- REG: # WS-1ARCHAEO-1 (2008 Lanthus Registrar)
- PRELUDES AND FANFARE:
- (2:59 - Storms in Africa II/Enya - 'marquee')
- (2:24 - Watermark/Enya - 'admissions')
- (4:06 - Cursum Perficio/Enya - 'reception')
- (3:36 - The Longships/Enya - 'introduction')
- (4:01 - Discovery/Tesh - 'fanfare')
- SUPERIMPOSE FOREWORD, watery-blue on black:
- Accurate portrayal being paramount to good story telling, a reasonable deduction has been made to secure a plausible redaction of Scriptural texts and archaeological datings. Contemporary dangers in the region render finer result impracticable.
- - the Trustee for project 'lambhorn'
- FADE IN:
- EXT. EAST OCEAN HORIZON - STARS RISING FAST - PREDAWN CLEAR
- (00:00 strings - China Roses/Enya)
- (00:06 whistle)
- SUPERIMPOSE TITLE CREDITS progressive indigo
red
orange:
- The Son Dey School of Christ Science
- (00:13 piano)
- -in conjunction with-
- (00:15 "we have heaven")
- project 'lambhorn'
- -presents-
- a Wision--Sesquatercet USA production
- (00:28 "moonlight")
- MOON RISES;
- screenplay by Mr. Raymond Kenneth Petry
- Trustee-Director for project 'lambhorn'
- (00:32 "comet")
- TAILED-COMET RISES;
- inferred and translated in American English
- (00:35 "tears")
- Horizon-radiant METEORS STREAK-BURST; scintillating text:
- THE FIRST JOURNEY
- (00:41 +harpsichord)
- MORNING HORIZON PEEKS rich orange beneath purple:
- -Jehovah in Eden-
- (00:44 "break of morning")
- HORIZON ENLARGES
to SUN-YELLOW half-banner on pink sky:
- ARCHAEODUS
- With green subnote:
- SCIENCE AND DOCUDRAMA REDACTED OF GENESIS 1-3
- (00:54 "cloud in crimson")
- SKY BRIGHTENS BLUE, CRIMSON CLOUDS; beach trees, DAWN;
- Stereo'eyes'ed - PG-17 Ultra Vivid
- (01:05 ooh, strings lull)
- DOUBLE-IMAGE: "ARCHAEODUS" OUTER EXPANDS, OBLITERATING RED except the ocean horizon steams and lowers to Off-Screen.
- (01:15)
- MULTIPLE-IMAGES: Small white "ARCHAEODUS" INNER IGNITES and expands to midsize
Holds: A tiny blue-white "ARCHAEODUS" CORE IGNITES in blooming fiery brilliance (a giant pre-nova star nuclear-fusion-burning its silicon to iron within its oxygen
neon
carbon fusion layers, and helium and hydrogen fusion layers billowing its giant red outer photosphere)
- (01:29 -stop before voice-)
- A mere stellar day contemplation to go
- CUT TO REALIZE:
- EXT. ECLIPTIC PLANE - RED GIANT - STARRY COSMOS (SEQUENCE)
- (00:00 string, cry - I Will Ease the Pain
/Marquisard)
- At 50 AU deep center sits bright red giant sun Sirius C.
- (00:12 piano)
- Thousands of DISTANT ROCKETS IGNITE, to escape its demise
- (00:26 rhythm clacks)
- NEUTRINO RATCHET-BURST-FLASHES, HEARD, FELT, 4 cps 10 sec.
- (00:33 +voice)
- A ROCKET APPROACHES
GIGANTIC
10 mi.-long pavis-sheathed tri-fuselage space-city-ship, DUST FLASH-STREAKS its sides
- LUMBERING-BY
a cuneiform name "PfNX"
passing
onward
- Nuclear-power-driven, three raspy tenuous exhaust trails
- (00:~~)
- POV: With Rocket: approaching A GIANT GAS PLANET
- (01:02 sticks, contemplative arguing chant)
- CHASE: Rocket gains in rapid dive
- SPEEDING CLOSE over the Planet under rings and moons
- (01:17 zoom, voice reemphasizes)
- NUCLEAR-DRIVE-BURST-- PULLS AHEAD
- 2ND
3RD
ROCKETS CHASING
narrowly, as a subfleet
- (01:31 huff exertion)
- And hyperbolically gradually upward
for deep space
- POV: -First:- Leading a line from the yet-passing planet
- (01:45 rhythm, voice)
- Receding very-rapidly
till uneclipsed behind all,--
- A BLUE-WHITE NOVA, rapidly beginning, captures the center
- (02:~~)
- POV: With Rocket: approaching a splendorous small red sun
- (02:15 drum chant contemplative arguing)
- CHASE: Rocket gains in hyper dive, AEROGLOW
- SPEEDING CLOSE over Sun-spicules under flare-loops, comae horde
OCCASIONAL BRIGHT-STRIKES
ships parallel-cross
- (02:30 zoom, voice reemphasizes)
- NUCLEAR-DRIVE-BURSTS-- PULL EACH AHEAD
- (02:44 huff exertion)
- And All hyperbolically gradually upward
for deep space
- POV: -First:- BRIGHT AEROGLOW HUGGING its forward sides, Leading A SLOWLY-SPREADING LINE from the yet-passing sun
- (02:59 rhythm, voice)
- Receding ultra-rapidly
and behind all still,--
- The whitening-white Nova, filling half the sky, enlarging
- (03:~~)
- POV: Among Rockets: racing for deep-deep outer-space
- Rockets, preceding
EACH OPENING ITS PAVIS to Nova wind
- (03:28 drum, chant, voice heightens)
- FAINT-CREAMY-WHITE NOVA-WIND GLOW OVERTAKES ALL
- The Rockets spread, separating, disappearing in the haze
- (03:52 fade)
- BRIGHTEST STARS FADE LAST in the glowing HAZY
WHITEOUT
- (03:55 -out-)
- CUT TO BLACK
- FADE IN:
- EXT. DEEP SPACE - LONE TRI-FUSELAGE ROCKET - SUPERNOVA EDGE
- (00:00 windwhistle - Under the Sun/Marquisard)
- Stars, new comets, leeward; faint blue Nova-bloom haze lit from behind by its 0.5 sec. PULSAR FLASHING FAR-BEHIND
- (00:06 cry)
- ZOOM-IN: A Rocket creeping leeward
nova-plasma-wind wakes against its rear and 4-stage space-ram pavis fully expanded 10 mi. radius, its tri-fuselage open on 1 mi. pylons
- (00:15 +drum tap)
- Rolling slowly axially 60 deg./60 sec.
the "PfNX"
- (00:24 +voice)
- DETAIL FORE TO AFT: Comet dust flares-aft from the lead Whipple-umbrella onto the second; Occasional flares-aft from the second
its three featureless tube-cities
- A SPACECRUISER PARKED in the rear
- (00:56 guitar)
- The Nuclear-power-drives now Off
coasting
- CUT IN TO:
- INT. SPACECRUISER - VARIOUS LIT
- NB. SPACER VOICES TIP-OF-MOUTH WHISPER-QUIET BASS-ALTO; Spacers inbred-twins, ages 2-2000, male and female.
- (01:01 talk)
- COLLAGE:
- PERSONNEL activities, maintenances; NAVIGATION DISPLAYS track deep space comets far ahead lit by the Nova wind: markings are high-tech-cuneiform
- WATCHER ROOMS: MONITORING all other rooms, corridors
- (01:16 voice)
- TRANSITION: INTO A CORRIDOR
Personnel at-ease in-and-out
- AN OBSERVATION DECK - SOCIAL LIT (AS CONTINUOUS)
- POV: SLOW THROUGH, PASSING BETWEEN: SENIOR PARENTS sitting vis-a-vis at a secluded table near OUTER WINDOWS FLASHING:
- (01:30 cry, piano exult)
- A SPACE-WINDOW: The bluish Nova-bloom flashing outside:
- (01:38 cry)
- Lit from its pulsar flashing in deep space, far behind.
- (01:44 -stop before voice-)
- FADE TO FAINT RED:
- INT. STUDY CUBICLE - FAINT RED LIT (EONS LATER)
- CU: A flat video wide-screen REFLECTION OF spacer boy ADAM (2) (REFL) watching AN ANIMATION of solar system planetary creation; Mr. GABRIEL (VO), small senior muscle, narrates:
- SUPERIMPOSE:
- 2.5 MILLION YEARS LATER
[GABE] (VO)
- (reads aloud)
- VIDEO TITLE:
- Chapter One: Living Planet Genesis; Time-scale: Seventh-order, cycling.
- ANIMATED: Flattened pre-solar nebula glowing in Bode-bands; blazing planet-quadruplets, co-orbiting, coalesce to twins; a few asteroids collide, flashing light that echoes abroad;
[GABE] (VO)
- We begin at this condensed planet spinning through the dusty nebula orbiting its central sun not yet lit to star-brightness
Only the Spirit of God watches.
- ANIMATED: Dark spinning planet, continual meteor storm adds dim glow; occasional fireballs streak across;
[GABE] (VO)
- This planet has removed to an orbit far from its pair-mate and begun to cool in cloudy darkness
Rocks and dust still crash onto the planet.
- ANIMATED: Tempest winds scour boiling-water seas covering glimmering magma flows;
[GABE] (VO)
- Deep water covers its crusty lava and boils-away heat into scouring winds, high into its atmosphere
Lavas still glimmer below.
- ANIMATED: Red sky light blooms to a bright-dim day-cycle;
[GABE] (VO)
- As the faraway sun ignites to star fire, its suffuse light illumines the thinning nebula blanketing the spinning planet with its first day light
Lighter and darker are the first type of day; and God counts this improvement, Good.
- ANIMATED: Tempest-winds subside to a global rain storm beneath back-lit cloudy reddish haze mottling the sky;
[GABE] (VO)
- As the planet cools, its atmosphere slows to let vapor gather as clouds precipitating rain water, cleansing the air for vegetation to breathe
And God counts this, improvement, Good; This is the second day-type.
- ANIMATED: Magmas harden, crack, weathering into fine dusty soils, green vegetation proliferates, blackish in reddish-orange sky-glow;
[GABE] (VO)
- Cycles of sunlight, warmth, and wet and dry, accelerate the microscopic crumbling of hardened lava rock, to gravel, sand, dust, soil, clay, and dirty seawater,- greatly increasing its availability to microbiological slime and mold developments,- which also increase the crumbling. Larger vegetations luxuriate and the third day-type is dominated by sightless, greenish land-plants basking in the reddish-orange daylight, making the air good for animals and mankind.
- ANIMATED: Sky clears to day and night, to detect the sun's spot, moons; distant planets, colored stars at night: The mountains are patched with snow;
[GABE] (VO)
- While vegetation and tiny insects develop and flourish on the planet, in its air and its seas, the nebula blanketing the planet clarifies to let direct light show the spots of the sun and moon and other planets, and stars, in their colors.
Nights and winters and pole regions become colder; climates specialise. Larger plants, that grow fruits to nurture their own seeds, develop
On this fourth type of day the point of seeing and science becomes good.
- ANIMATED: Fish swimming, jumping
then add fowl flying;
[GABE] (VO)
- As animals develop and specie-fy in the buoyant water seas, they follow the changing seasonal direction and currents flowing around the planet: These are the first fish; And from these, lighter-weight birds develop flying by flapping the less-buoyant air
And day-type Five, is good.
- ANIMATED: Cattle, sheep, roaming, lion resting, aboriginal idyllic mankind walking;
[GABE] (VO)
- Land-creatures, including mankind, dominate the planet and its seas in day-type Six. This is the finale of known life-soul manifestations on living planets, but mankind needs a further distinction from the animal creatures.
- ADD TRANSLUCENT SPOT-OVERLAY of [Gabe] face:
[GABE]
- We put aside this idyllic scenery to understand generic man and his ascendency over all the planet and its seas and skies and outer space around: It is also to be seen and counted, Good, and felt constantly: It is the altitude, the orbit, the vantage of thought watching calmly confidently with God: It restfully sees all good unfolded undiminished before it contemplates point, line, place.
This elevation of authority brings us to eye our present day-type, the Seventh, and its ultimate conclusion in your responsibilities here and wherever you count good.
- ADD TRANSLUCENT SPOT-OVERLAYS of individual [STUDENTS] faces at 2-4 years; Adam sees his own video-echo:
[GABE]
- Adam, you may ask a question.
[ADAM]+ADAM (REFL)
- Can people go outside a planet? in their spacesuits?
[GABE]
- Planets are bigger, so they don't have to; but they can.
[STUDENT#2]
- Will we visit a planet to see these development phases?
[GABE]
- Most planets are finished;- We will visit a sixth-day planet.
[STUDENT#3]
- What is soil like? Do we have any in the laboratory stores?
[GABE]
- Soil is like your toy-modeling clay.
[STUDENT#4]
- What do planet-people do during the nighttime of day?
[GABE]
- The same as you do when you turn-off the lights, and sleep.
[STUDENT#5]
- Why don't we have animals in our spacecruiser?
[GABE]
- Animal communities do not fit in spacecruisers; And do not need to: They will already be on any planet we will visit.
[STUDENT#6]
- How many planets are there orbiting a sun?
[GABE]
- Each sun may have several pairs of planets, and some, smaller suns.
[STUDENT#7]
- Are all day-type-six planets inhabited by men?
- PULL-BACK TO (MCU) real Adam in his plush study-cubicle:
[GABE]
- One or two, sometimes three planets at each sun, are just right for us.
ADAM+[ADAM]
- Can planet-people see us? Where are they going?
[GABE]
- Only when we come near or visit them: Then they follow us.
- FADE TO:
- INT. SPACER BOY CHILD'S BEDROOM - LOW LIT
- ROOM LIGHT AUTO-DIMS; Mommy TFNI, small pretty senior 250, tucks-in Adam; exotic stuffed animal-shape toys abound.
TFNI
- And what was the inspiring class discussion today?
ADAM
- We learned about seven day-types phases in living-planet genesis.
TFNI
- Can you name the seven phases?
ADAM
- The first is after the planet already exists inside a nebula.
TFNI
- And what do you know about such a planet?
ADAM
- It's round, and it spins, and it's dark but also really hot and messy.
TFNI
- And what happens to that planet? Do you remember?
ADAM
- The first phase is where the light makes a type of day and night.
TFNI
- And where does the light originate? Is it on the planet somewhere?
ADAM
- It is sunlight and its nebula wears thin and lets the sunlight through.
TFNI
- And then what? What does light do?
ADAM
- Mommy? What is a nebula blanket?- It's very dusty.
TFNI
- And that is all that it is: dust floating uncollected about the sun.
ADAM
- How does it keep the planet warm?
TFNI
- The dust catches sunlight and heat, and gets warm itself; but darkly.
ADAM
- There must be a lot of dust to keep a whole planet warm.
TFNI
- Yes, a very lot: enough to make the sun and planets first,- and more.
ADAM
- Then, the planet gets quiet and the wind turns into clouds and rain.
- (yawns)
TFNI
- And that is the second type of day? What is the next phase?
ADAM
- Yes; Then the seas and lands cool, and make soil, and grow plants.
TFNI
- Can you grow plants without soil?
ADAM
- We have the hydroponic flowers; but they need nutrients.
TFNI
- And what happens when the planet is full of plants?
ADAM
- The plants make air and grow fruits and the sea animals become fish and birds when they follow the moon and stars. There are land-creatures too and mankind. Mr. Gabriel said we will visit a sixth-day planet
but, Mommy, How do animals get to a planet?
TFNI
- The Life-Principle we call, God, forms its manifestation everywhere in concert harmony:- All things reflect Life, together and diversely.
ADAM
- And then God approves, and gives us things to do and learn.
- (00:00 ukelele - Isle of Her/Marquisard)
TFNI
- Yes, And that's the seventh phase to think about.
Good night, dear one.
- (kiss)
- They finish, hug-and-kisses
And she exits via--
- The status-control-panel:-- ROOM DARKENS; DOOR CLOSES
- ADJOINING ROOM - WARM LIT (AS CONTINUOUS)
- (00:17 +voice)
- DOOR CLOSES: TfNi exits the bedroom
and welcomes-embraces her prince-son-twin TEFEN 200, in a hug turning together:--
- FULL-TURN on spacer room possessions around them
.
- CUT OUT TO:
- EXT. SPACE - OUR KNOWN STARS - PULSAR AT STELLAR DISTANCE
- COSMIC ZOOM FROM: Their now-remote pulsar and pole-jets so-distant that the sky is clear but for a myriad stars
- The lead Whipple is tattered, The second excessively worn.
- (00:44 -fade out-)
- CUT BACK IN TO:
- INT. OBSERVATION DECK - SOCIAL LIT
- AMUN-RA, TfNi's 7000-year-old-twin father, withered small but handsome, straw-drinking at the counter with Tefen:
RA
- (cheers his drink)
- For I, am Admiral Poop-or-dinkle of this boat of 3-million-years
And, 'til I say otherwiser, I'm 35-times older than you-'re
!
TEFEN
- (looks in Ra's drink)
- What did you put in, that drink?
RA
- (looks in it)
- The usual Zirconium-96 nuclear poo.
TEFEN
- You mean Zirconium-96 nuclear pie
?
RA
- Poo
is present-perfect, Pie:-- I pie; I pied;- I have, Poo
!
TEFEN
- (2 beats)
- Safe-enough 'til you plug a finger into your deuteron-accelerator
- (a beat)
- How would you know you're 35-times, older?-- The Nav-computer resets at every gamma-ray-burst that zaps the local galactic arm-- thrice a day.
RA
- (erudite shrug)
- I
just divide the number of resets by three
!
TEFEN
- (a beat, subdued)
- The only longer-lived, time-keeper, is your brain,-- which I think too, resets at every gamma-ray-burst.
RA
- (his best puzzled beat)
- Wait till we reach a livable planet Earth,- and I'll prove it to you.
TEFEN
- (sips-ponders a beat)
- How is a planet going to help you?
RA
- Planets rotate with long periods,- And around planets there are moons and other planets,- to count time.
TEFEN
- Oh.
But, How is that going to tell you how old you are now
?
RA
- (blows bubbles into his)
- Just you wait:- I'll show you.
TEFEN
- (shrugs)
- I, suppose I've waited long-enough to find-out
Or many short-waits
- (00:48 -fade in-)
- INT. CONTROL-ROOM - NORMAL OPERATION LIT
- (00:52 +choral)
- WALL DISPLAYS: Ship-diagrams; Status on chrysalis modules, 2 under reconstruction; Telescopic planets; OFFICER-CREW computes navigations for swing-deceleration at the PLUTON STAR-POINT, and JUPITER, and OUR MOON, to arrive at Earth
- DISSOLVE TO WHITE:
- INT. WHITE SUIT-UP-ROOM, REBEL SHIP - BRIGHT (MONTHS LATER)
- NB. TECHNICIAN VOICES MAN-NORMAL; Soldiers younger men.
- (01:09 voice)
- AT THE PROBE PORTAL: White-suit ASSISTANTS help 6 assault-team CROAKERS suit-up breathing heavy green-gas: umbilical oxygenator connection, headgear, helmet, weapon, equipment.
- A Croaker joker geysers-up heavy green-gas. Coughs. grins.
- His Assistant refits his green-gas lung-loading tube.
- Croakers and Assistants enter the Probe Portal to a dark
- INT. CROAKER-MANNED PROBE - DARKER (CONTINUOUS)
- (01:44 +choral)
- TECHNICIANS adjust lit control-panels; Assistants web-strap Croakers into goo-beds stacked vertically, 4 on outer ring, 2 deeper mid-ring, around the hollow center-tip probe-exit.
- Technicians, Assistants, exit as done
.
- PORTAL HATCH SHUTS to--
- (02:02 -stop before ukelele-)
- DARK: Panel lights only, COUNTING TIME
to reconsider
- CUT IN:
- EXT. REBEL SPACE-CARRIER - PROBE DOCK - FAR BEYOND JUPITER
- The tiny ASSAULT PROBE ready to go, still attached,
- (00:00 clacks - Tuamotu/Marquisard)
- BLOWS CLASPS,-- floating off
- VERNIERS-ACCELERATES, gliding directly away
- (00:03 huff)
- TESTS ITS REACTION-VERNIERS: Spins left. Spins right. Spin-shifts through a figure-infinity (horizontal-8)
- (00:07 zoom+huffs)
- POV: LEADING-ZOOMING OUT
MAIN THRUST ON coming away from the carrier-ship
which is gigantic
- Three more tests again: spins and figures
- (00:21 glide)
- And glides, coming
- (00:24 talk)
- POV SWINGS WITH: Passes close by (CU)
- (00:38 voice)
- MAIN-THRUST ACCELERATES,-- preceding down for Jupiter
- (00:50)
- Space-city-ship APPEARS NUCLEAR-DRIVE-BURST-DECELERATING out from behind Jupiter
PROBE THRUST RE-AIMS for it
- (00:57 eee, voice eery whine)
- CUT TO:
- INT. SPACECRUISER - COMMAND CENTER - BATTLE-RED
- NB. DISPLAY VOICES SOFT BASS-ALTO.
- Consoles, walls, voices, displays: WARNINGS, ALARMS;
- (01:~~ builds)
- Crew scrambles, weaponry, armory suits
- VOICE-DISPLAY: Progress diagrammed, Alerts flashing:
- TRAJECTORY (prompt white)
- CONVERGENT (flashing white)
- NON BALLISTIC (flashing yellow)
- ETA 121 SEC. (countdown orange)
- * EVASIVE * (flashing red)
- (01:19 talk "voyager")
- INT. CONNECTING CORRIDORS
- HOP-SCAN: Armoried Crew positioned, advised repositioning
- (01:32 voice)
- CUT TO:
- EXT. PROBE - NEARING JUPITER - ABOVE RINGS
- DIVE-THRUST BLOOMS,-- leading a bit more
- Space-city-ship out from Jupiter, GYRATES; THRUSTS AGAIN
- (01:50 eee, voice)
- CHASE: Probe down through Jupiter's asteroidal belt:
- DUST BLAZE-STREAKS on forward shield;
- (02:11 lull)
- Probe SPIN-THRUST-JOCKIES, AVOIDING NUCLEAR FLARES from the city-ship, But takes VAPORIZING HITS OF LASER-FIRE-SWEEP
- (02:28 clack)
- A RAILGUN-SHOT STRIKE FLARES on the Probe.
- (02:32 clack)
- A SECOND STRIKE FLARES.
- (02:35 voices, double-clack)
- A DOUBLE STRIKE FLARES.
- (02:38 double-clack)
- A SECOND DOUBLE STRIKE FLARES.
- (02:41 triple-clack)
- A TRIPLE STRIKE FLARES, on Probe converging rapidly
- (02:43 eee)
- ITS FINAL-THRUST WILD-SPIRAL DIVE PRECEDING-IN
- A FULL BARRAGE BLAZE BATTERS the Probe
- (02:56)
- CUT IN TO:
- INT. PROBE - DARK WITH PANEL LIGHTS
- BATTERING RESONATES
- Croakers await, set tight in their goo-beds
- (03:11 abrupt stop -reverb, fadeout-)
- PROBE IMPALES: JERK-COMPRESSION, FRONT BURSTS OPEN TO light, debris splattering, venting
smoke wafting
- BEDS UNCLASP;-- They dodge through to the light;
- Except the Croaker joker, expired, drops from his goo-bed.
- INT. HALL BREACHED BY PROBE TIP - LIT (CONTINUOUS)
- NB. REBELS-ABOARD GASED-VOICES KRYPTON-HEAVY DEEP BASS.
- Some Croakers take off outer-helmets, spew-coughing heavy-settling green-gas
Last climb-through, Split away 2+3
- LIGHTS FAIL TO EMERGENCY-RED
- GROUP OF 3 ARRIVES AT--
- A CONTROL-LOCKED DOOR
- -Demolition- sets thermite sticky-cord.
- All hide behind paves or behind-behind
- DOOR BLASTS OPEN.
- Two rush in, -Third- watches then departs:
- INT. WATCHER CONTROL-ROOM - DIM RED LIT (CONTINUOUS)
- Large display screens, control panels: ship diagrams include chrysalides modules, maintenance status.
- The-2 -Guess Experts- manipulate WATCHER-VIEWS [halls, rooms, crew, personnel]
gaining experience
- Headgear their inter-communications
- [Advised Croakers crash halls; gunfire on a few crew]
- [Tefen armed in armory suit walks a PERIPHERY corridor]
- Guess-Expert orders to confront: Inter-communications
- [Tefen flip-turns air-prone at their sound, FIRING SHRIEKS]
- INT. CORRIDOR - PORTAL TO PERIPHERY - RED (CONTINUOUS)
- Outside this Portal-hatch 3 Croakers gunfire-in; one dies
- A Croaker gun-launches a grenade,-- BLASTING OPEN A HOLE in the floor and SHOVING EVERYONE BACK. They rush to close the hatch but OUT-WIND CATCHES AND SUCKS one through, into the periphery corridor
and out the hole after Tefen
- Hatch closed, One, runs the corridor
and into, through--
- THE CHRYSALIS PODS ROOM: intelligent, dog-like humans
- INT. CHILDREN'S ROOM - RED
- ADULTS HUDDLING CHILDREN, ADAM (3) on the end, whispering, hearing the FIREFIGHT APPROACHING outside the closed door
- EXT. - DARK; MULTI-RANDOM-DISTRACTION-PURPLE-POINT-STROBES
- Firefight VOLLEYS EXCHANGE between corners and some prone
- POV: RANGER-GOGGLED TfNi in armory suit, prone, forefront, FIRING SHRIEKS at a Croaker who leap-rolling to the closed door, erects, grins
gunfiring on it, sinking back, dead
- INT. - (SAME INSTANT)
- SHOTS THROUGH THE DOOR-- RIP-UP THE FLOOR about Adam
- Momentarily the frightful firefight ceases.
- Crew enter, reassure them; assist injured Adam.
- DISSOLVE TO:
- INT. COMMAND OFFICE - NORMAL LIT (MINUTES LATER)
- Large Displays loop watcher-angles of the [Rebel invasion]; CMDR MICHAEL, muscular, Gabe, TfNi, THREE MORE, debrief:
MIKE
- Who are they? How did they know where to hit us? Where is their carrier? Why are they suicidal?
GABE
- Probably suffered a revolt in the eons since our star went supernova.
-FOURTH-
- Sir, They are in this sector here
- (at Jupiter-Trojans map)
- They are not following us, -or were not,- but we won't know, until they break-out of ballistic trajectory:- if they're in tracking range.
GABE
- Mike, They were approaching the children almost directly.
MIKE
- We've had no contact in 3-million
years:-- Why the children?
TFNI
- Sir, From the watcher-control-room they could find empty corridors.
MIKE
- Psychology? TfNi;- following a buffer-zone to the children?
-FIFTH-
- Sir, Their mental tones were dark and mechanical: All kill.
MIKE
- Kill in empty corridors? What is their target purpose?
GABE
- I think they want the children:-- the threat of a future.
MIKE
- But suicidal! Gabe, What chieftain risks protection against children?!
-SIXTH-
- Information, Sir: what we do to avoid space-comets, they amplify to murderous thievery for raw information: to release it.
MIKE
- (turns)
- You mean, they've lost their ability to dodge space-rocks?
GABE
- Could be, Mike: Then they'd kill for tidbits of information.
MIKE
- An inferior mentality? Gabe;- enslaved to a superior technology?
GABE
- Comparable to children, Mike, they don't see us in charge.
MIKE
- Run an adaptability-profile on the children. Thank you, all.
- Others exit; Mike, Gabe, remain.
GABE
- Mike, you were hard on TfNi: We lost her husband Tefen; and her boy is
MIKE
- (clips)
- And both she and Adam took hits:
- I'm focusing on this, Gabe.
GABE
- You suspect Adam is their only, target?
MIKE
- What do you think of Adam? Is he tractable for spacer living?
GABE
- He excels at spatio-temporal relations; As bright as any of the children in a thousand years: He's foresightful.
MIKE
- You mean, self-involved,- could be projective, even useless.
GABE
- Too soon to ascertain, Mike, and we'd continue to teach him.
MIKE
- Not under duress: not here. Thank you, Mr. Gabriel.
- Gabe exits.
- CUT TO:
- INT. SCIENCE-INFORMATION ROOM - MEDIUM LIT (ONE YEAR LATER)
- 7 days to Earth. One glass-wall views a chrysalis terrarium pod; chrysalides sometimes passing, pause and look-through.
- Mike, Ra, PTAH, 8700-year-old-twin grandfather, withered smaller, study Earth Spectral Compu-maps: springtime North snow; IR evidences 4000-BC civilizations in river-valleys: eg. Nile, Euphrates, Ganges, Amazon, Mississippi; Epochal shows tectonic drift, a seamount-continent west of Europe:
- Iron spectrum: red-Earth lands dark; forests, sands pale.
RA
- (a beat)
- Okay. Next.
- Chromium spectrum: splotchy hazy here and there.
MIKE
- (a beat)
- Chromium reflectance spectrum.
RA
- (a beat)
- Okay
Next.
- Silver spectrum, lines including Africa's dry rivers.
MIKE
- (a beat)
- Silver reflectance spectrum,- looks specular along the rivers
RA
- Good
.
PTAH
- Malleable; Could command a premium.
RA
- (a beat)
- Okay
Next.
- Gold spectrum, lines including Africa's dry rivers.
MIKE
- (a beat)
- Gold reflectance,- also along the rivers, and out here in the desert.
PTAH
- I, thought so
Ripe for picking
.
RA
- Malleable; Could command a premium.
PTAH
- (bemused a beat)
- Next.
- Tungsten spectrum: blooms hazy here and there.
MIKE
- (a beat)
- Tungsten reflectance spectrum.
RA
- (a beat)
- Okay
Next.
- Zirconium spectrum: nil.
MIKE
- (a beat)
- Zirconium reflectance.
PTAH
- (a beat)
- Oh, Poo
. That's going to take us several millennia to extract.
RA
- (politically creative)
- Still, Maybe facile: We start local mankind picking-up the silver
and the gold
Add copper, iron
build great competing civilizations
And after they begin hoarding strategic metals we exchange our keep for the right to extract 3-percent-96
and return pure-depleted
By time they figure it out, we're long gone
!
PTAH
- (a beat at Ra, smiles)
- Ra, You're brilliant half the time.
- Gabe enters.
GABE
- (defensive)
- Excuse me, Mike: TfNi's in trouble: She's doing it again: She's blaming herself.
MIKE
- Did?- What?- What's troubling her?
GABE
- (holds a broken Watcher)
- This is the third broken Watcher.
MIKE
- Then she's fixed her blame on open-intelligence technology.
GABE
- Under incursion-strikes, she'd better secure internal operations.
MIKE
- Open-intelligence always ranks the highest respect for performance.
GABE
- But, Mike, Open-intelligence also exposes individuals:-- Adam!
MIKE
- Priorities, Gabe: Adam is not suited to spacer-living.
GABE
- (a bit upset)
- The adaptability profile is relativistic grading, not absolutistic:- Don't be hard.
MIKE
- You believe Adam is their target,- and he's consular lineage
.
GABE
- (detects incongruity)
- They can't know that-- eons ago
!
MIKE
- And, open-intelligence should have erased it among us.
GABE
- Open-intelligence mollifies,- but can't subvert motherhood.
MIKE
- Doesn't need-to:- It shows us what we must do promptly.
GABE
- (yielding)
-
Finding a suitable space-refuge, for him, means we need a temperate planet similar to our former Earth.
- Live-Earth map: atmospheric gases absorption-spectra.
MIKE
- The target planet is a feasibility: We can put them down near the space seed implantation
- (to Ra, Ptah)
- Excuse me, guys
GABE
- This is their solar system, Mike: They'll go after him down there.
MIKE
- (admits but)
- Safer than with us
We'll have to put them down without the spacer habiliments.
- Ra, Ptah, chickle-chuckle.
GABE
- (barely amused)
- That's extremal
Should I go with them?
MIKE
- A separated mother is more common among suicidal male cultures
.
- (resumes at map)
- Atmospheric composition parametrics are similar to a minim-suit plus a nitrogen burden, -useful for plant-life,- slightly deranging for men, animals,- but Adam will survive it.
GABE
- (involved too)
- Nitrogen, matrix
Nitrogen Two
?-
- (chuckles)
- No heavy molecular oxidators?-- They're going to chirp like birds!- Not to mention feeling ill all day.
- Ra, Ptah, mutually mock-sick-burps, hands to lips.
MIKE
- (stifles a nod Yes)
- Significant gravity, They will rest supine. Helium spectral absorption suggests underground gases and oil reserves in valleys and near seas:- eventually useful resources.
GABE
- This is severe
Have we any choice of ground location? Harvest-season?
MIKE
- Take a look:- Infra-red especially.
GABE
- (examines Earth-IR map)
- Appear to be several long rivers in luxuriant temperate zones
Here--
- (points at major rivers)
-
though we'd better take straight, rivers, for the straightness of our cargo-freighters, we know so well.
MIKE
- Several amid the larger continent
- (at S Euphrates)
- And this confluence of four plain-rivers in a mid-northern temperate zone
is present target choice.
GABE
- (at S Persian gulf)
- Gulf is constricted:- Northern top-water could be fresh
.
MIKE
- Planet rotation on 24 degrees tilt: Usable day; Quadrature mild seasons favoring warm northern springtime
.
GABE
- Do you have nightside, infra-red: Is it populated?
- Mike switches map: black+red-enhanced night-views of Earth.
MIKE
- (sweeps down Euphrates)
- Northward is, but practically none southward.
GABE
- Unsettling, Mike:- A spacer-ideal locale with no settlementation
.
MIKE
- It's drier; Fertile, but few trees for building
Maybe the ground is unstable for tall structures?
GABE
- Maybe it silt-floods seasonally: There may be no exposed stones.
MIKE
- (at westward W Batin)
- They can set-down on higher ground out here on the plain
Trade-route travelers will follow larger rivers and the mountain-range foothills.
GABE
- (summarizes hope)
- Polluted morons, spacer-profile-rejects, disillusioned political-losers: all manner of defilements, disloyalties
Dangerous: What can we provide them?- We're hundred-percent spacer-typed!
MIKE
- Nothing, but the information of where they are: where they can go.
- Ptah leans subtly forward--
PTAH
- Tell him about the sunset beaches.
GABE
- (grins at Ptah)
- You've been dreaming again, Ptah: You've never seen a beach up-close.
PTAH
- Dreams must count for something: If poops feed plants, Dreams respite
GABE
- (grin cools, to Mike)
- I'll prepare TfNi;- How soon do we arrive at
new-Earth?
MIKE
- Seven days
We final-correct-swing-decelerate at its large moon
and arrive at the planet nightside as the moon enters sunlight-umbra
- (points out 30S Pacific)
- Several will be taking leave, this, side: where islands dot the ocean.
- (points mid 0N Atlantic)
- We detonate the space-ram nearing the rim
to make land midmorning
- (points along 30N Arabia)
- Across this main subcontinent
and against this ridge, as backstop.
- (emotes unto chrysalides)
- I'll be glad to unload this space-seed cargo;- In dreams I smell its stench of rottage;-- I've tested for cracks: There are no leaks, But it almost has me believing in extra sensory communication
or dreams.
GABE
- This is profound, Mike: Where will we, go then-after?
MIKE
- (points to N Nile)
- Ptah and Ra are landing due-west
GABE
- Ooh, Nice.
MIKE
- We, may have no choice, Gabe: We've got non-ballistics paralleling at tracking distance
. We'll drop our cargo, return to third synchronous orbit, and find the scout ship
We can watch over Earth day and night.
GABE
- I'll shuttle them down at maximum angle just before orbit-dawn:- With the lunar eclipse behind us and the other shuttles coming down onto the first ocean, and this cargo coming down over us, it'll give us the best disguise into the daylight.
MIKE
- And then return directly:-- We may have to leave Earth-orbit entirely.
GABE
- Mike, We have no agenda to abandon them forever.
- Venus-Solar map; Ptah, Ra, join interested.
MIKE
- I'm looking at this planet inward:
- Ample resources for us to reform;- Cloud cover and thermal inclemency should deter incursions.
GABE
- (at sun-data chart)
- Billion-year sun-stability,- Good.
MIKE
- Any further discussion? We remain on Yellow-Alert, henceforth.
GABE
- Thanks
This will be a very long planetary exploration for TfNi.
- (turns, exits)
RA
- (to Ptah)
- Ptah, A sunset beach faces the west: That means you'll have to take the east, shore.
PTAH
- We can share the river, And I'll boat over with Sekhmet to your eastside for the evening sunsets.
RA
- (a beat bemused)
- Okay, That's amenable, I guess.
- QUICK FADE TO:
- EXT. THE ONCOMING ROCKET - CLOSE PASSING MOON EAST - DARK
- The space-ram pavis, -two layers blasted, third tattered,-
- FORE-ENGINE IGNITES BRILLIANT WHITE-- illuming the moon
- And oncoming
INTO THE SUNLIGHT
AND THE MOON IS SUNLIT
- And onward
for Earth westside, 240Kmi. ahead
- QUICK FADE TO:
- INT. COMMAND - 4000 BC EARTH NIGHTSIDE - LIT (DAYS LATER)
- Hyperbolic approach: CMDR Michael watches Display-enhanced nightside Atlantic ocean, African continent turning-toward; diagrammatic-red-footprint-targeted Persian Gulf north end;
- Gabe enters, carrying leaf-sack bundles on a vine garland:
GABE
- Mike: TfNi and Adam are ready to shuttle down.
MIKE
- It'll have to be quick, Gabe: We have non-ballistics approaching within quick-strike range.
GABE
- (subdued)
- And one other thing, Mike: TfNi has impregnated herself from the marrow stem in Adam's broken rib.
MIKE
- (acknowledges)
- That's fine, Gabe: Without Tefen to husband her, she's right, to do it
- (looks askance)
- Their lineage is, full-well-inbred.
GABE
- She programmed for a girl.
MIKE
- (deliberate smile)
- Figures: Right choice.
- Gabe motions: TfNi, Adam, enter sans spacer-habiliments; indications of surgery: Adam, at a rib; TfNi, inner-thigh.
GABE
- (holds out leaf-bundles)
- Can they have these gene-adapted fertile-seed pouches? And rolled thatch-leaf mats?
MIKE
- (peruses)
- Yes,-- those look Earth-ordinary.
GABE
- (garlands TfNi, smiles)
- These seeds are bitter-coated with a dry fertilizer-primer.
MIKE
- (continuing)
- But, what about their rifle-scars?
- Can we cover that better?
GABE
- No: Flesh accelerants leave uneven fill without persistent tending.
TFNI
- (resolute)
- Commander Michael:- Are there any last instructions? Any idea who's upon us?
MIKE
- None, TfNi, and I can't risk exposing you and Adam to find-out.
GABE
- TfNi: We do know their speech is root-similar, with eons of insular development
Earth-technology languages could deviate by isolated millennia further;- We'll ask our century scouts.
TFNI
- (turns to Adam)
- Adam, Are you ready to go explore a day-type-six planet?
ADAM
- (looks at Gabe)
- Yes.
- (looks at TfNi)
- Is this how they dress?
MIKE
- Yes:
- (looks at Gabe)
- They are fairly primitive mankind,
- (to Adam)
- among a variety of land-animals.
- Ra peers-in, and enters:
RA
- (smiling pretence)
- Someone looking for me
?
TFNI
- (bursts tears to hug)
- Amun
!
RA
- (hugging, patting)
- He'll be all right, dear Mwt: We've got spacepods out there looking for him now
a few years recuperation
and meanwhile you've got family
.
TFNI
- (sobering)
- Can you, come down, and visit
?
RA
- (comforting, to a grin)
- Now young one: We've been away from planets 3-million years: An old god like me can't do much with gravity: If I sit on one corner of a planet, my head spins one way, and if I sit on the other corner, my head spins the other way: It's very confusing for an old god like me
TFNI
- (giggles in tears)
- But
If you can, someday, we would love to have you visit
RA
- I'll think about it: The gravity of thought eventually outweighs most
- KLAXON doublet;-- Mike quick-checks status:
[COMPUTER] (PA)
- E-T-A: 3-87:--
- Non-Ballistic Convergence!--
- (CONCURRENT)
- (countdown 2-sec. per)
- E-T-A: 3-85
- E-T-A: 3-84
- (etc.)
TFNI
- (attentive)
- We'd best get going
- (to Adam)
- Say goodbye to your granddad, Adam.
ADAM
- (to Ra)
- Good-Bye, Granddad Amun, Rrrrah...!
RA
- Good-Bye, young Adam Gjeb: You take good care of your mother TfNi
.
ADAM
- Yes, Granddad Amun.
RA
- (assures TfNi)
- I'll see you again, TfNi:- Mike has located silver
and gold
TFNI
- (smiles)
- Of course, Ra.
GABE
- (calm urgent to Mike)
- We'll leave now, with your order.
- Mike nods Yes,- and resumes controls; They turn to leave.
RA
- One other thing, TfNi, -should any ask:- You and Adam will be the gods of water vapor, and earth;- I'll be the Sun-god; Ptah is Grand Creator: We agreed.
Thoth is still figuring one out: He wants to be the man of technicolor flowers, and Maat wants bird feathers
We're yet trying to convince him, to be something more substantial,-- like, moon-man.
TFNI
- I'm goddess of water vapor? Clouds?
RA
- (single-nods Yes)
-
till we recover Tefen and send him down.
If you make a change, keep it consistent in the places you have been
Try.
GABE
- Did you pick one for me, Ra?
RA
- Ahh!- We forgot all about you, Gabe
Just tell them you're one of the gods' messengers: an archangel.
- (to Mike)
- Same, anytime any of you visit.
GABE
- Okay
But I'm going to relocate to one of Ptah's sunset-dream-beaches.
- Gabe, TfNi, Adam, leaving Mike, Ra, mutually grinning
RA
- (calling after)
- And say goodbye to Ptah
He's in the Trampoline Room
.
- INT. HALL - TO TRAMPOLINE ROOM - LIT (CONTINUOUS)
- Hurrying along
TFNI
- What's Ptah doing in the Trampoline Room one hour before planet-impact?
GABE
- Oh, You know Ptah,- always creating some new invention:- He says he has a new way to prepare for gravity.
TFNI
- I thought the centrifuge exerciser
- EXT. TRAMPOLINE ROOM - LIT (CONTINUOUS)
- Ptah is bouncing in a translucent enclosed spring-slung web-sack trampoline
TFNI
- (watches 5 bounces)
- Bye, Ptah!
PTAH
- (between bounces)
- Bye, TfNi
See you
down below!
- (a beat)
- How many
is that
now?
SEKHMET (OS)
- One thousand, one hundred, ninety-two, half-bounces
.
- They hurry on; Ptah's twin wife SEKHMET has been monitoring:
PTAH
- Sekhmet
What's a
half bounce?
SEKHMET
- From the middle of the sack to the farthest stretch,- or back again
the same way you count bumps and un-bumps and then count un-bumps as bumps from the other side, dear.
PTAH
- (a beat)
- Okay
dear
Half
bounces
- DISSOLVE TO:
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