(A Prelude to Pandora)
a spec. script/story proposal
ROUGH NOTES
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CHTHON
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- do they survive? (ever) make it back/or not? @ minimum the info about unobtanium x pandora needs to get back (along with other mission info...?) the chthon mission crew & samples may or may not...
- observations & probes @ proxima centauri>polyphemus>pandora (up to the time of the chthon mission). basic system mapping, signs of life on pandora, unusual electromagnetic readings, etc. (matched up with e-m readings from unobtanium samples from meteorite samples from chthon)
-spacers/1st contact stuff:
-baskers stuff:
-human society/ies: - asteroid mining? environmental stuff....-_? global warming? mass extinctions? worse case scenario-s? with industrialis/zation in space, material wealth, social/wealth gaps, poor distribution of wealth, etc.? also "worst case scenario s"....? other issues, etc....? 'dystopian future'
Working Notes:
1st (hu-)manned expedition into (near-by) deep interstellar space. pre- proxima centauri, etc. the target of the mission is Chthon (as described below); an extra-solar object (a "wandering" planet) currently traversing the extreme outer edges of Sol/the Solar system -'s gravity well. say 05. - 1.5 lightyears away? MUCH closer than the nearest (other) star systems, but still in "deep water"; JUST within reach using available state of the art/bleeding edge human technology (at that time).
stuff that happens:
they/ship/mission get to chthon
they discover small/limited amounts of unobtanium, & work out that it is from meteorite impact(/s) dated to a time when chthon was traversing the (proxima?) centauri region... (tie this in with other (known to them in-story) stuff about proxima/etc. -centauri: observations, probes, developing interstellar capabilities, future mission planning, etc....)
they encounter the 'spacers' (as roughly described below)
they encounter the 'baskers' (as roughly described below)
(what order to put these events/things in...?)
chthon arrival,
baskers & spacers; - which first?
unobtanium
....
OK; IF the mission gets to chthon first (i.e.: before any of the other things happen - specifically BEFORE encountering the spacers), then they would most likely notice the baskers first , IF the baskers have not already been observed by probes, etc. (probably they SHOULD HAVE noticed something about the baskers, from observations, probes, etc., pre- 1st manned mission to Chthon?)
it is very cold & dark out there....
not sure if they (baskers) are life? not sure if/how intelligent they are? (& people are strangely uninterested/forgetful-absent-minded-easily-diverted/distracted/averse/etc.... to investigating them....?)
THEN the human mission encounters a spacer ship? (it comes to them, to Chthon, is in distress/trouble, just passing by, or what....? - let's say it comes to investigate them/the human activity? provisional explanation/for now)
more advanced than us, & VERY different from us (deeply "alien" aliens), but still obviously (a) "technological" (society/species).
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