Well, the drama pretty much ignores the space alien and hard scifi aspects of the backstory too, so I don't blame fandom for doing the same most of the time. :-) But YES, it does hold intriguing possibilities! I would love to see stories that engage with the scifi worldbuilding the show itself doesn't go into.
generation ship thing (or did they have FTL travel?)
I don't have an actual reason for this, but I always assumed the aliens spent at least a few generations on the ship - whether or not they had FTL travel. It's just that I like to imagine what effect this had on their society and mores, and how you could still see the results today. (I... might have a story touching on that a bit in the pipeline. ;-) )
engaged with the worldbuilding of the show on its own merits, instead of basically treating it like a version of the novel that went through a cipher
THIS. Whether it goes into a hard scifi direction or stays the kind of handwavey soft scifi the drama itself embraces, as long as it stays true to the drama world, I am happy.
(And BTW, I am all drama, but I think reincarnation would fit into the drama!verse (Kunlun *does* look exactly like ZYL, after all). In my headcanon, Kunlun is a previous incarnation of Zhao Yunlan who was killed by the bandit king because Ye Zun meddled with the past from his pillar; that's why ZYL was sucked back in time to fill a vacuum, and history restored itself to the same general shape it would have had if the original Kunlun had teamed up with Shen Wei & Friends. /excursion )
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Date: 2019-03-24 14:55 (UTC)generation ship thing (or did they have FTL travel?)
I don't have an actual reason for this, but I always assumed the aliens spent at least a few generations on the ship - whether or not they had FTL travel. It's just that I like to imagine what effect this had on their society and mores, and how you could still see the results today. (I... might have a story touching on that a bit in the pipeline. ;-) )
engaged with the worldbuilding of the show on its own merits, instead of basically treating it like a version of the novel that went through a cipher
THIS. Whether it goes into a hard scifi direction or stays the kind of handwavey soft scifi the drama itself embraces, as long as it stays true to the drama world, I am happy.
(And BTW, I am all drama, but I think reincarnation would fit into the drama!verse (Kunlun *does* look exactly like ZYL, after all). In my headcanon, Kunlun is a previous incarnation of Zhao Yunlan who was killed by the bandit king because Ye Zun meddled with the past from his pillar; that's why ZYL was sucked back in time to fill a vacuum, and history restored itself to the same general shape it would have had if the original Kunlun had teamed up with Shen Wei & Friends. /excursion )