(Remember when Han says "never tell me the odds"? In our theory, this is why: he can manipulate the odds as long as he doesn't know them. Luke and Leia, of course, can do it even when they do know them.)
Oh, hey, this is brilliant. Brilliant. There were umpty fan universes (that is, story series) for SW, some of them damn good, and this kind of premise would be terrific. Getting into the core politics and Why Stuff Works always interested me more than just spaceships going FTL, but having *both* is awesome.
Only slightly at a tangent, it's fairly obvious that the generation that saw original SW spent the next decade writing space opera (and there were many zines, and much rejoicing), and some of them filed off the serial numbers and published it as the next generation of mass-market paperback colorful spacey SF. And there was much rejoicing, and cackling galactic evil, and mystical galactic good. I'm convinced that Firefly is a linear descendant of it all.
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Oh, hey, this is brilliant. Brilliant. There were umpty fan universes (that is, story series) for SW, some of them damn good, and this kind of premise would be terrific. Getting into the core politics and Why Stuff Works always interested me more than just spaceships going FTL, but having *both* is awesome.
Only slightly at a tangent, it's fairly obvious that the generation that saw original SW spent the next decade writing space opera (and there were many zines, and much rejoicing), and some of them filed off the serial numbers and published it as the next generation of mass-market paperback colorful spacey SF. And there was much rejoicing, and cackling galactic evil, and mystical galactic good. I'm convinced that Firefly is a linear descendant of it all.