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.
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