Just like my ever more elaborate fiction world is an amalgamation of many different influences, starting as a cross between Harry Potter and Buffy, then growing into what it is today, I find myself looking toward my favorite SciFi influences, which are of course Doctor Who and Torchwood. I wonder whether it is possible to incorporate elements of the SciFi without going space opera. I am going to start with a UNIT (from Dr. Who) style secret organization and write them as having kick-ass tech. I probably won't delve too deep into alien involvement, but I already have considered and sketched out a creature called a Border Prince, which is a type of super advanced alien race, what was referred to in one Who episode as the 'higher races'. It comes from one of the Torchwood audioplays in which a character sort of serves as a simulacrum inside of which a supra-human alien was being hidden from his enemies. The alien is able to step through the Rift (in time and space) through some kind of either advanced tech or supernatural ability.
Now, I already have a government organization within the United States, part of the Department of Homeland Security, and is pretty much an expanded X-Files type group, but this UNIT-type organization will be different, and definitely shadier. Will this end up with supernatural beings from earth serving as super-hero type defenders against alien threats? That's the rub. I think that's a really cool idea. A number of things have to happen first, though, and I'm years away from getting the character storylines to where that might be possible. BUT I think it'd be fantastic.
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