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Isn't Dracula canonically immortal? You could technically write him into The Expanse and be accurate. I guess the scifi people might have an issue with it.
Dracula in an otherwise realistic sci-fi setting would also have some potential.
There are a few cases of mythological figures appearing in Bablyon 5. Even King Arthur shows up at one time.
Lower decks holodeck episode in the style of the Moriarty episodes?
Yup, a direct reference to it.
Check out Vampire Hunter D, although I wouldn't call it an otherwise realistic sci-fi setting there's still spaceships and vampires.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula_3000
His powers would be weakened a bit, but otherwise he'd be fine. Orlok would be the one with serious problems.
Well at what point in space does the sun just become a star and a different star become a sun? Is there a magnitude when it becomes a problem for a vampire. Or is only our sun the problem? Like no matter how little sun light a vampire is exposed to a problem even if the vampire is many many light years away.
I think I’ve read in some iterations, super old vampires have trouble from the reflected sunlight during full moons.
Mmm interesting point. This means that either reflected sunlight is fine or that the loss of intensity makes it not not dangerous. I assume most people would agree that using mirrors to reflect sunlight on to a vampire is detrimental to their health and happiness. So it seems like a safe assumption that it is the intensity that matters.
Now we just have to find out if this is a property unique to the sun or if all star light at a certain intensity is unhealthy for vampires.
Time to build an interstellar space ship and fill it with vampires. Luckily they don't need much in the way of life support systems. So we can do this on the cheap.
Are you currently a vampire? If not I am sorry to inform you that the project doesn't have the budget to pay for a vampire transition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula_3000
Stay in a ship with no windows or just chill in the cargo area
Check out Blindsight by Peter Watts.
Such a good book. The vampires seem out of place in the hard sci-fi setting at first, but I think it’s actually quite well done, and ends up being very thematically relevant in the story.
Fun fact, Blindsight is online free at the author's web site: https://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
The vampires appear in Chapter 1, after the Prologue.