Thunderbirds are Go - New AU
So before I put more time into developing this AU and actually writing a fic, I'd love to know your thoughts.
INTERSTELLAR RESCUE 2165 (IR 2165)
Thunderbirds are Go AU
©Phade 2025
Interstellar Rescue is a Thunderbirds Are Go AU series. To best describe it in a sentence, the Tracy brothers and their Thunderbirds have travelled through time to the year 2165 (year the first Thunderbirds TV show aired + 200). Scott is still a flyboy, still in command, specializes in interspecies diplomacy and strategy. He is CEO of TRIAM (Tracy Resources, Industry, Agriculture, Mining), the interstellar version of its parent company, Tracy Industries. Virgil has a bionic arm due to a near fatal injury, specializes in medical and extra-terrestrial life forms as well as being the primary operator of the rescue avatars. John is a somewhat reluctant telepath, a genius IQ astrophysicist with a photographic memory, specializes in sentient language translation. Gordon, ever the swimmer, specializes in all aspects of liquid and gel atmospheres and has the ability to shape shift (morph) into inhabitants of both. Alan has an experimental brain implant which allows him to connect with just about anything electronic including the Webz (combined social media streams from multiple planets). He specializes in code, debugging and – off the record, of course – hacking.
Thunderbirds One (Scott) and Two (Virgil) function in vacuum or gaseous atmospheres; Thunderbird Three (John and/or Alan) in vacuum only. Thunderbird Four (Gordon) is transported in Two for deployment in liquid or gel environments and atmospheres. Thunderbird Five has been decommissioned, replaced by Tracy Station, located in deep space. Her AI, Eos, has evolved into an SB (Synthetic Brain) who calls herself Pixel. The family lives on Tracy Station where spaces include the command hub, habitat ring, hypergrav gym, med bay, and aquasphere which includes a liquid pool, gel pools and tanks for Gordon’s use.
Nuclear engines for space travel are replaced by span drives, Mach by SPS (spans per second), hangars by bays, the exosuit by the rescue avatar. The GDF is now the SSD (Solar System Defence). Tracy Island on Earth is reserved for vacations, relaxation and convalescence, the Villa’s infirmary expanded to the equivalent of a trauma hospital. Medical care has advanced dramatically and, as for uniforms, I have always envisioned dark teal.
So what do you think?
I'd not only love reading this, I'd love writing it too!
I'd enjoy reading this AU.
I might need to read a fic or two to decide.
Eh, whatever ...
Voting ended onSep 3, 2025