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Reviewed previously in EX
3.4,
4.2, and
4.5
Technology
has advanced far enough for inter-planetary travel to be convenient, if you
have a sufficient spaceship. However interplanetary
and even inter-satellite distances are still too great and too harsh a
divide for a unified government. And due to an accident during the warp-gate
construction, the Earth is left desolate and mostly uninhabitable, with
small pockets of humanity surviving in towns and cities between large
patches of barren, empty land.
And
elsewhere, a bunch of small city-states/countries spring up on planets,
on moons, on satellites and as space stations, each with their own governing
system. With such diverse watering holes it is a ripe ground for the
criminal and bizarre elements to flourish. However there is just as
effective a counter for this, especially when there is money in the
balance: bounty hunters. COWBOY BEBOP mixes the
harsh environment of the Old
West, the idea of independent agents of justice, and just enough sci-fi
elements to provide something fresh and unique. Some additional organized
crime elements around the bigger areas of civilization such as Mars and you
have a good mix of westerns, mobster stories, and more advanced
science-fiction stories.
Next: The Outlaws
Cowboy Bebop Copyright © Sunrise, Inc.
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