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james_davis_nicollThat I talked about here.
It seems to me if it's really a space opera, it needs at least one
justifiable genocide. Would it be funny if after seeing an entertainment based (very loosely) on the events at the end of the First World State [1] and the collapse of the American Dynasty in China, some of the kids are so taken by the sincerity and fervor of the proud martial race that was the Americans circa 2115, in particular with the determination to remain unvanquished that led them to turn their weapons on themselves, that one of the kids starts claiming one of their great-great-great grandmothers was a genuine full-blooded American princess?
[What actually happened doesn't matter; it was a long time ago and most people are descended from people who benefited from it. Probably the only people complaining about a one-time downsizing of the North American population that probably wasn't even 50% are poor sports and obstructionist sentimentalists]
I think one of the other kids was born in New York Prefecture so this perception that the Old Americans are long gone save for tragic remnants comes as something of a surprise. And of course everyone thinks this kid is just copying the other kid because the first kid at least *looks* a little American as portrayed in the entertainment and the second kid doesn't.
1: The Fouth World State has recently disintegrated so doing material on the end of the First World State allows artists to comment on current events. And since the job the New Yorker's parent had before prudently relocating from Bolshoigrad to the farthest, most isolated spot available was the final Prime Minister of the World State [2], in a sense the American kid really is a princess of sorts (in the sense a Bush or a Kennedy is American aristocracy).
2: They are utterly convinced their enemies even now are plotting against them, which makes them a perfect wacky parent, in the sense profound paranoia combined with ex-pat xenophobia is funny. Actually, nobody on Earth cares about the Prime Minister and most people if polled would not remember their name.It is convenient for all the national heads of government that the former Prime Minister isn't around to be a center for a revival of the World State and on the whole nobody wants the person back.
It seems to me if it's really a space opera, it needs at least one
justifiable genocide. Would it be funny if after seeing an entertainment based (very loosely) on the events at the end of the First World State [1] and the collapse of the American Dynasty in China, some of the kids are so taken by the sincerity and fervor of the proud martial race that was the Americans circa 2115, in particular with the determination to remain unvanquished that led them to turn their weapons on themselves, that one of the kids starts claiming one of their great-great-great grandmothers was a genuine full-blooded American princess?
[What actually happened doesn't matter; it was a long time ago and most people are descended from people who benefited from it. Probably the only people complaining about a one-time downsizing of the North American population that probably wasn't even 50% are poor sports and obstructionist sentimentalists]
I think one of the other kids was born in New York Prefecture so this perception that the Old Americans are long gone save for tragic remnants comes as something of a surprise. And of course everyone thinks this kid is just copying the other kid because the first kid at least *looks* a little American as portrayed in the entertainment and the second kid doesn't.
1: The Fouth World State has recently disintegrated so doing material on the end of the First World State allows artists to comment on current events. And since the job the New Yorker's parent had before prudently relocating from Bolshoigrad to the farthest, most isolated spot available was the final Prime Minister of the World State [2], in a sense the American kid really is a princess of sorts (in the sense a Bush or a Kennedy is American aristocracy).
2: They are utterly convinced their enemies even now are plotting against them, which makes them a perfect wacky parent, in the sense profound paranoia combined with ex-pat xenophobia is funny. Actually, nobody on Earth cares about the Prime Minister and most people if polled would not remember their name.It is convenient for all the national heads of government that the former Prime Minister isn't around to be a center for a revival of the World State and on the whole nobody wants the person back.
