B&T402 wrote:
That's the stuff. Is this on the Caliburn 5959 unit?
Ah somebody remembers.Then I'll explain how "Riel" came to be
Years ago I was on one of those Christmas story exchanges where someone writes a story for
you and you write a story for them.
This person wanted a story about South African meerkats ( surikato)
and I had writers block cuz I could have cared less about meerkats.
However I then dreamed up a story universe in which
way in the future Canada rules not just Earth,not even just the Milky Way
but "everything"
A sort of cold blooded Stephen Harper/Darth Vader type government
Into that mix I assumed those South African meerkats found a long lost
"Hypergalactic Museum" and that the star faring museums last exhibit had been on the
Metis and the Rebellion of 1885
Engineer: a mechanically minded meerkat who carries around a laptop sized device
called "Distress Thing"
The Captain" a feminist hothead of a meerkat who constantly yells "No I won't surrender"
and fires a 4000 year old Hudsons Bay trade musket
at Stephen Harper/Darth Vader
Riel: a laidback meerkat guy just along for the ride,a sort of "Beetle Bailey" kind of soldier
And there you have the origin story
4000 years from now metis meerkats take on Canada( government) with a warp drive powered space museum