Re: Is anyone running Galactic Champions?
As I've worked on my Villains & Vigilantes concordance, I've been considering what the V&V "Universe" would look like twenty years on. The final V&V module is #2028, Dawn of the Devil, which destroys most of the Earth about halfway through using an ancient evil and his space pirate armada. But everything gets better through a deus ex machina after the PCs defeat the Big Bad and his 8-million+ Hit Points.
A couple of things never really clicked in my mind about the background of this module -
The heroes travel over a year and a half through space to find the dxm.
The dxm sets everything back the way it was, but doesn't turn back time.
Everyone everywhere remembers everything that happened.
This means that not only does the entirety of humanity remember the razing of the Earth, but some 90% remember their own deaths, while the rest remember a year and a half of the apocalypse. Couple this with a massive of infusion of advanced technology (salvaging the pirate armada, plus a number of other pieces of supertech scattered throughout the module) and the discovery of some ancient relics in the possession of both "the Devil" and CHESS, and something has to change in the setting in a major way.
It could all go a number of ways -
Squabbling over the remains of the space armada and the other plunder could lead to World War, and then it's Apocalypse earthling-style, with superheroes and lots more mutants in the ashes of the Earth.
The human race goes all far out space nuts, builds their own armada, and goes out into space to find strange, new civilizations... and kill them.
Most everyone having gotten their own personal taste of Armageddon, humanity gets its act together and straightens things out (mostly), and begins space colonization and exploration with the help of some of our extraterrestrial pals. Voila, Galactic Champions campaign that you don't have to travel a thousand years for.
There are other outcomes, but those are the three that pop to mind. I prefer door number three, myself. One of these days I'll sit down and try to pull together my notes for V&V: Welcome to Tomorrow into a more cohesive product.