Monday 3 February 2014

Star Wars Project: Archery, Chapter 3

Chapter 3

The Covert Operations Department (COD) was unique in the republic arm forces.
Its predecessor, Jedi intelligence service was formed well before the clone wars. Since the first week of the Clone war, the intelligence service has been dramatically expanded.
Unlike the so called Republic intelligence service which was actually the intelligence service of the republic government as a whole, the COD was strictly a military / Jedi affair. The chancellor does not have direct access. Only Jedi and top ranking generals fighting the war has access. Information gathered here was filtered before passing onto the Republic or the army’s own Clone intelligence.

Under the commander of the department chief, the department was organized into three wings:
Information was the one closely working with Clone intelligences and other Republic services. It process and analyst data gathers from all sources in aid for its operations wing also the clone army.
Operation is the field operation front of the department. Usually operate in small task groups raised and custom pick for each mission. The operatives will strike out against CIS, especially targeting their military support services rather than their operational armies.
Research was the carried over of Jedi special workshop. The workshop was once nothing more than a gathering of like mind Jedi keen on making new technology inventions. The republic valued the advice from this workshop on equipment requirement, testing and design, made them the republic's once de facto vehicle safety consulting board. It has now transformed into top secret military research department for the Jedi and the clone army.

Commanders for this department were mainly Jedi and Jedi masters. Its first department chief was Master Windu. He had no choice but to surrender his position as the war heated up. He was needed in the front. The next and current chief was Master Geleensarik, the former chief of Research, a jedi of Arkanian origin. She was known for her ability in the field of science just as Master Toorani, though her specialty was the field of genetics rather than mechanics. She was put in charge to enhance the clones soon after the first battle of the clone wars. All the clones assigned to the COD, were enhanced by Geleensarik one way or another, and therefore made them more unique than standard clones in almost every way.

The current head of Operation is Master Toorani, he was also the chief advisor in weapons research. The current chief for Information is Mr Zor, a Chiss. Characterized by his bluish skin and glowing blood red eye balls, he was personally appointed to the post by Mace Windu. He was a mystery to the Jedi circle until his appointment. So far, Mr Zor has been performing his duty with remarkable efficiency and success. He also built an excellent working relationship with various republic intelligent departments.

***

Master Toorani and Master Geleensarik along with Mr Zor were sitting in front of a holographic projection round table, when Zyjin walked in to reported to him there after he got Torrani’s call.

The room was dim and the air was tense. Zyjin stopped and stood a step in front of the door.

‘Please. Come in and sit down.’ Toorani ordered. ‘From this moment on, you are part of the inner circle.’

‘I… I am honored.’ Zyjin sat down next to Toorani. The room was lack of room lights, the only brightest light source was the holo projector. Then, the red slits of Mr Zor’s eyes was pretty disturbing in the dark at the other end of the table. 

‘Let’s get down to business, shall we.’ Toorani continued. His punched a couple of keys on the control and a message and a set coordinates was displayed. ‘This is what Zyjin have brought back from his visit to the beacon. We can assume the coordinates are the next rally point of some sort for a shipment of droids. The only words in this message were: Droids, Trap?
Toorani paused, so his audience can see for themselves. ‘Any thoughts?’

‘Obviously this is a trap. Are you going to spring it head on? Master Toorani.’ Mr Zor commented.

‘We don’t have to go. But it is obvious, there may be benefit in the success of this operation. If I am not mistaken, Master Kenobi’s troops has engaged the separatists in the nearby sector. These reinforcements intended to make Kenobi’s enemies. ’ Toorani calmly explain.

‘We are a convert operations task force, not a fleet or a division. If this is a trap, what await us would be a fleet of CIS cruisers. We need the clone army on our backup, but Master Windu has informed me, the clones are stretched thin, even we have enough clones, there aren’t enough destroyers to fill them a fleet either.’ Master Geleensarik finally spoken.

‘So we let this one go and let the CIS reinforcements to attack Kenobi?’ Toorani was the one still decided on an attack.

‘We don’t have the fire power.’ Geleensarik objects.

‘We can still fly recon for Kenobi.’ Zyjin added in before Mr Zor could open his mouth.

‘Kid, are you going to take on the CIS cruisers all by yourself?’ Mr Zor reacted to the possibility. ‘I bet even Skywalker would have second thoughts on such dare.’

‘He is not that crazy, yet! We can warn the crazy duo Kenobi and Skywalker on what they would be expecting and lend a helping hand if possible.’ Toorani agree to Zyjin’s suggestion.

‘I hope you have enough practices taking on fully activated droids, young apprentice!’ Geleensarik knew Toorani will not stop unless he gets his way once he made up his mind. ‘I will grand you the green light for a small team recon operation. Men power limit is two dozen commandos. No more than six ships.’

‘Is my Dark Sunshine ready?’ Toorani ask Geleensarik.

‘The cloaking prototype? Mr Zor raised his eyebrows, his reddish glow enlarged, making them look more menacing in the dark.

Zyjin was surprised, his master did not reveal to him the existence of the ship until now.

Toorani punched a key, the hologram of the cloaking vessel was on display. It was ugly. It has a dome shaped forward resemble the TIE fighters to be used by the future empire. A body connect to three circular shaped wings with sphere shaped panels perpendicularly placed at the edge similar to what the TIE fighters would have, then a tail section with a dozen long tentacles extending well back, shielding the ion engines in the center line. Over all it resembled an Earth Octopuses.

‘That is one of the ugliest starship to come across my eyes for a long time.’ It was Mr Zor’s first impression the design. So does Zyjin.

‘It has the ability to mimic a ship three times its size. It would also cloak, but the catch was, it will not be able to move with the sub light engines under cloak. Meaning it would have to move with the momentum of inertia once at cloak.’ Toorani filled in the details.

‘Interesting, maybe I will come along this time. Can I go?’ Mr Zor turn towards Geleensarik, his red eyes caught by her sight.

‘You know as well as I do, your importance in your post…’ Geleensarik was cutted off by Zor.

‘In that case, I am requesting a vacation. Even droids can take an oil bath, I had to take some leave after working nonstop for three months.’

‘… All right! Master Toorani, keep him out of trouble and bring him back in one piece along with yourself and your apprentice plus my clones.’


‘Roger! Roger!’ Toorani acknowledged by mimicking CIS battle droids half heartily.  

Star Wars Project: Archery, Chapter 2

Chapter 2

Zyjin Onmikhan, Age 19, born on planet Hahka of the Hahkas system.
1.76 meters tall, dark hair with green eyes.
Not discovered by the Jedi order until he was five years old.
Jedi Ranking: Apprentice, senior

Zyjin was the oldest children ever accepted in to Jedi Training prior to the discovery of Anakin Skywalker. Discovered by Mace Windu when he was five. An important factor of his acceptance was his unusual high levels of midi-chlorian count, one that report to have been rivalling Master Yoda. The reason for Zyjin’s force sensibility remain a mystery, since his parents were normal Hahkasians and Zyjin was conceived and born on a research ship operated by the family. Like Anakin Skywalker, and before Anakin’s arrival, Zyjin was seen by some senior Jedi council member as the one…

General Grievous, the supreme commander of the CIS force is looking into the information given to him by Count Dooku.
Grievous was not happy with what Zyjin and three other Jedis has just pulled off. The destruction of two of the gigantic carrier ships has forced Grievous to delay an entire campaign.

Grievous also has the data of the three other Jedi on his datapad.
Skywalker and Kenobi! Them again!
These two has been giving him a lot of trouble ever since the first weeks of the War. Intelligent has shown the duo has put down entire army group of droids each, so far.
What about the other two? He did not pay much attention once he has his focus on Skywalker and Kenobi. Had Grievous gave the patient to read a little further, he would learn the other duo may have been responsible for levelling three droid foundries and five supply depots, taking out four dozen droid transporter ships, disabling a ship yard. Effectively this duo eliminated another army group even before any of those CIS weapons fire a single shot in battle.

In reality Grievous wouldn’t careless even if he knew how much damage Onmikhan and his master has caused. Grievous brought up his war statistics summary. One third of his a billion droids are on the reserve list. Grievous still has with him a gigantic force. The problem he was facing is to recruit more flesh and blood commanders with a better brain to give orders to the automatic droids and vessels. The talent at his disposal was really thin and limited. A large number of them made vital mistakes he would never dream of making himself far too often. As a result, more CIS commanders die by his hands instead of to the guns of the Republic.

He was concerned there was a leak in his logistics department, some sort of mole, feeding information to the Jedi, caused him one cruiser, two gigantic freighters and over one million droids.
He needs to find a way to flush out the dirt one way or another.

Grievous reach out with his mechanical arm and punched a few bottoms quickly.
A separate hologram popped up next to his statistics display. On the hologram was a Geonosian.
As soon as the Geonosian saw Grievous, he began to speak his native tone. Fortunately for Grievous, his droid alternations allow him to immediately translate what he was speaking.

‘Greetings General Grievous, how may I be at your services?’
‘We need to resupply the tenth fleet under command of General Zoovhoco, immediately. Can you arrange a shipment of one million droids for him?’
‘Certainly sir! It will be done in two days time. I believe Zoovhoco is fighting on Hector system in the Drekano sector? Shall I contact him?’
‘No! Don’t worry about that, I will inform him personally, you simply send me the confirmation and shipping details when the droids are ready! Grievous out!’

Grievous then punched more buttons, another hologram appeared. This one was a deceptive looking creature with a duck beak and an angular forehead.
‘Ah...General Grievous! Here to check on progress? I was reporting to the Count just five minutes ago. In short, evacuation is going smoothly! My troops are fighting back, the Jedi are in retreat. I believe they are sending general Kenobi and that Skywalker boy to deal with me in the coming days. I will greet them well.’

This Zoovhoco appear to be a no nonsense guy, straight to the point and does not fear Grievous as he reports directly to Count Dooku.

‘I am issuing a direct order for you to send part of your fleet to this rendezvous point, on this date. It does not have to be a large force, but I need your most experienced men there. You know what I am talking about! This is a top secret operation, I have special orders from the Count to use any force at my disposal. Good luck General!’
Grievous keyed in the terminate button also beamed the necessary data to him.

Zoovohoco has been whispered as a possible replacement for Grievous if anything unfortunate happen to the droid general. Such whisper rarely escape Grievous’ sensitive hearing aid, therefore any chance to sideline or have any thing unfortunate happen to Zoovohoco was always one of his agenda.

What better chance for him, this time around? Kenobi and Skywalker is going to deal with Zoovohoco, when he has the rights to drive Zoovohoco’s best man: his elite all-rounder assault guard group away from him!

*          *          *

Zyjin Omnikhan was looking at the milky way of stars filled his forward cockpit view screen. He knew he was looking at one of the Galaxy’s spiral arm. As he was looking at it, a million stars are looking back at him. He knew he was looking back at the past, as the light travelled to his eyes has left those stars tens of thousands of years ago.

Being an apprentice under the famous Master Toorani, the Jedi star fighter designer, he was allow to expand his hobby in technical development under much better guidance than Skywalker, whom was left unchecked on that front all by himself.

Omnikhan had a concept of building a special telescope that was powerful enough to capture light emitted from a distant planet that allow him to see the past as if it was happening before his eyes. He knew this is possible, thanks to hyperspace travel that connect the whole galaxy instantly.

In theory, if a fleet of ships was mysteriously destroyed in one star system, this device would allow him to see what happen in the near-by system a few months of years after. It may not be useful for solving trouble that has to be solved right away, but it would ultimately unveil long unsolved mysteries as if they were old video recordings.

The biggest mystery he wanted to unveil was what happened to his parents on that fatal trip that left him an orphan. He was not force sensitive before that incident and he was now using the force as he if force was part of him since he was born. Some of the Jedi explained this as the will of the force, more would have agreed with them with the discovery of Anakin Skywalker. Skywalker was given birth by the force. If that has happened, so would the force decided to appear strong in a boy at its wish.

Omnikhan, less committed to the religion of the force like other Jedi of his age, partly perhaps because he was a lot older when he was dragged into the order, partly perhaps his parents were intergalactic archaeologies whom believe more on explaining mysterious with facts, and partly thanks to Omnikhan’s current Master, Toorani, an engineer and a Jedi master, always reluctant to use his gift with the force, as if it was only the last reserved on solution to his problems.

Omnikhan somehow modelled his way of thinking with Toorani, therefore there would always be an explanation that may not necessary involve the force as something all mighty. To him it is always possible, someone from the past has invented something, a device or a method, that is capable of implanting the force at a extremely strong concentrate into an living entity. Simply, boost someone not remotely gifted with force to someone with force power potential rivals Master Yoda. Although no evidence of such method or device was discovered, it remained a possibility.

There may be clues if Zyjin can construct that light capture scope that is powerful enough to let him watch what happened on that bright fiery red planet on that very fatal day.

It was always easy to be carried away by thoughts when Zyjin was looking at the milky way. He did not notice the line of text displayed on his secondary view screen until R3-R8, his astro droid beeped a string of signals to wake him up.   

‘Ops!’ Zyjin woke up from his day dream. He saw the line of text. It was a code, encrypted with strange encryption only the special decoder in procession by Toorani would read.

The mission lead to this decoder was Zyjin’s first mission as special agent assisting Toorani. They were dispatched with a team of elite clone commandos to a low gravity planet in Xencyp system. The Geonosians has built a droid foundry there building super battle droids and spider droids. The operation was a success and the Geonosians was defeated. Then, in the communications room, Zyjin found the decoder device and a star coordinate written on a piece of paper on the middle of the empty floor, on top of a pile of bombs counting down to blow. It took short work for Zyjin to disarm the bomb and retrieved the items. Yet the way it was arranged, it was clearly asking to be discovered.

The coordinates brought Zyjin and his master to a system where its local star has turned into a red giant. The last planet was a huge gas giant with a massive and beautiful ring. The magnetic field and gas around the planet filtered out the space radiation allow anyone station on the orbit of the rings to have a crystal clear view to the millions of stars of the galaxy.

The system was used to be a busy transport hub before the sun changed its condition suddenly and violently, there were still a lot of junks floating around. Among them was an old hyperwave transceiver (hyperspace communication) beacon*, once used by the banking clan. It was configured to repeat a recorded message with optical reading only. This message would be deleted by the beacon a few hours after it was received, erasing all traces. Therefore if the intended readers missed it, they will miss it forever.

For the past five months, they have been getting highly valuable locations and activity reports of the CIS from this mysterious channel. It was working for Toorani’s ever since they confirmed secret location of a droid cargo container rally point. Their latest success was the location of those two gigantic droid ships.

Since this source was being treated as safe and solid, Zyjin was dispatched to retreat the latest data alone. Without his master around him, Zyjin’s mind began to pounder, sparkles of curiosity exploded. He wanted to trace the source of signal! Something he would have done in day one, if it wasn’t his master always at his back. Zyjin however, knew it would be risky business. Doing so would made the beacon to self destruct and worst it would turn into the worst of both worlds as he may expose the informant from the CIS to everybody, friend or foe and get he or she killed.

Yet, it is too tempting not to risk it since Zyjin studied the design of the model of the beacon knowing there is little room to plant bombs of any sort into the aged device.

‘All right! R8, you got the whole message?’
The astro droid beep in confirmation.
‘Good! I want you to help me with something. I see an access port at the beacon. I want you to see how much you can read from it.’
The droid replied: ‘I do not recommend this action. Master may not permit.’
‘I just want to peek. I don’t even need you to fly over there R8 by your own thrusters. I will help you.’

Before the little droid can object or agree. Zyjin detached R8’s coupling with the fighter then reach out with the force. The droid was lifted from its socket and gently moved by the force to the beacon.

‘I hope I got you to the right spot R8!’

The droid stopped right in front of access port. All it required for R8 is to extend its computer reading arm and jack into it.

The droid did so with ease. After a while it spin its dome head toward it rear, signalled Zyjin to pull him back to his socket.

R8 made a copy of the configuration of that beacon.

It confirmed the theory Zyjin and Toorani agreed upon, this beacon was indeed part of the network used by the banking clan. The Banking Clan** have their own secured network, the biggest after the republic holonet*** and republic’s official diplomatic and military network. It was a lot bigger than the network used by the Jedi. It was the most secure compare to the rest. This beacon was the legacy of the days where the banking clan was still pretty much engaged with the republic. The original local network this beacon belonged to was semi open to access to all ships in the system. Even the old protocol was no longer in used, the beacon can’t access the current communications, and it was still part of original banking clan’s gigantic network. It would still relay information that match the configuration of this beacon. Therefore packet of information piggy back on the massive main traffic would always be intercepted by this beacon. If the user stick to one way transmissions like a telegram, it would be very hard to trace its origins. Therefore extremely secure.

A network of such old beacons would form a secret communication network of its own provided the user can always mask the origins of the signal. If there is a force of resistance within the CIS, they would be using this method to communicate with each other.

‘If I can locate these beacons in other star systems, we may be able to track down these resistances forces and coordinate with them.’ Zyjin expend his thoughts. ‘I can calibrate a star destroyer’s scanner to scan for these beacons every time we enter a system.’

The droid beeped and a message hurrying Zyjin back to base was displayed on the secondary screen.

‘All right all right! When did you become Master Toorani’s supervisor to keep an eye on me? Did he programmed you?’ Zyjin powered up the star fighter and swings his vessel towards the open stars. He kept an eye on the display keeping up with the conversation, ‘OH! R2-G9 did it? So my master’s droid is your master now? My goodness! Please don’t tell on me! I will give you a good oil bath first thing back to base! Deal?’

Zyjin’s fighter joint the billions of star light as he entered hyper space.


Notes:
* The hyperwave communication system is part of the data / visual communications network system in the Starwars universe. It can be seen as the radio, internet plus TV network. The biggest of these open network is named Holonet.

** The Banking Clan was a major fraction in the Star Wars Clone wars era. They sided with the CIS in attack of the clones. Their leader was the tall thin guy in the movie. Supporting material claim the Banking Clan has itself a special network for securely transfer funds of its many banks across the galaxy. Its star ships carry powerful mobile hyperwave transmitters. In my Star Wars galaxy, the Banking Clan has the largest private network, even bigger than the republic / Jedi military network. The Banking Clan network was used by the CIS as a major part of their own military network during the clone wars.

*** Holonet is the biggest communications grid that was developed and used by the Galactic Republic and, later, the Galactic Empire. Messages were routed along millions of non-mass hyperwave transceivers buried in hyperspace and routed through massive computer sorters and decoders to reach their sometimes very distant destinations through s-threads. This technology enabled data to be sent and received at faster-than-light speeds, ensuring near-instantaneous communication from one end of the galaxy to the other.  (extract from wookieepedia.)


Wednesday 7 August 2013

Story Ideas 6: The Galactic Opera Series Triology

Working Title (codename): The Galactic Opera Series Trilogy (Romance of the Three Kingdoms in Space Trilogy)

Setting tagline: Earth, solar system, Galaxy, Space, planetary Colony

Expected media form factor: Novel Series, Movie, Multimedia Experiences.

Type: War / grand adventure / biopic / future human history

Maturity: Major Characters of many of the sub story plots developed, over all plot framework of one series completes, introduction written for one.

This project is a combination of Three Separate Epic Space Opera Series. However the all three can be traced to the famous Chinese Ming dynasty novel: Romance of the Three Kingdoms. It literarily began as a version of Romance of the Three Kingdoms in space for the first story of the Trilogy.

By Time line of initial development:
Solar Series  1993
Race Series  1997
Religion Series  2002



Solar Series (ideology):

It is called Solar Series because it took place only in our Solar System. It was about conflict of three politically divided fractions in a period of Earths future history where humans colonised the inner solar system planets. The three ideology  fractions are Neo Socialism of Planet Venus, Grand Capitalism of planet Earth and Militarism of Planet Mars. (Hence it can also be call the Ideology series)

Each fractions leaders believe they have the military might and political will to unite the people of the Solar system, hence war broke out between the three fractions.

This series was originally inspired by the famous Japanese novel Legends of the Galactic Heroes, but it draws heavily from Romance of the Three Kingdoms in character design also borrowed from Mobile Suit Gundam series in space colony and military setting.

One of the tragic event in the progression of the Earth bound human civilization to space colony world was developed in to a standalone movie story I labelled it ''Titanic in space''.

A sequel to the ideology series was scrapped for having too much resemblance to Legends of the Galactic Heroes in fraction setting.


Race Series

If the Solar series mark the creative process of mimicking famous prior works then Race Series is a natural progression in development of fresh ideas that has not been attempted before.

Started out as an excuse to use my own surname for the central character,  it grown from  the best elements already developed from the scrapped sequel to the Solar series in a totally different backdrop.  It evolved in to my first character driven plot that with an open ending.

It does carry loose continuity connection to the Solar series but the divided waring fraction in this time are based on the three major races of the human civilization: Caucasians, Asians and Africans.  

The world design still retain the Gundam like technology but on planetary scale. Battles still resemble closely with modern day war and world war two.

The main story focus on the reluctant younger son of a famous fleet commander in the Asian fraction where he must bear the weight of the family name and tradition to become as famous as his dad. Then he faces political infighting and on battlefield rivalry from allied culture such as Japan and Korea while battle the Caucasian forces.

The setting of the universe allow me to infuse political commentary of existing cultures and provide subjective and objective analyses to Asian, Caucasian and African cultures. It is way more complex than the political ideology set up in the Solar Series .



Religion Series

The bravest and most controversial of the three Galactic Epics, this plot draws no relation with the previous two what so ever. It bares much more western science fiction setup than Eastern culture stories for inspiration.

Just as the series title suggest this series' divided fractions are based on the major religion of the planet earth. The three fractions are: Christianity, Islam and multicultural Atheist.

Development began shortly after the war on terror period in early 2000s, it centres on three characters, two whom are moles sent to the religious fractions by the Atheist fraction that were once the unified galactic governing body of the human race across the galaxy.

Like the ideology series before it, each fraction believe they should be the dominant of the human race hence once again, wars of enormous scale ensures.

Unlike the previous two series where technology contain within the Gundam Robot as aircraft and tank, carrier task force, combine battle group framework in the last century. The technology in this universe has greater gap where each fraction, and they have unique weapons, strength and weakness.

Ultimately the plot was a self study of what damage it can cause with what I called 'human self-entric elevation': when a group of people believe their belief is the ultimate truth and everyone else should accept with no condition. Due to the controversial religious context, the difficulty of the research in both religions hinder plot development for the characters in the two religious cultures.



Summary:

The three Galactic Epic has covered ideology politics, race and religion conflict of the human race, I believe I have done enough incarnations of Romance of the Three Kingdoms in space.



Sunday 10 February 2013

Story Idea 5: Mobile Suit Gundam R, project: Revolution


Working Title (codename): Mobile Suit Gundam R / project: Revolution

Setting / keyword: Gundam, Galaxy, War, Future, Mobile Suit, UC, Giant Robot, ZAKU, MS

Expected media formfactor: High production quality mini-series, Multimedia Experiences, Game, scale model series

Story Type: War / Action adventure / gundam

Maturity: Characters, 80% of the detailed plot framework for entire series completed, Season one story line well developed. Technical design features for season 1 / 2 developed.

Visual media Format: TV /OVA level animations
episode Length: 45 minutes

Projected Seasons: 4 , 12-15 Episode per season.
Season one budget: 15 million USD

Universe Settings:

Space Colony World where groups of O'Neil class space colonies were build around the earth orbits just as traditional UC Gundam universes. Human exploration has reached on Mars, Venus plus moons of Jupiter.

Back story:

It was the end of the space migration era, where 96% of human population were migrated to space, leaving the polluted earth behind to recover. To speed up the process, thousands of nuclear fusion reactors are to be build, aim to use energy to filter to convert earth back to the clean state, yet it was projected to require 300 years to finish the project even it was to run at maximum capacity.
An unexpected virus suddenly spread through the space colonies, reached pandemic level quickly.
The Solar Federation was caught off guard for such an event, its heavy handed tactics in treating millions of carriers of the virus resulted three dozen colonies declare independence from the Federation. Among these colonies, Side 2 whom was the oldest of the colony groups became the strongest of the resistance forces. Its invention: a true militarised Mobile SUIT call: Gundam was so far ahead of anything Federation had in their arsenal, it quickly became symbol of Rebel resistance. 
The virus crisis quickly escalated in to what was known as the 200 days war. Federation won the war by mass producing  and convert colony construction MS call ZAKU and build thousands of cheap destroyers. However, during the lasts days of the war, a majority of colonies in side 2 mounted powerful booster rockets on their colonies and accelerated them away from Earth colony orbit.

The Federation then rounded up all those supported and joined the resistance as well as tens of millions of carrier of the virus, exile them on to the polluted earth and force them to work on the Earth regeneration project. Turning the whole planet a prison camp.

Season one: Rebel (brief note)

17 years has passed since the 200 days war, the location of the escaped Rebel colonies has been found: they anchored around a gigantic asteroid near the Mars orbit.

The Federation has since built up a huge military to eliminate the rebels. Just as the biggest expedition fleet ever assembled set sail towards its target, an uprising suddenly occurred on Earth.
Four new generation Gundams secretly assembled on Earth became the arrow head of the uprise movement. Caught by surprise Federation forces on earth was quickly apprehended, the orbital ring structure lost to Earth Rebels.

Colony security force found the four Gundams are each equal in power to a hundred ZAKUs. These four Gundams alone was capable of turning the tide of battle, defeating the Federation's first large scale counter attack to retake Earth.

After a costly defeat on Earth, the Federation had to divert half of the expedition fleet back to Earth in a hurry. Prompting  the Rebel colonies: Anti-Federation Alliance to launch their offensive on the expedition fleet, leading the battle is Gundam MK-IX, the direct descendent of the Gundam design 17 years ago.

Outcome for this war will be unpredictable as military might clash on two very different battle fields at about the same time...

Development notes:

The story has been in development for well over ten years, initially based upon the multi gundam multi character model pioneered by Gundam Wing. More elements from real world events such as SARs epidemic inspire new ideas help evolve the story further. Female as central lead characters were established early on, the conflict on how she use her powers was always the central theme of the story since girls shouldn't like the massive killing business, a complex mystery plot was developed around her character that would last the whole four seasons.

The US style 45 minute version won over traditional 22 minute model because more story can be tell and more intense per episode just as the UC OVAs would achieve. Four seasons was needed to tell the whole story. The release format is to be on Bluray and show on Western TV as full on adult entertainment. There is really no need for a TV series as today's multi delivery medium ensures it will reach billions watch them fast and sell the models to make money instead.

The show will last four seasons, roughly four years run time. The first season was set to be action pack to set the conflicts of the universe and with 2nd and 3rd season deepens the mysteries and conflicts between rival political camps and subsequently build up for a final conclusion season that again feature battle in a massive scale.

Temporary title for rest of the seasons:

  • ·         Season 2: Reclaim
  • ·         Season 3: Revelation
  • ·         Season 4: Requiem

Note on character development:

This story is conceived as a Gundam Animation to be watched by first generation fans together with their children and the Seed generation fans would connect with.
The four pilots of the four Super gundams were two girls and two boys, age from 14-17. Among the four, the two girls are the key to the entire plot:


  • ·         Primary Lead girl: age 14, Drive a Close Combat Energy weapon Gundam
  • ·         Secondary Lead girl: age 17, Pilot the Ballistic weapon Gundam
  • ·         Lead boy: age 15, Use Zeta like Gundam
  • ·         Secondary Lead boy: age 16, operate Cannon Gundam

The four pilot's amazing skills to drive these machines will be properly explained and how they use their unique ability to drive these machines would be a central part of their character developments (i am very realistic on this front, so no kid that has not touch anything or training in episode one can be super pilots in my story, all of them will have a back-story.)

Since the aim is to include UC Fans who would be in their 30s and early 40s, there will be secondary adult lead characters in their late 30s, some will be the guardian to the children. Their parental / teacher relationship to the lead kids would be part of the interconnected character plot.  Then there is the character conflicts from the first War, which was visioned as Char and Ray rivalry / archenemies on the battle field. A few set of characters: two MS designers, two ace hero pilots, two tacticians would continue their conflicts in a personal level.

Character growth is key to the plot, all the four kid characters will grow up in the course of the war, their views on war, world, human equality, love and life will change. For the adult characters, they face decisions that affect the kids and their own battles with their past and present demons. Many of these character plot are set to occurred in the 2nd and 3rd seasons which has lesser large scale battles and more about mysteries and personal level plot twists.

Note on Gundam Design:
At one stage, there were five gundams, later on was modified to four. It bears some similarities to the concepts in 00 by coincident.

  • The lead Gundam which is to be pilot by the 14 year old girl is an energy weapons centric close combat Gundam with femme features (one likely resemblance is that Evolved QuanT). 
  • The next gundam pilot by the 17 year old girl is a projectile centric model akin to the two used by the lockon brothers in 00. 
  • Then there is a Zeta inspired transformable delta wing gundam, 
  • A Cannon weapon centric semi transformable ZZ like unit. 
  • The originally planned   Strike / Impulse like multi role model was lifted to appear in the second season.


A lot of commercial factors are in-cooperated into the plot for model development. The gundams would go for face lifts and redesigns in every subsequence seasons. Hence there will be at least 4 versions for each of them.

Federations would develop more and more powerful machines that are not gundam like to counter them and shorten the technology gap (unlike what happen in 00).
The battles in this story are serious military type heavy with tactics and use of various types weapons and hardware, as the adult characters play key roles in these battles as they continue their rivalry.

The four Super Gundams are like a regiment of Tiger Tanks in WW2, which can obtain massive localised battlefield superiority  yet not enough to win strategically in the overall battle.

Note on other designs:
  • ·         There would be no odd ball particles that can bend physics in different areas as the GN particle did, but will have some SF elements that is more believable and in-cooperate as much real science as possible.
Political Factions:

  • ·         United Federation of Colonies, (UFC) the official bad guy of the Story
  • ·         Anti Federation Alliance (AFA), the good guys, formed by Side 2 nation: ZEON after 200 days war.
  • ·         Earth Liberation Front (ELF), The Earth fraction of the upraising
  • ·         Mars Exploration Territory (MET), a supposed Neutral organisation  
  • ·         Venus Energy Gathering Automated Networks (VEGAN), a supposed Neutral organisation
  • ·         Utopic Colony Experiment (UCE), a Federation colony for 'advanced' and 'evolved' humans.
  • ·         Fringe Resource Exploration Co (FREC), a mysterious company 

Wednesday 21 November 2012

Story iDea 4:Total Annihilation: Supreme Commander



Working Title (project codename): Total Annihilation: Supreme Commander

Setting / keyword: Galaxy, War, Future, Cloning, Giant Robot, Total Annihilation, Supreme Commander

Expected media formfactor: Movie, Multimedia Experiences, Game

Story Type: War / Action adventure / kind of family biopic / love story

Maturity: Character over all plot framework for first movie complete, wrote the first few scene of the script in story form but forgot where I backed it up.

This story was born out of my love of what i recon as the best real time strategy war game ever: Total Annihilation. Development began roughly in 1998s when i wrote a short story containing element of that game at the time.

That short story established all the ground work of what a rich and realistic Total Annihilation Universe was like and continue to expend when the spiritual sequel of the game: Supreme Commander came out in mid 2000s. Elements of Supreme Commander was in cooperated in to the plot as it is today.

Complex characters were added because is indented as a movie script, the story eventually become some sort of biopic, it centres around a thousand years old, legendary field commander of the ARM faction, his relationships with best friend, his school age sweet heart, his thousand year long relationship with his current wife and his children and student!!!

Despite all the family mess, love quartangles, it still involve multiple planetary scale battle sequences, giant robots crashing with mega weapons, result in huge explosions and fueling emotion. It has explores serious spiritual concepts and what means to be human.....

(After Pacific Rim (2013): this script would be just as good in giant robot action but tons deeper in philosophy plus it has a decent love story. My plot has battle sequences dwarf the Pacific Rim or anything before it in scale while still able to focus on the rivalry and emotion or two pair of torn apart lovers.)


Plot introductory tag line:

What began as a conflict over the transfer of consciousness from flesh to machines escalated into a war which has decimated a million worlds. The Core and the Arm have all but exhausted the resources of a galaxy in their struggle for domination. Both sides now crippled beyond repair, the remnants of their armies continue to battle on ravaged planets, their hatred fueled by over one thousand years of total war. This is a fight to the death. For each side, the only acceptable outcome is the complete elimination of the other.

Now,two master tacticians of each fraction, best mates a thousand years ago believe they (on their own) have come up with a way to finally win the war once for all.... 

Friday 19 October 2012

Story iDea 3: Wings of Glory Trilogy


Working Title (codename): Project: Wings of Glory (WOG) Trilogy

Setting: Earth, World War 2, Alternate History Time line, Aviation

Expected media formfactor: Movie, Multimedia Experiences.

Type: War / Action adventure / biopic

Maturity: Character over all plot framework complete, wrote the first few scene of the script but forgot where I backed it up.

This story was born out of my hobby for planes and my hobby for reading World War Two history. Development began roughly in late 1990s when I came across some comics of similar alterative history promise.

Early ideas was to make a first person prospective movie, similar to those seen in the monster movie Cloverfield, but in much higher definition.

It involve multiple battle sequences involve German and Allied flying machines that were still in design stage or testing phrases at the end of the war.

It started out as just a back to back duology, but somehow after watching the movie UP, I expended it into a trilogy of stories. A fourth alternative hisotry tale about Ausralian ANZAC forces in WW1 is also to be set in the same universe.

The three aviators from Germany, US and USSR respectively. I envision these stories as three biopics, three soul searching, coming of age tales. The idea is to see the war through their eyes while keep the audience entertained (or think) with action sequences stretching from the entire WW2 to Korean War, then the Cold War.

The first story about the Germany pilot is to be the introductory to the timeline so more character stories can be filled for the US and USSR characters.


Trilogy Plot introductory:

The year is 1937, a young gifted Germany aviator was the star of the Berlin Air show. There he met a younger American hot head pilot, youngest son of a famous US aviation tycoon and a boy genius from the USSR. Their skills make them friends and admirers of each other, but unbeknown to all three of them, the ruthless wheel of history would have them meet again in the skies of battle fields three years later.

Story iDea 2: MU:The Next Avatar?

Working Title (codename): Project: MU

Setting: Near Future, Earth like Alien planet

Expected media formfactor: Movie, Multimedia Experiences.

Type: Science Fiction / War / Action adventure / fable

Maturity: Finished, 100 chapter written, firmed major character and plot development. Extra detailing and minor plot doctoring.

This story was born out of one Chinese Idiom.

Development began roughly in 2000.

Early ideas were a large scale action sequences, involve world war two style military hardware. The 2003 Iraq war brought more political arrogance into the plot, other real life world event up to 2007 also influenced the plot.

Eventually the story was completed in 2009 with three key grand scale action sequences, one bigger than the one preceded it. I was surprised by the movie Avatar in 2010 for the number of similarities between my story: Human travel to Alien Planet with larger body size Aliens civilization; War between Human and Aliens; Humans aid the Aliens; High-tech war machine against Low tech military.

Plot introductory:

The discovery of an Alien device in the Bermuda region turned out to be a intergalactic teleporter. Those transported over by accident found themselves stranded on an Earth like planet where its human and Alien habitants are engaged in a titanic crash of civilizations. For those from earth they must choose sides before they figure out how to stop to the devastation as well as find ways to return to Earth.