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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thomas Bowman" data-source="post: 7416026" data-attributes="member: 6925649">I like the first season better than the second, the second adopts the "Star Trek format". The first season deals with intrigue between the Terrans fighting to maintain their independence and the Draconian Empire which wants to conquer them. So this campaign is based more on the first season Buck Rogers than the second, one feature of the first season is this dependence on stargates for interstellar travel, I like it first because it addresses the problem of interstellar travel, there are a system of stargates which the heroes use to move from planet to planet. One oversite is that the heroes don't go to any other part of the Solar System besides Earth, we know very little about what the rest of the Solar System is like, also the stargates in the television series appear closer than the ones I placed on my map, basically around single star systems, they are the approximate distance as Pluto. it take a while to get there even if accelerating at 1-g. Buck Rogers seems to use his Starfighter for every thing, he makes personal trips in it, he fights bad guys in it, it might as well be a starship, and it travels through stargates just fine. Being stuck in a cockpit for days at a time is a little annoying, but not unendurable, this is no worse than that faced by the Mercury astronauts after all.I think certain concepts within the show need to be updated. You have Doctor Theopolis, that is an AI in a medallion that is carried around by a miniature anthropomorphic metallic robot named Twiki. Basically they are droids just like in Star Wars except Doctor Theopolis has no arms and legs. The concept of an internet seems to be lacking in this series. So what happens if we make Doctor Theopolis a free willed disembodied AI program? That way he gets to live on the internet instead of in one particular piece of hardware such as that Medallion that Twiki carries. Living in a body that has no arms and legs and being unable to travel through the internet is something of an inconvenience. In a more modernized version Doctor Theopolis would be uploading and downloading all over the place, maybe he is a virtual human, that is a human simulated by software, lives in a virtual house with a virtual wife and children and eats virtual food, though that may be going a little far. the story takes place more in real space that in cyberspace, and Theopolis is a supporting character. Twiki, well I don't know what to do with him, I suppose he could be a sort of maintenance robot much like R2D2.</blockquote>

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