tl;dr: MegaMan's storyline sucks. I want advice in writing it as realistically as possible.
I want to dip my toes into the realm of fiction (due to much prodding by my wife). I decided I wanted to start with a fan-fiction project based on the popular game MegaMan (also thanks to my wife). Regrettably, the canon story-line is too far-fetched to be plausible (especially for the time they specify). The fanon (fan writing) is worse.
I want to write a fan story to set a new standard.
I want to write a story where:
- Actual human emotions and relationships are twisted and warped as they struggle with their new start-up.
- Dr. Wily stays up to 5 in the morning swearing at his soldering iron.
- Dr. Light bullies grad students to get his name on their papers.
- They both have to learn Power Point to build proposals. It completely baffles them.
- Dr. Light has read I, Robot cover to cover 15 times.
- Dr. Wily got through 2 readings, but really likes the movie better.
- They both work odd contract jobs to build capital and desperately grasp for funding, once or twice losing large sums to phony investors.
- Dr. Wily has to hack a Kinect to work with OpenCV to get an initial vision prototype going.
- Dr. Light spends countless sleepless hours working on stubborn neural networks.
- Pair programming works. Until it doesn't.
- Politics, controversy, and the constant threat of looming war hang over them.
- Company politics are just as bad.
- Dr. Light keeps a picture of Rear Admiral Grace Hopper in his office.
- Dr. Wily keeps a picture of Dr. Robin Murphy in his.
- What is this sleep thing you speak of?
- They submit and fight for patents against unscrupulous foreign agencies with much more money at their disposal.
- They try (often unsuccessfully) to steal talent from big-money robot companies like Boston Dynamics.
- They wrestle with moral dilemmas such as military uses.
- Etc.
- Etc.
- When the robots get built and things go nuts, and they actually get to fighting, I want to throw in some real-life military strategy and tactics including dodging and deploying spy drones, ambushes with home-made explosives, guerilla warfare, etc. (Probably the bit I need the most help on.)
Need any advice you can give me.