My entry for the "create the cheeseball 'classic' preboot to a TV show" thread on RPGnet:
Captain Scarlet and the Babylon Project
Gerry Anderson's ninth Supermarionation show and the direct sequel to Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons,
CSatBP took place after a fragile peace had been struck between Earth
and Mars. Set largely aboard the recently constructed space station New Babylon, it continued the first series' theme of "life as we don't
know it" and explored the dangers and possibilities of contact with
intelligent species that were, for the most part, not remotely human.
Scarlet now commanded the Spectrum-managed station, a site for peace
talks between humans and Mysterons -- the latter being represented by
the enigmatic Ambassador Kosh, a strange mechanical being with the
distinctive Mysteron rings constantly in motion around it. Several more
alien races were discovered within and outside the solar system during
the series' three seasons, most notably the crystalline Minba of
Mercury, the irascible reptilian Norn from Venus, and the apparently
almost-human Alpha Centaurians.
A major subplot throughout the series concerned the "Immortal" faction,
the humans who'd been killed and reconstructed as invincible enemy
agents. Freed from Mysteron control as part of the peace treaty, the
Immortals found their attempts to return to their old lives met with
fear and prejudice. As the series progressed, Captain Black became
leader of a government agency intended to manage normal-Immortal
relations, but questions about his actual loyalties and the Mysterons'
motives put the Parahuman Social Integration Corps under a cloud of
suspicion.
The series ended on a cliffhanger, with the sabotage and destruction of New Babylon and the possible deaths of most of the cast. Anderson had planned a fourth season centered around the station's rebuilding as Babylon II
and the threat of war as evidence would surface that the Mysterons had
been responsible, but a new force would have been introduced as the true
saboteurs -- the Mysterons' ancient enemies, a shadowy race from beyond
the known galaxy.
--Sam
"This is the voice of the Mysterons. We know that you can hear us, Earthmen."
Captain Scarlet and the Babylon Project
Gerry Anderson's ninth Supermarionation show and the direct sequel to Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons,
CSatBP took place after a fragile peace had been struck between Earth
and Mars. Set largely aboard the recently constructed space station New Babylon, it continued the first series' theme of "life as we don't
know it" and explored the dangers and possibilities of contact with
intelligent species that were, for the most part, not remotely human.
Scarlet now commanded the Spectrum-managed station, a site for peace
talks between humans and Mysterons -- the latter being represented by
the enigmatic Ambassador Kosh, a strange mechanical being with the
distinctive Mysteron rings constantly in motion around it. Several more
alien races were discovered within and outside the solar system during
the series' three seasons, most notably the crystalline Minba of
Mercury, the irascible reptilian Norn from Venus, and the apparently
almost-human Alpha Centaurians.
A major subplot throughout the series concerned the "Immortal" faction,
the humans who'd been killed and reconstructed as invincible enemy
agents. Freed from Mysteron control as part of the peace treaty, the
Immortals found their attempts to return to their old lives met with
fear and prejudice. As the series progressed, Captain Black became
leader of a government agency intended to manage normal-Immortal
relations, but questions about his actual loyalties and the Mysterons'
motives put the Parahuman Social Integration Corps under a cloud of
suspicion.
The series ended on a cliffhanger, with the sabotage and destruction of New Babylon and the possible deaths of most of the cast. Anderson had planned a fourth season centered around the station's rebuilding as Babylon II
and the threat of war as evidence would surface that the Mysterons had
been responsible, but a new force would have been introduced as the true
saboteurs -- the Mysterons' ancient enemies, a shadowy race from beyond
the known galaxy.
--Sam
"This is the voice of the Mysterons. We know that you can hear us, Earthmen."