Not too awful far from the plot of the Anime “Starship Operators”. Reality show funding space endeavors.
More power to them, but good luck with the financing. Would greatly suck for colonists to have the funding cut/show canceled.
Great story line, funding cut, show cancelled, to the earthbound the story is “It was really just a VR show, an ad lib... With executives expecting the cast to quietly perish on Mars. Then, 75 years later, the Phoebos class Martian dreadnought appears in orbit, filled with pissed off reality show ancestors...
[ Not too awful far from the plot of the Anime “Starship Operators”. Reality show funding space endeavors. ]
That was an awesome storyline in that series and also had some interesting “big government gone amuck” type shadow storyline in it.