Idea for adapting The Alters
For those who don't know, The Alters is a survival game where the player, Jan Dolski, gets stranded on an alien planet and has to survive. Fortunately, his mobile base has two very important pieces of equipment: a quantum computer that can simulate different life paths Jan could have taken, and a cloning machine to bring them to life. As Jan grows a team of people to get back home, Jan has to come to terms with how they all of their shit together better than he does.
I was trying to think of a way that premise could be made into a ttrpg, and I think Fate might be the best system for the task.
Naturally, because so many players hate the idea of premade characters, you'd have to play as someone other than Jan Dolski. At the start of the game, the characters would work together to a singular character. One of the Aspects would be the character's job on the original ship that crashed aka the Role Aspect. Then the DM surprises them by making that character an NPC. All the players have to make characters with the same name. They start by picking a Role Aspect that would be beneficial and then alter the original character's backstory to get them there.
And that's about as far as I've gotten so far. Thoughts?