The deadline for the Spinoff Challenge on the Browncoats website was today, so I decided I might as well submit an entry. I entertain myself far too easily. Gotta respect the first rule of fandom: The more esoteric, the more amusing.

I envision an epic tale of life. Adventure. Drama. Intrigue. Food pellets. My story is that of a young girl named Maria and her quirky and surprisingly astute sidekick Simon, the hamster she named after the doctor that reattached her entire leg after a freak tetherball accident. Her dangerous brush with paraplegia awakened her desire to see the universe. Her self-imposed challenge: to travel the galaxy on 6 credits a day.

It was either tetherball or unicycling.

Other characters considered: Bester, the "Good Dogs" guy in the pilot, Rick Meadows (heroic Mudder beloved of the Pennsylvania Shindig), the crew of the Brutus, Fes Higgins, and YoSafBridge as a futuristic Sydney Bristow.