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The Custodians are animated by an unseen presence. Mounting a counter-offensive against the Mandalorians, they emerge from their cover spots and fire a concentrated volley of shots against the invading clones. Blaster bolts crash against the ornate armor plating covering the attackers’ bodies. The c...

From a majestically tall window in the throne room, Bail peers through a pair of elegantly adorned binoculars usually used for the viewing of chariot races. The King beholds a force of Mandalorian landing craft deploying their troops just inside the city’s perimeter walls. These ships resemble the t...

One of the Mandalorian battlecruisers is critically damaged by a ground cannon salvo. It erupts in flames, hundreds of clones aboard rushing to their damage control stations. They are completely unwilling to spare their own lives lest they lose their place in the warrior’s afterlife. A thruster nace...

Grant issues an order to his fighter wing, Home Red, to circumvent the battlecruiser screen while the other wings (Home Blue, Home Green, and Home Gold) advance towards the battlecruisers under the cover of ground defense cannon fire. He relays the coordinates of the incoming battlecruisers to Raffe...

Lately I've been putting together an alternate Episode I. It's the result of some examination of the Internet's views on what the prequels could have been. Below is the summary of where the movie begins. Hopefully I'll be able to make it to the end in further posts. I will continue to make edits to ...

I've brainstormed ideas for some other Toho monsters. It takes some work to make their origin stories fit the realistic tone of the Legendary verse, but it's possible for most of them. King Ghidorah is a real stretch, though. 1) On Saturn's moon Titan, there are micro-organisms that feed off the abu...

I've been brainstorming an outline for a sequel to the 2014 film Godzilla . It's a very quick and dirty treatment. The human elements are purposefully left vague because they can easily be worked out in later drafts; for now I just wanted to get down some sequence of events linking the various kaiju...

I just got done with another playthrough of Enemy Unknown and decided to try my hand at X-COM-based fan fiction. The overall idea is a slightly more nuanced and realistic portrayal of how an organization X-COM would operate if it actually existed in real life, how it would be created, how world gove...

What do you guys think of it so far? Who do you think is going to get offed next?

Cut back to the bridge. Everyone is under more stress than ever. Rodan is itching to battle the creature toe-to-toe. Calvin has to wipe his forehead with a towel so the fear-sweat on his brow does not drip on CISTR's console. Mack supports herself with both hands on a command table, fervently studyi...

Mack turns to the team's engineer, "Calvin?" "Well, CISTR's mainframe's packing some serious encryption. You sure there wasn't another code-key lying around?" Calvin says. "Yeah, I'm sure. They don't issue those to enlisted folk," Hicks says. Calvin clasps his hands tog...

Hicks lets out a rueful chuckle. “Well, son of a bitch...when were you going to tell us about that?” Rodan says, “You were a prisoner, Corporal. Just let it go.” “‘Let it go?’ I don’t think that’s gonna cut it. Now we’ve got one of those bastards crawling around on a ship that’s headed towards Earth...

Hicks becomes visibly angered and perturbed at the arrival of Portnoy. He holds himself back from physically striking the old doctor, instead shooting the man with an intense death-glare. “What were you thinking? A child?!” Hicks exclaims. Portnoy leans his head up and cringes his eyes shut. He seem...

Good call, Mr. Coffee. I could definitely brush up on the descriptions, though part of the reason I didn't include too much of that is because this film is meant to be seen right after the previous one. I know that's a bit of an expectation to put on the audience, but perhaps in a later draft I'll e...

Author’s note: As this is a pretty rough draft, I am revising the story as I put up these posts. From this point on, I am retconning Ahab the snake out of existence. He had a plot function in another draft of the story, but has since become superfluous.

And that's the end of day one. What are your thoughts?

Yellow lights flashing. Sirens blaring. Thick clouds of white smoke obscuring the air of the cramped hexagonal corridor. CISTR repeatedly announces over the ship's intercom, "Attention, all Marines. Security breach on deck 4C. All personnel must enter lockdown positions. This is not a drill.&qu...

Cradling Newt in one arm, Ripley rushes to the other door leading out of the infirmary. Portnoy barely recovers his voice as Rodan strides in with his flamethrower. Thinking on her feet, Ripley grabs a beaker full of disinfectant liquid with her free hand. "She's got the girl, over there!"...

Ripley slides open the door to the infirmary. She sees Portnoy standing over a dazed Newt, her limbs no longer tied to the rails of her stretcher. The doctor is readying a syringe of an unidentified chemical when he spots the panicked Ripley. "You're not authorized to be here. Security!" h...

Hicks and Ripley are running through a corridor towards the infirmary. Emergency lights are flashing, alerting the other crew members that their prisoners have escaped. Behind the pair, a door slides open. In strides Mack, pistol at the ready. She takes aim, but the two targets rush into alcoves on ...

If you add in various creepy tracking shots of the ship's interior and the scene of the Corporates boarding in their space suits...that *might* push what I've written so far to 45 minutes. Maybe.

We've reached the 45 minute mark of the movie's runtime. What do you guys think of it so far?

In the infirmary, Hicks wakes up and feels noticeably better. His acid wounds have healed at a remarkable pace. Portnoy wheels Hicks' stretcher towards the brig. Hicks turns his head to get one last view of infirmary, seeing Newt on another stretcher...with a Facehugger busy planting its egg inside ...

Ben blind-fires on Fett's position several times, but only a single bolt scores a glancing hit off of the Mandalorian's armor suit. Fett flips a switch on his chest dial and a pair of small rocket thrusters deploy from armor's rear shell. He bolts across the upper part of the cargo bay like a shooti...

Seeing that the Clones are moving away, Anakin takes the opportunity to rush to a different piece of cover. In the spur of the moment, he conceives of a plan to locate a shuttle on this freighter and use it to escape to the closest habitable world to the D'Anjon Nebula: Tattooine. But a block of per...