Behind The Scenes

I’m at that point where the stories are coming to life in my mind, but I don’t have the experience or confidence to write them.

In some cases, details just pop into my head. The Dizzy Dean is the name given to the hijacked ship, Jenny Dalton will become the main driving force in defining the Clan culture, etc.

So Jenny is on the Spacer asteroid ship (no name yet!). Five or so years in, the two ships detect a derelict vessel, perhaps it is broadcasting an SOS? For some reason, they both need to go to it:

1. The Dizzy Dean crew need some component to fix something vital.
2. They need to pool resources to get back to their ships.
   1. 1 month journey out.
   2. 5 weeks journey back.
3. The Dizzy Dean crew have pass codes to board?
   1. I.e., this is the first of the Pandora’s Boxes.

Jenny is assigned to be the captain of the Spacer recovery ship:

1. Combat experience
2. Highest ranking scout ship pilot
   1. Sinecure post because of her combat record
      • 1 year of corridor missions
      • 27 confirmed kills
3. Gets flack that she is no longer physically capable

They meet at the derelict, have some fun, help each other out. Jenny ends up pregnant from one of the hijackers (instrumental in forming the matriarchal culture of the Clan and thought of live as I typed this!). They discover that the research done on the derelict allows nanotech probes to store the contents of a person’s mind and dump it back into a clone. The Dizzy Dean has the facilities to do this, because of the popsicles, and the Spacers do not.

The father-to-be of Jenny’s child takes a sample of her and now has the ability to bring her back on The Dizzy Dean. Jenny doesn’t know this, but she gets the plans back to her ship and they send it back to Luna Central. This will allow Interdiction Patrol pilots to be be infected and still go on their colony ship with their family.

This sets the table for the crews to really start gossiping together, it gives some conflict in Jenny’s life as she deals with having gone on a mission and coming back preggers, it introduces the need for caution when opening a Pandora’s Box, etc.

Hmm, how did the box go wrong and what do they need to overcome?

1. Clones that have a group mind!
   • We never run into intelligent alien lifeform
   • The technology advancements on the Pandora’s boxes push the boundary of the alieness of humanity.
2. It needs to be something which forces factions to not have multiple copies of people running around.
   1. They can’t clone younger versions and apply the nanotechs
   2. It is tried and the nanotech probes age the subject.
   3. Might be the reason why Jenny can’t be cured?
      1. I like this rationalization.
3. How does Jenny get in a position to become pregnant?