Script Guidenotes

1. CU=close up   2. VP=viewpoint    3. H&S=head & shoulders  4. HS=headshot
5. MS=Mediumshot   6. FS=fullshot  7. RV=rearview   8. WA=wideangle
9. P-O-V=point-of-view  10. SC=Scenic  11. MO=Montage   12. FO= Fade out
13. FI=Fade in   14. DA=Down angle   15. UA=Up angle

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Script #1 >->  Empire and Conquest


Major Segments

1. Threshold - The begining

2. Destiny - The life of Major Nigell

3. Reunion - The Begining of the new Age



	- Summary of events -


	1. It is the future - The earth is in space and part of the many other races in the Galaxy using space travel. Earth has a group called "The 3rd Planet corps" that is the extension of the combined milititary groups. While the Earth tries to be neutral or peacemaker, it gets heavily involved in the larger interplanertary politics. The 3rd Planet Corps covers the galaxy on many different types of missions, trying to keep peaceful influence throughout as well as military balance. The corps has a huge almost 1 mile long ship called the Destiny. This is the main training ship for the pilots as well as "Boot Camp" in space. The ship has ten launching bays, five per side. Two main large bays in the middle, by the main drive units are for supply, transport and other ships. The main drive units are in the middle of the ship with auxiiliary drives for and aft. This prevents torsional twisting when the huge ship is under power. The bridge and officers quarters are in the middle also. The Destiny holds thirty squadrons of twelve ships in ten groups of thirty-six ships each. There are ten group leaders and thirty group commanders. The Destiny has everything needed to house, feed, educate and train all the pilots as well as everything else needed for a "citie in the sky". The 3rd Planet Corps also has all the other types of ships a large military force would have, but the Destiny is a focus point of the stories. The Destiny orbits high above earth and is also the command center for the corps.
	The stories main character is Mike Nigell. He is the son of scientist parents that are killed when the orbiting moon his parents research station is on is attacked. He escapes and makes his way to a planet  where a friend of his father lives. His father's friend has a daughter in the 3rd Planet corps and they fall in love. she is an anthropoligist of alien races. Her name is Polly.


Summary of end of middle segment

	1.  There is an attack on the Destiny, the main object of which is to cripple the  huge ship by blowing off the bridge and the main drive, and then chasing the main battleship, the Victory, off on a wild goose chase so as to trap it too far from the Destiny for the fighters to reach and provide support . The Victory has a special prize in the Major Commander, Drake, now in his sixtys, still strong and capable, he is a legend and an icon for the entire corps, and the enemy hopes to capture him and destroy the Victory. This would be a crippling blow to the Corps and  would be ruionous for moral.  Mike Nigell is on the Destiny as a lieutenant and with the captain and other officers blown away  with the bridge, it becomes Nigell's and Terry Holt's tasks to become acting Captain and Commander General. The last coded command fron the Victory is to meet at "Trafalgar Square" being code for a meeting place known only to 3rd Planet Corps  officers . What Drake is going to do is try and give Nigell and Terry time enough to repair the Destiny and reassemble the fleet, the  rejoin him in a fresh attack, or the vivtory would be lost.The entire crew of the Destiny works together to repair the Destiny by taking the main drive units and bridge pieces from the wrecked heavy cruiser, the Hood, and grafting the parts onto the Destiny. With the Destiny repaired, the ship moves off to the rendovous, the crew puting itself into shape, the  squadrons getting into suits, into the fighters, the fighters into the launching bays, the whole ship at battle ready. The Destiny comes out of warp to find the Victory  crippled and her consorts wrecked. 	The heavy battleship of the enemy is holding off of the Victory while a squad of fighters coming from the Destiny's port (left) are coming across in front of the Destiny to finish off the consorts and board the Victory. Nigell and Holt, longtime rivals for the love of Polly, now work together in close harmony to do the task of saving the Victory. It is this time in thier lives that finalizes the destiny they will face in thier futures. The almost magically together make the choices, they cut all power right as they come out of warp to avoid detection. With the ship dark they are headed on a collision course for the launched fighters heading for the Victory. They go in, the whole ship dark, crewmembers waiting in darkness, the pilots in thier ships, right on course with the enemy fighters. At the last moment, the fighters launch out and up, away from the Destiny. Then by putting the drives on line and putting all power to the forward shields, Nigell uses the Destiny as a huge battering ram, destroying and scattering fighters, the Corps fighters coming down on top of them in the confusion. The Destiny passes through, going to warp. Holt brings the destiny around in a painfully sharp turn, the Destiny groaning and shaking from stress, in a manuever that the enemy would not think possible, the ship comes back around towards the battle. With the 3RD Planet Corps fighters now in the action of protecting the Victory from the enemys fighters, Terry brings the destiny straight at the enemys battle ship in a sucide ram action. With the enemys fighters fairly destroyed and their chance gone they warp out of the sector, leaving whatever fighters left to their fate. The Destiny is brought alonside the Victory and the fighters regroup and return to the ship. Nigell, Terry, Drake with his female Yeoman, the blond viking like girl that is Nigell's present love and head of the fighter groups all meet on the bridge of the destiny and there is general cheer at their victory etc. This is where Nigell has through the battle found he is in love with Shannon and makes the decision to follow his destiny of loving and living with her.  She gives birth to Penny, who is, in the end, the next in line and the begininng of the next series of stories. 
	 The entire first Empire films starts with the audience coming down to a very changed earth. The ugly cities are gone and man has now spread throughout the universe. The Earth is peacefull and like a giant park for the universe. We come down to the Earth, down through the clouds to the 3RD Planets Corps. Academy at Sunburst, below old San Fransisco, where Penny and some friends are playing some kind of game where they chase through the gardens with their antigravity belts and cause some upset of the old gardner. The gardner is alien and ancient, and although he yells at them and hopelessly fires his ancient and tiny stunner at them, he smiles when they are out of sight as he knows they are some of the best and they will be back to console and help him. Penny and her freinds are making their way through the halls to their quarters when they almost run into Jarnean, the Major head master of this Academy. Jarnean is of some age and is somewhat absentminded. Penny and her freinds come to an abrupt halt, salute, then stand waiting, sweaty from their play and holding their packs. The headmaster stands looking at them in silence--
Jarnean: [after a moments thought, he seems to recognize where he is] Ah yes, I have something important for you to do ensign Nigell.


