u/Phantom000000000

My favorite aspect of Star Wars is that's basically a melting pot of wildly different elements blended together; you can do almost anything in this setting and it could work. So else could they do with SW, even as a short one shot?

Here are some ideas.

Crime Noir: a grim-dark detective like story about a different kind of bounty hunter. Instead of a one-man-army on high adventure he's more like a hard boiled Private Investigator searching the mean streets of some imperial world looking for someone he's been hired to find.

Cyberpunk: In the clone wars, a jedi uses cybernetic implants to slice into CIS systems. During one such operation he is killed by Order 66 while his mind is linked to the computer. Later, when the shut down command is broadcast, the Lucrehulk suddenly powers up and vanishes into deep space, entirely on its own.

Mecha: A deep rivalry between a Jedi and a Sith, but instead of light sabers their weapon of choice are star fighters. They are a pair of ace pilots trying to best each other as they cross paths on the battlefield.

Post-Apocalyptic: Imagine a colony world in a remote part of the galaxy where civilization collapsed and the survivors were trapped. Centuries later the people have regressed to pre-industrial technology, living in the ruins of a more advanced civilization. But what happens when visitors land with a functioning starship?

What would you like to see?

Assuming we do make the switch to safe and reliable fusion power in the near future, what would happen to the oil and coal industries that have been built up over a hundred years now?

Here is my answer; the fossil fuel industry becomes the carbon industry.

People talking about engineering projects like space-elevators and orbital rings say they will be built from carbon-nano materials because of their incredible strength. All well and good but where do you get the carbon to make said materials? Anthracite is almost pure carbon and we already have the equipment and facilities to mine, transport and process it. Maybe I'm over simplifying, but I could see coal burning power plants being torn down and replaced by factories that turn coal into carbon-fiber materials. And the same thing with oil, pound for pound, petroleum has less carbon than coal but it also has hydrogen which could be used for rocket fuel.

Has anyone else considered this question?

I was never a big Harry Potter fan but I still rolled my eyes when I heard they were just re-adapting the novels into a series. At least Rings of Power was a new story set in the same universe. So this is what I think they should have done for an HP series.

The series follows the films' continuity but is set 15 years later when Harry and his friends have graduated and moved on with their lives. The series follows a new generation of students too young to have seen the events of the films but grew up in their aftermath.

Being a series it would have more time for world building but because its not adapting the novels it has more freedom to explore other aspects of the setting. Instead of focusing on one house, like the films did, you could have a main cast drawn from all four houses to show different perspectives.

The 'hero' would probably be from Gryffindor but I like the idea of a heroic character in Slytherin dealing with a bid of prejudice given the houses association with Voldemort. Maybe a subplot about whether Slytherin should be dissolved and the heroes trying to prove it should be preserved?

I'm not sure what the big bad of the series should be. Bringing back Voldemort would be a step backwards, though perhaps one of his followers trying to step into his role could be fun.