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EXT. MCLEAN SUBURBIA
Zeus walks over to his new found car and gets in.
Inside is a MRE, silenced submachine gun/ammo/scope, street
clothes, combat computer/GPS, silenced pistol/ammo, knife,
mask w/ headset, keys, misc. kit, a few kg of C-7, and a
backpack. Zeus eats. Zeus puts on the new street clothes.
Zeus start the maglev car. The car tells Zeus where to go.
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EXT. CIA DIRECTORS YARD
Zeus parks along a small suburban street. Zeus pick up the
stuff and put it in the backpack with the exception of the
guns which he holsters.
Zeus looks at his combat computer. It tells Zeus exactly
where to go, compass and GPS provided. Zeus enters into the
woods and reach the gate the computer tells Zeus to walk
through.
The security is very tight because of the recent terrorism so
1 guard will be in the back yard. Zeus kills him from fence.
Zeus gets to security console next to the back door. Zeus
types in code 760256541039 that deactivate all individual
security alarms. Zeus opens the door.
(To Find a Compatriot)
INT. CIA DIRECTORS HOME
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Zeus kills the dog.
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Zeus kills the director then the wife.
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Zeus looks at the filled in the check boxes and performs the
action with a short cut for each.
COMPUTER
Now place equal amounts of C-7 to
each of these locations throughout
out the house. Then connect me to
the computer system via USB.
Location 1 [] Location 2 [] Location 3 [] Location 4 []
Connect computer []
Destroy Personal Desktop assistant
[]
(Zeus:"WHERE IS IT!?
Forget it I'm just going
to get out of here.")
Grab hardrive and any backup disks
[]
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Zeus removes the hard drive.
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Zeus looks on the computer shelf for the backup disk. When
Zeus finds it he checks that off on his little pocket
computer.
COMPUTER
Mission completed leave house
through the back and return to car.
Show car driving away past foreground and house blowing up in
background.
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(To Find a Compatriot)
EXT. IN FRONT OF FRIEND'S HOUSE
Zeus walks inside.
INT. LIVING ROOM IN FRIEND'S HOUSE
FRIEND
Is it done?
ZEUS
Yes I did everything, except I
could not find the PDA.
FRIEND
Don't worry it probably won't come
out. It was just another
precaution.
ZEUS
Let's finish the conversation we
started earlier.
CONVERSATION ABOUT CIA
FRIEND
Yes let's, with the director dead
there the president has already
nominated Donald Young who will
cease all activities against the
Eastern Block.
ZEUS
Good I am glad things are really
starting to clear up.
FRIEND
Well maybe. Some people are
questioning the president's loyalty
to the doves.
ZEUS
So I might have started World War
3.
FRIEND
Well we're not so sure about that.
ZEUS
Ok.
FRIEND
You've prevented the war if the
Americans are the aggressors but-
ZEUS
SO you're telling me that MURDERING
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE and destroying
the most critical infrastructure
node in the world is not an act of
aggression!
FRIEND
No not at all. All I am saying is
that the hawks may be working for
the East.
ZEUS
Kinda like the Bay of Tolkon
incident attacking your own forces
to spark a war.
FRIEND
Exactly.
(Conversation about CIA)
ZEUS
So let me guess the East wants to
conquer the Americans so that they
can dominate the world.
FRIEND
So say the rumors but it gets worse
than that. One faction controlling
the world is not a bad thing unless
you are going to create a total
mind control state.
ZEUS
Oh please mind control doesn't
exist.
FRIEND
Supposedly the East just hasn't
unveiled it.
ZEUS
So how does it work?
FRIEND
First you have to map out the
neural network with nanobots.
ZEUS
How do you do that isn't the brain
solid.
FRIEND
No the brain has a lot of fluid so
there is plenty of room for
nanobots to float around. Basically
to connect any two neurons in the
brain you need a sender site which
launches a coaxial nanotube based
wire to a receiver site connecting
any 2 thoughts in the brain in a
fully customizable manner.
ZEUS
They could connect God to
government then government would
speak-
FRIEND
with the force of God.
ZEUS
Oh my God.
(Conversation about CIA)
FRIEND
It gets worse, you can disconnect
or prevent neurons from connecting
so even if the brain adapts to
think of the government differently
those thoughts can be disconnected.
ZEUS
Holy Shit then the only thing left
would be the god-government wires.
FRIEND
Exactamundo.
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NEWS REPORT
INT. LIVING ROOM IN FRIEND'S HOUSE
Zeus is watching TV. At 6:00 Zeus sees "Breaking news"
disrupt the TV.
NEWS REPORTER 1
Breaking news, French President
Jean-Léon Gouzot has just declared
that terrorist attack on the
Eastern elevator was committed by a
faction within the United States
government. The European President
is now threatening military action
if the president of the United
States and his "compatriots" are
not held accountable for their
crimes in an United Nations
tribunal. Here is the speech that
is ongoing.
ZEUS
DAMN IT!!
Friend calls. The news show a translated version of the
speech in the background.
ZEUS
Hello.
FRIEND (VO)
You get your ass over to Langley
Headquarters right away.
ZEUS
OK.
FRIEND (VO)
I've already forwarded you picture
ID to the guards. The guard will
tell you where to enter. See you
soon.
ZEUS
Bye.
Click.
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(News Report)
INT. RELATIVELY SMALL CIA MEETING ROOM
CIA ELEVATOR LEADER
The East is planning on destroying
our elevator in retaliation. We are
going to put as many agents as we
can to protect from terrorism from
within the elevator.
CIA ELEVATOR LEADER
The defense shield will guard
against any foreseeable frontal
attacks against the top of the
elevator, but only while it has not
been disabled.
CIA ELEVATOR LEADER
The East will undoubtedly attempt
to sabotage the weapon systems on
the ground and in the sky. We are
going to search all cargo and
personnel that travel to space.
CIA ELEVATOR LEADER
We are also going to position mines
in order to destroy any incoming
ships, in the case of weapons
system failure. Here is a list of
the agents who are to be assigned
to the elevator:
Zeus is on the list displayed on a LCD screen.
INT. TRAIN
See the Star elevator from a train, the sun is setting,
nostalgia sets in.
ZEUS (VO)
A monument to human ingenuity, to a
world connected space and ground
along all borders.
ZEUS (VO)
The entire human civilization
available in just a 2 hour drive
from any point to any point.
(News Report)
ZEUS (VO)
Because of me and my actions as the
United State's pawn all will come
tumbling down, I can smell the
impending war and the American
Counter Strike on the Eastern fleet
if we do not prevent the
destruction of this Space Elevator.
ZEUS (VO)
Oh god watch over this elevator and
this species let them not come to
World War 3.
Train stops at foot of Star elevator while camera looks
straight up and see it go all the way to vague lights in
space.
ZEUS (VO)
God let our utopic diamond age not
be marred by the wounds and the
scars of war. Let it not be a False
Diamond Age.
Camera tilts to a horizontal level and zooms into the setting
sun.
Zoom into sun. Zoom out of sun as viewed from the top of the
Star elevator.
Security is tighter. Zeus is neither happy nor excited. Zeus
gets out of the car.
PROTECTING THE LAST ELEVATOR
INT. SPACE ELEVATOR STATION AND INT. WESTERN SPACE COMMAND
CENTER
Zeus walks downward into increasing
gravity.
ARIES (WHISPERS)
The man in the green shirt is armed
with a submachine gun.
Aries begins to slowly pull out his pistol.
ARIES (WHISPERS)
No don't look now.
Zeus does the same.
ARIES
On three we make him disarm.
3..2..1..
ARIES
FREEZE HANDS ABOVE YOUR HEAD!
The Man In The Green Shirt turns to pull out the Uzi type
gun. Zeus shoots him.
Zeus shoots another man who pulls out a weapon.
The other CIA officer pull out his headset with head light.
Zeus does the same.
ARIES
SCENARIO RED, full lock down, full
security monitoring, Stop or
destroy all incoming vessels,
Command, stop sending people on the
elevator and monitor for
projectiles.
SUPREME WESTERN SPACE ADMIRAL
Roger that we are on full alert all
sky command personnel to your
stations immediately.
Zeus bends down and search the dead guy, Zeus finds a bag of
his spy stuff. Zeus picks it up. Zeus opens his mouth to say-
ZEUS
Look at this-
(Protecting the last Elevator)
ARIES
Unit 1 reporting, all units report
now. CIA ARM your selves and put on
your head lights on or we'll end up
shooting each other. Initiate the
shake downs don't let anybody
escape.
Zeus puts the kit in his pocket, and helps in the shake downs
a couple of spies. The spies are revealed and Zeus of course
shoots them. Continue shake downs until-
SKY ASSISTANT
Unit 8 is under heavy fire, enemies
are trying to take the command
room, all units in the vicinity.
SKY COMMANDER
STEX and CIA get over there and
help them out.
ARIES
LETS GO!
Zeus starts running and kills many who are defending the
entrance.
EASTERN SPY FROM INSIDE CONTROL ROOM
CLOSE THE DOOR!!!!!!
Aries throws a huge grenade into the control room just 1
second before the door closes. Zeus gets out of the way but
the door holds the explosion. Hear air get sucked out.
ARIES
Space Admiral station control
center was infiltrated and guarded
I destroyed it, you take over space
systems from now on.
ARIES
Space Admiral?
ARIES
Space Admiral!!!????? CAN YOU HEAR
ME!!!!!!!!?
Zeus looks out the window. Zeus points his finger in
disbelief.
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PERSEPHONE TAKES THE LADDER DOWN
INT. EASTERN SPACE COMMAND CENTER
A picture on a large screen of the same view of the
spaceship.
A few seconds of waiting.
Screen changes to show-
HERMES
Today, the war begins, the European
Union will not stand for acts of
cowardly terrorism upon our most
precious assets. We will fight, and
we will win. We are taking the
Ecuador elevator down into the
ground, HERE AND NOW!!
Cheering in the room at the remote presentation.
HERMES
P1, you are to lead a European
Secret Police task force, that is
as we speak infiltrating the
western elevator station, and the
Ecuador Big Gun. It is absolutely
essential that you disable both
aspects of their security. Both
their ground and space weaponry are
more than capable of destroying The
Tiamat, which will automatically
modify its orbit at 17:30, and will
collide a half hour later at 18:00.
Show diagrams of this.
HERMES
P2 Will lead the Lunar fleet.
HERMES
At 22 hundred, Persephone will
guide our Earth orbit fleet into
all out naval war. P, you have a
variety of objectives one of which
is to protect The Tiamat.
(Persephone takes the ladder down)
HERMES
At 22 hundred, P3 will guide our
forces upon the moon to charge
critical western facilities, and
points.
HERMES
At 22 hundred, P4 will guide the
assault on Great Brittan, who is
currently aligned with the West.
HERMES
P5 will lead the charge of our
african forces.
HERMES
minutes should give you P6 enough
time to disable all security
protecting the big gun.
HERMES
Any general questions?
Silence.
HERMES
Good to your stations then, I will
brief you all separately.
INT. EASTERN SPACE COMMAND CENTER
Persephone goes to her command post.
HERMES
Ok Persephone, this is finally
real, remember it is just like the
war games, it is no different, do
just as you did then, focus just as
you did when you took out the
________. Ok?
PERSEPHONE (A LITTLE NERVOUS
NODDING HER HEAD SLIGHTLY)
Ok.
HERMES
Good, first let me go over critical
points that must be destroyed.
HERMES
There are 64 primary cannons that
serve as the spokes of the Space
station, only 8 of the external
aiming portions of the rail cannons
are going to be capable of firing
upon the Tiamat.
(Persephone takes the ladder down)
HERMES
We are flying multiple squadrons of
drone fighters alongside the
juncture of these quadrants to
remove the only 8 rail cannons
capable of destroying Tiamat.
HERMES
However you need to take out the
primary fusion reactor in the
station. They cannot muster the
power to slice the Tiamat in half
on auxiliary reactors alone.
HERMES
We also need to disable the big gun
on the ground which is capable of
knocking the Tiamat on a trajectory
passing above the space station.
This will be completed by a
specialist on the inside.
HERMES
After that it's clear sailing to
dice the elevator in eight and
knock the station out of orbit
where we will recover it and refine
it into a rail artillery platform
and bring it into Lunar orbit where
the battle for the moon shall
decide the war.
HERMES
Remember go for the targets we
don't have a chance of swarming
anywhere so we just need to hit our
targets and then we get the hell
out of there to Lunar orbit.
PERSEPHONE
Will do commander is that
everything?
HERMES
Yes, as soon as this is over you
call Lunar commander P3 and provide
subcommander support, until your
close enough to the moon to have a
low ping time then you will command
the Lunar fleet.
PERSEPHONE
Can you authorize me to stim up
when I need it.
(Persephone takes the ladder down)
HERMES
Let me access,
(accesses neural
interface)
unlocked.
PERSEPHONE
Thank you, I just have a feeling I
am going to be up many hours.
HERMES
We all will. See you around the
moon.
PERSEPHONE
See ya.
Persephone commands it in fast motion with breaks to the
exact point in the battle where Zeus left off.
FALL OF THE WESTERN SPACE ELEVATOR
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INT. SPACE ELEVATOR STATION
ARIES
How can we have lost contact god
damn it?
Aries says before he looks over where Zeus is pointing
flabbergasted. Aries takes out his pistol and points it at
the ship. Aries looks at his gun-
ARIES
It will collide in 3 minutes.
RANDOM CIA GUY
What unit 4?
ARIES
UNIVERSAL COM. FULL SCALE
EVACUATION
NOW, PREPARE THE ESCAPE PODS,
everybody follow arrows to the escape pod.
CIA ELEVATOR LEADER
Countermand that order what the
fuck are you doing soldier?
ARIES
You don't have time to look out a
window but if you do you will see a
giant ship coming right for us.
RANDOM CIA 2
Yep I see it.
RANDOM CIA 3
Me too.
CIA ELEVATOR LEADER
Roger TO PODS NOW!
Just then emergency arrow lights light up.
Zeus runs along the emergency lights killing 2 enemies. Zeus
finally make it to the escape pods. Zeus sits outside them
and defends against spies.
(Fall of the Western Space Elevator)
Zeus look over to the pod interface, just next to the door in
the station, for a second-
ZEUS
Where are the pods sent to go?
POD COMPUTER
They will rendezvous with the
U.S.S. ____ and the U.S.S. _____.
ARIES
UNACCEPTABLE, the fleets are,
already clashing. Is there a
designated civilian rescue center.
POD COMPUTER
No.
ARIES
FUCK!
says Aries as he looks at the map.
ARIES
Zoom out. The moon, program a low
moon orbit.
POD COMPUTER
Done.
ARIES
Get on Zeus.
Aries thrashes Zeus in and goes in himself. Shots are fired
just as he gets on and the door closes.
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INT. SPACE ELEVATOR ESCAPE POD
Zeus runs to the front of the pod and presses the red button
ejecting the pod.
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SPC. OUTSIDE SPACE ELEVATOR STATION
Show mines exploding out side and destroying the Tiamat. A
laser is starting to slash the oncoming ship.
The escape pods that remain are all ejecting. The Tiamat ship
collides and digs into the station driving it perpendicular
to where the pods are going.
(Fall of the Western Space Elevator)
The station becomes detached from the elevator as it is hit
with the clusters of drones and falls to the ground in 8
separate tubular sections cut by the drones.
The elevator begins to fall towards the Earth. The station
flies into deep space. The pods are traveling elsewhere.
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INT. SPACE ELEVATOR ESCAPE POD
ZEUS
Oh my god we're at war.
Zeus is looking out the window.
ARIES
Computer how long until we reach
low moon orbit?
POD COMPUTER
hours 34 minutes.
ZEUS
Do we have sleep in here?
POD COMPUTER
Yes 40 doses.
ZEUS
Good there is no problem here. If
I've got sleep I don't need any
food.
Injecting sleep... feeling uncomfortable, Zeus is sleeping on
the hard floor.
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Zeus wakes up because of the bulge in his pocket where the
Eastern spy kit is. Zeus looks at the time. You take out the
kit, you look through it and find a few gismos.
One gismo is a little ID chip stamp. Zeus stamps it on his
right hand. The mechanism fires a chip inside Zeus's hand.
ZEUS
AHH!!! what the hell was that?
ZEUS
Oh well.
Inject another dose.
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