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Shredzilla was introducing the Polar War material, which was going to be A Thing as the various tech upgrades and political consequences echoed around and spread out. There were actually two more "series" and a "movie" or two planned as well... it looks like I've finally lost my notes and incomplete parts, half a dozen computer failures/upgrades later. Dammit. There might still be a copy on the external HDD that only appears when booted in Windows, since I can't check that at the moment, or if I can find something with an SD card or CompactFlash slot to go with finding the even older, failed-to-read-only media.

I do remember that a different Madigan was going to come back in time ala DBZ Trunks but with a knockoff hardsuit and antigrav flying motorslave, arriving during the OVA 8 ADP HQ incident when Dr. Gero Yoshida's custom buma would appear, and at least ship-tease Mackie as his own ZODIAC package kicked in, properly unlike Sylia's and Mason's forced/emergency activations. Given he was keeping up with boosted Sylia already, well...

Double Vision got handled too, but details have faded to much to say anything really. I think a Sabretooth prototype was actually going to be deployed against Shredzilla? I really can't remember.

Things are quite a bit less defined from there, especially with only imperfect recollection rather than notes and scene fragments. Priss, Niichigo, and the band were going to have some more incidents as transition scenes before the original Sabers got back together, too.

I forget the justification, but there was going to be a space travel arc, with some plots stolen from at least one Dirty Pair episode with Nene and Linna standing in for Kei and Yuri (the one with the runaway robot and the fireworks display at the end) along with Real Bout High School and ... I think one of the "movies" was loosely base don the Voltage Fighter Gowkaizer OVA but with the evil goddess fused with Ihadulca from Evil Zone? That was supposed to cover the fate of the original Ranma cast IIRC.

Mina's spirit world shenanigans would have linked up with the rest of the cast during the RBHS portion, as the "real world" there is actually a giant Realm Between bubble while the monster-infested "other world" is the main Mortal Realm. Eventually they'd get to the DBZ corner of the galaxy... and... do stuff? I forget, except that somehow I'd made it all (the actual) Trunks' fault by time traveling irresponsibly quite a ways back.

Eventually, the series finale would be having to fend off an off-brand Unicron (Transformers G1 movie version) who is the reason for the rules of reality having been changed so any suitably complex mind now generates a soul of its own - Not-Unicron does the world-eater thing because the collective souls of a planet linger for a while before the afterlife can accept them all, and during that time he can feel.

Okay, that's hella awesome. Seriously. They just don't write fic like that anymore, you know? Over on AO3 the top BGC fics are either smut (well-written smut, but still) or angst (Meat Jacket). And - again - I have this massive urge to find a reason, or a way, or a justification, or whatever - to write stuff that cool, to boldly go where all the conventions of contemporary fiction insist I shouldn't.

Huh. Maybe I should put some stuff in Fenspace...

Welcome to the fold.

I'm still around.

My creativity isn't. But my body is.

Come to Fenspace to have some fun. It's not dead. Just --- resting.

On that note, what would that entail? I skimmed the start of Melancholy of Mackie-Chan - it's like the situation with YT2032 and Meg Deckard, right? All the same it feels like I need a bit of context - the characters of BGC are somehow 'real' here? Pirated from parallel universes, or...?

Okay, I'm skimming the wiki as I write this, I get the rough concept, I'm just not sure where anything I would write (which usually tends towards the semi-dystopian even in the wackiest pieces I've written, and towards Peter Watts-level grimness at worst) would belong. Any advice? I can't promise I would contribute, but I would like to get a better handle on shared-universe writing so I have something I can regularly work on that isn't mostly a solo project.