A few ideas, which may be taken or abandoned as people see fit...
(1) Not everybody in space is a Fan.
This is certainly true on station Colony, where the 'dane and Fendane mechanics outnumber the Cylon-Galactica Fen. The Crystal Millennium has its share of Age of Sail fans, as opposed to the action-grrl or magical-girl Fen. There are going to be people in space who are there because, hey, they're in SPACE, and that's just Cool!
(2) It's "Fenspace" because that's what the 'danes call it.
The Fen refer to themselves in the whole as "the Convention," after all – still a Fen term, but an inclusive one.
(3) Not every Boskonian group had a Catgirling Machine in June 2012.
At that point, there may have still only been the original machine (the one described in the FenWiki.) Other Boskonians would have been working on duplicating it and the brainwashing device, but with mixed success.
Putting these together:
A Boskonian group grabs some unfortunates from some overpopulated place on Earth, brainwashes them, and keeps them "on ice" until they can be modded. However, those criminals are one of the first groups to be taken out by a Great Justice task force, and knowledge of the existence of the base is lost until Brains and Uran discover it.
There wouldn't be over a million people trapped there - a few hundred is more reasonable, while a case could be made for a few thousand (at most) if the Boskonians were very busy. But this could be done, and it doesn't violate anything that's already been established by existing stories.
Thoughts?
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
(1) Not everybody in space is a Fan.
This is certainly true on station Colony, where the 'dane and Fendane mechanics outnumber the Cylon-Galactica Fen. The Crystal Millennium has its share of Age of Sail fans, as opposed to the action-grrl or magical-girl Fen. There are going to be people in space who are there because, hey, they're in SPACE, and that's just Cool!
(2) It's "Fenspace" because that's what the 'danes call it.
The Fen refer to themselves in the whole as "the Convention," after all – still a Fen term, but an inclusive one.
(3) Not every Boskonian group had a Catgirling Machine in June 2012.
At that point, there may have still only been the original machine (the one described in the FenWiki.) Other Boskonians would have been working on duplicating it and the brainwashing device, but with mixed success.
Putting these together:
A Boskonian group grabs some unfortunates from some overpopulated place on Earth, brainwashes them, and keeps them "on ice" until they can be modded. However, those criminals are one of the first groups to be taken out by a Great Justice task force, and knowledge of the existence of the base is lost until Brains and Uran discover it.
There wouldn't be over a million people trapped there - a few hundred is more reasonable, while a case could be made for a few thousand (at most) if the Boskonians were very busy. But this could be done, and it doesn't violate anything that's already been established by existing stories.
Thoughts?
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012