Doomsday Machine story
A spy discovers that the Chinese government has created a doomsday device capable of destroying the Earth and it will be activated in 72 hours.
9 total · 4 major · 5 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| annihilation by WMDs | major | The Chinese government used a doomsday device to set off a nuclear chain reaction that blew up the entire world. |
| interplanetary space travel | major | A half male, half female crew made a journey to Venus to restart the human race. |
| romantic love | major | Danny and Maj. Georgianna Bronski. Maj. Kurt Mason and Lt. Katie Carlson. and Dr. Marion Turner. |
| Venusian extraterrestrial | major | The crew encountered hostile aliens from Venus. |
| choosing who dies and who lives | minor | A computer was used to decide which three crew members would be ejected into space. The reason was that they needed to reduce the ship's mass in order to make it to Venus before radiation made the men sterile. |
| sacrifice for one's people | minor | Dr. Christopher Perry, an older man, tried to eject himself into space so that the rest of the crew could reach Venus in time to procreate. |
| speculative spaceship | minor | The futuristic looking Astra rocketship. |
| telepathic ability | minor | The Venusian collective mind communicated telepathically with the crew. |
| unrequited love | minor | Lt. Katie Carlson was violently pursued by a male astronaut. |