A sci-fi short-story that I wrote back
in high school, over 20 years ago, featured a device I called the
“PS-TV,” short for “Plexi-Screen TV.” Imagine a fruit roll-up
(if you remember those from the 80's) or a thin piece of flexible
plastic you could roll easily into a tube. The piece of plastic would
actually be a digital display, and in my story, people unrolled the
screens to watch TV, then rolled them back up and stuck them in their
pockets when finished. This technology has been developed during the
last few years--just look up “flexible screen TV's,” “flexible
OLED,” or “Willow Glass.” Before high-school in the early 80's,
I remember making notes about an idea I had for a 1st-person video
game where you could look around you, see your own hands gripping a
sword and shield, and embark on an epic adventure from this
viewpoint. Today, such things are finally being explored in the video
game industry through the Oculus Rift and Sony's Project Morpheus.
As seven alien races struggle to co-exist in an uneasy alliance, the Inter-Stellar Union sends Union Guard agents on missions to preserve the crucial balance. These specialized operatives must do what regional security cannot, dealing with smugglers, pirates, terrorists, and even greater challenges in order to bring stability to a universe that needs it desperately. Without the Union Guard, the races will not be prepared to face a looming alien threat they can only hope to defeat together.
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