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OUROBOROS
By Drew Wesley Peardon

GENRE: Action, Mystery, Romance, Sci-fi, War, Historical, Adventure, Crime, Experimental, Fantasy
LOGLINE:

The long history of Earth’s interactions with an alien world, as told by one family across seven generations

SYNOPSIS:

A historian in the distant future begins his academic lecture on the past several generations…

…On the planet Ouroboros, human colonists have been at war with the alien colonists, the Garthanians, for generations; both species fighting for control of the once uninhabited but life-supporting planet. In addition, the human colonists systematically persecute the few humans who remain on Earth, resulting in rising political tensions, and terrorist attacks by earthbound humans against the colonists. The same situation exists between the Garthanian colonists and the Garthanians who remain on their home planet of Garthan. Suddenly, a race of aliens once native to Ouroboros, the Krones, launch a full scale attack on the humans and Garthanians alike, intending to reclaim their home planet and wipe out both races. In the midst of this new conflict, Clark Rosen, a prominent military leader of the human colonists, starts playing a fully-interactive hologram based on humanity’s recent history, and discovers the story of his great-grandmother…

…Michelle Michaels, a woman specifically bred and conditioned to be an artist in a future Earth where pollution and overpopulation have led to the rise of an oppressive Corporatocracy that practices artificial population control. Every birth is artificially initiated and engineered to fill a specific occupation or role in society, natural births are forbidden, and inter-breeding between different occupational classes is a capital crime. Michelle falls in love with Robert Curie, a member of the science occupational class, who’s discovered that even with the current system in place, the world will quickly become uninhabitable, and has proposed having a large portion of humanity leave Earth to establish a colony on another planet, but both these ideas were rejected by the corporate masters of Earth. After Michelle and Robert have two children in secret, Michelle discovers an old video game based on her great-grandmother…

…Talia Clemens, an orphaned teenager who was adopted by a family of Christian fundamentalists in the 1980s. After Talia chooses to convert to the Bahá'í Faith, her adoptive parents have her forcefully taken to “Nature” a rehabilitation camp for “troubled teens,” where she suffers almost constant abuse from the program administrators and from her fellow teenagers at the camp. She manages to befriend the camp’s custodian, Jeeves, who’s revealed as an old acquaintance of her biological grandmother. Jeeves shows Talia a movie based on the life of her biological father…

…Darien Lagoon, the son of successful fantasy author Mabel Lagoon, writer of the long-running series of high fantasy novels collectively called The Ouroboros Age. He’s currently (circa 1960s) in conflict with his girlfriend’s parents, who are traditionalist Shia Muslims who forbid their daughter from seeing Darien because of his atheism. After being informed of the apparent double suicide of both of his parents, Darien, along with his girlfriend Millie Karris (who’s a police detective), decide to investigate and discover a comic book based on the lives his parents, which reveals…

…His mother came from the alien planet known as Ouroboros, a planet almost identical to Earth, except the land arraignments of the northern and southern hemispheres are reversed. When Ouroboros developed to a technologically advanced post-industrial society, the planet’s climate rapidly shifted, leading to the collapse of their society. To save their world’s history and culture, the planet’s surviving politicians and scientists pooled their resources and discovered a planet almost identical to theirs (Earth) and gathered the best and brightest members of their race (Mabel, a historian, being among them) onto a spaceship that they sent to our planet (circa 1930s AD). However, the colonists are discovered by Snowstorm, a xenophobic group with strong political connections, who hunt them down. While evading Snowstorm, Mabel looks back on the records she made of her home planet’s ancient history, particularly the history of her ancestor…

…Ericka, an orphaned peasant women from the ancient time of the planet Ouroboros, a time when many intelligent species similar to the magical races from high fantasy literature and European folklore existed alongside humans for milieu, but have all since gone extinct. After her father is killed in battle, Ericka trains to become a military-leader, and then proceeds to unite the various warring species and races in the northern territories into an army to resist the Southern Empires, which are dominated by the barbaric, tyrannical, and imperialistic Krones. After managing to topple the Krones, who escape into space with their advanced technology (that the other races believed to be magic), Ericka unites all of the remaining races into a peaceful global kingdom…

…A kingdom whose entire history is recounted in Mabel’s writings, but Mabel is seriously wounded by Snowstorm. She’s found and rushed to a hospital by an English Literature Professor and aspiring comic book writer, John Lagoon. John helps her through her physical and psychological recoveries, forges a new identity for her so she can escape from Snowstorm, and he ultimately inspires her to record and publish her planet’s history as high fantasy novels, so that her people’s long history will never be forgotten. John, as practice for his dream profession, writes a comic book based on their adventures, which is later picked up by an independent comic publisher…

…Learning all of this convinces Darien that Snowstorm was responsible for his parent’s death. With help from Millie and from her parents, he manages to cut off their political support by exposing evidence of corruption, and manages to get the whole organization arrested for various crimes. Whilst fighting off Snowstorm, Darien rescues Jeeves, another native of Ouroboros. With Jeeves’ help, Darien finishes his mother’s final novel, which was left unfinished before her death. He ultimately becomes a screenwriter and writes a movie based on his adventure to stop Snowstorm. However, Darien and Millie ultimately die in a car crash, leaving behind their daughter…

…Talia, who with the aid of Jeeves, manages to unite her fellow teenagers and lead them in an escape/rebellion against the “Nature” camp. After escaping and establishing themselves in another city with Jeeves as their guardian, Talia becomes a video game designer. Talia later designs a video game based on her escape from the “Nature” camp…

…Which inspires Michelle to convince Robert to build a spacecraft to take them to Ouroboros. However, Robert is discovered and executed by the authorities just after he finishes the ship blueprints and its flight plan. Michelle and her two children, along with many of her friends in the engineering class, manage to build the ship and fly it to Ouroboros. Once there, they discover the planet to be inhabitable again, and make contact with the Garthanians who’ve already established a colony. With the help of some Garthanian colonists, Michelle manages to evade the corporate authorities and helps several people from various occupational classes escape Earth to establish a democratic colony on Ouroboros…

…Where Clark Rosen, having experienced the holographic recreation of his family history, is inspired to unite the humans (colonist and Earthbound) and the Garthanians (colonists and native) into one army to oppose the invading Krones once again. After defeating the Krones in open warfare, Clark organizes a treaty that dismantles the Krones’ military infrastructure and allows all three races to peacefully establish colonies on Ouroboros, Earth, or Garthan, and move freely between them, thus ending the conflicts between the various factions…

…And finally Darien Rosen, son of Clark Rosen, is recounting all of this to a university class consisting of the now peacefully and fully integrated humans, Garthanians, and Krones, in a now stable and advanced interplanetary society.

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