Joketsuzoku and Meltlandi
I had the bare bones of this idea on another site hopefully here someone will have some thoughts and input on the concept.
Set in the Robotech verse rather than Macross for obvious reasons. The core idea Meltlandi=Amazon is touched on in one of the epic length Ranma/Robotech crossovers archived on FF.Net but is only a brief mention and not hugely relevant to that story, hopefully something can come of it though.
An Amazon centric fic focusing on Cologne, Shampoo and their tribe. The events in Ranma happening at least mostly the same, but with the Amazons having a larger agenda.
(Background)
Three thousand years go a Meltlandi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zentraedi (female Zentradi) troop carrier http://www.xs4all.nl/~ptn/new.images/Meltlandi/Meltran_troopship_MM.gif crash lands in a valley in the Bayankala Mountain Range in what would one day be China. The survivors of the wreck after getting a good look at the locals use micronization on some of their number to send out as scouts. The ships damaged reactors and Protoculture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protoculture_%28anime%29 energy source goes critical and explodes killing those Meltlandi that stayed on-board. The scouts a few hundred but well equipped and heavily armed now stuck human sized wander the world for hundreds of years first as raiders/mercenary's then slowly developing into the Chinese Amazons and forgetting the truth of their origins. Centuries later they return to the land that their most ancient legends tell them is their birth place.
While they've been gone things have changed the Protoculture has infected a local plant creating something like the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_of_Life_%28fiction%29 Flower of Life which in turn has polluted the local water sources.
They find the Jusenkyo Valley and settle in, soon learning of the Pools of Sorrow and its dangers. They also encounter the Phoenix People plus the beginnings of the Musk tribe, both groups claiming the area as their own, starting a long series of wars.
The Pools of Sorrows and by extension both the Phoenix People and the Musk are the results of the wreck of the Meltlandi ship buried over the centuries its Protoculture Matrix and the mutant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_of_Life_%28fiction%29 Flower of Life now sprouting out of a small hill near the Amazon village and used in most Amazon recipes and ceremonial drinks.
(Story what little there is of it)
A Young Cologne out exploring finds her way into the wreck of the Meltlandi troopship and encounters the ships AI (I'm assuming Zentradi/Meltlandi had pretty good AI in partial control of their ships since they were not big on maintenance) The AI has gone through a lot of weirdness and is directly plugged into the remains of the ships drive the protoculture energy cells and through those the water and the whole valley. It also has a psychic connection with the Amazons due to their eating the Flower and has taken on the personification of their patron goddess Artemis.
Artemis is slightly prophetic and can sense the coming destruction of the valley (and most of the rest of the world) that will result from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolza#Dolza Dolza's orbital attack but is powerless to do anything about it. What she can do is sense (again through Precognition and her connection to the Pools of Sorrow) that in a few centuries one Saotome Ranma is going to be a major factor in a chain of events that could be guided to save the valley or at least help the Amazons get the hell out of dodge before the axe falls.
(Ideas)
High power ki/chi masters are a good thing for Protoculture the stuff that Zentradi/Meltlandi technology is based on. Having them around allows generate masses of life energy make it operate better more efficiently and even grows slowly making it under the right circumstances renewable.
Cologne sees Meltlandi as Amazons who just don't know their Amazons and who need her guidance.
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A/N Any feedback is good feedback, even just pointing out a logic fail you see in the setup could give me something to work with and build from.
Set in the Robotech verse rather than Macross for obvious reasons. The core idea Meltlandi=Amazon is touched on in one of the epic length Ranma/Robotech crossovers archived on FF.Net but is only a brief mention and not hugely relevant to that story, hopefully something can come of it though.
An Amazon centric fic focusing on Cologne, Shampoo and their tribe. The events in Ranma happening at least mostly the same, but with the Amazons having a larger agenda.
(Background)
Three thousand years go a Meltlandi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zentraedi (female Zentradi) troop carrier http://www.xs4all.nl/~ptn/new.images/Meltlandi/Meltran_troopship_MM.gif crash lands in a valley in the Bayankala Mountain Range in what would one day be China. The survivors of the wreck after getting a good look at the locals use micronization on some of their number to send out as scouts. The ships damaged reactors and Protoculture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protoculture_%28anime%29 energy source goes critical and explodes killing those Meltlandi that stayed on-board. The scouts a few hundred but well equipped and heavily armed now stuck human sized wander the world for hundreds of years first as raiders/mercenary's then slowly developing into the Chinese Amazons and forgetting the truth of their origins. Centuries later they return to the land that their most ancient legends tell them is their birth place.
While they've been gone things have changed the Protoculture has infected a local plant creating something like the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_of_Life_%28fiction%29 Flower of Life which in turn has polluted the local water sources.
They find the Jusenkyo Valley and settle in, soon learning of the Pools of Sorrow and its dangers. They also encounter the Phoenix People plus the beginnings of the Musk tribe, both groups claiming the area as their own, starting a long series of wars.
The Pools of Sorrows and by extension both the Phoenix People and the Musk are the results of the wreck of the Meltlandi ship buried over the centuries its Protoculture Matrix and the mutant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_of_Life_%28fiction%29 Flower of Life now sprouting out of a small hill near the Amazon village and used in most Amazon recipes and ceremonial drinks.
(Story what little there is of it)
A Young Cologne out exploring finds her way into the wreck of the Meltlandi troopship and encounters the ships AI (I'm assuming Zentradi/Meltlandi had pretty good AI in partial control of their ships since they were not big on maintenance) The AI has gone through a lot of weirdness and is directly plugged into the remains of the ships drive the protoculture energy cells and through those the water and the whole valley. It also has a psychic connection with the Amazons due to their eating the Flower and has taken on the personification of their patron goddess Artemis.
Artemis is slightly prophetic and can sense the coming destruction of the valley (and most of the rest of the world) that will result from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolza#Dolza Dolza's orbital attack but is powerless to do anything about it. What she can do is sense (again through Precognition and her connection to the Pools of Sorrow) that in a few centuries one Saotome Ranma is going to be a major factor in a chain of events that could be guided to save the valley or at least help the Amazons get the hell out of dodge before the axe falls.
(Ideas)
High power ki/chi masters are a good thing for Protoculture the stuff that Zentradi/Meltlandi technology is based on. Having them around allows generate masses of life energy make it operate better more efficiently and even grows slowly making it under the right circumstances renewable.
Cologne sees Meltlandi as Amazons who just don't know their Amazons and who need her guidance.
(((()))))
A/N Any feedback is good feedback, even just pointing out a logic fail you see in the setup could give me something to work with and build from.