@robparsons As it's a Stainless Steel Rat homage *and* a Glory Road tribute, there are already stand-ins for both Angelina and Star in there. Adding another one would be too much!
Taking a cue from #TheStainlessSteelRat, one would have to have:
1. Time-travelling villain who turns out to be doomed from the start because xe actually has a closed loop worldline.
1. Snowball planet. Unexplainedly supports an advanced civilization.
And of course from a wider field of pulp there are many others:
1. Jungle planet, where absolutely everything will eat you, including even some of the rocks. Harrison and Foster did variations on this.
1. Marooned impossibly far from home, at the centre of a supervoid or something. Magically, just like every episode of the A-Team, there are resources from which one can improvise a getting-home machine. Smith did this one several times.
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