Anime Trek

[Sheliak Bob]

There's a story behind it, but the short form is that after digging up my old BESM d20 book while cleaning the apartment, the question of "What would TAS have been like if it had been done as an anime?" which led to story re-imagining discussions which led to some off the cuff conversion talk, which led to me statting up Cyrano Jones as a 10th level Pet Monster Trainer with a collection of battle-trained mutant tribbles--on the run from Klingon Pet Monster Trainer bounty hunters with their own collections of hideous tribble, er, "glomming" beasties and the whole thing turned into a gritty/cartoonish/anime scenario taking place on Sherman's Planet--with Klingon Mechas (engineering "tools" allowed by treaty!) crashing around and...

Next thing you know, I have to run the damn thing!
And I'm not even a fan of Anime, especially.
sigh.

The first challenge will be dealing with what the PC's come up with and I won't know about that until after the chargen session. I have contingency plans for most of the possibilities.
Dynamic Sorcerors? Well, there are a number of funky powered aliens species lurking about that would fit the bill. What if the Metrons had been a little more sociable? Or a relatively "young" Organian observer, or a better trained Charlie-X etc.

Mechas--and God knows there will HAVE to be Mechas! I don't know why, but I'd better be prepared. I'm looking more at manned "probes" with defensive weaponry as opposed to anthropomorphic fighters--It won't be MY fault if the pilot misuses that tractor beam/deflector projector to create a "Deflector Sword" or uses a "Photon Punch" or some such atrocity. It's a Probe, for god's sake! A Galileo Class Probe....

And so on.

I think I'll have the PC's work as a sort of quasi-TOS era "Away Team" mission specialists group working for Admiral Pike, who commands Star Fleet's gigantic flagship. ("Kirk? Lt. Kirk was a promising young officer whose loss with the USS Faragut put a tragic end to a promising career. Why do you ask?")

Star Fleet tech is...a little different. Thanks to Pike's successful first contact with the Talosians--and his later brilliant solution to the Botany Bay situation. Eugenic supermen working to rebuild a dead civilization in a virtual paradise from which they have no desire to escape proved to be a successful strategy.

so. suggestions?

[somaticon]

There is a series of Star Trek Manga's which kind of give an insight into both TOS and TNG. I have to admit the one set on Vulcan was nice and the TOS origin for the Borg was also original and made way more sense than the Destiny arc.

[Sheliak Bob]

I know I have at least one of the Trek Manga books. I remember the Borg storyline and a kids in power armor scavengers kind of thing. I've been digging around looking for it, or them, but I suspect I might have to just give up and go evilBay the mangaTreks sometime soon.

Looking over BESM d20 it looks like the first thing I'll have to do is design some species packages. That's probably what the weekend is going to be filled with.

I have an idea for an androgynous Klingon mecha pilot related to Koloth, one of those long hair in the face smirky smiled whispery sort of antagonists. "A probe pilot?" pout. "Are you happy piloting probes in the Federation, when you could be an Iron Warlord ace in the Klingon Empire, and have operas written about you? How...disappointing."

Lord Kray, I believe I'm calling him.

And I'll have to do Caitian cat girls! Thinking a litter of four identical sisters that all joined Star Fleet together. Indistinguishable from each other but each has a specific quirk or two. And maybe I'll put them all in different departments so they can each be wearing a different colored mini-skirt uniform. dunno.

I do think I'll have to stat up M'Ress and Arex as the major npc's that the players interact with. Just cause, y'know, it's TAS-Anime.

[somaticon]

Sounds like fun! In my last trek game we had a bunch of Caitians causing chaos, called Pirani, Erani and Escetai. Man did they give the Starfleet crew the runaround. If your going anime style might I recommend checking out Outlaw Star or Dominion Tank Police. I'll check in my attic but I might have some catgirl stats which could work with a few tweaks.