Valdar
Tuesday 09-30-2008, 06:10 AM
I had an interesting take on this crossover, prepared for the anniversary event of PNPG (but not really that prepared)- what would your take be?
In my case, it was this: Instead of being troubleshooters in Alpha Complex, your intrepid crew of adventurers were the recently activated (clone? frozen embryo?) crew of a slower-than-light Von Neumann vessel, launched clandestinely during the Reagan adminstration at the height of the Cold War...
This was a last-ditch attempt to preserve traditional American values, in the face of total nuclear annihilation or Communist onslaught. This vessel contains sufficient resources and machines to build a colony, and populate said colony from stored human tissue, and eventually build and launch new probes to the other stars! If all goes well-
But, as would be expected, things do not go well. The crew was activated hundreds of years early, and a strange culture evolves on the ship, influenced by both traditional American values, and a deep-seated fear of Communism.
Your story begins aboard the vessel, when planetfall is imminent- What awaits you on the new planet? Can you overcome the New Communists aboard your ship in your quest? Is your laser handy? Will you even survive the thermonuclear-powered braking sequence, that you were supposed to be in cryo for?
These and many other challenges face you as a newly-spawned Troubleshooter on the USS Alpha-Omega...
In my case, it was this: Instead of being troubleshooters in Alpha Complex, your intrepid crew of adventurers were the recently activated (clone? frozen embryo?) crew of a slower-than-light Von Neumann vessel, launched clandestinely during the Reagan adminstration at the height of the Cold War...
This was a last-ditch attempt to preserve traditional American values, in the face of total nuclear annihilation or Communist onslaught. This vessel contains sufficient resources and machines to build a colony, and populate said colony from stored human tissue, and eventually build and launch new probes to the other stars! If all goes well-
But, as would be expected, things do not go well. The crew was activated hundreds of years early, and a strange culture evolves on the ship, influenced by both traditional American values, and a deep-seated fear of Communism.
Your story begins aboard the vessel, when planetfall is imminent- What awaits you on the new planet? Can you overcome the New Communists aboard your ship in your quest? Is your laser handy? Will you even survive the thermonuclear-powered braking sequence, that you were supposed to be in cryo for?
These and many other challenges face you as a newly-spawned Troubleshooter on the USS Alpha-Omega...