Dark Planet story
The year is 2638 and two Earth factions mired in a destructive war launch a joint mission to reach a planet on the other side of a wormhole that might be capable of sustaining human life.
18 total · 5 major · 13 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| a common interest unites | major | The grand revelation of the film is that the commanders of the warring Alphas and Rebels factions had put their differences aside in a bid to move some remnant of humanity to another planet before all Earth life was destroyed in a biotechnological catastrophe. |
| biotechnological risk to civilization | major | It was revealed at the film's conclusion that the whole purpose of the Benedict's mission to find a new home for humanity on account that all life on Earth would soon perish in a biotechnological cataclysm. The nature of the cataclysm is elaborate: A viral organism that was produced quite accidentally when Rebel chemical agents mingled with Alpha biological weapon materials was poised to destroy all life on Earth. |
| speculative habitable celestial body | major | A joint Alpha and Rebel forces mission was sent to on a mission to investigate reports of a habitable exoplanet on the other side of a wormhole. After many twists and turns, the planet was found and determined to be suitable for human colonization. |
| traversable wormhole | major | A joint Alpha and Rebel forces mission was sent to investigate reports of a habitable planet on the other side of a wormhole, and much build up was placed on the passing through of the said space anomaly. |
| war | major | The Alphas and the Rebels were engaged in a destructive war for control of Earth and probably other parts of the solar system. |
| biological weapons | minor | It was explained that the Alpha faction had used biological weapons on the Rebel faction. |
| chemical weapons | minor | It was explained that the Rebel faction had used chemical agents on the Alphas in their defense of Mauritania. |
| colonization of Jupiter | minor | The Alphas had a prison complex on Jupiter's moon Callisto. |
| coping with being tortured | minor | General Brendan was tortured nearly to death by Captain Winter. |
| coping with the death of a spouse | minor | There hadn't been an hour in the past five years that Ensign Hawke hadn't thought about his departed wife, Cassian, who'd perished while attempting to traverse a wormhole. |