Major Project entry 2

Major Project Research

For the past few weeks I have been working on a synopsis for the story I want to work on for the major project. From the beginning I was set on working on a science fiction story, I wanted to work on something which interests me, and would keep me motivated for the whole year. For inspiration I have been researching several books in both science fiction and fantasy for ideas. Some of authors are Gene Wolfe, Robert Reed, Nancy Kress, Dan Simmons, and Christopher Paolini. Also a major part of influence is reading the New Scientist magazines, focusing on the articles of physics and astronomy. Lately, I have been watching several documentaries on alien life and technology featuring Stephen hawking, Michio Kaku and Albert Einstein

World

The story is set in a future where humans and various other aliens species have made contact and established complex craft civilisations, most species have achieved interstellar space travel throughout the galaxy, the colonisation of most of the galaxy, advanced military weaponry, and advanced Nano technology.

The galaxy for the most part is similar to our own milky way galaxy except for one massive difference, the galaxy is divided between the habitable zone and the non habitable zone. The habitable zone contains the "normal planets", that's is habitable planets orbiting some sort of star. The uninhabitable zone contains mostly pieces of rock, ice and lifeless desolate planets wandering space, and most importantly no stars, and no life.

These two areas of the galaxy are separated quite sharply forming an invisible line separating the cold planets from the warm ones. This line is known throughout the galaxy as the "axis of evil", which is the most famous anomaly in the galaxy. As the name suggests many have fallen victim trying to conquer it, and many civilisations have tried to colonise some of its planets but have failed, there's no life to be found only death.

Brief Synopsis

It was previously thought that one of the pre requisites for life was the sun, that for life to survive the planet had to be orbiting a sun of some sort, but a recent discovery by some of the colonies closest to the axis of evil discovered a new wandering planet which they named Kepler, roughly 300 times the mass of earth, and seems to have an atmosphere supporting plant life.

Once this discovery was made, they send a team to investigate this mysterious finding, my main character Menewa is sent as part of the military to protect the scientists and geologists on this dangerous mission.

When they arrive on Kepler they find a dark mysterious land seemingly abundant in strange plant life(imagine black artificial plants). They soon discover the planet is actually an artificial space ship seemingly powering itself by these organic life forms producing energy for the ship. Soon enough the biggest discovery is made, the space ship is actually hollow and within lies a hovering small earth-sized planet.

With this new discovery they send Menewa and the best of the best to investigate this planet, however they discover this planet has its own set of rules and seemingly any high tech devices don't work here. One night, Menewa discovers a special bio armour which gels to him once he touches it, enhancing him physically and mentally. This suit seems to be the most advanced technological device on the planet, which appears to work perfectly despite the rest of the high tech gear malfunctioning.

While on this planet they encounter the creators of Kepler, a race of super intelligent aliens known as the Tryons, who explain that this space station is actually a prison for an evil ancient god like creature and that the race of warriors who worship it are in pursuit to free it from this prison.

Major Project Proposal

I realise this is quite an ambitious story, which is why for my paintings I would like to pick a small section of it, and produce maybe 5 highly rendered pieces showing key moments in my story. I would like to focus on the last part of my story where Menewa and the Tryons engage with the worshipers of the imprisoned creature on the inner planet of Kepler.