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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thomas Bowman" data-source="post: 7420573" data-attributes="member: 6925649">My previous reply gives the basic updated background, based on the 1970s show, but updated to reflect the new realities of the 21st century more or less. Like then, we are in a Cold War, but this time the other superpower will be China, and Russia will be the junior partner, assuming things play out to their logical conclusions if we hold to this track. Not that I would wish it, but I am looking for plausible drama, Buck Rogers needs a reason to be out in his spaceship. In the show it was more of an accident, he just went into a cloud and he froze, but in the show he was a fighter pilot, not just an astronaut. This needs some updating, so I updated it. The astronauts of today, aren't the military men of the 1960s and 70s, they are scientists for the most part, chosen to go into space to perform a specific experiment, that is not what Buck Rogers is, he is a fighter pilot, that is what he does through most of the show, so I need a good explanation for who he is.A while back, our president talked about starting a new military force, the Space Force, kind of like the Air Force having a similar command structure, but this one is based in space, I am assuming that by 2050, this Space Force is a reality, and Buck Rogers is one of its pilots. Space is important for one reason, it is the medium through which ICBMs travel through on their way to their targets, there are also things in space like asteroids which can be used as weapons by competing powers. Buck's fighter is basically a one-man piloted asteroid mover, a human pilots the ship so it can't be hacked by the Enemy. If the enemy were to take out the space based nuclear platforms, then asteroid bombardment is the final response, but China has an asteroid force as well. Buck gets in a fight with them and the result is I have stated. Buck isn't the only one that went in their low berths, there were multiple pilots that did that, it is just that Buck was their ranking officer, and naturally to a princess like Ardala, he is the one she is most interested in. The PCs could be other fighter pilots in his squadron, or they could be the so called Enemy Fighter pilots flying for the Chinese Peoples Space Force, doesn't matter now, they have more in common with each other than with the world they now find themselves in. Ardala doesn't care about this centuries old conflict, all she wants to do is conquer Earth, Buck and company have to decide if they have a dog in this fight.'The starships are easy to modify for this setting, I looked them over. Basically we yank the jump drive out and add the space vacated to cargo, assume the Jump fuel is consumed with the four week operation of the Maneuver Drive, with the Far Trader, it instead has an 8 week operation period because it had a Jump-2 and a Maneuver-1, that means it has twice as much fuel as it needs for four weeks on continuous thrusting at 1-g, so it can accelerate and decelerate for 8 weeks instead of four, that means the far trader can go twice as fast as the Free trader, so it kind of works out. Faster means farther.</blockquote>

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