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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thomas Bowman" data-source="post: 7418969" data-attributes="member: 6925649">I was thinking of this scenario as well, instead of having the Draconians attack in the 21st century, how about this?Buck Rogers is the audience point of view character I think, he comes from a world similar to our own, I should say in a remake, he should come from the near future, say something like the mid 21st century, space travel is more common place than it is now, millionaires and billionaires can afford to vacation in orbit, there is a hotel on the Moon for instance, and astronauts make regular visits to Mars, there is a new military service the United States Space Force (USSF), its organization is similar to the Air Force, the earliest versions of the Space Fighter is deployed, and Busk Rogers is a Space Fighter Pilot. make the space fighter a two stage affair, the bottom stage lifts the fighter into orbit, the fighter docks with an orbital battle platform, the bottom stage then lands back on the launch pad, and a fuel tank is added to it in the nature of a SpaceX BFR rocket, and then lifted back up to the space station. This is a world were nuclear missiles are stored in orbit, there is a missile base on the Moon, the World is in the middle of the Second Cold War between western powers and Russia and China, and an arms race is going on. Buck is a fighter pilot for the Space Force, he is out scouting the asteroid belt, because asteroids are potential weapons, and number of powers are looking for asteroids which can be used against adversarial nations. Buck gets involved in combat with an unfriendly Chinese fighter, when he scouts too closely to a Chinese fighter base, combat ensues, Buck destroys the Chinese fighter, but not before his own fighter gets crippled. For emergencies, deep space fighters have a pilot hibernation system, and to conserve resources Buck Rogers puts himself on ice to await rescue by the by the US Space Force, unfortunately a global nuclear war ensues shortly thereafter and Buck's fighter never gets rescued until Princess Ardala's Fortress Ship discovers it five hundred years later.Buck is not an instant celebrity, he is a news item for a time, but he doesn't have girls chasing him around all over, Ardala takes a special interest in him and he develops a romantic relationship with Wilma Deering, and things go back and forth between them for a while. Ardala is interested in building her empire, while Huer wants to preserve Earth's independence from the Draconian Empire. A World Government is a relatively new creation after Earth has crawled out of the destruction of a nuclear war that occurred nearly five centuries ago. The Draconians are descended from space colonists on Mars that were caught off planet during Earth's nuclear war, and they managed to build a civilization while mostly ignoring Earth, and only when it looks as if the planet is recovering do they feel threatened by it, and this want to roll it into their empire before its too late. Earth's population has climbed back to 7 billion after centuries of warfare and savagery, much of the old cities have been destroyed, many of the records are gone, so it is like Buck Rogers comes from another world. that would be my scenario.</blockquote>

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