Synopsis
Total 500 (not including words in bold)
Status Quo (30-40 words)
Plot Summary
Jude Harrison (mid 40s), lives on Mars in the ruins of a now dead colony haunted by ancient 'digital' ghosts. She has just salvaged a rare component - a 'cube'.
Emotional Architecture
She is driven by a vision for a better life, a vision enabled by the cube. However her father was killed, bringing disaster on other survivors pursing a similar goal, so she is conflicted.
Initiating Incident (30 - 40 words)
Plot Summary
Jude is summoned to see her estranged sister, Ruth, the leader of their people. Ruth wants the cube, and wants Jude killed.
Emotional Architecture
When faced with the demand to give up her dream, and the cube, she chooses to flee into the wilderness without giving up her find.
Developments (includes interwoven emotional architecture)(150 - 200)
Unexpectedly, one of Ruth’s associates, Gideon, helps Jude to escape. He meets her in the desert revealing that her parents may still be alive and that a fragment of ‘Interchange’ has survived.
Interchange was a simulated environment used to manage the construction of an interstellar coloniser ship. The project team was effectively immortal, digital copies of real people existing inside Interchange. Project Lead, Hal, lives on in the surviving fragment, and was behind Jude’s father’s efforts to improve life on Mars. Driven by the need to find her parents, and pursue her vision, Jude decides to go to Hal for answers.
Meeting Hal in Interchange, Jude learns that she must take the cube there to complete what her Father started - triggering the coloniser in orbit to drop enough equipment to re-make the fallen Martian colony. It is also revealed that the destination of the coloniser was chosen because a non-human communication was received from there.
Meanwhile, Earth forces, who have returned to Mars to harvest it's abandoned technology send analyst Jesus Santiago after Jude and the cube. Earth need to maintain the status quo, which Hal's plan will disrupt. Ruth is secretly working for him in exchange for Earth support.
Crisis 50 - 75
Plot Summary
At BigJ, Jude deposes Ruth who vanishes into the city. Jude follows, reaching the location where the cube must be connected. Ruth appears, as does Santiago. Everything will be determined by a handful of people, in one room. Shots are fired, but the cube is connected, but no supplies, however, fall from the vessel.
Emotional Architecture
Jude, forced to take responsibility for her people, is dragged into becoming their leader, but promises herself that this is temporary. It gets her the support she needs to push on into BigJ, a city is swarming with ghosts capable of killing.
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