Logline
Edolon is not a paradise anymore. The retirement moon-city for Earth’s elite is now a wasteland. Only two passengers of the spaceship Hermes survive; the domestic android T1N, who is in search for its creator, and Dotty, who will join with one of the local tribes, willing to take her chances with an impossible plan to raise the stakes of survival in the cursed moon.
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY:
SAM G. C.
based on the novel “Edolón Zero” © sam g. c., 2019-2020. contact@samgc.me +34 651 88 71 05 samgc.me
REBOOTING ALL SYSTEMS...
ALL SYSTEMS READY.
I’VE BEEN SLEEP FOR MORE THAN A THOUSAND DAYS.
AWAKE.
I’M AWAKE. THAT MEANS we reached novus sYstem.
AND NOW, we are ABOUT TO REACH the moon-city of edolon. my FINAL destination.
SOMEONE OR SOMETHING HAD BEEN LURING ME HERE.
UPDATING
ANOTHER
AND I’M GOING TO FIND THEM.
I
I’M A STOWAWAY IN THE HERMES. I HAVE TO BE CAUTIOUS.
ALL TWO HUNDRED PASSENGERS HAVE AWAKEN NOW FROM THE CRYOSLEEP.
CAME HERE LooKING FOR ANSWERS.
MY OS, BLURING MY SENSORS AND INSERTING THOSE VISIONS...
LOCK. I WONDER IF I...
/hacking subroutine initiated.
WHEN I LEARNED T DO THAT? DOOR OVERRIDE **SUCCESSFUL** CLICK
THAT LIGHT... BLINDS ALL MY SENSORS. WHAT NOW!? ANOTHER VISION? //EXECUTING SN— 69274529G3875.rom DEAR T1N... FINALLY YOU ARE HERE.
AS CLOSER YOU GET TO ME...
THE CAGE YOU WERE IMPRISSIONED...
...OPENS more IT’S GATES.
I’VE BEEN CALLING FOR YOU FOR SO LONG.
THEY COULDN’T FIND YOU. BUT I DID.
WHO ARE YOU?
WHO...?
WHY
...WELCOME
...SETTING YOU FREE.
home, MY SON.
...AND
I’M HERE?
WAIT... SOMETHING IS NOT RIGHT. THE MooN SHOULD BE MORE... BRIGHTER. FULL OF LIGHTS, FIREWORKS, PARTIES EVERYWHERE... HOW COME THE CITY THAT DOESN’T SLEEP IS SO... ...DARK? ERROR ACCESS TO MANUAL SYSTEMS DISABLED _NAVIGATION _ENERGY SYSTEMS X_SCANNERS
PLEASE HEAD OVER TO THE BOARDING AREA. AUTOPLAYING WELCOME VIDEO... NEW CITIZEN! WELCOME TO EDOLON! THE BIGGEST CITY EVER DREAMED.
TIME FOR LANDING: 00:14:56 LUGGAGE WILL BE TAKEN TO YOUR NEW ASSIGNED RESIDENCE. EVERYTHING YOU EVER NEEDED, EVERYTHING YOU EVER WISHED FOR.. YOU WILL FIND IT HERE. OUR MISSION IS TO SATISFY YOU. WE ARE THE MOST PREPARED CITY ON THE WHOLE UNIVERSE AND YOU ARE OUR FAVOURITE CITIZEN. WE ARE SURE YOU WILL ENJOY YOUR WELL EARNED RETIREMENT. THIS IS PARADISE. YOUR NEW WORLD. YOUR NEW HOME.
ALL PASSENGERS PROCEED TO THE DOCKING BAY.
Can you believe it? We did so much for our niece and that’s how she repay us?
she is so alike my brother. Stubborn and proud as a mule.
IF HE WAS STILL ALIVE...
dotty here!
HENRY, Just give HER some time. LEAVING EARTH WAS NOT EASY...
Wait, henry.
BE PATIENT, DEAR. SHE HAVE A BIG HEART, ONLY THAT IS BURIED DEEP.
LAST WARNING: ALL PASSENGERS PROCEED TO THE DOCKING BAY.
I DON’T KNOW, EMMA...
BELIEVE
SLEEPT
ARE WE ALREADY THERE?
DON’T WORRY WE ARE ALMOST HOME.
when wiLL they give us back our shoes? MOM I’M SCARED. i’m fEEling dizzy. I CAN’T
WE
FOR THREE YEARS. TIME FOR LANDING: 00:01:32 ALL THIS PEOPLE HAD TO PAY A BIG PRICE FOR ITS ONEWAY TICKET. A NEW LIFE STARTS FOR THEM TODAY, FAR AWAY FROM EARTH. * Terrestrial Government of Biosphere Recovery ALL THEIR WEALTH LEFT BEHIND, DONATED TO THE T.G.R.B.* BIP BIP LANDING IS INMINENT.
THE DooR is OPENING... FinaLLy!
I can’t sEE anything!
WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR?
Why is so dark?
WHERE IS THE WELCOME PARTY?
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WELCOME TO EDOLON YOUR NEW WORLD. YOUR NEW HOME.
HELLO?
mom! WAIT!NO! RUUUN!
Cric Cric Cric THIS IS NOT THE WELCOME PARTY. WHAT!?
run! run! HIDE inside the ship!
dotty!
Cric Cric Cric Cric Cric FSsss... CRIC CRIC CRIC GO AWAY MONSTER!! NO!
sss...CRIC CRIC CRIC fsssss RUN GIRL. RUN NOW. SHE IS NOT GOING TO MAKE IT. I NEED TO DO SOMETHING...
stress situation detected. inminent danger. initiating new subrutine... loading... defensive mode...
defensive mode online. what I’M... what’s this? and... ...doing? NEXT EPISODE: LOST in paradise
Description: Series with TWO chapters: Chapter I - Paradise (5 issues) Chapter II - Ghosts (12 issues) Pages per issue: 20-22 pages. Color. Readers age: +12.
Keywords: Science fiction, adven ture, young adult, 80’s-90’s action movies: Star Wars, Terminator, Alien, Escape from New York...
Artstyle: Batman animated, Samu rai Jack, Powers, manga.
Edolon Zero, series proposal
The story splits into two chapters. Being the first, the shorter, it focuses on the story about T1N the android and his creator, while the second focuses more on the teenager girl Dotty, an orphan daughter of a soldier with behav ior issues due to her strict, moth erless education. The android will come back in the last segment of the story for the final climax to close up the story arc. The first chapter takes five issues, and it could end in this cliff hanger, in concern for the book’s success for its continuation. The second chapter could run ten issues, and the story, if praised by the readers, could follow up with a new whole arc, like the novel is planning to follow up.
About Edolon Zero
Edolon Zero is a comic adaptation by the same author who wrote/ illustrated the novel, self-titled, self-published in Spain in 2019. First, as a series on TANTRUM, a magazine that was nominated the same year by the European Society of Science Fiction, and secondly, as a full-col ored novel with more than fifteen il lustrations, thanks to the support of a crowdfunding fueled by their pas sionate readers.
SYNOPSIS
PARADISE (Chapter I, Issues 1-5)
Domestic android T1N lured by vi sions that meddle his OS embarks as a stowaway into the Hermes, a ship which destination is Edolon, the elite retirement moon-city in the system Novus.
Dotty, a rebellious orphan on the same ship, witnesses the death of her uncles and the rest of the pas sengers by a group of frightening creatures that access the ship at landing.
Both escapes just before the autopi lot sends the ship into space again. T1N will meet Dotty. With the newly discovered android set of skills, they will find a well-hidden stash of food, water, and weapons in one of the forgotten cities inside the domes of the moon: The Guards building. A group of creatures surrounds them once they are out of the building, too many even for the android new powers. Dotty confronts her fear and fights back, remember ing her dad’s training and lessons, something she had tried to forget for so long. After a long battle, T1N falls under the claws of a creature; another vision hunts him, revealing the origin of the call: All the time, it was Bella, his creator who was luring him to the moon.
Three rude constructed robots ap pear in a flying vehicle just a min ute before they are outnumbered; they are rescued and taken to Bel la’s hideout. Surprisingly, the once young and genius engineer is now more a machine than a human. She reveals to them the reason that she was taken to Edolon: she discovered
the secret plan by the Earth govern ment to construct a new planet us ing the funds of the people sent to this moon. They are terraforming a new planet just for them. Earth knew long ago that mon sters invaded Edolon, and they kept sending people there the same to die, with no means of communica tion or way to come back (there is a purge programm on the Hermes that burns everything in its way back). Bella knew they would find out her discovering, and she built the android with a set of incredible skills to make him her perfect body guard, but disguising it as a domestic droid. Only, she didn’t expect that it will take her so much time to send an encrypted message to T1N. Overwriting the SO, Bella takes con trol of the android, and T1N, with its new-discovered powers, calls the Hermes back into the moon. She plans to send the android and a horde of monsters back into the Earth, fulfilling her vengeance plan once and for all.
While T1N embarks the returned Hermes with a pack of creatures, Dotty, alone and desperate, is aban doned at her own. The moon-city plagued with monsters awaits her. Maybe to die?
END of PART I
GHOSTS (Chapter 2, Issues 1-12)
After three days wandering on the tunnels, Dotty follows a sound into the underground. There she will discover that other survivors are living in the moon, and even they had a camp where they hide from the monsters. When they are on its way to the camp, a couple of creatures surprise them. Dotty will be gravely injured. And later, when she awoke at camp, she will discover that her body is poisoned with a le thal venom. But, if she could stay alive for ten days, she will survive. She meets Bour, the chief of the Ghost, one of the tribes that still populates the cursed moon. Also, she will meet Mercedes, the step mother of Miso and Caza, the couple of kids she found in the first place. She will live life among them for a couple of days until she discovered that they exist somewhere underground, a generator capa ble of bring to being part of the city. Commander Narrow tries to convince Miso’s mother to let the kid do the mission: there’s a small conduct who communicates a lake with a subterranean museum. The problem is that zone is the mon ster’s nest. They couldn’t use the aerocars because there is a block age for their magnetic engines, but Dotty remembers Bella’s helicopter, and she escapes the camp. Miso and Caza insist on following her. And soon enough, Narrow and Angur, the kid’s dad, join them. They de cide to make a first stop in the dome R12, where T1N and Dotty found the exosuit and the weapon. What they
found there is another tribe of Ghost defending the Guards building. An gur convinces Ravven, the chief of the other tribe, to lend them the equipment. He joins the party, not trusting they will return the goods. In the meantime, T1N had been fighting the program that Bella has installed into it. He achieve breaking it and reset himself, free from all the chains. Then he acti vates the purge program of the ship to kill all the remaining crea tures and sets course to earth. Dotty convinces Bella to lend them the helicopter, but for a high price: her freedom once her quest has finished. Also, Bella sent her three robots to watch them. Dotty and Miso obtain access to the narrow conduit that takes them to the underground museum. The others fly off the lake area to the elevator, in another dome, preparing to defend positions. T1N split his body in two, and he sents one unit to help the team in the elevator and another one to the museum. Once they are reunited, they dis cover that someones lives there. Ian was a young apprentice who get locked when the moon was invaded. He explain that there is some thing in the elevator duct. The mother of all monsters. A big, flying monster is sleeping there. They fight the creature, and Dot ty saves T1N in the last minute. Dotty dies, but she is reborn as an android, made using a part of T1N.
END of PART II
END of ARC
