1A reader mentioned finding my story hard to follow because the V3D universe isn't known much. Most persons, I realise, didn't see it and if they did, abandoned it pretty quickly.
Hey I totally understand... I watched it myself because I used to work with 3D software. I was interested in the technical aspect. I was appalled, of course. But I dutifully watched it, thinking, ah, this is motion capture, mmm, they used the same 3D character and pulled here and there to make others instead of building each one from scratch, the cloth simulation is this or that. The poor 3D artists must have run on a pretty low budget.
The hair... eeeerk! Hair is one of the things I modelled while working 3D, and its very hard to achieve a natural looking head of hair. The more objets, the harder to calculate, the longer the computer will take to make even one frame, or image. Square Soft and Pixar have the budget and time to pull it off, but its still not realistic to expect nice hair for a weekly show. Too pricey, gents.
Ok enough for the technical. For those who didn't have incentive to follow it, I'll explain a few things, and if you want some point clarified, just ask.
Facts of the storyline of Voltron 3D :
In this show, following the destruction of castle Doom, Lotor was grievously wounded but managed to activate a function that freed a 'space fortress' version of the castle, pretty much like it was done for the castle on Arus. So the big bad Doom fortress kind of flew off on its own. (3D being expensive, I strongly suspect they modelled one castle, and pulled a few points on a copy to build both the space Doom fortress and the Arusian castle. This economic use of 3D is what inspired – in my story - the connection between the 2 places, and eventually the opponents spirits.)
Lotor is imprisoned at high security facility called Bastille 12. As he lost several parts of his body they were replaced with cybernetics. He had become a cyborg.
Meanwhile, Zarkon has supposedly 'reformed' (Ah! As if! Nobody would have believed that! This scenario, as improbable as it is, it nevertheless the story, I'm just re-telling.) and is the right arm of the current galaxy leader, a sentient robot named Amalgamus.
Of course Zarcon manipulates Amalgamus, this is discovered by the Voltron force. He flees in his space floating Doom castle, Lotor escapes and eventually they work together to try and rebuild their empire. Haggar is there, don't know where she's been, but then, everything is sketchy is this show.
I kept only those facts that I felt I could work with.
The general setting of the space Doom fortress, its emptiness, the presence of a couple of pirate characters that sometimes appear to help the villains.
Igor, mentioned once in my story so far (the one Lotor called a celebrated pile of junk), is a robot commanded by Zarcon, built to replace Lotor. Of course the robot bungles in an attack and Lotor is 'kept' in the castle following this.
The Revenge is a spaceship, supposedly designed by Lotor, that he has after he busts out of prison. When was it built? Mystery. Anyway its there in the show, and isn't powered by lazon. Instead it uses a weird combo of elements. Don't ask. I didn't try to explain that one, I just put it in the fic.
All of Zarcon's ships are automated, except the Revenge.
That's about it, hope I didn't forget anything.
I liked this idea of a cyborg Lotor, I felt this would have really crushed him, losing his aesthetic presence. Where does he go from there?
Being in a depression when I began the story, I spent most of my time on my sofa. I was enraged at some injustices I felt I was the butt end of. So I began this fic literally as a semi-personal rant, that's why it has Lotor spending a lot of time in his own, broken sofa, questioning everything in his life. The text took a life of its own, and voilà.
If you want other settings explained, just ask.