has to keep the pursuit occupied while Jim deals with the trickier locks. Ender Wiggin gets caught in a Space-time anomaly and dumped on their raft as they float away from said complex. Jayne argues for pushing him overboard, but at that point Jim picks up a signal from his Thumb (a device his mate Ford Prefect lent him). They hitch a ride on the Red Dwarf.
The Shrike and the Librarian just sort of turn up, the former because it's freaky as shit and the latter because the Red Dwarf has a digital library on board.
Their adventures must be a sight to behold.
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Date: 2006-09-02 02:36 am (UTC)