The story inspiration continues to come from the Ashok Banker, and his descriptive writing style as well as that of the horror movies and games I have mentioned may times prior. At this point the story feels like it is deeply inspired by the Alien series, which was not directly intended, but not a big issue.
Plot:
Rama will awake after extreme exhaustion overcame him, prior to his fight with the giant, beast like Raksha. Rama will realize how much energy gets drained when he unleashes his 'true' self during a fight. The beeping that awakes him will be that of the broken distress recording sent out during the initial invasion of the ship. Rama was still in Cryo-sleep at that time, and it wasn't until the chaos of the invading Raksha killing and devouring people, that Rama was awoken. Again, the reason Rama was awoken is because in the C-R Delta there was a struggle between a few of the security personal and a Raksha. The Raksha fought and killed the humans, throwing one into a Cryo-pod, which became lodged and smashed into the control panel of Rama's pod. The warm up sequence for the pods take 6 hours to complete. This gave much more time for the Raksha to decimate the majority of the humans and severely damage the ships functions.
This broken distress message will be similar to the one used originally. Some ideas include:
"*Static*... this is...Vishnarus has been...breached...unknown...number. *Static*"
"This is Commander Asheek. Our S.S. Vishnarus has been breached by an known force, The breach site is located on the starboard, specifically the Quarter. All renaming noncombatants immediately evacuate the area. Non-combatants do NOT engage the enemy, I repeat, Non-combatants do NOT engage. All combat and security forces, report to your security wing immediately."
Story Motifs and connections:
Rama
Pinaka (Shiva's Bow)
Ravana (Ravanash)
Ravana's army of raksasha (Raksha)
The final battle between Rama and Ravana
*More details and edits to this planning will be added before the story is posted.*
Source:
Prince of Ayodhya
Author: Ashok K. Banker
Published by Orbit (Time Warner Books UK), June 2005. Great Britain. Print. University of Oklahoma Libraries.
Todd your story planning post was super detailed this week. I think that the story you had suggested sounds super interesting. I like how you are sticking with some of our original characters from the start of the class. Your story sounds action packed and I think that this would be a good story for you to write in Week 15 if that is one of our assignments.
ReplyDeleteHey Todd, this story plan really sounds like it has great potential to turn into a great story. I like the ideas of incorporating well known characters into your story. This will help bring the reader in and help them relate to some of the characters. The characters sound like they will turn out great too, great job!
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