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               (Fall of the Western Space Elevator)

               Door opens. Get up groggily. Stumble out-



               INT. SPACE SHIP ORBITING MOON

                                   ZEUS
                         Where is a phone.

               View is blurry. Somebody points to a phone. Zeus walks to the
               phone. Zeus dials CIA friend's number.

                                   PHONE
                         This number has been disabled after
                         the attack on the CIA.

                                   ZEUS
                         WHAT ATTACK?!

               The recording does not respond.

                                   ZEUS
                         Computer what happened to Langley
                         CIA Headquarters?

                                   PHONE
                         The CIA building was destroyed
                         yesterday by a carpet bombing of
                         Eastern Cruise missiles.

               As a picture is shown.

                                   ZEUS
                         Casualty lists. Search for Friend
                             (the CIA insider from
                              earlier.)

                                   PHONE
                         Confirmed deceased.

               Zeus shifts his weight to lean against the wall-

                                   ZEUS
                         GOD DAMMIT... FUCK-

               Zeus slams the phone handle against the screen.

               Zeus sits on the ground against the wall.

               Zeus looks sad. Aries looks at the casualty list. Aries turns
               to the distressed Zeus-

                                   ARIES
                         Get the fuck off the ground
                         Soldier.

               Zeus looks up still sad.

               (Fall of the Western Space Elevator)

                                   ARIES
                         We'll get our FUCKING REVENGE. Were
                         being sent to war by the president.

                                   ZEUS
                         What?

               Zeus gets up.

                                   ARIES
                         Official executive orders mandate
                         all non-civilian personnel without
                         otherwise orders to be reinstated
                         into the military.

                                   ARIES
                         I wasn't sleeping the whole time
                         like you were. The crust of the
                         Earth and all the planets are
                         protected by mutual treaty so the
                         war will be fought over the Moon.

                                   ARIES
                         It won't be a nuclear torpedo
                         onslaught because both sides have
                         agreed on tritium fusion
                         restrictions on all shells.
                         Smaller units pack more firepower
                         relative to their size so we are
                         going to see small units as well as
                         large ones.

                                   ZEUS
                         So we are going to the moon?

                                   ARIES
                         Hell Y-

                                                            CUT AFTER 5
                                                        FLASHES BETWEEN
                                                                SCENES:



               MOON BATTLE



               INT. LARGE SPACE TRANSPORT

                                   ARIES
                         -A!

               Aries is in a STEX as a lieutenant Corneal.

               Zeus is also in STEX as a sergeant. All 40 soldiers in the
               transport are in 4 vertical rows of 5 facing 5. All 40
               including Aries are STEXed.

                                   ARIES
                         OK soldiers were going to the
                         surface.

               Just then the shuttle detaches from the orbital moon station.

                                   ARIES
                         I am lieutenant Corneal _____ your
                         commanding officer. I was there
                         defending the elevator station
                         before it was destroyed and I was
                         overthrowing the North Korean
                         regime before any o you babies were
                         born.

                                   ARIES
                         As you all know our forces on the
                         moon are being hard-pressed
                         defending their territories.
                         We are going to back up a Super
                         BiMAV position, to drive the East
                         back to their own artillery lines.

                                   ARIES
                         I've never been on the moon nor has
                         many of us but remember 3 things.
                         Stay with the main group if you go
                         astray you will die, remember your
                         training sims.

                                   SOLDIER
                         That was only two things.

                                   ARIES
                         SHUT UP.

               (1st Moon Battle)

                                   SOLDIER 2
                         So that's the third one; shut up
                         and take your orders.

                                   ARIES
                         Exactly.

               Aries looks out the lower window as the battle begins to come
               into focus.

                                   ARIES
                         Our shuttle is landing in the
                         vicinity of the ongoing battle
                         because they need support right
                         now, when we land get out of the
                         shuttle and get to the front and
                         don't be afraid to use this.

               Aries holds up his rail assault riffle.

                                   ARIES
                         Fusion on, safeties off, WE'SA
                         LAND'IN.

               Below the diamond floor you see space fighters blow up an
               open maglev rail line ferrying BiMAVs to the front.

               The door opens.



               SPC. SPACE ABOVE MOON AND WESTERN SKY COMMAND CENTER

               Cables all swing around to pull each and every soldier in the
               40 man squadron out of the transport the instant it is over
               it's destination point. Camera dives centered on soldiers and
               transport until the transport begin to make a u-turn and
               exits the screen.

                                   SUB SKY COMMANDER 1
                         This is subsky commander 1, I am
                         moving you men into a flanking
                         maneuver to protect sector 2819's
                         SRN replication facility, we've
                         routed 10,000 kg/min of carbon into
                         that facility so it's pumped out
                         Super BiMAVs that you men are going
                         to pilot.

                                   ARIES
                         Affirm that I see your squadron on
                         visual, Autoengage retrorockets.

                                                                CUT TO:

               Just above the surface to the unbroken open maglev
               surface(magnetic levitation road). 160 BiMAVs come zooming
               by.

               (1st Moon Battle)

                                   ARIES
                         I got mag lift.

               All the soldiers are flying over the malev surface.

                                   SUB SKY COMMANDER 1
                         I am accelerating you boys to land
                         right at the factory, you've got 40
                         Super BiMAVs ready and waiting,
                         with 120 drones under your command
                         fresh out of the SRN factories.

               Zeus's 40 STEX squadron go zooming over the battle being
               fought between the besieged Western forces and the besieging
               Eastern forces in the crater field below.

               Suddenly the platoon of STEX are each shot towards respective
               Super BiMAVs.
               The STEX are rocketed feet first into the recipient tube to
               get transported to the operation center of the gigantic robot
               warrior which is randomly placed in the head and torso so
               that nobody know where to shoot to kill them.



               SPC. MOON AND WESTERN SKY COMMAND CENTER

               Zeus goes to battle and begin fighting. Basically it works
               like this there is almost no sky support for the lunar
               combat. The back bone of the army is composed of All Terrain
               Mobile Artillery, ATMA, BiMAVs, and STEX. The enemy forces
               work in basically the same way.

                                   SUB SKY COMMANDER 1
                         Alright people march those bad boys
                         right into battle, we'll reinforce
                         your position momentarily with
                         drones.

               Zeus and his men pile out of the doors, Zeus takes command of
               forward drones while his BiMAVs have not yet entered combat.

               BiMAVs are blasting the fuck out of each other in all
               possible directions dispatched forces from western
               reinforcements are jumping in from all directions and large
               Eastern task forces are moving up on Western positions trying
               to get to the rail lines to cut them.

                                   SKY COMMANDER
                         Sub sky commander 1 we need to keep
                         those mag lines up if we are to
                         move from this position once we
                         secure it with reinforcements.

                                   ARIES
                         Roger that commander my boys are in
                         supers and we are on the way to
                         intercept the Eastern legions.

               (1st Moon Battle)

                                   SKY COMMANDER
                         Sub sky commander 2 make sure that
                         platoon is very well softened up.

                                   SUB SKY COMMANDER 2
                         Affirm.

               Zeus sees 2 super BiMAVs die as volleys tumble from the enemy
               artillery.

                                   ARIES
                         Cannons up people.

               The Western forces pound enemy BiMAVs with cannons until they
               stop moving

                                   DYING WESTERN SOLDIER
                         ARTILLLERYYYY,,,asdffsd!!!!!!!!!

                                   SUB SKY COMMANDER 1
                         GET VOLLEYS ON THAT STRONG POINT



               IMMEDIATELY!!!!!

               Artillery pummels the position.

               After the task force is pulverized-

                                   ARIES
                         Sky Commander, Area secure.

                                   ARIES
                         Our first prisoners, joy. Cut the
                         BiMAV's arms and legs off and throw
                         them in a pile over there, ultra
                         BiMAVs are coming up to eat them
                         now.

                                   ARIES
                         We consume the matter and use it in
                         either new BiMAVs or to expand the
                         ultra BiMAV eating them.

                                   ARIES
                         The humans inside will be encased
                         in STEX and assembled in small
                         BiMAV guards to take them back to
                         friendly lines where they can be
                         dealt with in POW camps.

                                   SKY COMMANDER
                         Aries you lead these Drone Legion
                         to reinforce our front, move North
                         until you reach this crater then
                         move in the shadows to the other
                         side and wait for my order.

               (1st Moon Battle)

                                   ARIES
                         Wait for us we'll be there when you
                         need us.

                                   SKY COMMANDER
                         You'd better be.

                                   ARIES
                         tsshh

               Move in secrecy up over the crater lip and move around almost
               a half click or a quarter of the radius to just below the
               crater lip(peak ring of the crater) on the inside of the
               crater.

                                   ARIES
                         We are in position.

                                   SKY COMMANDER
                         Hold on, watch.

               See on all of display the following:

               Sky Command Center main screen shows the superior Western
               numbers converging on the thin Eastern line and expanding
               outwards in both directions.

               A Eastern task force of them forms up in retreat and then
               runs up from their crater onto the surface just near where
               Aries's Legion is waiting. The task force decides to jump
               over the Legions shadowy hiding place.

                                   SKY COMMANDER
                         FIRE!!!

               Show Drones jumping above Zeus head. Begin to slaughter them
               with tons of plasma.

               Zeus sees interface based tracers from above coming from
               where the western front line is pushing the task force.

               A couple Eastern BiMAVs are pushed over by the Western fire,
               as Zeus begins shooting up at the ledge to fire at the
               holding forces.



               APOLLO



               KILL THEM ALL, CHARGE!!!

               The western BiMAVs plow through the Eastern warriors and jump
               over Zeus's position.

                                   ARIES
                         Nice to see ya Apollo.

               (1st Moon Battle)

                                   APOLLO
                         Roger that we'll need your fresh
                         legion to flank the next position.
                         Our fleet of Heavy BiMAVs are more
                         like infantry.

                                   ZEUS
                         And I guess our Supers are Cavalry.

                                   APOLLO
                         Right-o your quicker and more
                         mobile, keep your Heavy BiMAVs in
                         your banks until you really need
                         em.

                                   SKY COMMANDER
                         I see up ahead there is an
                         artillery position the East is
                         evacuating by BiMAV, your Cavalry
                         legion can intercept their forces
                         and then take care of the BiMAV
                         reinforcements. Apollo see to it
                         that you converge on the BiMAV
                         reinforcements as the Cavalry does.
                         Dock all STEX and miniBiMAVs.

                                   APOLLO
                         You heard the man increase speed by

                                   SKY COMMANDER
                         Things look nice and tidy on this
                         front, sky commanders 56-63 take
                         charge of this matter.

                                   SUB SKY COMMANDER 1
                         Um they're going to hit you with a
                         volley of artillery shells in a few
                         seconds recommend spreading out
                         greatly.

               Zeus's platoon spreads out over the rocky terrain still
               spreading out until they are a spread out over a kilometer.

                                   SUB SKY COMMANDER 2
                         Good spread out over their
                         position, the enemy Artillery
                         division's personal are all running
                         back to enemy lines, kill them.

                                   RANDOM SOLDIER
                         They are still shooting at us
                         though.

               (1st Moon Battle)

                                   SUB SKY COMMANDER 2
                         Their artillery is set to auto
                         targeting right now.

                                   RANDOM SOLDIER
                         Oh.

                                   SUB SKY COMMANDER 1
                         Form up into a 'C' with an opening
                         at this location, Apollo form the
                         'C', Aries pull your forces around
                         to encircle and destroy from the
                         opening in the 'C'. As you converge
                         on their strong point unload all
                         the way down to mini-BiMAVs

               Rapidly show the positioning from Sub Sky Commander 1's
               interface.

                                   APOLLO
                         Here they come. PULL THE TRAP.

               All the BiMAVs come firing at the 3 legions(each legion is 20
               Super BiMAVs) of enemy BiMAVs as Aries's BiMAVs come jumping
               over lines and coming in from the rear to seal the escape
               route and put pressure on their flank.

               Zeus fights a few of the last that try and break through the
               blockade.

               After they are all dead.

                                   SKY COMMANDER
                         Good job taking out that position
                         now I need your squadron to move
                         forward to just out of range out of
                         Eastern Artillery power, it seems
                         the East was just buying time to
                         set up a network of nested
                         defenses. We thought we had them on
                         the run, doesn't look like that
                         now.

                                   SKY COMMANDER
                         Sub commander 17-20 set up
                         artillery in a semicircle below and
                         some reserve artillery below the
                         semicircle. They will know about
                         the semicircle but not the
                         reserves.

                                   SKY COMMANDER
                         Leave 20% of our infantry BiMAV
                         army around artillery positions to
                         back up any retreat.

               (1st Moon Battle)

               Show screen split between 24 artillery nodes as boxes with
               upside down pyramids pointing on a map showing them all
               located in a semicircle behind where the West is setting up
               their front lines. Show 16 nodes below the bottom of the
               semicircle, these are the reserve artillery.

                                   SKY COMMANDER
                         Remember these rear forces are to
                         be called on as reinforcements and
                         to intercept any forces that might
                         have broken through, we will send
                         all newly produced BiMAVs to rear
                         mech positions.

                                   SKY COMMANDER
                         Hold from getting anywhere near
                         their artillery until we have
                         amassed on the front enough
                         strength to slam through into their
                         territories. First we have to
                         deplete their assault forces by our
                         artillery.

                                   SKY COMMANDER
                         Apollo dispose of the strong point
                         ahead, clear the forward BiMAV
                         guards and hit it from distance to
                         stay out of range of their
                         artillery line, well get some
                         cannons set in place to finish the
                         job.

                                   APOLLO
                         Alright people we are moving up to
                         the front line, where it seems that
                         we've got to charge their strong
                         point, all STEX and mini-BiMAVs
                         return immediately to transport
                         BiMAVs, we only need BiMAVs for
                         this charge.

                                   APOLLO
                         Step formation, Small BiMAVs in
                         front, followed by Medium, then
                         heavies, then supers. We are
                         forming into an ideal line for
                         pounding and charging.

               Zeus charges forward firing at the defending robots, half
               destroying them on the charge, and half destroying them from
               close range plasma, finishing them off.

                                   APOLLO
                         Fire upon artillery units.

               (1st Moon Battle)

                                   SKY LIEUTENANT
                         Sky commander perhaps we should
                         deploy our mini drones to swarm the
                         artillery position ahead.

                                   SKY COMMANDER
                         Negative that, we are getting
                         artillery set up as we speak, a
                         small volley should be coming down
                         on them shortly.

                                   SKY SUB COMMANDER 1
                         Eastern forces coming out of crater
                         now attacking towards Apollo's task
                         force.

                                   APOLLO
                         Stand tall men, we are holding this
                         line. Sky commander can you back us
                         up with some reinforcements.

                                   SKY COMMANDER
                         Sending 4 legions, they'll be there
                         in time, I'd send more but we gotta
                         keep our rear defensive nodes
                         strong.

                                   APOLLO
                         Unpack all STEX and mini-BiMAV
                         drones. Form a shoulder to shoulder
                         stepped line except for heavy
                         BiMAVS which will stay rear and
                         come in fast to bolster any part of
                         the line which would be wavering.

                                   SUB SKY COMMANDER 3
                         Here they come.

                                   APOLLO
                         All units fire at will.

               Watch as BiMAV fire pounds the advancing horde of medium
               BiMAVs. They are now being fired upon by the Eastern BiMAV
               line, and kills many of the front troops who are being
               concentrated on.

                                   SUB SKY COMMANDER 3
                         Sky Commander enemy BiMAVs forming
                         up into a tight V formation.

                                   APOLLO
                         I see their formation they are
                         going to break through.

               (1st Moon Battle)

                                   SKY COMMANDER
                         Most certainly, Aries, form a semi-
                         circle around our flank and ready
                         to pour BiMAVs onto the tip of the
                         V formation

                                   APOLLO
                         Should I part our formation to let
                         their V in.

                                   SKY COMMANDER
                         Yes and then pull some of your
                         medium BiMAVs in the region to
                         flank and fully enclose them with
                         the Heavies.

                                   SUB SKY COMMANDER 3
                         I see their primary force it's of
                         entirely of Super-BiMAVs around 2
                         to 1 against your numbers overall,
                         considering heavier weight 4 to 1.

                                   SKY COMMANDER
                         The legions are coming soon to put
                         that back to 3 us 2 them.

                                   SUB SKY COMMANDER 3
                         Actually the enemy have more lights
                         and heavies behind the Supers, I
                         assume all of them are packed with
                         minis.

                                   SKY COMMANDER
                         I don't care 3.

                                   SUB SKY COMMANDER 3
                         BUT sir they are going to break
                         through we have to send more in.

                                   SKY COMMANDER
                         Shut the hell up 3 I know what I'm
                         doing.

                                   SUB SKY COMMANDER 3
                         Whatever.

                                   SKY COMMANDER
                         Supreme Space Admiral how fares our
                         fleet.

               (1st Moon Battle)

                                   SUPREME WESTERN SPACE ADMIRAL
                         We are preparing for an all out
                         offensive push, but we won't be
                         able to provide you with any
                         support, but trust me they won't
                         have any support either.

                                   SKY COMMANDER
                         We are fine right now but we might
                         need some later.

                                   SUPREME WESTERN SPACE ADMIRAL
                         Call if you need a couple critical
                         targets taken out.

                                   SKY COMMANDER
                         I am sure it will come to that.
                         Talk to you then.

                                   SKY COMMANDER
                         Lunar factory management I need
                         some Ultras, tons of supers, and
                         15% medium, 15% light, we've got
                         enough artillery for now but if we
                         start to fall back send Artilleries
                         up the rail train, to strong crater
                         positions.

                                   LUNAR FACTORY COMMANDER
                         We are extending rail lines
                         directly to your most forward
                         position.

                                   SKY COMMANDER
                         Just keep on building it further
                         and further, trust me.

                                   LUNAR FACTORY COMMANDER
                         But what bout our front line we'll
                         hit it soon?

                                   SKY COMMANDER
                         When you get the the front with
                         that rail line we'll be moving the
                         front forward.

                                   LUNAR FACTORY COMMANDER
                         Alright.

                                                       CUT BACK IN TIME
                                                                    TO:

               The V formation is nearing the lines and although heavily
               damaged, it is still strong as ever.

               (1st Moon Battle)

                                   APOLLO
                         PART NOW!!!!

               The BiMAVs move out of the way to let the V formation pass.

                                   APOLLO
                         As they leave pinch on their flank
                         and designated warriors follow in
                         pursuit.

               Aries comes charging in firing pounding the newly arriving
               enemy BiMAVs as the enemy BiMAVs spread out to cut down the
               front lines.

                                   APOLLO
                         Reform lines to suppress V
                         infiltration.

                                   LIEUTENANT
                         What do we do.

                                   APOLLO
                         Converge on the tip of the V.

                                   ARIES
                         They are breaking the front line,
                         we're fighting the lights and
                         heavies now, it's too god damn
                         thick we have to pull back.

                                   REINFORCEMENT LEADER
                         legions come'n to back your ass up,
                         where to!?

                                   SKY COMMANDER
                         Split up and guard the artillery on
                         both sides of the battle.

               Sky Commander designates them to be grouped in clusters
               around the artillery nodes shaped in a semicircle.

                                   APOLLO
                         Where are the extra reinforcements
                         nothing is on the way.

                                   SKY COMMANDER
                         That's right we should be able to
                         hold these bogies.

                                   SKY COMMANDER 3
                         Negative sky commander we have
                         visual on 17 more enemy legions
                         coming towards your so called front
                         line.
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