Quote Originally Posted by daryen View Post
Huh? Space Opera is superheroics. Especially when you have psionics all over the place. (What are psionics if not straight up super powers?) Granted, you don't have Superman or Captain Marvel (though you can), you have tons of Ironmen, Booster Golds, Nebulas, and character types like that. Sure, they don't make their own stuff, but in Space Opera, you don't need to; someone else does. But you still get to be (or can be) an Ironman.

From the comics side, things like Legion of Superheroes, Green Lantern Corps, and Gardians of the Galaxy are straight up Space Opera with superheroes. From the Space Opera side, Star Wars can perfectly be modeled using a superhero system. That's what Jedi are: superheroes. The old Lensmen is so superhero that it was ripped off to make Green Lantern.

If you want hard or hard-ish sci-fi, then, no superheroics don't apply. But space opera with squishy super-science? Superheroics not only applies, but is basically the same thing.
Soooooooooooo...... Super Heroes in Space, as opposed to Space Opera.