DeathOfNations
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MARCHING FOR SUPPORT
EXT. PUBLIC SQUARE IN FRONT OF COLONIAL CAPITAL BUILDING IN
RING COLONY
Hermes is wearing a STEX chrome
suit without the helmet,
with fancy red highlights to it.
Hermes is walking quickly and confidently out of the capital
building to a podium over looking a crowd of civilians, and
non STEXed rebels.
Hermes reaches the thin diamond podium. Mini-cameras float
around him at his dramatic pause.
HERMES
Many have doubted that I could have
taken the Leviathan, many have
doubted that I could have taken
[this colony], and many still doubt
that I can make a difference in
this war.
Pause continues for 3 seconds.
CUT TO:
Static close up of Hermes.
HERMES
My people!
Screen splits in two. We continue to see close up of Hermes
in left side. Right side begins to cut through various real
time shots of people in the crowd and stuff. Including a guy
in the media center of the Leviathan, who it viewing the
exact same video as we are, creating the parallel fractal
effect.
HERMES
Let doubters beware, for the
Leviathan is now our home, and as
for this colony, it was captured in
space's most epoch battle.
HERMES
A battle fought so well, that of
the 50,000 men and women that
fought on our side, only 7,800 were
KIA, Killed In Action.
(Marching For Support)
HERMES
That survival rate doesn't sound
very good, but consider that our
forces defeated over 12,000 well
armed military personnel.
HERMES
It is truly extraordinary that our
once fledgling rebel organization
could have pulled off such a
military feat, that may rest along
side those great victories that
have been so glorified over the
centuries.
HERMES
This battle now over could not have
gone much better. Although it did
have its flaws our forces overcame
all obstacles that stood in way of
a clean cut victory.
HERMES
Heinz sight has revealed these
imperfection though only with Heinz
sight could they have been prevented.
HERMES
Although glorious our war has been
as we bask in the filtered light of
success, I do not allot all of this
credit to myself, especially that
of this victory.
HERMES
For I have little to show of it. I
was the operational commander,
standing on the pedestal overlooking
the micromanagement.
HERMES
Out of resolve and zealous
determination I pushed this battle
into a physical reality. But as for
the genius behind the command I can
certainly not take credit.
HERMES
Former Lieutenant Colonel Zeus
deserves that credit, now to be
known as the supreme ground leader
of the rebel forces.
Left panel shows Zeus as he blushes enormously.
(Marching For Support)
HERMES
He understood the enemy, he devised
the battle plan, and he lead the
charge calling slash after slash
and personally disarming the
greatest threat to our invasion.
HERMES
But many would deny him this right.
HERMES
Calling him as a traitor, betraying
his country in time of need. Even
the history books would portray him
as so if the west won the war.
HERMES
Ironically this is not far from the
truth, for he, I, and all other
rebels are betraying this block.
HERMES
There is validity in claiming that
fighting along side us will aid the
West and its allies because when we
win we will safeguard you people as
well as ours.
Hermes leans over the podium to get closer to the crowd.
HERMES
We do want to end these countries.
We are traitors to our countries.
Hermes leans back to an erect position.
HERMES (QUIETLY)
But to not do so would to betray
the entire human race, and
consequently any idea of God yet
conceived.
HERMES (SCREAMING)
WE NEED NO FURTHER PRETENSE. FOR WE
ARE FIGHTING FOR NOTHING LESS THAN
THE SURVIVAL OF ALL CIVILIZATION.
HERMES
In any realistic nuclear scenario
virtually all life would be
exterminated.
(Marching For Support)
HERMES
Any that say that extermination
would be a good thing for the human
race are nothing but a plague to
that planet and this world.
HERMES
To classify those people one needs
words no less insulting than the 'i'
word.
HERMES
Those people are ignorant. It took
life almost five billion years to
grow up on earth and if all of it
was gone the instant life left the
cradle it would be a great tragedy,
for god and for anything living.
HERMES
And to think that another civilized
life form would be any more
pleasing, any more peaceful would
be for the most part wrong.
HERMES
Many claim it is a worthy
punishment
for our sins, that we deserve it
for all we have done throughout
history. Would you punish a son for
his fathers deeds.
HERMES
What justice would their be in
destroying sinners, along with non-
sinners. Would an all powerful God
just destroy everything without
regard for anything.
HERMES
No that is the realm of man. Only
man could do such a thing. Bigger
guns, bigger nukes. It is these men
old and young that have made this
destruction possible.
HERMES
Of course they do not intend to
destroy civilization as we know it,
for in their conventional wisdom
our civilization is good as it is.
(Marching For Support)
HERMES
Their actions only lead to that
inevitable conclusion as the great
computer of nature follows out
procedures written into it since
the beginning of time. Things would
devolve into entropy resulting in
the destruction of just about
everything.
HERMES
I must conceded all of life would
not be destroyed, a few humans
would remain, a few nanobots would
survive, a few databank would still
function. There are those that
don't live within the confines of
civilized space. There are those
that live at the edges of the Sol
System.
HERMES
They would be the ones that would
lay the seeds of civilization back
down into the radioactive crust of
the Moon and Earth.
HERMES
All would not be lost. All of
humans would not be poisoned by
radiation, all of human knowledge
would not be erased along with the
tides of EMPs, all of civilization's
physical constructs would not be
obliterated, just 97 percent of it.
HERMES
And that would be the greatest
treachery in history. And it may
well happen. One Admiral backed
into a corner by our meager
conventional weapons, will fire.
HERMES
Like a cornered animal he will
strike knowing no other alternative.
The other knowing his own death
will not hesitate to press the big
button.
(Marching For Support)
HERMES
He has worked his entire career in
making that button and by God he
will press it even if it means the
destruction of civilization.
HERMES
He may hesitate if he knows he is
damning all of mankind but in the
end he has no choice but to press it.
HERMES
Like those who sat back and watched
the divine battles between God and
lucifer all of those that do not
fight on our side will be seen
along with those fighting on the
wrong side, as traitors.
HERMES
I am not god so I won't judge you,
but when you judge yourselves in
reflection of this speech now
ending, think of this; would it be
nobler to betray thy country, a
political organization that has
survived for centuries and has
fought to protect peace and liberty
throughout the world, or thy people.
HERMES
One betrayal will lead to the death
of the old Corporate Republic and
the establishment of E-democracy
throughout all humankind. The other
to the opposite.
Silence.
HERMES
If I have convinced you and you are
looking for service in our ranks as
a patriot to humanity, remember
your time to enlist will come. Have
patience, we could come for you.
Hermes smiles.
Free World Alliance logo is shown over the entire screen.
(Marching For Support)
TV. FOX NEWS
REPORTER
That was Hermes's live speech
carried live all over the world,
the seventh speech from the rebels
so far.
REPORTER
We go now to our chief analyst,
Shepard Smith. Shepard.
Shepard is put into right panel.
SHEPARD
The length of that speech was long
but it was poignant. He has the
audacity to implicitly compare us
to the armies of Lucifer and
himself to God.
Audio fades into silence.
SHEPARD
I think that this speech was-
CUT TO:
TRANSIENT. DEMONSTRATION OF SKY COMMAND STRUCTURES
Black lines move into vertically aligned diamond that is
widening into the wide screen, which separates 4 equal
rectangular partitions showing first 4 subcommanders. At the
same time diamond showing Hermes at the top and Persephone
at the middle, and a woman on either side of persephone
expands as it rotates counter clockwise, to spit the screen
evenly 4 ways. Video of the four subcommanders are in
triangles in the 4 corners.
SUBCOMMANDER 1 (QUADRANT 2)
Are you ready sir?
His head is cocked toward the pedestal to his rear right.
The other subcommanders look away from their empty tasks to
the Sky Commander, Hermes. They are looking towards Hermes.
Realign cameras so that the 4 subcommanders are looking dead
center in the screen.
Dramatic pause, Hermes's eyes looking strait forward at the
camera, intense but unfocused.
Hermes looks to his lower left-
(Marching For Support)
HERMES
Yes, I'm ready.
Cameras of 4 corners swing around to show subcommanders'
faces. The diamond around Hermes shrinks in size.
They assign tasks as diamonds rotate clockwise, breaking up
screen into the views of 16 sub2commanders.
Some of these break up into smaller rectangles of sky
assistants.
Each box opens up directly into assistant working with
reality, what is being displayed to that sky assistant.
The box shows a transient moment in real time, a component
of logistical chain that goes from raw materials to
synthesis of a medium/light BiMAV, to maglev transportation
to industrial elevators to modified receiving bays on the
leviathan. After each moment is displayed it goes back in
the grid and we view another box.
The last box drawn up is of an assistant walking a
light/medium BiMAV into a storage room filled with columns
and columns of the same exact BiMAV.
After she walks it into foot prints displayed by her
holographic interface, she twists both of her arms from
palms up to palms down while moving her hands to the ground
signifying for the BiMAV to bend it's leg to a semicircle.
The BiMAV crouches into its storage position as her and her
interface disappears.
A CLOSE CALL BY ANY ACCOUNT
INT. MODIFIED MECH STORAGE ROOM
Zoom out to show a wide variety of BiMAVs are stored in this
room along with other vehicles.
Zoom out past a person, dressed in a splotched gray shroud,
enveloped in a partial holographic interface walking the
BiMAV.
Zoom out further to show 4 people in shroud's each spaced a
few meters apart.
BiMAV's are walked in front of the three men and one woman.
LOADING DOCK INTERFACE
Any last minute modifications.
He twists both of his arms from palms up to palms down
while moving her hands to the ground signifying for the
BiMAV to bend it's leg to a semicircle. BiMAV bends its legs
to a semicircle. Hatch opens man jumps in.
Elevator immediately lowers him downwards, past multiple
layers of mech and equipment, and into a large rail launcher.
CUT TO:
INT. BIMAV, RELAXATION MODE
SKY SOMEBODY(VO, NO INDICATION OF
SOURCE)
Your shaft is ready to launch.
Spearhead touches the "G-Force Mode."
INT. BIMAV, G-FORCE MODE
SPEAR HEAD (GASPING)
So am I.
SKY SOMEBODY (VO)
Ok Spearhead is ready, y'all good
to go. Launch at your command
Supreme Ground Leader.
CUT TO:
Zeus's face, in STEX suit.
(A close call by any account)
ZEUS
Launch.
Fast very inhuman, and non-rhythmical music is blasted.
Show Spearhead's face cringe as his body endures over 20
gees, he is in a state of semi conciseness.
Instantaneous release from pain, and painful music.
INSTANTANEOUS
CUT TO:
SPC. JUST OUTSIDE LEVIATHAN LAUNCHER EXITS
The DJ plays some Jimi.
BiMAV leaves the middle of the three exits. Full lance of
STEX leave the other two symmetrically, and equally spaced
apart.
Camera pans away from ship, and rapidly zooms into them. We
realize that they are moving very fast.
SPC. AROUND THE STEX AND BIMAV
They screw around in space, as they rocket themselves into a
group.
Camera pans to show the Leviathan becoming a very small
point then forward to show the oncoming Western colony.
After screwing around for a bit.
SPEAR HEAD
Colony is igniting burn thrusters.
They are changing direction.
ZEUS
Shit, activate automatic
compensation.
ZEUS
Are we going to make it.
STEX
Yes.
S7
My thruster is not working
properly,
what should I do?
ZEUS
Get your tether out attach it to
the BiMAV.
(A close call by any account)
S7
Ok.
S7 pulls his tether out, but he is drifting farther and
farther away from them. He shoots his tether. The BiMAV
catches the wire and wraps it around his arms.
SPEAR HEAD
Ok real her in.
S7
Ok, I'm reeling myself in.
ZEUS
NOT TOO
He pulls the tether in and it slips from the BiMAV's grasp.
ZEUS
quickly.
S7 sounds scarred now.
S7
SON OF A BITCH!
ZEUS
Don't panic, pull the tether in and
try again.
S7 is about 200M away, all the rockets are still firing.
S7
Ok firing.
ZEUS
Spear head get manual control and
steer into that cable.
SPEAR HEAD
Taking control.
Rockets on BiMAV steer him towards the cable.
The cable misses by a lot.
Zeus looks at the colony.
BiMAV is still floating slowly towards cable.
SPEAR HEAD
I can't divert any more power from
the projectile movement or I smack
into it my self.
(A close call by any account)
ZEUS (QUIETLY)
It's too late.
ZEUS
IT's too late! Troops ready your
tethers. Spear head, stop pursuing
the cable.
SPEAR HEAD
Almost got it.
ZEUS
It's too late! HE'S DEAD.
S7
I'M NOT FUCKING DEAD!
ZEUS
Drop the tether or you go down with
him!
Zeus paints him.
ZEUS
HE IS 783.4 METERS AWAY, WE DON'T
HAVE ENOUGH FUCKING TIME!
Spear Head grabs onto the cable, and wraps it tightly around
its left arm.
SPEAR HEAD
Pull FULL BLAST!
S7 pulls the tether in as quickly as possible. The other
troops ready their tether guns to fire at the colony.
S7 is about halfway back to them.
Everybody's rockets stop as they fire tether guns, on the
tapered end of the rod shaped colony.
S7 rams into the colony.
MUSIC
CRUNCH
BiMAV gets a 4 rps spin, as his
left arm is ripped off.
They pass the colony and are rapidly decelerating as their
tethers stretch out and give a little.
ZEUS
FUCK YOU DJ! THIS IS SERIOUS.
(A close call by any account)
The tense cables have stretched to their maximum length, and
surprisingly only spring the soldiers back towards the
colony at moderate speeds. The cables release from the STEX,
but are still attached to the colony. The Rockets on the
STEX rectify their position in order that they hit their
insertion points squarely and perfectly.
MISSION DJ
Hey man just trying to do my job to
capture the moment emotionally.
ZEUS
Fuck it, forget about that. HOLY
SHIT YOU LOST your arm.
SPEAR HEAD
Yeah I noticed.
ZEUS
Time follow my god damn orders, or
you will lose more than just your arm!
SPEAR HEAD
YES SIR.
Zeus reroutes all of the trajectories to one membrane. All
rockets begin firing at once.
ZEUS
Ok people, the spear has lost its
cutting arm, so we are going to
have to punch through the membrane,
BiMAV first.
S4
Shit, don't tell me we are going
through the security substation.
ZEUS
Yeah what's the problem?
S4
Just that it is the most dangerous
insertion point in the colony.
ZEUS
Trust me, we will be fine, I have
inserted into much worse, and back
then we sure as hell didn't have a
BiMAV.
The membrane rapidly approaches.
(A close call by any account)
ZEUS
Spear head you know what to do,
blast your way through.
SPEAR HEAD
Yes sir.
The BiMAV starts shooting low velocity shell into the
hardened membrane.
The membrane is almost upon them, as their rockets accelerate
them even faster.
ZEUS
Rockets set max boost to 120% safe.
STEX SUIT
Beep.
ZEUS
Lance let me give you a little
advice about entering a security
station. If you see anything, shoot
it, that includes everything.
Just then the entire membrane explodes as spear head
detonates the shells embedded in its structure. The air
pocket gets sucked out. The BiMAV begins shooting at the far
wall of the detection room. The door is quickly blown up.
The room becomes a wind tunnel.
ZEUS
BiMAV DISLOCATE YOUR GOD DAMN
SHOULDER.
SPEAR HEAD
Shit.
The BiMAV moves its arm parallel to the head just above the
shoulder so that it is not at the side.
Spear head zooms through the narrow space.
EXT. COMMERCIAL DISTRICT IN TYPE 7 COLONY
BiMAV flies out into the open air security sub-station,
followed immediately by the lance of STEX.
Spear Head immediately begins shooting down all of the auto
cannons of the security station, the STEX begin throwing
grenades at them.
The guns go down relatively quickly, after causing only 2
casualties. The 14 STEX and the BiMAV run together down the
street to where the rail launcher control center is.
(A close call by any account)
A few building top STEX snipers shoot down at the group, but
they don't last long because the BiMAV stands taller than
all of the 2 story buildings and his head cannon
automatically kills them.
The intensity of the battle increases as the group of 12
STEX nears the commercial center.
enemy STEX begin coming out of buildings. 4 more Rebel
STEX are killed in the bloody combat. The controls come into
sight just ahead.
ZEUS
Almost there people keep pushing
on.
SKY LANCE COMMANDER
Quad of mini-BiMAVs coming in on
your position.
Western mini-BiMAVs come into view from behind a few
commercial building as the lance steps up to the concrete
ground of this commercial sector.
Spear head blasts one of the minis away.
Spear shaft begin firing riffle bullets and grenades at the
little mechs.
rebel STEX around Zeus fall.
The 5 remaining STEX turn to fight the elusive enemy.
ZEUS
IT'S A FUCKING TRAP LET'S GET OUT
OF HERE!!
S4
AHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
S4 falls to the ground dead.
Zeus bolts to the buildings to his left.
The BiMAV killed another one of the minis, but the last two
targeted his right arm and blew it half off.
Now the arm is hanging by SINSS ligaments, autorepair fluid
is oozing out attempting to bring the arm back into itself.
SPEAR HEAD
REPAIR ARM IMMEDIATELY.
The machine gun on his head damages one of the last mini,
but a few well placed rockets destroyed that gun.
(A close call by any account)
The big BiMAV runs forward and kicks the mini-BiMAV like a
soccer ball, disabling it.
The STEX come in around the kicking BiMAV.
ZEUS
Spear Head STEX yourself and get
the fuck out of there.
SPEAR HEAD
It is too late for that now, they
are all around me, get out of here
while you still can.
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