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[edit] Celestial Trilogies
Back Story Tells the story of Earth circa 4800 C.E. After centuries of immortality, zero new child births, and almost complete dependance on a multi-sentient computer system known as the aggregate, human kind has left the earth and are now living on Talitha (terraformed Mars). A few humans remain to continue various types of research, and to cleanup the earth, needed since the damage done by WWIII, even though the aggregate shuts down.
Books 1,2,3 A droid designed to process the information feeds from various monitoring systems discovers that the solar system will pass through a potentially life ending asteroid field in the near future. Various characters set out to turn back on the aggregate, but in the end fail to do so because more nanoms are needed than they have. As such, they fly to Mars (Talitha) where it is known that many more nanoms exist.
Books 4,5,6 A lot going down on Talita. The majority of the main continent battles over magic (people vs. the wizards). Various characters from earth battle to find/hide people with large numbers of nanoms.
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- (Priam) Magus. On the side of the enemy. More nanom capabilities than Valena. Gets captured by Dran (he can do that) because when they went to Vitirus to find out where they could get the total number of nanoms needed to activate the Aggregate, and Vitirus explained there is no way to get the total they need without Magus. He argues the entire way back to earth, naturally, and has to be convinced before he will agree to activate the Aggregate. Google Earth projection screen setup where the intermediary convinces him, with grandure.
- Main climax (asteroid clearing) happens early in book 9. The rest of the book is for various smaller climaxes, and closing resolution.
- Aggregate doesn't know about the asteroids.
- Hybrid series, a lot of jumping back and forth between earth and mars.
- Civil war, people's army.
- Innocent newcomer type chapters in books 4,5,6, that turn out to be key characters from 1,2,3.
- Book 4, Chapter 1 is written from the perspective of Valena's husband. He, of course, dies in that very chapter. Ensure there is a lot of text/dialog with Valena, so the reader has some attachment to her once husband dies. Make it such that the death appears to be of the wife (Valena), but he saves her to his own end, seeminly making her the protagonist by proxy, and ultimately saving humanity in the same act. Valena vocalizes this at a point after the climax.
- We need more than 'the good army' and 'the bad army.' There should be at least 5 groups, none of which are cleanly 'bad' or 'good' but rather all believe themselves to be good, and among the ranks of each are good and bad people. One chapter must pit two reader-loved (via previous 1st person chapters) fighters against one another, told from the perspective of neither character. The death of one (or both?) should be heart wrenching for the reader.
- Ship battles rule!
- Snow rules!
- Scroungers and Luddites engaged in all out war when series starts. Immutables (ancients) isolate themselves from fighting in a sort of Star Trek Prime Directive way.
- Because humans created Dran, he sees himself as subserviant to them. A great juxtaposition is if, in book 5 (instead of book 6 as suggested earlier), we expose in some way that Dran is special (maybe 'miracles' such as 'amazing' (basic) medical abilities). In doing so, some faction (maybe the empress and her people) begin to worship Dran as a god. The reader is not necessarily privy to the truth here, and is left to wonder along with the public of Talitha. (moral: we become servants to our creations?).
- We need to lay out our map soon. It'll help us draw lines of territory for which each character belongs and/or is familiar, and how it all fits into the city locations around the planet. As such, it'll also help us mentally visualize the layout, terrain, and types of weather/travel characters will encounter wherever they are.
[edit] Plotlines
[edit] The Espial (1-3)
[edit] The Essayed (4-6)
[edit] The Enlightened (7-9)
