THE ALPHA CENTAURI PROJECT SCRIPT (11 page)

The Army, well aware of her exceptional
abilities both as a fighter and as a scientist, sponsors the woman.
The Federal Government accepts.

The Elects reach the Caravels via a laser
beam. Eve succeeds in recovering the population and kills Nihil.
However, the head of the Elects, just before dying, had set free a
new deadly virus, that spreads through the all population. No
survivors.

One hundred years later, on Alpha Centauri,
Eve, Victoria, Adam and James meet. Just before the slaughter,
Security succeed in making the backups of the population.

James, after his death in an accident on the
Earth, joined Victoria on Alpha Centauri. Victoria’s family
accepted him.

The four will purse the digital people’s
objective. Only colonizing the space, the virtual beings will
achieve the capabilities necessary to face the challenges they are
going to meet in their almost endless lives and will be able to
survive the death of universe.

The last scene takes place in a distant
future. The cold dying universe has acquired self-awareness thanks
to the billions of thinking planets created by the digital beings.
Time has come to generate its offspring.

Suddenly, from a remote corner of vacuum, a
blinding fire. A baby universe is born. The populations of the
dying universe will migrate into the new one, teaching progress to
its young breeds.

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The Alpha Centauri project

by Marco
Santini

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1. Security, the federal agency against
crime, intercepts a message encrypted with a secret technology. It
was stolen from a cryptography center. The message was sent from
the Space Agency, the organization entrusted with the Alpha
Centauri Project. Three huge vessels - the Caravels - will transfer
all the digital people to the nearest star system. Far from humans’
influence, the digital beings will be free to pursue their own
evolution. Suspects fall on two employees of the Agency and on Eve
Dirac, a scientist charged a few years before with bribery,
roommate of one of the two during university.

2. Victoria (soul, 25) and James (human, 30)
meet in a night club of Net. She complains they meet seldom.
Besides, she never integrated in the digital community, having
refused after her death, the treatment of dehumanization to remain
the person James loved. The man suggests joining him on the Earth,
she can install herself in a gynoid. But what if the law making
dehumanization compulsory passes?

3. While getting back home, Victoria is
chased by three thugs. Eve (soul, 35) saves her. Eve introduces
Victoria to her community, the Elects. Soon a deep trust is born.
Victoria recalls her death by an accident, while Eve reveals the
Elects entered Net by means of a collective suicide. This is why
they are wanted by Security. Eve recalls her career in the army and
as a scientist, up to her involvement in a scandal that ended up
with her suicide. Since then she is disgusted by the world. Eve
spends most of the day alone, making programs against Security.

4. Nihil, the head of the Elects, is
entrusted by his community with finding a plan to embark all of
them secretly on the Caravels. The Elects believe the mission is
marking the beginning of a new era. They want to contribute. But
Nihil disappears. Martin, a councilor, is charged with finding
him.

5. Martin speaks with Eve. She must stop
living a secluded life. She must do it for herself, but also
because only being all united, they will have a real chance to
escape Security. To achieve this, she must undergo the treatment of
dehumanization, through a reproductive rite. During coupling,
recollections are transferred among the partners and ties are
strengthened. But Eve looks disinterested.

6. Eve offers Victoria to participate
instead of her. The young woman is dissatisfied by her relationship
with James, but she refuses. Eve suggest her having a clarifier
meeting with James.

7. Victoria and James meet. The law making
dehumanization compulsory has passed. According to him, there is no
future together. She answers back his negative attitude is causing
their defeat. Victoria runs to the Elects’s hideout.

8. Victoria plunges into the hall where the
reproductive rite is having place, Eve is there. Victoria joins
them. While conceiving Adam, she shares her recollections with
Eve.

9. The day after, Victoria meets Adam, who
already knows her mother, having received her memories during
conception.

10. The two employees of the Space Agency
are killed. Security finds out that Eve Dirac had introduced Nihil
to them. They must be allies.

11. Eve, Victoria, Adam and Martin
participate in the Venice Carnival, a celebration held in Net.
During the dinner, Martin is killed. Eve extracts his memories:
Nihil ordered the murder.

12. Eve calls a meeting of the Elects. She
reveals Nihil hates them because they questioned his authority.
Besides, he never underwent the treatment of dehumanization. Now he
lives on the Earth with a new community. To embark, the Elects must
recover his plan, they need to seize him. During a heated
discussion, Adam convinces Eve to contact the Defense for help.

13. Eve meets Rand, a general met many years
before in the Special Corps. Security is hunting her, but he has
never doubted her innocence. Eve obtains a team of combat from the
General Staff.

14. The Elects burst into Nihil’s villa.
Deserted. They found his diary. He has embarked on the Caravels
with his new community. He wants to subdue the inhabitants of
Alphacity, the digital town of the Caravels.

15. Eve has a nightmare. She relives her
gratifications in the army and as a scientist, then the scandal and
her suicide. She dreams the depart of the starships. An explosion
cancels the vessels.

16. Just after departure, a virus subdues
the inhabitants of Alphacity. Security intervenes with a soporific
program. Millions lie motionless in the streets, some of them start
dying. The backups of the population are erased, impossible to make
copies.

17. Nihil and his followers reach the armory
of the Caravels. They install themselves in combat androids and
attack the bridge where Security is garrisoned, but they are wiped
out. Nihil is the only survivor. He shelters in Alphacity.

18. Nihil avenges himself by spreading
deadly viruses. Then, he waits for Security to find him out and
kill him.

19. Eve contacts Rand. In a meeting with the
General Staff, she offers to seize Nihil and find a treatment. She
is confident she will succeed: Eve knows Nihil better than anybody
else and the two worked alongside on some secret projects. In
exchange, the Elects will continue the voyage to Alpha Centauri.
The General Staff accepts.

20. The Elects embark on the Caravels. Eve
treats the population, recovering most of it. Millions of people
meet in the main square of Alphacity to mourn for their dead. Eve
speaks from the platform, receiving a flood of applause.

21. Eve kills Nihil. Too late: the virus has
infected the population. No survivors.

22. Alpha Centauri, one hundred years later.
Eve, Victoria and Adam discover they are all copies. A Defense
program succeeded in duplicating the population just before their
slaughter.

23. Time to leave for a new star system. Eve
and Adam can’t wait. But Victoria is doubtful: why to leave the
planet after so many efforts? Eve explains she fears the unknown: a
heritage of the humans, but an acceptable burden for the digital
people. Adam intervenes: only colonizing the space, the virtual
beings will achieve the abilities necessary to face the challenges
they are going to meet in their almost endless lives. Their
objective is to survive the end of the universe.

24. James dies in an accident. He joins
Victoria on Alpha Centauri and is accepted by Eve and Adam in their
family. The four will sail all together. While singing, they
experience true joy.

25. Far in the future. The dying universe
has become aware thanks to the billions of thinking planets of its
being. Time has come to generate a baby universe. Its populations
will migrate into the new one, teaching progress to its young
breeds. From vacuum, a blinding fire bursts out.