Diamonds In The Rough

Authors Comments: Too often in video games and movies do we see stereotypes, within moments of reading a story or watching a movie/game often it is quite easy to identify who is the good guy, the bad guy, the guy who's going to betray the group, the girl who's really pulling the strings behind the scenes so on so on... With this in mind, I've also been doing a lot of role playing in Star Wars the Old Republic and what always seems to intrigue me most about other people's characters isn't weather they are a super badass anti hero or chivalrous Paragon type willing to save lives because that's what they do. The most interesting characters are those that act like normal people would, I doubt that when faced with utter destruction that many would stand and face the challenge. What I am aiming to construct in "Diamonds in the rough" is a sci fi universe that borrows its influences heavily from Star Wars and Firefly and follows the adventures and travels of the "Diamond" and her crew. The diamond isn't a battleship and it's not the millennium falcon either. It's just a ship in space with a handful of people on board. I want to create a universe in which the story of the "Diamond" itself can be overlooked, and the story of the souls that occupy the ship become the main focus. I also want the reader to see things we wouldn't usually see, for example when a character dies it is often that all the other protagonists will simply put aside their grudges and grieve or the complete opposite, but in real life some people do both. The Captain of the ship is probably expected either to be a cold hearted bastard or as the name implies a rebel who just can't seem to stay on the right side of the law, but who's to say he can't be both? I want to establish a depth of character that will allow readers a chance to genuinely question how they themselves would act in a similar situation and really give a human edge to the story.