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<blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 8648732" data-attributes="member: 6779310">Professional Explorers and Paramilitary/Military Space Defense Forces are, in sci-fi, often one and the same.Honorable Rogues really struggle to remain a viable concept in Sci-Fi, especially when there's FTL comm. In part because if they are breaking laws, it's hard to outrun the news. And in part because few Sci-Fi settings have the kind of evil that allows for the heroes to ignore the laws in the name of doing good.Firefly and Star Wars both ignore the comms for the most part. If Star Wars had no FTL radio, it would be a lot more reasonable for the Alliance to be capable of survival. And for smugglers and such to do their crimes. At least, in Star Wars, the empire is truly a work of evil genius. But the &quot;Heroes&quot; in Star Wars, at least outside the Original (before warping to &quot;Episode IV&quot;), is a pretty wide assortment of ne'r do wells... bad people doing bad things to worse people in the name of good... but many of them are really just there to be able to do the bad things and feel good about it later.Zeb, Anakin, Han Solo,&nbsp; Lando Calrissian, Boba Fett, the Mandalorian, Cara Dune, and both Jyn Orso and Cassian Andor... and of course, K2-SO. Plus, the Star Wars writers forget that FTL comms means FTL bounty notices...The best &quot;Space Rogues&quot; setting I've seen is a toss up between&nbsp; the Early Codoverse (Falkonberg and other start of the Codo era novels), The Vorkosiverse, and Ringworld... Falconberg's about taming the frontier as much as the merc ops. The Vorkosiverse, well, Miles and Ivan are both intelligence operatives - in different modes - and the side stories involving Ellie Quinn are Ellie doing things on behalf of ImpSec when Miles can't. And Ringworld? It's a terra incognita exploratum.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="aramis erak, post: 8648732, member: 6779310"] Professional Explorers and Paramilitary/Military Space Defense Forces are, in sci-fi, often one and the same. Honorable Rogues really struggle to remain a viable concept in Sci-Fi, especially when there's FTL comm. In part because if they are breaking laws, it's hard to outrun the news. And in part because few Sci-Fi settings have the kind of evil that allows for the heroes to ignore the laws in the name of doing good. Firefly and Star Wars both ignore the comms for the most part. If Star Wars had no FTL radio, it would be a lot more reasonable for the Alliance to be capable of survival. And for smugglers and such to do their crimes. At least, in Star Wars, the empire is truly a work of evil genius. But the "Heroes" in Star Wars, at least outside the Original (before warping to "Episode IV"), is a pretty wide assortment of ne'r do wells... bad people doing bad things to worse people in the name of good... but many of them are really just there to be able to do the bad things and feel good about it later. Zeb, Anakin, Han Solo, Lando Calrissian, Boba Fett, the Mandalorian, Cara Dune, and both Jyn Orso and Cassian Andor... and of course, K2-SO. Plus, the Star Wars writers forget that FTL comms means FTL bounty notices... The best "Space Rogues" setting I've seen is a toss up between the Early Codoverse (Falkonberg and other start of the Codo era novels), The Vorkosiverse, and Ringworld... Falconberg's about taming the frontier as much as the merc ops. The Vorkosiverse, well, Miles and Ivan are both intelligence operatives - in different modes - and the side stories involving Ellie Quinn are Ellie doing things on behalf of ImpSec when Miles can't. And Ringworld? It's a [I]terra incognita exploratum[/I]. [/QUOTE]

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