I did a write up of this a while back, should be in the archives somewhere....

On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 2:39 AM, Richard Aiken <raikenclw@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> You might be able to swing an *atmospheric* equivalent if Holmes were to be
> the eccentric son of an Imperial High Noble family, his older brother
> Mycroft the dutiful son who's assumed the family title and Watson as the
> down-to-earth Low Noble combat veteran who's become swept up in the odd
> investigations the younger Holmes is constantly becoming involved in.
>
> In other words, sort of a modern day, lower-rank Cleon II, the early Emperor
> who abdicated and then spent his life on the frontier, acting as a "one man
> fire brigade."
>
> Except in this case it would be a two-man brigade.
>
> And you would of course need a fast, high-jump armed yatch named "Baker's
> Streak," with tail number 221-B . . .
>