by MiriOhki » Sat May 06, 2006 3:23 pm
Well, I did have a couple ideas..
Prospective name: "The New Recruit"
Origins: Ranma 1/2 / The Last Starfighter
Ten years after the fall of the Ko-Dan Armada and the escape of Xur, Star Marshall Alex Rogan is doing his best to suppliment the forces of the Star League. Unfortunately (Or Fortunately), Centari's up to his old tricks and Alex's old stomping grounds.
When Ranma ducks into an arcade to escape the bi-weekly Putz Parade, he encounters an old man fiddling with a new game, "STARFIGHTER II", and asks Ranma to help him out in making sure it was not damaged in the transport. When Ranma blazes through the game, Centari's sure that he's found his newest paycheck-er, recruit. And he's sure Alex won't mind too much. He hopes.
So Ranma has been recruited as the test pilot for the new GunStar Mk V-2, and Gamma-4 (Newest, top of the line replacement) has to figure out just what it's gotten into by replacing this maniac... And not a moment too soon, for Xur has spent his time in exile recruiting for his Cult, as well as strongarming the Ko-Dan remnant under his banner.
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Prospective Name: (None yet)
Origins: Ranma / Battletech
Happosai has gone too far, and during a knock-down-drag-out brawl, kills Ranma in front of over a hundred witnesses. Only to be killed himself by a tall but very familiar man standing next to a very tall and unfamiliar woman.
The woman: Star Commander Elayne, 13th Wolffang Cluster.
The man: Star Colonel Ranma Kerensky, Commander of 13th Wolffang Cluster.
When Ranma was slain by Happosai, he was reborn several times as formidable but rarely known warriors and artists. His latest reincarnation, however, was born to a Clan Wolf Sibko fifteen years before the Clan Invasion. He performed incredibly well, becoming a Star Colonel by the age of twenty two, and earning the Kerensky bloodname in the brutal Trial of Bloodright that occured after Natasha Kerensky's death during the Refusal War. However, one battle with the Falcons later, the Falcon jumpship misjumped trying to get away from the stronger Wolf forces, and the catastrophic failure destroyed the Emerald Talon and sent Ranma's dropship, the Hunter's Trail, one thousand years into the past. (Before you ask, yes there is precident. Read "Living Legends") The Hunter's Trail ended up materializing half-buried in a mountain in Japan, with only two survivors, Elayne and Ranma.
The two Wolves wander their way to find a doctor to help them with their injuries, and watch an old man murder another man with a bomb. Enraged by the waste of life, Ranma draws his laser pistol and kills the old man.
Ranma and Elayne end up drawing curiousity, confusion and outrage where they go, and the two must deal with the problems of seeming 'mistaken identity' in Ranma's case, Elayne being looked at as yet another fiancee, and the two Wolves trying to balance the concept of being the first Clansmen on Earth since (or rather, before) the Exodus with the thought of never being able to return to their Clan, not to mention concealing what little technology they have (3 Elemental suits and Ranma's salvaged Summoner.)
(Don't ask me where that idea came from. It might have potential but.)
Possible branches or scenes:
Cologne thinks Ranma's concussion has caused him to lose his memories (Or rather, the memories of his 'past' life) and tries to restore them, possibly not working, possibly restoring memories from several past lives).
Their arrival is just as Gosunkugi find a suit of mechanical armor (Manga vol 22 I think, not sure). When he challenges Ranma, Ranma sees it as a Circle of Equals situation, and dons one of the spare Elemental Suits. Silly fight ensues.