Just recently blitez through the whole murderbot series in like half a month (still have telemetry left, gotta get around to it sometime) but my brain is abuzz. Mainly because of the crossbreeding between the current hyperfixation and my long term haunting-me-whenever-i-read-scifi hyperfixation starsector. Because the crossover could be sublime. First of all the two worlds interacting has a pretty good way to go about it. In TMBDT (gonna call it MB) they use wormholes for FTL and starsector has their own wormhole FTL stuff, which is also extremely nieche to the point that it's used like once, but that's enough.
Also the themes. In MB generally the CR areas are very much distopian while areas outaide are generally more frontier style or utopian (at least those we have seen). In comparison starsector is post apocaliptic, there is only 1 Billion humans left (and that's a generous estimation) humanity has been pushed back techonologically by a significant margin and any atempts at recovering what was lost is bogged down by the politics of a new cold war. The best way this is shown imo is ships, and how every one has guns, I think there is only one civilian ship that has no weapon mounts in this game. One. Every other ship is packing heat.
The way the game goes about depicting AI is very fascinating, I won't get into the details because spoilers tho.
+the heavy overlap between nautical ships and space ships in the game is amazing.
Anyway I am making a crossover fic between them, thanks how could you tell? Idk if I'm gonna finish it anytime soon bc I need to figure out a decent "endgame" for the story (basically just a decent point to end it)
