Plotbunny for sale - cheap

[Evil Midnight Lurker]

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Third, they can't build genre vehicles from scratch. That is, you can't show a Plot Device a picture of the Milennium Falcon and say "Build this!" It's kind of arbitrary considering all the other stuff we're thinking of making the Plot Device do, but I think it's important to preserve the DIY feel.

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On the other hand, if you're willing to build the initial mockup from scratch and then pour handwavium over it, and to settle for something way less awesome (and very different) than the fictional tech base... there are probably people out there who would try to create the Falcon or the Firefly or whatever.
And in some cases, the genre vehicle actually exists.
I guarantee you, rock-solid, that someone -- be it the JSDF or a consortium of elder otaku -- will raise the Yamato from its watery grave, refurbish it to look as much like the uchuu senkan version as possible, and then apply handwavium to every available surface. There is just no way that this would not happen.
The same community of otaku are likely to make Asteroid 6565 Reiji their headquarters. Call it Pirate Island or SSX Base... if this is the near enough future, they'd even bring Matsumoto-sama out there just so he could say he'd set foot on it. ^.^
--Sam
"Under this flag, will you follow me?"