(This is from a "BAD TV shows that would make good RPG settings" thread over on the SJGames Forums.)
The heroes are a group of fighter pilot/astronauts from Earth, sent on a deep-space mission gone awry. They're awakened from cryogenic suspension in the 25th Century aboard the Galactica, where they're pressed into service as scout starfighter pilots trying to retrace their steps back home. When they do in fact locate Earth, they discover it's being menaced by Ming the Merciless, and they have only 48 hours to save the Earth.
Battlestar BuckGordonca
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
The heroes are a group of fighter pilot/astronauts from Earth, sent on a deep-space mission gone awry. They're awakened from cryogenic suspension in the 25th Century aboard the Galactica, where they're pressed into service as scout starfighter pilots trying to retrace their steps back home. When they do in fact locate Earth, they discover it's being menaced by Ming the Merciless, and they have only 48 hours to save the Earth.
Battlestar BuckGordonca
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012