Possible Ns Plot
Nathanael_UK
Join Date: 2003-10-18 Member: 21761Members
Join Date: 2003-10-18 Member: 21761Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Should I write this...</div> Plot:
Start:
Aliens attack lone spaceship. On Earth outrage and TSA is formed.
Middle:
After a battle a group of TSA warships follow a damaged Kharaa ship towards the Unknown Systems, the Kharaa ship dives towards a lone rocky planet. The Kharaa ship lands under bombardment and Kharaa run into a gap in the mountains. The gap leads to a stone arch with strange carvings.
End:
The cavern is remarkably well hewn. It clearly is artificial. The Marines advance and come to a great cavern/hall. There a huge battle takes place, which is won with the help of reinforcements. Advancing towards the hive they come upon a 'nursery room'. The baby Kharaa are slaughtered or taken for genetic experimenting. Attacking the hive they find a holy place of the Kharaa and advance into it expecting the key for victory. The place is a small cavern and no Kharaa enter it. Etchings on the wall look vaguely like the Kharaa. There they finally come upon symbols that have not been destroyed and their transalator works: Here is the last resting place of the Sankrias.
Underneath is the spoilers.
The ending is meant to leave you wondering. Who are the Kharaa and why do they feel attracted to such a clearly artificial place? The Marines are shown as brutes when they slaughter the Kharaa younglings, but you don't know who's right. The Kharaa are a familial race and treasure their children. The humans have enroached on this and the aliens have fought back. They get into the 'holy' cavern and find etchings. Then the symbols, the transalators are meant to work with <b>normal</b> and <b>civilised</b> languages. So are the Sankrias the clever ancestors of the Kharaa or were they destroyed by the Kharaa?
Start:
Aliens attack lone spaceship. On Earth outrage and TSA is formed.
Middle:
After a battle a group of TSA warships follow a damaged Kharaa ship towards the Unknown Systems, the Kharaa ship dives towards a lone rocky planet. The Kharaa ship lands under bombardment and Kharaa run into a gap in the mountains. The gap leads to a stone arch with strange carvings.
End:
The cavern is remarkably well hewn. It clearly is artificial. The Marines advance and come to a great cavern/hall. There a huge battle takes place, which is won with the help of reinforcements. Advancing towards the hive they come upon a 'nursery room'. The baby Kharaa are slaughtered or taken for genetic experimenting. Attacking the hive they find a holy place of the Kharaa and advance into it expecting the key for victory. The place is a small cavern and no Kharaa enter it. Etchings on the wall look vaguely like the Kharaa. There they finally come upon symbols that have not been destroyed and their transalator works: Here is the last resting place of the Sankrias.
Underneath is the spoilers.
The ending is meant to leave you wondering. Who are the Kharaa and why do they feel attracted to such a clearly artificial place? The Marines are shown as brutes when they slaughter the Kharaa younglings, but you don't know who's right. The Kharaa are a familial race and treasure their children. The humans have enroached on this and the aliens have fought back. They get into the 'holy' cavern and find etchings. Then the symbols, the transalators are meant to work with <b>normal</b> and <b>civilised</b> languages. So are the Sankrias the clever ancestors of the Kharaa or were they destroyed by the Kharaa?
Comments
You can skip the start and the ending sounds wrong. It's as if the Kharaa were created by another race. Not the bacterium.
<i>Ariadne Arm: Research Station 1</i>
The air smelled awful, but at least it was clean. Ferried straight from the oxygen farms on Triton. However to keep this place working it still required lot's of engineers to oversee the general running of the technical side of things. Three of these sat on one of the standard gunmetal benches in a narrow corridor. "What's these stories about Kharaa?" one asked. "Damn rumours if I ever heard such a load of gas," a big burly one said dismissively.
<b>Hull Breach, Engineering Group 003 Please Report To Sector B</b>
These things were routine, little asteriods or minimeteorites. Recently, true, they had been increasing slightly, but that wasn't any trouble. The station had a new nanite repairing thingy, without going all technical and confusing basically it resealed the hull after a short period. So all the engineers had to do was make sure it worked. All of a sudden alarms started to blaze.
<b><span style='color:red'>Security Doors And Airlocks Breached, Trying To Contain</span></b>
"Crap! That's something unusual," one of the more pessimistic engineers said.
"Nah man, relax, you're always so jumpy," the tough-guy said.
<b>Situation Solved, Security Doors are Sealed, Return To Your Duties</b>
<i>In many little vents, little eggs started to multiply. A little creature sat on them, giving off heat and nurturing all its little babies. Cracks started to appear on one of eggs and a creature slightly smaller than the mother stepped out. All around it more babies were coming out. The mother sat there knowing what was about to happen. A little baby next to the mother leapt up clawing at the mother's face who swiped it aside, but it was supported by more and soon the mother gave her last swipe. The hatchlings had their first meal.
Several Days Later:
A much larger hatchling padded silently along the wall it's body seeming to change every now and then. The effect made the eyes hurt and also meant that it was virtually invisible. It's brothers and sisters were with it too, 5 or so of them. It was hard to count. The invisible one went forward and seemed to send a message to the others, which moved forward. If a two-legged thing appeared the seeable ones would not move forward. They had orders, the hive might die soon if it could not root, they needed a warm place near lot's of food. The walls had changed now to a more shiny metal and up ahead steam came out of a door. The invisible one walked the wall and slowly eased open the door. Then the pulse came along, so that even humans could feel something and 5 juveniles leapt forward...</i>