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Title: Project Earth

Series: Chronicle

Writer: P E Leody

SYNOPIS: 

PAGE 1


1 
A fleet of space craft approach the planet Oceania.

CHAIRMAN: WHAT A GREAT DAY FOR THE PEOPLE OF OCEANIA. OUR HUMANITY PROJECT NEARS IT'S COMPLETION.


2 
The Chairman addresses an audience outside seated near a landing pad.

CHAIRMAN: JUST A THOUSAND YEARS AGO OUR SCIENTISTS DISCOVERED A DNA VAULT ON A BARREN PLANET 3RD FROM IT'S SUN. WITH MINIMAL INTERVENTION THEY SOUGHT TO RESURRECT THE RACE AS 'PROJECT EARTH'


3 
The Chairman looks aloft

CHAIRMAN: WITHOUT PROMPTING THEY HAVE SOUGHT US OUT


4 
From up in the skies the craft descend to the outside landing strip near the meeting. Millions of people are out in the streets to welcome them

CHAIRMAN: WE CAN ONLY GUESS AT THE WONDERS THEY BEHOLD


5 
The spacecraft swoop and shoot the town to bits, destroying everything

Sfx: KERTOSH KERBLOOM KERCHING

PAGE 2


1 
A woody glade with a suspicious looking sawn tree trunk that is actually the entrance to an underground bunker

CHAIRMAN: I CALL TO ORDER THIS EMERGENCY MEETING OF THE NATURE PROTECTION LEAGUE, ORIGINALLY FOUNDED TO PRESERVE OTHER SPECIES WE ARE NOW FACED WITH OUR OWN EXTINCTION


2 
Inside the secret bunker a meeting is in progress with 10 odd members

CHAIRMAN: OUR CITIES HAVE BEEN DECIMATED BY AN UNKNOWN FORCE. WE HAVE SENT A DISTRESS CALL TO 'PROJECT EARTH'

MEMBER: ARE WE SURE THE FORCE IS NOT FROM 'PROJECT EARTH'

CHAIRMAN: IMPOSSIBLE THE GENE STREAM IS PURE. IRONICALLY OUR SAVIOUR OF VIOLENCE LIES IN THE HANDS OF A UNKNOWN RACE WE PEACEFULLY REVIVED


3 
The wood is pounded by the arrival of some spacecraft

CHAIRMAN: RELAX THE BUNKER IS UNDETECTABLE AND SAFE FROM AN AIR ASSAULT


4 
A bevy of attackers storm the bunker with a hail of bullets

Sfx: KERTOSH KERBLOOM KERCHING

PAGE 3


1 
From a hill top surrounded by sheep, Shank watches as mushroom cloud cruises from the city

SHANK: WOW THAT SOME PARTY THEY ARE SHOWING OUR VISITORS, A SHAME I'M ON RURAL STUDIES


2 
A spacecraft swoops low, killing all the sheep but misses Shanks who hides behind a rock

SHANK: THEY'RE DEFINITELY GOING TO FAIL ME ON ANIMAL HUSBANDRY NOW


3 
Some of the visitors follow a tracker towards Shanks


4 
Shanks lifts off in a minute penguin shaped spacecraft it is named Mule

SHANK: THAT DEVICE IS LEADING THEM STRAIGHT TO ME


5 
Shanks escapes the planet that is now a seething mass of destruction

SHANK: LUCKILY MY BUGGY HAS BEEN MODIFIED FOR THE BOOZE RUN TO PLANET KEPLO.

PAGE 4


1 
Shank approaches a spacestation

SHANK: REMEDIAL STUDIES TAUGHT US TO KEEP AN OFF SITE BACKUP, EVERYTHING I NEED'LL BE IN HERE


2 
Shank scours the library for information on his attackers

SHANK: THEIR CRAFT DESIGNS ARE UNDOCUMENTED AND TRACING THEIR SPACE TRAIL LEADS TO AN AREA THAT'S UNDER THE HIGHEST SECURITY.


3 
Shank leaves in his craft

SHANK: LOOKS LIKE THE ONLY WAY TO FIND OUT IS TO FOLLOW THEM HOME


4 
Shank's craft sticks close to a returning craft it is almost invisible it is so small


5 
They approach 'Project Earth' it is a vast metropolis of steel structures and mechanical illness. No good signs of life exist

SHANK: THEY WERE LEFT ALONE FOR A THOUSAND YEARS ON CLEAN VIRGIN PASTURE AND THIS IS WHAT THEY ACHIEVED, HOW?

PAGE 5


1 
Shank landed on the planet as is watching through binox

SHANK: I LEAVE THIS DIARY AS A RECORD OF MY INVESTIGATION INTO THE MYSTERIOUS STATE OF PROJECT EARTH'


2 
Shank lives on a high building his ship salvaged.

SHANK: AFTER MONTHS OF STUDY I HAVE COME TO THE CONCLUSION THE PROJECT HAS BECOME AN EVIL EMPIRE


3 
Shank pushes a dust cart

SHANK: WITH THE ELEMENT OF SURPRISE I MANAGED TO WALKED AMONG THEM AND BY TAKING MENIAL ROLES HEARD MANY THINGS,


4 
Shank as a doctor

SHANK: I LEARNT THEIR LANGUAGE, AND TO DECODE THEIR WRITING. I THEN IMPERSONATED THE WITH ACCESS TO THE INFORMATION ABOUT THEIR HISTORY.


5 
Shank outside a castle like building that is a museum

SHANK: THERE WERE NOT SECRETIVE ABOUT THEIR ORIGIN. IT WAS ON OPEN DISPLAY IN A GOTHIC MUSEUM.


6 
Shanks open the museum door labelled the secret life

SHANK: APPREHENSIVELY I OPENED THE KNOW NOT KNOWING WHAT I WOULD FIND BUT SURE IT WOULD EXPLAIN THE GROSS ERROR IN 'PROJECT EARTH'


7 
Shanks stand in front of the door.

SHANK: IT WAS IN AN OLD DIALECT AND AFTER A FEW WEEKS I WAS ABLE TO READ IT, TRANSCONTINENTAL HARDENED CRIMINAL DNA STORAGE VAULTS 2013.

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