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TITLE: ROCK OF PERDITION.
Yuri Oligarch(70ish), emerges from an apartment building.
Only to pause, just outside the revolving doors. He expects something.
Instantly we hear it. A rousing clamour of excited cheer and whistles.
A crowd chants,
"Yuri. Rich kid."
"Yuri. Love you."
"Yuri. Rich kid."
Followed by yays and whistles. The crowd claps for him.
Yuri smiles. Taking it in. His face, lights up with flashes. Cameras. Clicking.
Doorman speaks to Yuri. "What a lovely day, it is sir."
This is the future. The year... 2057.
We pan over the city, and see a scuttling hyper tube, electric cars on the busy roads, very tall illimunated sky scrappers.
Yet Yuri, impressively suited, and booted. Bears an oddly placed charisma of a Russian mob boss from the twentieth century.
A stereotypical panama hat perched on his head. Not a smart hair out of place on his handsome ageing face.
Handkerchief sticking out in the pocket of his matching overcoat.
Doorman speaks to Yuri. "Your people love you. God bless you sir."
Yuri smiles. Bows to the doorman. A kind acknowledgment. Then he snaps an impatient look back into the building. Expecting
The liveried DOORMAN himself, stings looks of good pay.
He dons, an impressive golden-cuffs-coat, white gloves and a top hat.

Yuri sighs. Soaking in the cheer and clamour.

Nods politely at the excited FANS, as they jostle with each other, behind stanchion barricades.
Dozens of cameras. Continue to flash.
A woman, holds up a placard that reads, "Space Baron", another, "We Luv Yuri.", another, "Thanks for the Donation.",another,

Even though Yuri is no boy by age, a stunning blonde girl (20ish), swings out of the revolving doors.
She is a lover. She hooks her arm under Yuri's elbow. He responds, plants a light kiss, on her lips.
Yet , he can't help a momentary scowl. Could be, that the girl is late. With a quick switch. Yuri beams a pretentious smile.
However, it doesn’t take us long to know why the girl is late. She peeks again, on her mirror fone, checking her face. She loves t
The odd couple starts to stroll on a red carpert. Cameras ripping off ever madly now.

Briefly, they pause to wave at the cheering crowd.

A black limo waits for them, glinting in the sunlight. Flanked by several black suvs. Must be security rides.
A jacketed, white gloved chaffuer, stands holding the rear door open.
Revealing the leathery grandeur inside the limo.

Pensive looking guards, in bulging black suits, mow around. Their eyes darting all over. Comms earpieces sticking out on their e
A few of the guards at the barricades, struggle to contain the jostling Press. Cameras continue to flash.

Suddenly the Press becomes too much for the guards. Leap over the barricades. Swarm Yuri.
Jostling to poke mikes and audio recorders into his face. Asking hundreds of questions. Snapping pictures.
Yuri's guards, jaust with the errant press, hurriedly shoving them back.
Amidst the excited noise and jostle, a female reporter stabs out a question, in a ringing, contemptous tone.(russian dialect),
"Yuri, how do you take it that your yatch is no longer the biggest in the world?"

Yuri's guards immediately start packing their boss into the limo, but he resists,
Swings his head and answers this one question, with a cold unflinching face.
"Let him play, he is young aint he?"
Then as an after thought, he shouts again.
"Tell him, next time I build a much bigger yatch. Bigger than his."
Yuri and his girlfriend, slip into the limo.
And behind the dark tinted windows, away from Press view, Yuri rocks a tantrum, hitting the car seats. Swearing. Sweating.

Strangely, a lone cameraman stands frozen over. A distance from the maddening crowd. Intently fixed on the skies.
His terrified eyes opening wider, his mouth dropping.
He barely mumbles, "Oh my God. Oh my God." in Russian.
His hand, clutching a heavy camera, goes limp. Camera tumbles to the ground.
Then we see the five simmering rocks of fury, trailed by white pluming smoke. Zipping across the clear Russian skies. On an ent
Thundering noise now fills the air.

The unsuspecting limo, is on a lazy, pull-out.

Inside the car, Yuri freezes from his furious rant and hitting the car seats.
Sensing something is wrong, he peeks out at the skies.
Sees the space rocks. His jaw drops.

Most of the reporters too, freeze. The crowd noise ceases. They've seen the rocks of fury, streaming across the skies.
Some of them start shouting in Russian, "Everyone, get off the streets. Take cover." "Go go go."

Yuri yells at the Chaffuer, "Get us out of here!"

The limo's tyres screech, as it shoots off.
Cameras light up the car's windows with flashes. A few photographers, still snapping crazy pics.
And just THEN - a loud bang is heard, and the limo's dark glasses smash into pieces all over Yuri's petrified face.
The pretty blonde girl inside the car screams, "Yuri. Yuri. Honey, you okay?" As a small trail of blood flows freely on Yuri's face.

The reporters and crowd tumble to the ground. Yelling. The ground rocks.
More explosions follow.
the space rocks continue cutting across the skies. Flashing fiery red. Roaring fiercely. Scattering burning debris across the skies.
Raining fire.
Concusingly exploding. Over and over. The russian city tremors from the explosions.

the reporters scatter. Running wildly. Crouched.

hands blocking their ears from the ear splitting cracks.
abandoning their equipment.
Shouting, "Go, go, go."
Cladding glass on one tall sky scrapper shatters, all floors.
Pouring shards of broken glass on pedestrians, who run off ducking,
In cars parked on the streets, alarms start wailing,

Yet the people's response is not confusion,

they run for cover down into building basements.
as if this is something they have done before.

at the city's edges, a bridge collapses from violent reverberations.

cars with people inside get washed away by instantly storming up streams.
Carrying mud, murk and uprooted trees.

a nearby snow capped mountain, releases an avalanche.

Churning snow roars down the mountain.
wiping out hapless trees.

the simmering meteors rumble and crack over valleys.

a farmer huddles his knees and blocks his ears.
his sheep and sherpard dogs fleeing.

then there is a blinding flash, and a heavier, ripping boom.

quickly followed by four more.
and the space rocks cease from tumbling across the skies, leaving behind expanding fiery balls of fire.
And just as instantly, the fireballs zap out. The skies rumble. Scattering tiny, flaming meteorites.
the rocks have fully disintergrated mid-air.

GO TO BLACK:
Bible verse about people hiding in caves.
LATER:
The skies have dulled. A dense smog fills the air.
A bloodied female News Reporter stands in the street.
Broadcasting the sad news, with a sullen face.
A shop selling TVs, has all unbroken screens with the big news.
Headlines Flash:
Space Debris Explosion Hits Again.
Russian City - 31 Dead, Thousands Injured, Hundreds Still Missing.
People emerge from the basements.
Injured, bloodied, clothes torn, shoes missing, struggling to walk.
cars on fire, billowing smoke fills the streets. Wailing sirens of police cars and ambulances and firebrigade.
A dusty small girl stands on the street, sobbing. Paramedics rush a pregnant, bloodied woman, strapped onto a stretcher into a

FLASH NEWS.
In Dingy English Pub
news reader 1, "The space debris exploded mid -air over a Russian city."
Italian Home, a large family stops chewing, mouths agape, over a Pizza Dinner
 news reader 2, "Luckily the rocks did not make landfall."
In Hot African Desert Tent, man milking a goat freezes with horror
news reader 3, "Spaceguard had cleared 27 of these rocks."
In American Board Room, Suited Executives Clutching Board Packs, watch. Jaws dropping.
news reader 4, "The ones that hit us, escaped Spaceguard due to a shortage of gravity tractors."
news reader 5, "The UN Space Council, has immediately ordered production of more gravity tractors, from its members."

GO TO BLACK:
Flash Bible Verse on Space Debris.
and TITLE OF THE MOVIE. "Rock Of Perdition."

V.O.
"The greed of man cost us this much."
"Life."
"Though nature taught us the lesson. 2013, Chelyabinsk meteorite. One bastardly rock that crashed over a major Russian town
"Still wilfully and selfishly, we let the space runners create billions of space debris pieces, each one many times larger than the

American City: Rocket Launch Pad.

Launch protocol sounds over mike, "Ignition in five, four, three, two, one - go"
Rockets fire off, smoke billows from under the thrusters, lift off and the Space Vehicle shoots up. Crowd cheers.
V.O.
"We would cry with one eye, and celebrate with the other."
"We were sad, but only for a moment."
"We were quick to forgive ourselves. We were eager to launch more space mining ships. Creating wonderful trillions in money…
" Creating more space debris."

Talk Show Host on TV.

"Space mining has bloomed and deflated."
"Diamonds and gold are now worth nothing."
"Filthy rich trillionaires have been born. "
"Those who are late in the game, can no longer be as rich as the ones who started."
"Yet we have young Ed Milnar, a late comer. Pushing forward, bringing diversification on the minerals market. Rhodium, iridium
"But is society advancing to perish? Are we doing enough to ensure we preserve life on earth?"

V.O.
"There truly was, a large flaunting of wealth."
"As the world's fisrt trillionaires had their day at the race for the biggest of all things."
"And we did best to cheer them on."

Scenes - with V.O.

V.O. explains who owns it and we show it.
like the biggest yatch.
E.g. "The world's biggest yatch. Belonging to young Ed Milnar of the USA. Worth over 2.5billion dollars. Carrying in its bowles,
twenty jet skis, five helipads, two submarines, 150 deluxe guest suites, a theatre fit for the queen, two olympic sized pools, one
the biggest private jet.
the biggest house.
the biggest diamond crusted car.
the fastest lambourgini.
the most expensive wedding.
the most expensive space tour bus.

Scenes with V.O.

V.O. explains, we show it.
"Space mining revolution began in earnest by 2045."
"With nano-tube based ropes, that could sustain their own weight for thousands of kilometers, we built earth-space elevators.
"Then we made serious break throughs. Finally cracking the mathematical physics of things. Creating an ability to use anti-matt
propellant for faster spacecraft, and by 2052, we had almost swept through all corners of our solar system."
"In a space rush. Mining for gold, platinum, diamonds. Creating so much space junk."
"Yet two-hundred years back."
"We could have learnt something from the mess we made on land, in the seas, in the skies… from the greed and boom
of the twentieth century industrial revolution. "
Show land pollution, sea pollution and air pollution.
"Still, we would prove we learnt nothing, even from disasters of biblical proportions."
"After polluting earth, we inadverntly began polluting the realms of space."

Scenes with V.O.

Milnar 's pointed shoe, as he emerges from a smacky awesome, black sports car. Car looks like a brutal futuristic Huracan.
Milnar steps onto some red carpet.
Swings around, to open the door for his super-hot girlfriend.
Though cute. She is suprisingly simple. With an ordinary girl touch. Prefers minimalist fashion.

Milnar. Dashingly handsome, young(35ish). Smart. Trendy. Sporty.

The couple smiles at some flashing cameras.
Fans screaming, as they walk by.
A female reporter pokes a question at Milnar,
"Milnar, how does it feel to have the biggest yatch in the world?"
Milnar, "Ah great, I'd say. That's why I built it. They say the bigger, the better, don't they?"
The female reporter, purses her lips to stifle a crack of laughter.
Milnar, "Friday morning. Miami docks. Come all of you. Christen the boat with me. Love you lots."
Female Reporter, "There you have it folks. Mr. Ed Milnar, a promising and rising American Space Baron."
Milnar blows the crowd a kiss. Crowd erupts in cheers and screams.

The couple saunter into a VIP only club.

Girlfriend asks, "What the heck, how did they know we'd be here?"
Milnar, "Told them."
Girlfriend, "What?"
Milnar, "Twitter."
Girlfriend, "Honey?",
Milnar "What?",
Girlfriend, "You're not a rapper for christsakes."
Milnar, "Come on now, who doesn’t need fans?"
Girlfriend, "Wicked boy."
Milnar, "They love me, I need them. What's the fuss?"
Milnar, "You hating on me?"
Girlfriend laughs,"Okay. Okay." And she leaves it at that.

Scenes with V.O.

V.O. explains, we show it.
Talk Show Host cracks into laughter, as he sits across an excuberant Milnar.
Host, "Quite simply amazing. Hands-on, you say?"
Milnar, "That's it."
Host, "Unbelievable."
Milnar, "Seriously."
Host, "And boom. The trillions flow?"
Milnar, "They flow ofcourse."
Host breaks into laughter, the audience too. Milnar grins.
Host, "You know what Yuri Oligarch said, when asked how he made trillions?"
Milnar, "Go on."
Host, "He said, I am rich, you all made me rich. You trust me with your money, that I would spend it wisely, and cause you to gr
Milnar, "Oh cut that crap.", Host laughs, "Astounding, aint it?"
Milnar, "Tell you what… that's just bullshit." Milnar takes a break to sip from a glass of water, loosens his tie, clears his throat.
Milnar, " You gotta think about it, how many Company Presidents have you seen, that are practically into it. Like, right in there.
Host, "Gotta admit, none."
Milnar, "Right. None."
Host, "Yeah. And how do you reckon it is so?"
Milnar, "They don't like getting their hands dirty, cause they want in on the.. eh… what you call it? Power rap."
Host laughs.
Milnar, "Board meetings, lunch, senators, golf with the Secretary of State. Bam, flash face in the Times Magazine."
Host laughs.
Milnar, "That's them, not me."
Milnar," I'm always right there in space. Mining with my guys. Pushing, for more juice. Getting the platinum and iridium in."
Milnar, "If they ask, just say. That's Milnar. My only innovation. I work with my guys. They see me struggle. They see me win."
When I win, they've won too. I lose, they lose. We're super motivated. That's what makes me rich. Hard work. Perseverence. M
Love my team. Never missing in action."
Host, "That's it?"
Milnar, "Yeah."
Host, "There you have it folks. Ed Milnar, the Chairman of Space Inc. Corporation. The youngest and most recent addition to th
Ranked eighth by Forbes magazine, at five-point-four trillion dollars net worth. All that money, from mining in space...."
TV audience cheers and claps, as camera pans around to reveal a packed auditorium.
Host, "Now let's talk about your new baby."
Milnar, "Baby?"
Host, "The yatch, ofcourse. The Lincoln."
Milnar, "Oh that's my baby. I can gladly pay maintanance for it."
Audience breaks into laughter.
Milnar, "Can go for DNA tests too."
Audience laughs more. Some whistle and cheer. Milnar smiles. Loving it.
Host, "Actually, my question is, do you find it morally justifiable to spend USD2.5 billion on a yatch, that houses a mere 150 gue
Milnar, "Oh, is that so?"
Host, "When that money, can feed a whole country for a decade, for some economies? Come to think of it."
Milnar, "Seriously?" Still smiling.
Host, "Oh yes. For most of us poor folks, holds true anyway"
Milnar, "Well, how about this…?"
Milnar, "500 people employed for three years, building the yatch. Their families, dependents, fed."
Host, "Okay."
Milnar,"Talk of thousands more in sub-contractor industries…"
Host, "Yeah?"
Milnar," And about 50 to 70 people, I shall employ permanently, to run the yatch."
Host, "Oh yeah?"
Milnar, "To be quite honest, what some people call moral, is of little relevancy to me."
Host, "You have to understand, we're talking of the top 0.01% super rich of the world. You guys live in your own little bubble."
Milnar, " No no no. You didn’t hear me. Quite literally, I'am talking of three million human hours to build the yatch."
Milnar, "I'm talking of gainful employment, and you the journalist."
Host, eyebrows lifting, "Oh yeah?"
Milnar,"Gainfully employed by CNN to cover this yatch story."
Audience breaks into laughter. Clapping. Whistling. Milnar loves it.
Milnar,"And public interest in the lifestyles of the super rich, is kindof luxury porn."
Audience screams with laughter.
Host laughing, "For once I agree. We do abhor the lifestyles of the super rich, and at the same time we are endlessly fascinated

Award Presenter, holds up an envelope, reads

"And the 2157, best space mining business award, goes to Space Inc. Corporation.
Ed Milnar, powers up the few steps, accompanied by his girlfriend. Plants a kiss on the Award Presenter's cheek. Let's his girlfri
The audience cheers, claps, whistles.
Milnar's girlfriend hands him the award. He lifts it up.
With one hand, Milnar grabs the mike, "The future of space mining, belongs to the dedicated, hard working, innovative and mo
More cheers from the audience. Milnar loves it. Soaks in the applause.
Milnar plants a kiss on girlfriend's lips. Hugs her. Kisses the award presenter on the cheek. Bows to the crowd.

We pan over Milnar's yatch.

It’s a smacky awesome beast. You would guesse 18 floors.
On TV, reporters shower adorations on the yatch.
"It’s a tripple duece triple. A super mammoth vessel, dwarfing all cruise liners one can think of. At 540 meters long, and over 90
"Costing more than the national GDP of Western Sahara, the British Virgin Islands and Micronesia."
"Will guzzle well over USD300 million in annual operating costs."
"Ed Milnar, surely, now has boasting rights."
"You know, when Yuri Oligarch built the Vurstchoka, at a whooping 357 meters, we thought, well, maybe young Ed Milnar woul
"He totally outdid the Vurstchoka, a super impossible 540 meters on the Lincoln."
The reporters break into laughter, "I bet it will be decades before anyone can eclipse Milnar."
"Yeah."
"Definitely."
The yatch truly has ultra sophisticated designs. Wow kind of beauty.
Lots of ribbons, balloons, hanging on its sides, fluttering in the cool breeze.
We hear some crowd cheering, and trail down one of its anchor ropes, following the noise.

There's a crowd gathered by the dockside. Reporters and excited fans.

Cheering for Milnar, his girlfriend and his smartly suited socialites.
The VIPs are pouring out of limos by the dozen.
Bulging suits mowing around. On the alert, for security.

Milnar tugs his pretty girlfriend along.

Her arm tentatively hooked under his elbow.
The couple beams some practised smiles, waving at the crowds.
Milnar's girlfriend blows the crowd kisses, they respond with erupting cheer.
Cameras flash, incessantly.
One after the other, the elites pose for fotos on some foto stand, which bear Space Inc Corporation Logos.

Milnar and girlfriend leisurely walk onto the foto stands.

Snatch a side hug. Give cheesy smiles. Let the cameras roll.
Their faces light up with flashes.

As they get off the platform, a young boy walks upto Milnar.
Boy, "Please autograpgh this for me, sir."
Boy passes a miniature model of Milnar's yatch to the star space baron.
Milnar quickly scribbles his signature onto the model.
Hands it back, to the excitedly beaming boy.
Milnar, "Aha. There you go. You already have it in your blood."
Ruffles the boy's hair a bit.

A female reporter walks up to Milnar, punches in a question.

Reporter,"Congradulations Milnar. Dare I ask, will the two choppers be as amazing as the yatch?"
Milnar,"No self respecting super yatch comes without a helipad, these days…"
Milnar halts, snatches a quick peek up the yatch, sees the helicopters. They totally baffle him.
He shrugs his shoulders.
The two blue choppers. Perched on his helipads on the yatch. Milnar squints his eyes. His curiosity deepening. Clearly the chop

Milnar in an elevator. On the yatch. With his girlfriend and assistants.

A bell clicks and the lift stops. Arrow points, 18th floor.
Milnar and team burst out of the lift, as soon as its doors open.
They hit the last flight of stairs to the top deck, running.
Milnar, "Do you know who it is?"
Assistnat, "No sir."
Milnar, "Good heavens, can't believe it."
Milnar," And who gave permission for the choppers to land."
Assistant, "No one sir. They just landed."
Milnar, "You could have called me. And let me in on it, you know."
Milnar, " I'm meant to christen the yatch. That means no one boards, till I break the bottle."
Milnar, "And you let someone disrespect me like that?"
Assistant, "We don't know who landed those choppers, sir. No permission was granted."
Up on the deck, they rush forward to the choppers, and are met halfway by a heavily built Carter Olson.
Who smiles at Milnar, holding up a glass of champagne.
As he serenades towards Milnar, chomping on something, obviously plucked from some stacked buffet tables.

Carter, "I gotta give it to you kid. Paradise on the seas. Simply outstanding."
Milnar's face instantly crumples with disgust, he just can't hide his loathing of this guy.
Milnar, "Carter, what on earth are you doing on my yatch?"
Carter,"Christening your baby, ofcourse. You said it yourself, on TV, "Friday. Miami docks, come all of you. Love you lots."
Milnar, "Yeah, yeah, yeah. Obviously, I never meant you. What do you want?"
Carter, "Easy kid.", "Greetings first. Where are your manners? I'm your baby's god father, for sweet sakes."
Milnar's face collapses with exasperation. He sighs, deeply.

A lawyer steps forward, sticks his hand out to greet Milnar.

Milnar, "Sorry, do I know you?" Then menacingly, "You with Carter?"
The lawyer, "Yes sir."
Then Milnar wrenches his gaze away, says nothing. Utterly disgusted.
The lawyer snatches his unwelcome hand back.
Carter, "Oh I forgot the introductions. This is Sid. My lawyer."
Milnar,"When will your lawyer advise you to get off my yatch?"
Carter," He's here to explain the conditions of my offer."
Milnar,"Not interested. Off my yatch now, before I call the cops."
Carter, "Listen to me kid. Please."
Milnar,"I'm not listening."
Carter, "Sell me Space Inc. Corp, for one and a half times its current book value. You make money. You get richer. And we're do
Milnar, "Get lost. And I am no damn kid."

Carter drops his gaze, deeply dissapointed. After a cold while of silence, he
walks off to a table, where assorted delicacies have been laid out for the guests.
Grabs a bunch of fresh grapes.
Pokes them into his mouth. Hands trembling with emotions.
Chomps on the grapes. His face reddening.
As he walks to his choppers, their rotors already spinning. His lawyer in tow.
We see Milnar, glaring lividly at him.
Carter pauses by the chopper's door, takes a swig from his wine glass, smashes it to the floor.
His lawyer makes to join him on the same chopper, Carter blocks him off rudely, "No. Carter's chopper. Your chopper. Got it?"
Lawyer soaks all the fury Carter has for Milnar, in seconds.
Quitely. Lawyer walks over to his own chopper.
Carter bows to Milnar, "So long kid, thanks for taking time over my offer."
He boards. The two choppers take off.

Inside one of the choppers, Carter's cheeks flash crimson from anger.
He loosens his tie.
Eyes smouldering as he looks down at Milnar, who stands on the deck, defiantly glued onto Carter.
The two men simmer at each other.
Carter snatches his gaze away. Shakes his head. Grabs his phone. Dials some number.
Carter, into the phone, "Hi. Yeah. It's on."

In an office, we don't get to see much off.

A man talks on the fone, facing away from camera.
Man, "Okay"
Man, "Fine. Will do."
The man punches a few keys on his computer.
Presses enter.
The screen prints a flashing message,
"VIRUS LOADING IN PROGRESS"
A bar tracks the percentage progress of the upload.

Livid Milnar. Emerges from the yatch. Jeepers… creepers. Forced to freeze his anger.
He faces a smiling crowd. All clutching wine glasses. A crowd that erupts in cheer.
Cameras flash. VIPs clap hands for Milnar.
Quick switch. Milnar flicks on a life-saving smile. Grabs an ordinary wine bottle, from a waitress tray.
Up on a crane-hoisted cage, an Assistant quickly cracks a whistle to Milnar. Motions to the correct things.
He holds in his hands, for Milnar's use. A pre-scored champagne bottle, housed in an appropriate net, and a branch of green le
Milnar ignores the assistant. Grabs a bundle of roses from a nearby female guest instead.
Louds into a mike, " Friends. Lovers. Fans."
With an intense curtailing of his fury, he hurls the bottle onto the yatch's prow, smashing it into fragments, the crowd gasps.
Milnar, "We're are late."
He tosses the flowers, onto the waters.
Somehow, this excites the Press Reporters. Cameras flash.
Reporter 3, "Oh. He breaks an ordinary unprotected wine bottle."
Reporter 2, "Talk of polluting the environment."
Milnar, nods to the Assistant, who is up on the crane-hoisted cage. The Assistant snaps a ribbon with a huge pair of sciscors. So
The crowd erupts in loud cheer.
With feigned joy, Milnar shouts to the crowd, "All aboard!"
A bewildered man, standing behind barricades, amongst ordinary folks, asks, "All of us?"
Milnar, "Certainly. All of you!"
The crowd wastes no second.
Bulldozing over the rope barriers, crashing into the bewildered security suits.
Scurrying up the ramp, into the yatch.
As horrified VIPs watch in amazed shock.
Milnar stands with an unworldly smile.
Reporter 1, "That's the Christening poem from young Ed Milnar."
A TV screen replays clip, Milnar on TV, "Friends. Lovers. Fans. We're late."
Reporter 1, "Never ceases to amaze. Young Ed Milnar has the ninth life of William Shakespear. Astoundingly poetic."
Reporter 1, "We're late. "
Reporter 3, "The Lincoln is late. America is late. Space mining is late. The bourgs have better space technology."
Reporter 2, "We gotta rush."
Reporter 3, "Yeah. Rush for gold in space. We gotta get richer."

The water is crystal clear.

Hodes of colorful fish dart around the corals. It’s a peaceful watery eden.
A fish spear tip. With a thrashing fish. Breaks into view. Disturbing the peace and calm.
Milnar clutches the fish spear.
His flippered legs kicking vigourously.
He heads up for the brightly sun-lit surface.
Where a dark shape making a hull of a speedboat waits.

milnar breaks the water surface.

gasping for breath.
to stare right in the face of three, black suited agents. In the distance, blaring DJ tunes play to party cheer.
the agents don’t smile, their eyes emotionless, behind dark shades.
One of the agents offers his hand to Milnar, "Ed Milnar?"
Milnar, "Gentlemen." Gasps for breath, "What do you want?"
Milnar takes the offered hand in a tight grasp.
The agent hauls him out of the water.
Agent, "You need to come with us sir. Now."
Milnar's girlfriend in a hot bikini, hurdles her robe for comfort as she peeks at Milnar worriedly, over an agent's shoulder.

The agents boat speeds for shore. With Milnar, Girlfriend, three Agents.
Leaving behind Milnar's speedboat. And in the distance, the huge yatch. The Lincoln.

We pan over the Lincoln. Top deck. A blazing party is on.

Screaming crowds dance the day away.
Fire crackers spit off the yatch. Exploding into colorful displays. The crowd on deck cheers.

On the distant shore, dozens of flashing blue lights. Police. Lined up.
Waiting, for Milnar.

At an airport runway.
The agents hurry scantily dressed Milnar and girlfriend, across the tarmac.
Into a waiting jet.

the jet lifts off the runway.

on the tarmac we see, dozens of black suvs with flashing blue lights.
They see the jet off.

inside the jet, Milnar's girlfriend, sits snuggled into his bossom.
her eyes teary red from almost crying.
Milnar's holds her tightly.
while he glares at the agents sitting across him.

at the space guard commission of enquiry

complaints in session, that Spaceguard was designed to capture and redirect only 5 asteroids, in a single year.
milnar asks if they can't make more space vehicles to gather more stones - especially gravity tractors.
they reply that all factories all over the world are busy with that.
only 25 ships can be built
how many rocks are we talking about, they hear 115.

borrow gravity tractors from bourgs and worldwide.

send the fastest freight and passenger ships to haul them in.
send the nearest low engine-propulsion-thrust-power freight and cargo ships to haul the gravity tractors
to start making the journey earth bound, as we wait for fast ships to take-over.

milnar looks back at his girlfriend, quizically. Mouths, why am I even here???
whispers into his lawyers ear, "Exactly why am I here?"
Just as some judge says, "Milnar, its your turn."

Milnar's resume is read by the Commission, for all to hear.

Milnar is an expert ex airforce astronout,
Current speciality,space mineral cargo recovery.

the commission council accuses milnar. Of creating some dangerous space debris headed for earth.
but he turns around to face the antagonist and asks, "Did you put them up to it?"
"Now come on now Milnar.
"Yeah,one minute you're on my yatch trying to threaten me into selling you my firm, and the next, I am a black sheep in court."
"That was a fair bid Milnar, an offer you were free to choose to sell or not.

in court they assign rocks to milner.

they show him asterank models that prove that his rocks knocked the rocks that knocked the rocks headed for earth.
he refuses responsibility.

To threaten milnar, the commission reads the riot act to him. They pull out a law to back this up.
then he says okay okay, let me work on it to see if the space debris came from any of my operations.
he says okay, because they say if he refuses, he goes to prison instantly, if he doesn’t refuse he stays out of prison to help
clear the debris, until trial.
he loses, but is not imprisoned, till they can all resolve the debris issue.

when milnar leaves the Space Guard Commission of Enquiry meeting, the excited press is outside.
shouting several questions at him.
no longer asking about his yatches and planes.
but asking if it was worth it to risk the whole earth.

The UN Space Treaty makes an announcement, SPACE MINING could potentially be banned as too dangerous to earth, a
Bill is being debated for potential signing in 7 months.
As the UN Space Treaty begins to close mining operations due to space accidents that have flung debris and killed over 5 thous

Milnar, at home, heavily disraught, when his girlfriend announces to him, that she is pregnant by him.
she cries. He comforst her. Then he goes to the bathroom and cries alone.

milnar calls his team together, they start brainstorming.

act 2: milnar and his very sharp team discover they didn’t cause the space debris, one of them kept a copy of
most catalogued space debris from other firms.
yet they cant prove it so the blame sticks on them.

milanr and his team start brainstorming.

introduce a ship tracker FREAKY EXPERT, in Milnar's team, who knows all the world's space ships.
their capacities and abilities.
who can be the one spurning answers whenever there is a problem.
use him to save the day with knowledge, whenever a problem reaches its peak.

at this pont they havent discovered yet, that the small rocks will cause the big rock to dip into earth.
they think they are here to help locate all the debris they have been penalised with.
then they discover that the small rocks will actually cause the big rock to dip into earth.
they also discover that the debris will cause the big rock to dip into earth,doomsday style.

milnar goes back to court to deny ownership and to let them know earth is doomed.
they don't believe him, they have models to show otherwise.
then they make an announcement that they're freezing all of milnar's money, as a pocket to use to pay for his space debris clea
which they have ordered to be doe for him by space guard and his competitors.
milnar tries to explain that it would've been cheaper for him to clear the debris himself.

and all hell breaks loose. Milnar now starts fighting for resources to save earth, but no one believes him.
he tries to call for ALL SPACE BASED GRAVITY HOLDERS to come.
those that can arrive before fifteen days will hold the rock as it makes initial entry.
CORRECT HERE, PRACTICALLY WRONG.
those that can arrive later will hold the rock in the death zone.
then those that can arrive even later can help hold the rock as it enters earth's air atmoshpere where gravity tractors are not th
the fastest space ships are dispatched to go collect the slow moving gravity tractors.

milnar and his team get busy designing the aero-dynamics breaks.
the other big players should refuse to take ownership of space debris. Or to help.
he should accept his debris and offer to clean it up.
then he should get blamed for even more space debris which he hasn’t created.
that sets a good tone for the protagonists.

They seek for options, including extinguishing the space rock using nuclear.
The answer is that the rock is too big and that space debris would just break into small bits that would still destroy the whole e
not enough gravity tractors.
gravity tractors too far.
freight and passenger ships with adequate horse power too far.

the space debris that was being held by gravity tractors in space, will swing earth-bound
once they are left alone, in the space holds where they are being held. Warning lights will
flash and scream all over earth. This will be warning from SPACE GUARD programs in the world.
introduced after that freak accident that claimed the lives of millions.

As they brainstrom and test simulations, They should try to land the big rock in the sea.
The water should break its fall, and possibly save the whole earth.
The idea is to show the dangers of space debris from the space mining rush, lack of accountability and greed.

They should also try anding the big rock at the poles. Never at the poles.
And they should try land as well.
The best option must eventually be the sea (research deeply on this matter).
Your research point, asteroid impacts over land, sea, and snow.

the original idea must be to nudge the rock back to space.

take it some distance away from earth.
and blow it to bits using a nuclear explosion.
the rock was used as an elevator for space cargo and tourists.
it has cables that run from space to earth.

they cannot blow the rock to bits whilst its close to earth.
as their simulations have shown earth being sprayed by smaller asteroids about 50 meters across,
that can potentially become so uncontrollable, and can risk whipping out 25% of earth's population.

everyone shudders at the thought, they cannot relieve the experience as recently, they saw 600 000 people of a certain Italian
when the smaller debris entered earth's atmosphere.
prompting the urgent actions that are being taken now.
someone cries out, why was this not thought of in the first place. Why was the rock allowed to orbit earth so close.

the answer must be 1. it was not regulated by the UN Space Treaty.

2. we were in a stupid race agaisnt the bourgs. We couldn't afford to be beaten in the space rush.
3. Greed!! It blinded us such that anything we achieved in space was applauded as advancement, at the expense of earth;s saf
where we used to create spacecraft debris that could completely burn out at re-entry,
we have now created larger asteroid debris from space mining, that can survive a burn-out at re-entry, and fatally strike earth.

this is plan A.
they put aerodynamic brake plates on.
nudge the rock into a shallow dip at low speeds into earth.
so that the rock can bounce back to space.

from where they can use thrusters to push it further out, some 1.5 million kilometers away.
by increasing its delta velocity to escape earth's gravitational pull.
and landing then blowing the rock to bits.

plan b is if anything goes wrong with plan a.

like if the rock takes a sudden increase in its re-entry dip,
increasing speed.
and actually starting to penetrate the earth's atmosphere.

space guard takes over on UN Space treaty orders.

and instructs that milnar and his aerodynamics breaks become plan b.

act 1: blame game. Big rock impact is in 1 year three months. In between Milnar loses his trillions and almost becomes peniles
They couldn’t divert all the rocks (too-many-too-late concept), they can only divert 75% of the most dangerous debris, at Milna
milnar's advesaries smile and say we got him, told you we could floor him.
he is gone, debris recovery at his cost, he is a poor man now. If he doesn’t recover big rock because he has no money left, off to

milnar's trillions are taken away to cover space debris recovery costs, he loses some of his houses.
we see him being forced to pack, him and girlfriend, that’s when she tells him she is pregnant and she cries.
with milnar's wealth strectched, he has to foot for the recovery of big rock under act 2 with the help of his employees,
they contribute their own money to help.
because he used to share wealth, so combined they're trillionaires as well.

milnar's team are taken in as plan b.

their gravity tractors placed between the rock and the aero-dynamic plates.
so that they can easily and quickly fire up plan b if plan a fails.

they are told its just a routine entry and bounce back to space.
which has been done with several smaller spacecrafts and rocks before.
on mars.

problem is, it has never been done with larger rocks.

and on earth.

milnar and his team are told, we definitely don’t need to use you.
you're here just as a back-up plan.
don’t worry boys, take a ride with us.

they must decide to do a dip and rebound.

because the rock is gaining speed.
and in nine days it would enter earth at a dip and velocity that's just a doomsday.

so they rightly time their intervention.

to do a dip and re-bound just when the rock approaches 85% of the required speed and trajectory.
this is a thin window that lasts only - 8 hours.
it is called a re-bound window.

the earth applauds when their initial intervention steps pays off, and they capture the rocks speed.
and drive it to 100% of required speed.
and 100% of required trajectory dip.
and 100% of the rebound window.
they avoid using the re-entry window.
and instead use the re-bound window.

milnar must be making observations and correcting them.

then they refuse to implement some of his concerns.
well before the operation and during the operation.
it must be to do with complications in the rocks tremors and structure.
that makes it slip out of the re-bound window and cause it to enter the re-entry window.

then all hell breaks loose

and milnar plus team takeover.
just that as the movie progresses.
plan b becomes the inevitable.
and milnar's team kicks into action.
as the first team escapes from the rock.

this whole exercise is recorded on public TV live.

and there is a lot of press hype to increase excitement and fear.
some people must retire to their apocalypse bunkers.
spikes hoarding of food, flame throwers, medicines.

money floating freely in the air.

no one needs money anymore.
streets are empty. Chaos. Abandoned cars, Fires burning.
the biggest of all wealth flaunts are abandoned - like yatches, private jets etc.
people realise, that wealth is less important than the life of the earth itself.
some people hide in caves.
some sit atop mountains praying.

Once in earth's atmsophere, the job is no longer for gravity tractors.

But the push to land in the sea at minimum impact.
It almost kills Milnar, and his whole team.
But saves the whole earth.

the asteroid is stopped using aerobraking shields.

not excactly placed against the asteroid, but below it.
to reduce effect against drag.
then the air between the asteroid and the aerobraking shields is sucked out.
to create a vacuum like space.
in that vacuum, they slide in gravity tractors.
to hold the rock and stop it from spinning.
this way, the rock does not tumble around and smash against aerodynamic brakes.
so they land it, with Milnar and his team stuck between the rock and the aero dynamic breaks.
at the climax the team starts slipping out one by one.
milnar stays behind until the very last minute.
wild celebrations when milnar and his team finally land the asteroid safely on earth.
sad mourning for the death of milnar and his team.
a resolute, humble and contrite earth is born.
out of the ashes.
people start caring and loving one another.
instead of loving wealth.

some are seen ripping off and stomping on diamond necklaces.

tears in their eyes.
earth has survived.

the truth has come out.

that he never caused all the debris in the first place.
when the registry of all catalogued debris that had been corrupted by a maliciuosly planted virus is restored.
and it is realised that the debris was caused by milnar's greatest protagonist.
his competitor.

in the end milnar and his whole team must survive the rock landing.
make it very very difficult.
and have all their trillions restored.
and they must get a hefty payment for recovery of debris that was not theirs in the first place.
a couple of trillions that make milnar the richest man on earth.

whilst his protagonist is totally whipped out.

all trillions taken and a lenghty prison sentence.
for risking the lives of people on earth.

in the end all space mining is banned.

all companies that made profits from it are given heavy penalties,
and asked promptly to clear space of all debris.

their penalties are according to the number and size of their catalogued space debris.
and all un catalogued space debris are shared out pro-rata, to all space mining firms,
then the world's first trillionaires have their fortunes instantly reversed.
due to the heavy penalties.

Closing caption:
"Up to this day - space mining is totally banned."
"And the world has but only one trillionaire."
"milnar."
 Research.
yatch exit, what is it called, "gangway?"
One celebrity who turned rejection into acceptance.
by not killing the same passion.

by growing it and redirecting it.

Remove Carter Olson.

Be quick about the lavish display of wealth.
Rocks headed for earth, space debris, all companies responsible, Milnar is asked to join the other trillionaires, t
The loopholes in the UN Space Treaty make it almost imposiible to define a proper legal framework for respons
The treaty has conventional agreements that mostly cover objects launched by man, and that do not cover spac
It talks of liability but not preventation. And this time liability will not matter, for man will be as extinct as dinaso
The USA helps by providing tracking for the packs of debris. Use all the three largest dishes on earth.
The firms are asked to volunteer, assets or expertise.
Only Milnar and Yuri volunteer both. The other firms bowl out and offer assets, for the aversion plan with the d

r1 russian male name+surname, Oligarch?

r2 press equipment.
r3 cia ear-pieces.
r4 contemptous female voice. Deriding female voice.

r5 facial expression - suppressed ego.

r6 russian accent.

r7 continuosly drooping mouth.

r8 describe rocks re-entering from space. Case study russia.

r9 go go go
r11 English club scene.

r12 Italian home scene.

 r13 African tent scene.

r14 American boardroom scene.

r15 bible verse.

r16 movie title

g 4,000 buildings."

r17 launch pad scene.

r18 talkshow scene

nium, palladium, germanium. Getting the rare ones in. Making trillions. Proud American liberal. He works hard."

r19 futuristic biggest yatch.

r20 futuristic biggest private jet.

r21 futuristic biggest house.
r22 futuristic biggest diamond crusted car.
r23 futuristic biggest fast car.
r24 futuristic biggest wedding.
r25 futuristic biggest space craft.

r26 worst pollution sites for land, sea nad ice.

 In the background show producers must be seen celebrating
their rising TV rankings, for featuring Milnar on their show.
They must do that celebratory elbow jerk.
they stand in the background.

ngst us. Its ours. Its here."

so meters, but wow…"

rzz decorations put on ships before christening.
ou can say holiday."
no shoes on the yatch.
people take off their shoes in a haste,
throwing them into the water,
 it must not be possible to push the rock out, because Milnar was using hired equipment. No cash, no equipmen
milnar must find a way to space for the assembly of aerodynamic breaks.

find a reason why he must be allowed to weld together some aerodynamic breaks, whilst he cant hire other equ
like he has found a market for them.
and he does the job for the firm with the equipment.

the rock gives them 15 days to persih, because by day nine it must start dipping and bouncing back,
but with every bounce back, it picks up speed.
and dips more strongly,
increasing the chance for a re-entry window instead of the re-bound window.

DON'T LAND THE ROCK. THE IDEA IS TO JUST SCARE THE EARTH. THEY SHOULD ONLY DO A REBOUND ENTRY TO
BY SOME GRAVITY TRACTORS. DANGER MUST BE TO THE ASTRONAUTS IN THE GRAVITY TRACTORS, WE LOOSE
AND ALSO, THE HIGHEST RISK MUST BE THAT A REBOUND IS VERY DIFFICULT WITH A SUCH A LARGE MASS, THA
SO THEY SHOULD TRY TO CONTROL 1. THE ROCK'S SPEED, 2. ITS ANGLE OF ENTRY, 3 ITS SPIN.
AS THEY SUCCEED WITH ONE ITEM, THE OTHER ITEM GETS WORSE ETC.
THAT WAY YO HAVE MOMENTUM.
HOWEVER, WE CAN HAVE A COUPLE OF THE ROCKS (SMALLER ONES, ENTERING EARTH AND CAUSING DAMAGE
WE NEED TO BLIND SIDE SPACEGUARD AND THE UN SPACE COUNCIL, IN A WAY THAT PUTS MILNAR AND HIS TE
re-entry takes minutes, anything longer re-bounds back to space.otherwise research further.
what about ships that take ages to re-enter and disintergrate?

WE NEED TO SHOW SPACE DRILLS IN ACTION, MINING.

AND LEAVING BEHIND CARVED OUT CHUNKS OF ROCKS.
CREATING SPACE DEBRIS.
WHICH THEY TAG.
AND WHICH STARTS TO SPIN AROUND IN A NEW ORBIT.
WITH NEW TRAJECTORIES.
THEY LEAVE THE DEBRIS BEHIND, AS THEY GO ONLY FOR THE MINERAL JUICE.
THEY FOLLOW MINERAL BELTS, WITHIN EACH ASTEROID.
MILNAR HAS TO FIGHT TO SAVE THE EARTH, AS HE HONESTLY BELIEVES HIS ROCKS CAUSED THE PROBLEM.
HE ONLY LEARNS AT THE END OF THE MOVIE, THAT HIS ROCKS WERE ALL CLEANED OUT AND THAT THEY NEVER
THEN HE GETS HIS TRILLIONS RESTORED AND INCREASED IN A FINAL JUDGEMENT.
BUT HE GOES ON TO DONATE 75% OF HIS MONEY TO CHARITY.
AND TO SHUT DOWN SPACE MINING.
PREFERING TO OPEN A SPACE TOURISM BUSINESS.
AND EXPLORING FORESTS, THE SEAS, AS A DEEP LOVER OF NATURE, HE ALSO BECOMES A FATHER WITH FIVE KI
research, you don't hold rocks, you put them in orbit.
THE ROCK IS A TROJAN ASTEROID.
ed to join the other trillionaires, they have to set aside their differences and work together.
oper legal framework for responsibility for space mining.
y man, and that do not cover space debris at all, the explosion in Russia is just an eye opener, for more space debris that’s headed for earth
or man will be as extinct as dinasours, a pack of doomsday rocks are headed for earth, there is no time for redirecting them, there are just
argest dishes on earth.

, for the aversion plan with the doomsday rocks.

quipment. No cash, no equipment.

eaks, whilst he cant hire other equipment.

g and bouncing back,

D ONLY DO A REBOUND ENTRY TO DRIVE THE ROCK AWAY AND DEEPER INTO SPACE, ASSISTED
GRAVITY TRACTORS, WE LOOSE SOME OF THEM.
WITH A SUCH A LARGE MASS, THAT’S MOVING AT SUCH SPEEDS.
TRY, 3 ITS SPIN.

G EARTH AND CAUSING DAMAGE.

Y THAT PUTS MILNAR AND HIS TEAM INTO THE HOT SEAT.

OCKS CAUSED THE PROBLEM.

NED OUT AND THAT THEY NEVER CAUSED THE PROBLEM.

BECOMES A FATHER WITH FIVE KIDS.

ce debris that’s headed for earth.
redirecting them, there are just one too many, the only thing that can be done is to wait for them to converge closer to earth and then blow
rge closer to earth and then blow them up to tiny bits, then pray the people on earth will survive the one thousand chelyabinksis.
housand chelyabinksis.
 JUST FACTS
1 There are over 600 000 known asteroids in the
solar system.
10 000 of them are NEOs.
1 Darpa and NASA fights for resources to stop hollowed out renegade asteroids heading for the
asteroid belt.

If they make it to the asteroid belt, they will impact into stable asteroids and kick start the kessler effect
and the resultant super packed debris will scatter around, in altered trajectories.

Some of it may hit earth at increased impact probabilities.

A rain of fire from the heavens.

Eventually they win their Congress budget fight, they also avoid sequestration of their actvities.
Darpa starts controlling the whole world from NASA back up control room.
Then they hit out for the asteroids, a little bit too late.
Manage to salvage only 45% of them.
The rest then hit the asteroid belt.
And an instant karma of flying and breaking propagated debris starts to fly around.
A tiny percentage heads for earth.
Darpa, NASA, and the whole world start to fight to haul them away.
All machines in the world beep and chirp.
Calculating new orbits, that keep changing.
Bodies like FEMA moving people away from impact zones.
Chaos, confusion.
As almost the whole world is displaced.
Until most of the asteroids are salvaged.
And a few remain to give earth a spectacular shower of light.
They had salvaged the biggest and most dangerous rocks first.

Asteroid deflection doesn’t only have to be for rocks spotted

decades away.
It also has to be for rocks spotted days, or hours before impact.

The intense arguments that arise as the space debris approaches.

Fosters a healthy review of earth's preparedness in regards to-:
1 Equipment.
2 Institutions.
3 Laws.
4 The people.

The arguments must run around and mature from stage to stage as follows -:
1 probability of impact, maturing to
 2 equipment abilities, maturing to
3 weak institutions collaborations at international level, maturing to
4 conflicting laws, maturing to
5 revolting protests of affected people (world wide), maturing to
6 solutions and victory, from those who remain resolutely focussed in the face of hope

Some of the arguments are purely scientific, some are driven by hunch.
But most importantly, people air their fears, and views. Forcing legislature to be developed, in a way that
their worry, over the asteroid mining business and earth's exposure to impact.

After event closure results in-:

1 Asteroid mining companies agreeing and vowing to contain debris.
2 UN Space Council drafting fully comprehensive space laws.
3 All governements ratifying the UN Space Treaties.
4 All governements penning local laws in agreement with the newly Improved UN Spa
5 All institutions (worldwide), increasing their level of information sharing and collabo
6 All scientints and research fellows, agreeing to improve equipment efficiencies to th
7 All scientists agreeing to never consider or class asteroid strikes as a one-in-a-billion
8 All people agreeing to care for, and love each other as doomsday approaches, instea
9 The global embracing of the ONE-EARTH-ONE-LOVE, principle.

The asteroid has been detected late. Gravity tractor options need close to 9 years to work.
That option is out.
It could have worked if gravity tractors had already been sent to the rock,
well before it was even confirmed that it was to be a direct hit.
that’s why the cohesion issue was pointed out to the UN Space Council,
while debates raged, about probability, responisbility, and cost,
the rock was drawing closer, and options were getting redundant.
only violent options like nuking the rock can work now.
cost arguments are no longer an issue,
now that impact is certain,
deflection costs range in the region of US10billion,
that wont break the bank of the US or any other world power.
some countries are now pushing the UN, they want to share the cost,
because they also want to determine where the rock lands on earth,
as every country should protect its national interest,

but the NASA has already sent gravity tractors to intercept the rock,
these are the same tractors that send back images to show that the rock is too large.
and that its spin, speed, and albedo will not be totally deflected by gravity alone.
it can only be altered to hit somewhere safer on earth, like the oceans.
where the most damage would be immense loss of sea life, and gigantic tsunamis.
and the US is refusing to share the cost,
because they want the rock to land where there is minimum damage to their interests,

and the planned impact radius will affect coastal based cities.

so an argument starts to rage, on which seas should we place the asteroid's trajectory.
the US says," North Atlantic Ocean."

China and Russia leap onto their feet,

Cry out oud, in terror, anger.

They say they will pay the full cost,

and demand that the rock lands in the South Atlantic Ocean.
The US and Canada leap onto their feet,
an argument ensues.

at this juncture,
Darpa Boss, whispers into NASA Boss' ear,
"Where was all this money, when we needed it most?"

The US Secretary of State Interjects,

"Council members, this is what was meant, when we said,
the greatest issue with deflecting an asteroid is humanity's inability to work together."

"Council members, the longer we delay, the more deflection options are getting redundant."
"We have to solve our geopolitical sticky issues now."

The UN Space Council intervenes, and it is determined.

"We cannot afford a big International Debate until the rock hits."
"The rock will be positioned to land in the mid-Atlantic Ocean."
ading for the

k start the kessler effect

their actvities.
cussed in the face of hopelessness and doom.

developed, in a way that covers every inch of

e newly Improved UN Space Treaties.

ation sharing and collaboration,
uipment efficiencies to the stringent demands placed upon them by the event.
rikes as a one-in-a-billion chance, "LIFE MATTERS."
msday approaches, instead of pillaging, rioting and rampaging.
redundant."
Key Events

No. Event

1 NASA ordered to search and find all asteroids

above 1 kilometer in diameter.

2 US Congress passed the George Brown Jnr

Near Earth Survey Act.

3 US Congress conflicts with B612 Foundation.

4 Proffessor Lubin's way.

 NASA Budget Cuts.
5 NASA faces 5% budget cuts and cannot
prevent sequestration.

The House of Representatives Appropriations

Committee on March 4 approved the Full-Year
Continuing Appropriations Act of 2013 (H.R. 933)
to keep the federal government running through
September.

“We are doing everything in our power to protect

the Agency’s core priorities, minimize disruptions
to employees,” said NASA Administrator Charles
Bolden.

Sequestration will result in NASA canceling 6 technology

development projects, delaying an additional 9 projects,
cancelling several flight demonstration projects,
eliminating or de-scoping annual solicitations for
Space Technology Research Grants (STRG), NASA
Innovative Advanced Concept (NIAC), and the Small
Spacecraft Technology (SST) Program,and the Asteroid
Deflection Programs.

NASA and Darpa Executives go to Japan to sign

and reaffirm the Space Situational Awareness
Pact.

The US Ambassador makes a short speech,

"This convening of the Comprehensive Dialogue on Space
begins a new initiative to enhance cooperation between
two of the world’s most advanced spacefaring nations from
a broad, inclusive, and strategic perspective."

Guests clap hands.

Aboard the Executive US Airforce Plane, are the NASA

and Darpa Executives.
Discussing, their worries over actual fragmentation of
worldwide collaborations and blaming the UN for being
cohesively weak.
They ask each other about who has central control over
asteroid impact avoidance in the event.
Some say it will have to be the UN, someone asks
with what resources and expertise???
The answer is with pooled resources and pooled expertise.
Sommeone pipes, impossible to do much with that.

The NASA Director starts to complain about how his budgets

have been cut, and how he now depends on Russia to ferry
astronouts to space.

This is the moment, they receive a message that Russia has

been struck by five asteroids, that exploded mid-air.

And they are also told there are four more rocks headed for
the Pacific Sea, will strike in one hour, and they realise,
their flight is on a direct convergance with those
rocks.

They urgently ask the pilot to make an evasive manuevre.

He does, after protesting a bit.
And the space rocks explode 50 miles west of the plane,
sending the plane into a roll, from which the experienced
US Airforce Pilot recovers.

This sets the tone for NASA and Darpa's resolve to act
swiftly against future asteroid threats.
Purpose Location/Legal tools.

Detect all planet killers. USA

1. Detect all asteroids over 140 meters. USA

2. Report annually on progress made to
Senate.
3. Report annually on earth protective
measures put in place.

140 meters is woefully inadequate. USA

The floor is too high.
Anything above 10 meters with the
proper trajector is dangerous.

A 30 meter rock hitting earth at 67,000 miles

per hour, at a 90 degree angled trajectory
wastes little kinetic energy in the
atmsophere, has high chances of not
disintergrating mid-air, and striking a
populated city with the force of a dozen
Hiroshimas.

Can result in a Tunguska class asteroid impact.

Can totally onbliterate New York, London,
Tokyo City, Mexico, London, Beijing.

B612 argue that only infrared telescopes like Sentinel Infrared Telescope
their Sentinel Telescope, can detect hundreds
of thousands of below 140 meter rocks
that are currently virtually unknown.

More violent and more impacting. R

Can be used if impact time is less than 4 years etc.
R R
 Key.
R Please Research
Authorities Date Very Important.

US Congress R

US Congress 2005

B612 Foundation. 2005

Proffessor Lubin R
Congress
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Damien-IWG New Boss, walking, fone
slapped onto his ear. Suited. Briefcase
in other hand.

AUDITORIUM - Damien-IWG New Boss

Addressing Seminar Attendees.
Pointing at charts that keep
sliding onto a screen

INTERVIEW
Damien-IWG Chairman and Board,
grilling Damien-IWG Head.

INTERVIEW-TEA BREAK
Damien-IWG Chairman and Board,
grilling Damien-IWG Head.

Damien-IWG Boss
at the Minor Planets Center
Rock exhibit.

DAMIEN-IWG new Boss,

 on the fone with NASA Boss.
Nick Alden. (Damien-IWG new Boss)
Charles Bolden (NASA Boss)
Nick Alden's first day in office.
He is new at Damien-IWG

DAMIEN-IWG Boss
Gathering his Team around for a
new boss briefing.
 Other Day
Damien -IWG Boss, is notified
of NEO that might impact Earth
on a 1/10 probability

Damien Boss, leaves his office for

NEO impact Assessment
Briefing Office -
they talk on the way.
Staffs are pouring from all over
into briefing room.
LATER
Damien-IWG Boss
digs through reports with
Geoffry and other team members

The House is full now, screen shots

flick over on the large 4 meter
long display. Blurry images
of the rock of perdition.

Damien -IWG Boss

in NEO Characterisation brief
with Samantha Brown and Other Staff.
Damien-IWG Assistant
Bursts into a meeting
with some news.

US President and
DAMIEN-IWG Boss
on the fone.
research V~21 and S/N

Daltry

Aurthur

Daltry

Daltry
Aurthur

Daltry

Aurthur

Aurthur
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DAMIEN-IWG Boss and

Ed Milnar, meeting.

DAMIEN-IWG Boss and

Ed Milnar, late night dinner meeting.

Is it not one approach, one impact?

DAMIEN-IWG Boss and

Ed Milnar, over breakfast.
Dishevelled, same clothes,
They didn’t sleep.
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UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses

of Outer Space (COPUOS) session

In US Defense
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Reduce uncertainity.
Accurate modelling.
Effective decision making.
" Absolutely. Mr. Chairman."
"The worst assumption people make is that, cosmic hazards are remote and thinking, they remain the same over time."
"Yeah."
"When we mention ‘cosmic hazards’ people tend to think: “We have survived quite a while without any planetary defenses, so why should we bother now?
"Yeah."
"Well, the answer is, we are a heck of a lot more vulnerable than ever before now. Lots more people, concentrated in cities, highly dependent on vulnerable
"You take one small 50 meter rock, and boom, a whole city perishes."
"Yeah."
"And what are the odds of one small rock hitting us? It's not a one-in-a-million chance? No. It's pretty much an everyday chance."
"Definitely sir. If we don’t start some serious planetary defense program exercises now, we are no smarter than dinosaurs."
"When we talk of cosmic hazards, we are talking about more than asteroids."
"We have at least three types of concerns here: asteroids and comets, extreme solar events, and orbital space debris-"
"—and why are our current efforts not sufficient—for violent solar storms that threaten our satellites, our power grids and much more?"
"Each day literally, some 100 tons of micrometeorites and cosmic dust fall to Earth."
"The monitoring system that is in place to detect nuclear explosions has recently confirmed that, based on the last decade of observation, asteroid impacts
Earth are 4 to 10 times more frequent than previously assumed."
"But the biggest vulnerability change has occurred right here on Earth."
"Between 1950 and 2050 world population will have grown from 3.5 billion to about 9 billion."
"In 1950 about 40 percent of us lived in towns and cities, but in 2050 we will likely be 70 percent urban, clustered in perhaps over 100 megacities of 10 mill
"Not only are urban targets larger, but our dependence on vulnerable modern infrastructure will have increased more than a hundredfold."

"Our committee is concerned that even rocks below 140 meter diameter can inflict serious damage to people."
"As Head of Damien-IWG, how do you synthesis these threat?"
"I believe you're very right to be concerned. Tunguska event, 1908. 2000 square kilometers of forests flattened by a violent air burst from a rock that explod
"Originally, the rock was estimated to be 70 meters."
"New research suggests it was even smaller. 30 meters to be precise."
"If that explosion had happened over morden day New York. It would've killed hundreds of thousands."
"Now we talk of chances of such smaller sized asteroids striking earth, its not once every 65 million years, no. We can get a strike every 300 years or less."

"It gets me to ask, do airbursts from a 30 meter bitch of a rock, exploding over sea waters, create tsunamis large enough to wreck immense damage on our
"Sir, current research has shown airbursts from 30 meter rocks, can be more dangerous than ground impacts."
"Goodness."
"Supersonic speeds. Bursting through the air, you can imagine, their spontaneous disintergration can create airbursts so powerful they can wreck more dam

"September 2007, Peru. A stoney 1-2 meter rock travelling at super sonic speeds, made ground impact. Cratered."
"Gosh, it survived our atmospheric entry burn."
"Indeed."
"And what is this one?"
"3.9 kilograms of meteriorite material. Sudan, 2008. A five meter rock exploded over the african country showering these small rocks in the Sudanese dese
"This means, there's such a wide variation between rock sizes and risk of cratering."
"Indeed. It doesn't really mean to be, that if a rock is small, it wont make ground contact."
"Damn. Our impact risk is higher than we envisage."

"Will someone get me Charles Bolden, NASA Director, on the fone please?"
 on the fone with Nasa Boss.
"Charles. Please tell me you've sped up launch of the NEOCAM."
"Nick. Hi. Oh, the infrared telescope? I got uh… a slight bungle up… "
"Okay. Cause we gotta meet the specification set by U.S. Congress. They said ninety-percent of all small sized NEOs. Discovered. Catalogued, by 2025. Check
here, what's it say… you are terribly behind. Excuse me saying. Years behind."
some Damein IWG Office Attendant explains to his desk colleague (they've overheard their boss talking to NASA on the fone)
"Pissed off. The instrument would detect asteroids down to 40 meters in size."
NASA Boss replies,
"Okay Nick. We're short on funds, as you might be aware. That's the definite cause for the delay… "
"You're not fighting hard enough Charles. Fight. For your money. Get it done..."
"Remember as we wait for funds, we are being covered by Ed Lu and his team…"
"B612 Foundation, oh come on. Those guys are private bounty hunters. They answer to no one, we answer to Congress, Charles."
"Their high resolution Sentinel telescope is doing an awesome job Nick. Picking over 100 small rocks each month. And we're addressing our funding issues h
"You talk of one-thousand-two-hundred rocks a year. I see half a million of these creeps. Charles, you know people think small asteroids don't matter. They
a small 40 to 50 meter rock do? I hope you're not somehow turning into one of those naive silly ones."
"Aaaargh Nick. Don't say that. I know my duties, and I believe I'm doing a fine job. You feel otherwise, you know my bosses, don't you?"
"Nah. I wouldn’t think so low Charles. Sorry to upset you. Just saying push. Push Charles. Before one of those 40 meter city killers barrels into us, like a ther
bomb at an obvious one-fifty thousand miles per hour. You know."
on the other end, the line goes BEEEEEEEP. Charles Bolden has cut off.
Nick stares into the fone's ear piece, incredulously, still there is a hint he expected it. Then he speaks to himself, shaking his head.
"He cuts on me. Cuts on me. Silly blondie."
The two Office Attendants hear this, and stiffle a crack of laughter.
"Our new boss can be pretty annoying."
"Yeah. He is a fart."

> might only be detected a few days before impact.

> there are over 300 000 NEOs of this size.
> 5-10 megatons of energy released.
> NEOs of 140 meters, can devastate whole regions, or continents.
> they are far apart and easier to detect.
> NASA has found and catalogued a third of them.
> they are estimated to number 25 000.
> early detection & characterisation increases the time available to make decisions.
> it also increase time available to take effective mitigation action.
> it is the first priority for planetary defense.
NASA's initial assessment of NEO impact threats, process, is overseen by NASA’s PCDO, includes
1. receipt and analysis of observations by the Minor Planet Center,
2. transmission of potential impact analysis results by the JPL Center for NEO Studies,
3. and formal notification to the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).
This approach provides a sound basis upon which to build. Additional action will ensure that the content, format, and timeline of NASA’s notification
to OSTP and any others effectively support subsequent communications and decision-making.

"Okay team. Gather up. Everybody. Gather up."

"Let's make a small semi-circle here."
"Hurry up. Hurry."
"Okay. Good."
"We need to make some noise.", Beat, "I know we shouldn’t, but it's all totally necessary."
"Okay. In a real life impact threat for NEO's, there're seven things. Let's count together. Okay."
"One, the NEO gets detected, by an unfazzled scholar in an ancient European facility."
"Or, Two. The NEO gets detected, by an automatic sky-scan that has a low communications and inter-agency link score."
"Come on. Count with me. It's easy peasy."
"Three."
"It takes months to determine that the NEO is a new, uncatalogued body."
"Four."
"It takes more months for the Minor Planet Center, to get its attention awakened enough, to realize the high risk in the NEO's trajectory, and to alert NASA."
"Five."
"It takes even more months for NASA to confirm the threat, plus a year to trigger the due process for a fast response, reconnaiscence mission."
"Six."
"It takes years for the reconnaiscence mission to rendezvous with the NEO, give feedback, and for NASA to trigger the construction of an appropriate mitiga
"Seven."
"It takes years ultimately, to warn earth's citizens of impending doom and BOOM."
"Someone care to tell me what I'm driving at?"
"Aldora."
"Sir. We've weak inter-agency alert systems. And slow decision making processes. A lot of that time, can be saved, by quick comms and forward thinking acti
"Good. Well done. What should we do about that? Anybody?"
"Our National Near Earth Object Prepardeness Strategy and Action Plan, needs to be thoroughly drill-tested, to strengthen links before an unfortunate live e
"Excellent."
"What is our core function as DAMIEN-Interagency Working Group?"
"We're America's focul point for enhancing interagency impact reactionary capabilities for NEO threats. Includes prediction, characterisation, orbits, impact
"Excellent. In simpler terms, we run after all agencies. They drop a shoe, we pick it up for them. We're everybody."
"Okay. When there is no NEO, there is no threat, and there is no us. Ain't that right?"
Staff nod.
"Wrong. You're damn wrong, all of you."
"When there's no threat, we practise for threat. We keep the engine oiled up. Not just oiling ourselves, but the whole government of things. The whole age
agencies do we have, in America, and worldwide? Probably hundreds. Disjointed. Weak. The NEO threat situational awareness, is at risk of crumbling and fa
actual NEO threat, all because too many agencies, too many astronomists, little cohesiveness. I swear this to you, the whole world has no central point to co
synthesise data to function across national and organisational boundaries. And what does that kill?"
"Speed and quality sir!"
"That's it. Speed and quality. Key metrics for our Interagency Working Group. After me. Speed and quality."
Everyone.
"Speed and quality sir!"
"That's it."
"And that is what we stand for. Let's do it."
"Ey. Ey. Don't leave. Not yet. Just one more thing. [beat] Okay. Somebody. Hit me quick. Speed and quality of what aspects?"
"NEO Detection sir. That's one."
"Good. Agencies responsible for that - quick."
" Photometry and light-curve data - from C2PU telescope, at Observatoire de la Cote d’Azur."
"And?"
"It allows ESA and NASA to calculate the NEO rotation period."
"Oh yeah?"
"Spectra and photometric data from Asiago Observatory, sir."
"And?"
"Infrared observations from the Campo Imperatore Station, sir"
"Yeah?"
"Astrometry from Gaia-FUN-SSO's six telescopes."
"What do they do?"
"They provide more than a thousand astrometric measurements to pass on to the Minor Planets Center."
"And?"
"Minor Planets Center passes analysis and synthesis results to Institut de Mécanique Céléste et de Calcul des Ephémérides for computing orbital elements.
"Good. Tell me what's lacking in all this? Anybody else?"
Hesitation, then.
"Timelines sir."
"Why is that?"
"Each agency has to respond, quickly. NEOs will strike earth in fixed timelines. Delays between agency actions, will only exhaust time available for impact m
"That's it."
"Good. And what's your name?"
"Geoffry, Geoffry Albrite. Manager, NEO Detection and Sythesis - Interagency Tracking."
"Okay Geoffry. Monday morning, I need… a full report at my desk. All NEOs detected in the last five years, and all steps that have not yet been completed b
agencies-including red spots for delays, measured in days."
"Right now NEOs are speeding towards earth at two hundred thousand kilometers per hour."
"And in this office, I see no one running. Remember - you don’t run, all agencies won't run either."
"From today, everyone, you gotta be running around. Behave like an impact is due tommorow. Every fucking day."
"And you, what do you do?"
Lady
"Samantha Brown, sir. Manager, NEO Characterisation and Synthesis - Interagency Tracking."
"I need a similar report, focus word, charaterisation. Monday morning on my desk. Run, run, run."
"And you… "
Staff start to run around.
Nick goes on harassing one after the other, as we fade off his booming voice.

> NASA funds the Minor Planet Center, (MPC).

>And use the MPC as a clearing house for NEOs discovered worldwide.
> NASA also gets informed by the International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN),
> NASA also has a working partnership with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope constructed in Chile.
which was funded by the National Science Foundation.
"We've a probable impact risk, sir."
"The Catalina Sky Survey telescope, picked up an unknown object, with a trajectory reflecting a very high impact risk."
"Has it passed our regular detection process?"
"Yes. Position measurements have been sent to the Minor Planet Center."
"And?"
"Object is still a high potential impact risk NEO, passed by MPC. Its earth orbital crossing point, plus or minus a third astronomical unit. Worst case, impact."
"Observers?"
"Passed other observers too, but object has not yet received a designation."
"NEODyS computer assessments?"
"Impact solution 1/10. As Space Situational Awareness Manager, I've been informed of its NEO potential."
"Has civil protection been alerted?"
"FEMA has been alerted. Based on visual brightness, object could be 60 meters in diameter. With high possibility of ground effects."
"Okay. Good job."
"What we know so far. Velocity 18.7 kilometers per second."
"Size, 61 meters across."
"Density range 1 gramme per cubic centimeter to 8 grammes per cubic centimeter."
"Time of impact, if impact chance becomes one hundred percent." Beat. "September 2067, twenty past three, afternoon, American time."
"Impact range, 357 kilometer by 45 kilometer stretch in South Atlantic Sea."
"Kinetic impact energy release, minimum 65 kilotons, maximum 14.87 megatons."
"Key hole passage 2067."
"Observations to continue with the Aricebo Radar - Puerto Rico."

> attention to tracking smaller NEOs has improved.

> after Chelyabinks, and knowing that they can unleash vast damage to human life and infrastructure.
> NASA given directive to detect, track and characterise 90% of all NEOs 50-140 meters by 2030 by the US Government.
> Progress has been made, but directive is still not fulfilled (research reasons).
> NASA is years behind schedule.
"We've received the astrometry survery results….. "
"The UK guys applied the Pan-STARRS1 telescope…. "
"Dynamical modelling results are also in, came from Armagh and Queen Mary London… "
"They have done some remote testing on the rock's Yarkosvy Effect tensions… "
"The rock composition results are in…"
"From Queen Belfast… "
"We now know the Vis/NIR & mid-IR spectroscopy… "
"We've comparative samples from our cosmochemistry guys… "
"They used returned samples from asteroids of similar composition… "
"Its shape and spin results are in… "
"Shape is…"
"Spin rate is…"
"Axis orientation from light curve observation and inversion is… "
"Yep, we now have the thermophysical properties… "
"Albedo…"
"Diameter… "
"Temperature…"
"Thermal inertia…"
"Surface roughness from IR observation and thermal models… "
"Yarkosvy Effect…. "
"Its density… "
"We need our agencies to collaborate with the International Asteroid Warning Network Steering Committee, to work on a set of criteria, based on observab
and characteristics of the NEO impact risk, and use that to establish thresholds for action… "
"What criteria should I propose?"
"Use orbit-related parameters… "
"And probabilities for impact… "
" Estimated physical characteristics of the object of interests, impact radius, all sorts of criteria."
"The crossing of a threshold should trigger a specific set of actions by NASA, IAWN, SMPAG, FEMA, etc."
" The thresholds might also be graduated, and actions could evolve, increasing focus on observations of the object of interest and tasking
additional assets to assist with observations."
"Or a deeper definition of viable sets of mitigation plans, for NASA."

"Sir, we might have a problem."

"I'm kind of busy… "
"You definitely want to hear this…"
"Okay."
" August 2015."
"FEMA, NASA."
"Developed a Charter, and formed the Planetary Impact Emergency Response Working Group."
"So?"
"Spelled out in the Charter, is a framework for processes of predicted or actual asteroid impacts."
"I know the charter, we are partners to its processes…"
"Crucial divergence, keyword, "coordination…" "
"Please, get to the point."
" The charter... makes NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office, chief coordinator. Not us."
"Do I smell agency politics?"
"Yap."
Damien IWG Boss takes off his reading glasses. Sinks back into his chair.
"How deep?"
"Very deep."
"What's our risk?"
"Already in process. Our current coordination efforts, access to documents, is being cut as I speak. Maybe a 65 percent cut."
"Aaaargh. Come on. Come on now Walter. You gotta help me here. I need good news. Yeah, right now."
"Sorry. It will kick us into the dust, sir. NASA is the chief ripper. Kind of pissed, they feel… we stepped on their shoes."
"Actual fact, am I not helping them? Oh Jeez. [beat] Oh goodness."
"Okay. Who's on their side?"
"Just the key ones?"
"Yes, and please."
"Department of Homeland Security-Science and Technology."
"And…?"
"The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy."
Damien IWG Boss, stares hard into his assistant's eyes. Sighs. Turns around and addresses his staff.
"Someone get me the White House, President's Office, on the fone. Now please."

"Remember… October 2008, Congress consolidated the Appropriations Act. And the Office of Science and Technology Policy, was tasked with affirming NAS
agency to coordinate the detection, tracking, and characterization information of NEOs from all organizations, domestic and international, within the astron
"Mr. President, let me bring to your attention sir, NASA’s notification procedures are only set into motion, after they are rigorously certain a space object ind
a credible threat to people or property. Yet wasting a single year on deliberations, might be the difference between earth perishing or living... "
"I totally understand son, but we gotta follow laid down procedures. We need to promote cohesiveness in our interagency response capacities."
"I sincerely apoligise sir, however, I just want to see my continued role as DAMIEN-IWG Head, as the lead pacemaker, for every other agency. It’s a crazy me
agencies, too much information. Very little cohesiveness, Mr. President. Just the thing you worry about. You even risk being told, "The asteroid will miss ear
hundred thousand miles" , and BOOM, the next moment you hear "No. Its gonna be a direct hit." "
"Okay son. What are you saying?"
"Sir, given the long intervals between harmful events, don't you feel the need to have me instil moral and motivation in our planetary defense structures?"
"I do son, I need that, but does that necessarily have to be you?"
"Not really sir. Though I feel, you gotta have a merciless lion in the den Mr. President. Someone who works hard. Everyday. Pushing. Shoving. Believing each
is a definite hit. Then our agencies can never afford to waste time. And we get to save the planet. Each day. Everyday. And that man, is me. I need my wings
"Son. We have to have someone speak with authority for all. For that reason, NASA and FEMA have White House support. Their Planetary Impact Emergenc
Group, is the authorized mouth piece, and the key coordinator. That's a unified approach. We cannot afford headless chickens running around screaming te
Wrecking havoc. May I beg you, without debating, will you please respect that?"
[Beat]
"Son. You there?"
"Oh yes sir. And thank you Mr. President, I do respect the decisions made by White House, and I shall abide by the honorable process. Definitely, sir."
"Good."
"Thank you sir."
"Okay son. Bye for now."
"Thank you sir. Bye bye."

> NEO characterisation comes after detection and tracking.

> Charectirisation relies heavily on measuring and analyzing different frequencies of light (its spectral signature),
supplemented with radar data when possible.
> NASA works closely with the US Geoligical Survey department on this.
> Both departments maintain spectral libraries that provide reference samples to aid researchers in determining NEO composition.
> Academia largely conducts these analyses, relying on an informal collaboration network across institutes.
> This process has provided excellent scientific results, but its reliability has not been demonstrated in a crisis situation.
"Good. Push them, the best time to observe an asteroid is right after discovery."
"When it's still brightest."
"So what do we need?"
"Dedicated telescopes."
"Available at the shortest notice."
"Photometric telescopes of a two-to-three meter class."
"That can reach V~21, with good S/N."
"Okay. Good."

"We got a problem sir."

"Uh huh."
"We don't have any free two-to-three meter class telescopes, available for photometry."
"Okay. People. Gather up."
"We've zero two-to-three meter telescopes, available, in range. I need answers."
"Any ideas? Aurthur?"
"Sir, are such sized telescopes, not necessary, only when we view the rock from earth."
"Brilliant. Thank you."
"Okay people. Have we tried using in-space telescopes?"
"No sir. We only searched the on-earth telescope registry."
"Try the in-space registery. Please."
"Thanks. Missed that." Whispering rather to himself, "In-space telescope it is."
"We can use spacecraft mounted telescopes, or full body telescopes, near earth, deep space, it doesn’t matter."
"Good Aurthur."
"What should I narrow down their size specs to?"
"One meter. Two wavelengths. Anything else? Aurthur?"
"Any telescope with blue, green, and red wavelengths, should do…"
"Oh yeah, make it simple."
"… and a polarization wheel device to make the measurement at four angles for a phase curve."
"Good. Well done."

"Okay people. We have done some remote sensing. And haven't been able to establish the rock's granular material dynamics."
"Our reconaiscence craft is a bloody year and a half from rendezvousing with the rock."
"That's too long. We can't wait."
"That's a problem, I need answers. Think. Think. Think."
"Ideas, shortcuts?"
"Ah sir, most rocks can be characterised based on their predicted source region."
"Like a family?"
"Yes sir."
"Okay. It's like, you know Charles Dickens? You must know Johnny Dickens."
"Anyone has an idea which family this rock belongs to, spectrascopically?"
"Michael."
"That's for Michael?"
"I'm on it sir. Gimme two days."
"No. I give you two hours.", Michael nods, hastily leaves for his desk and computer.

THE ASTEROID IS HOLLOWED OUT! MINED! Meaning in all their archives, they have no deflection simulation of such a rogue man-made shape.
THEY BRING IN ASTEROID MINERS AND ASK ABOUT DEFLECTION DEGREES ETC AND ARE TOLD, WE JUST SPIN IT AROUND, AND MINE AT THE BACK.
WE DON’T MEASURE DEFLECTION DEGREES.
NASA Executives worry that the DAMIEN-IWG Boss is too proding, rude and annoying that he will pertub their guest, Ed Milnar.
As they hover over Ed Milnar, the Damien-IWG boss sees the Space Baron, walks over and says rudely,
"Mr. Big Yatch. Nice to meet you. This way please."
Shaking Milnar's hand.
Aonther Instance, Damien-IWG boss rushes to NASA Boss, with a characterisation imaging of the Rock of Perdition that shows that the rock has drill
holes and a very likely human touch, and screams,
"All our catalogued rocks in the library do not have this. They are not mined. We have useless information."
On another instance, NASA and the other Agencies Team Up against Damien-IWG Boss and try to have him fired.
Introduce deep organisational politics.
The Damien-IWG boss is so annoying, yet he never raises his voice. He is also very sharp, with a razor sharp memory.
Just after NASA employees stood up and clapped hands for him, for getting the budget increases approved for NASA and saving NASA jobs.
Damien-IWG boss must be utterly annoying to almost, everyone. He is probably liked only by the President, and the President is not so popular himself.

"Well. You've seen the rock. Now tell me, anything I should know to make a successful deflection?"
"Its size, (from radar, IR photometry, stellar occulatations, in situ)… "
"Its composition, (Viz+ IR spectroscopy, in situ)… "
"Its mass (Viz+IR spectroscopy, in situ)
"Its density (Viz+IR spectroscopy, in situ)
"Its thermal inertia (Viz+IR spectroscopy, in situ)…
"Spin characteristics (radar, Viz timed photometry, in situ)…
"Interior structure (points 1-5 in situ)…
"Surface structure (IR photometry, radar, in situ)…
"Accurate orbit (Viz+radar astrometry)…

"What's the rendezvous delta velocity?"

"We're not so lucky, , regarding the delta velocities… at rendezvous point."
"The rock shall be intercepted 9 years before it strikes earth…"
"It's orbit intersection point with the reconnaiscence and mitigation spacecraft is 345 million miles from earth…"
"With a very expensive delta velocity…"
"You could use a second intervention, when the rock crosses the minimums-delta-velocity."
"What for?"
"At a semi major axis close to one astronomical unit, low eccentricity, low inclination, it is favourable to reach the rock again. At the lowest cost possible."
"Won't that be too-near-too-late?"
"You gotta make your entire mitigation, one seamless continuum. Each last action, must add up to the first action. Plan. In advance. You can’t afford to wast
"Thank you."

"We gotta REALLY know the asteroid's composition. It's imperative."

"We've determined the composition relating to one, its observational characteristics and, two, chance samples from a rock of the same family…"
"How reliable are your samples?"
"Limited." [beat] "Very limited. Came from one rock, and that's all we got."
"Okay. So… how good is your observational filing?"
"Splendid. The reflectance spectra afforded us a chance to use a chance telescope. We got good shots."
"The shots are never to be regarded as one hundred percent reliable."
"Oh. Why?"
"You're making inferences from color variations. That tends to produce circulalry polarized observations."
"Oh."
"Your observations rest only on the top veneer…"
"We need to go deep?"
"Yes. That's what I've been meaning to say… "
"How the heck do we do that from remote sensing?"
"Try thermal emmisivity."
"Oh. I see. Thank you."

"The discovery of entirely new NEOs has far greater telescope time priority, than the follow up and characterisation of NEOs, already discovered."
"It is too difficult, to obtain telescope time at large facailities…"
"Spectroscopy studies are time demanding…"
"Many new known NEOs are not followed up at all…"
"Some of them, especially small ones below 140m can even get lost…"
"The situation is not going to improve with the advernt of LSST Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, and the increase in new discoveries…"
"Simply, the fraction of characterised NEOs is going to decrease…"
"We definitely need dedicated telescopes."
"Not only dedicated, fully robotized dedicated telescopes."
"They could perform

"Asteroids that've been hollowed-out by mining actvities, tend to obtain new shapes."
"That register as new NEOs, on our space discovery catalogues…"
"Increasing the number of undiscovered bodies."
"And increasing the rate of uknown, uncontrollable impacts."

"Relatively small asteroids near earth, are the most difficult to track and keep."
"They soon quickly fade out of telescopic view."
"We require facilities like Goldstone and Aricebo in size…"
"These two have to operate in close contact,
"Responding to the visual wide-field surveys necessary for full tracking and characterisation."
"This is damn, expensive."

12842 pdf
page 24.
complacency
consolidated appropriations act
"conflict between extremely important and extremely rare."
"I will help you restore your agency's legacy… "
"If you can help me retain my pride and wealth."
"How would you do that?"
"The rocks that you've discovered, are mined. They come from a mined family."
"I know rocks, in and out, you know agency politics."
"NASA is growing stronger each day, stronger against your DAMIEN-IWG."
"And how do I help you?"
"I have people, in the mining business, who would rather have the rocks and their responsibility squared out onto my firm."
"What's wrong with that?"
"I didn’t mine the rocks."
"They were mined, by someone else."
"Are you saying asteroid mining could be dangerous to earth?"
"I am saying no such thing yet. We'll let time prove that to be either true, or false?"
"My greatest concern right now, is to clear my firm of wrong doing in space."

> Find this report,

"The 2017 Report of the Near Earth Object Science Definition Team"
> The report analyses current detection, tracking and characterisation equipment (critically) and explains how combinations of
certain equipment can improve this process accuracy and timeliness.
> Characterisation involves-:
1 - automation and analytical software
2 - deployed sensor systems
3 - data processing capabilities
4 - size,
5 - shape,
6 - rotation period,
7 - pole orientation,
8 - mass,
9 - mineralogical composition,
10 - hydration state,
11 - internal structure, and
12 - other properties.
13 Useing and exercising a plan for rapid characterization of a NEO.
14 identify and correct any issues with the timeliness,
15 quality, and
16 quantity of information provided to the modeling group and decision makers.
Reduce uncertainity.
Accurate modelling.
Effective decision making.

"It has become clear, that we will not meet our 2005 US Congressional mandate, to have by 2020, ninety percent of NEOs above one hundred and forty me
"Is that true? The George Brown Act? Won't be dignified?"
"Yes sir, we need a decade more."
"2030?"
"Yes sir."
Sighs.
"What's our hold up?"
"NASA budget sequestrations. Lack of funding. Infra-red telescopes. Blah, blah, blah. You know the tug of war with Senator Gregory Donning."
"Oh yikes. Okay."
"Some of us might worry about that too, but of major concern is something, even more sinister."
"Asteroid characterisation."
"For every 100 asteroids we discover, only 40% ever get fully characterised."
"That's a total disaster. Its just as good as saying, 60% of the time, we never discovered the asteroids at all."
"For if we know them, and yet cannot tell when or if, they will strike earth… "
"Though we're discovering almost 1 365 NEOs each year…"
"Their characterisation falls way behind."
"We've only been able to characterise 10% of NEOs discovered each year."
"At such rates, it would takes us over a century to clear all known near-earth objects."
"One moment we applaud the discovery of a previously un-identified asteroid, the next moment… we realize the SAME rock can still barrel into earth and t
"Characterisation would've allowed us to know the rocks' size, rotation periods, spectral composition."
"Meaning?"
"We're not safe from suprises for the next century."
"Honourable members of the Space Situational Awareness Committee, an even most chilling fact is…"
[beat]
"Over sixty percent of NEAs, have an orbital uncertainity parameter greater than 40%."
"Excuse me, in layman terms, what does that mean to us?"
"It means, if we discover an asteroid this year, we might not be able to reacquire its location next year…"
"That's absurdly outrageous. How does that happen?"
"We don't know what orbit the rocks follow. We've an inadequate capacity to know."
"Are you also telling us we can't even tell if, and when most of these rocks will even hit earth?"
"Certainly, honorable members of council. Certainly."
"Is this also a NASA cash issue?"
"Yes sir."
"Oh goodness."
"Should we be concerned with this?"
"No sir," gestures at the speaker, the Damien-IWG Boss, "He's a headless chicken."
"Oh?"
"He should keep quite. He, uh… talks too much. Chances of earth ever getting a planet killer, are one in 65 million years."
Stares at NASA Boss, wide-eyed and quizical.
"Any authority in astronomy would tell you that"
"Oh. Will someone shut him up then?"
"I'm working on it."
"I don't need loud-mouthed moles. We face an election, two years from now."
Reduce uncertainity.
Accurate modelling.
Effective decision making.

agencies validate modelling tools,

validate simulations,
validate charecrtirising,
help streamline decision making.

Involves quantitative modeling and analysis capabilities to inform decision makers about:
1) predicted Earth impact probabilities,
2) impact timing and location,
3) impact effects and consequences, and
4) options for impact prevention.

WHO/WHAT ORG WORKS ON THIS-:

Interagency NEO Impact Modeling Group
> An integrated suite of computational tools for modeling NEO impact risks and mitigation techniques.
> The working group should include subject matter experts.
> The group should remain cognizant of relevant modeling and prediction activities.
> The group should track effective implementation of the actions.
> In the event of an impending NEO impact, many independent foreign and domestic sources of information and analysis join the group.

Interagency NEO Impact Information Dissemination Group.

> This group list of all contributing and affected organizations
> The group manages the tasking and flow of modeling and analysis results to relevant officials and organizations.
> Affected Groups Include-:
a) NASA,
b) DHS Science and Technology Directorate,
c) DHS National Protection and Programs Directorate,
d) in collaboration with providers of modeling and analysis results.
e) Ascertain what information each participating organization requires,
f) Ascertain when information each participating organization requires,
g) Identify gaps. Close them.
h) Establish a suite of computer simulation tools for assessing the local, regional, and global risks associated with an impact scenario.
i) potential impact trajectory,
j) a list of at-risk infrastructure,
k) associated probability of damage,

l) assess how variations in NEO properties affect the effectiveness of a deflection or disruption technique,
m) assess the damage caused by an airburst or impact,
n) assess the largest deflection a NEO can tolerate (especially so-called “rubble pile” NEOs with little intrinsic strength) before beginning
to disrupt,
o) continually assess procedures accuracy and relevancy by comparing with latest data from international experiments and asteroid probes.

agencies validate modelling tools,

validate simulations,
validate charecrtirising,
help streamline decision making.

agencies validate modelling tools,

validate simulations,
validate charecrtirising,
help streamline decision making.

send fast respond NEO reconnaissance missions,

timely missions,
deflect or disrupt (deflect less violent, disrupt =nuking)
reduce physical and economic harm to the USA.

An effective deflection or disruption mission will most likely require more detailed and accurate information about the incoming NEO than existing
and planned remote observational capabilities can provide. A capability to rapidly launch a spacecraft to rendezvous with or fly by the NEO and perform
reconnaissance is the only clear way to meet this need. A rapid reconnaissance mission would ideally provide up-close imagery, compositional
information, and mass measurements.

An effective deflection or disruption mission will most likely require more detailed and accurate information about the incoming NEO than existing
and planned remote observational capabilities can provide. A capability to rapidly launch a spacecraft to rendezvous with or fly by the NEO and perform
reconnaissance is the only clear way to meet this need.

The following steps are taken-:

a. Rapid response reconnaiscence mission.
b. NEO Deflection or Disruption mission.

A. Rapid Response Reconnaiscence Mission.

> A rapid reconnaissance mission would ideally provide up-close imagery, compositional information, and mass measurements.
> Perform reconnaissance via spacecraft flyby or rendezvous
> Ensure reconnaissance craft also carries mission deflection and disruption equipment.
> Usee a system to automatically calculate possible trajectories for planetary defense spacecraft to reach potentially hazardous NEOs.

B. NEO Deflection or Disruption Planning and Design.

> preliminary designs for a gravity tractor NEO deflection mission campaign.
> spacecraft would contain all systems necessary to carry and safely employ a nuclear explosive device, but would carry a mass simulator with
appropriate interfaces in place of an actual nuclear device.
> design methods to measure the achieved deflection.
> designs for kinetic impactor mission
> spacecraft is capable of either functioning as a kinetic impactor or delivering a nuclear explosive device.
> include designs for methods to measure the achieved deflection.
> in both cases, work with asteroid miners for intricate knowledge and advice.

C. Conduct a series of NEO Deflection or Disruption tests on harmless asteroid.

> focus on harmless NEOs to test and validate deflection/disruption system concepts and identify design issues for correction.
> Any flight demonstrations relevant to nuclear explosive techniques would not incorporate an actual nuclear device, or involve any
nuclear explosive testing.
> Results would inform decision-making processes during an actual NEO threat scenario.
> Thorough flight testing of a deflection/disruption system prior to an actual planetary defense mission would substantially decrease the risk of
mission failure.

D. NEO Deflection or Disruption mission.

The United States should Use and validate technologies and techniques for deflecting and disrupting NEOs of varying physical properties before the
need arises to deploy them in an actual threat scenario. Earth impact prevention capabilities should include-:
> rapidly reach the NEO.
> conduct necessary rendezvous and proximity operations.
> deploy deflection/disruption technologies.
> harvest synergies by working with private entities, like asteroid mining companies to get additional advice.
> deploy an instrumented means of measuring the deflection over time that can provide valuable assurance of mission success and critical
post-mission situational awareness.
E. DEFLECTION OR DISRUPTION METHODS.
A) Deflection.
> kinetic impactors.
> gravity tractors.
> nuclear devices (safe distance)
B) Disruption.
> Nuclear devices (impact distance- large pulverising bomb)

agencies will engage and inform international entities.

agencies will seek for cooperation with international entities.
neo impacts will have environmental, economic and geopolitical effects even if impacts occur outside USA.
> while international cooperation is the most effective way to manage NEO impact risks, the USA shall also
be prepared to work independently, through all phases that may occur during an impact scenario, to protect
and preserve America's interests.
>The risk of a NEO impact is a worldwide hazard.
> international cooperation is the best way to improve both warning and response.
> The United States should assume a leadership role in fostering global collaboration.
> The United States and other nations already share observations and research.
> "We are also are considering options for coordinated responses."
> "Our NASA PDCO works with the IAWN and the Space Mission Planning Advisory Group (SMPAG), whose establishment was recommended by the UNCO
> "Our international participation in these efforts has improved our collective situational awareness, predictions, and overall preparedness for the NEO even
UNCOPUOS Respond to the US
> strategic objectives to increase international cooperation on NEO awareness and preparation are.
> • Build international awareness of potential NEO impacts as a global challenge
> • Increase international engagement and cooperation on observation infrastructure, numerical modeling, and scientific research
> • Foster consultation and coordination on NEO impact planning, mitigation, and response
according to USA policy document, but this has not been adhered to, after major accusations from Russia and China, and the world at large.
"We bring to America's attention, December 2013"
"Under directives and endorsement of the UN General Council, our COPUOS, created the Space Mission Planning Advisory Group, that
is solely charged with devising an appropriate type space mission, in response to an asteroid or comet threat once detected."
"And might we remind you that America, went on and unilaterally chose its own asteroid mitigation, which other countries have now found,
to be unfairly biased towards American economic and geopolitical interests."
"May the honourbale council be reminded also, of five things."
"Firstly, ACTION TEAM-14, which was formed by the UN General Council, composed of 12 countries with space agencies and space-related international gro
decade to reach consensus - just to get to the climaxing point of drafting recommendations on how the citizens of earth, should react to an asteroid threat."
"Secondly, the Space Mission Planning Advisory Group, that you mention as solely and adequately authorized to decide for the whole planet, was the produ
contention."
"Third, with all due respect for the auspices and mandates of the UN, the United States of America, has never ratified any of the UN Space Treaties, to parta
"Fourth, America did not wait a decade, to decide to save the planet,we acted immediately, and for this, we stand before your council today, as objects of u
"Fifth and most importantly, dear council members, with asteroid threats, if one will only blink, they blink away a year to waste, and humanity perishes for
before we get to waste a whole decade."

US Defense.
> Underscore U.S. positions in relevant international NEO impact initiatives and promote awareness in other international organizations and meetings.
> This action includes an annual U.S. Statement under the NEOs agenda item of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the UNCOPUOS.
> special technical presentations on NEOs at UNCOPUOS and other relevant international bodies.
> Useing and implementing a plan for outreach and education to assist countries in understanding NEO impact effects for use by relevant international
disaster management bodies to aid in decision-making.
> adding NEOs as an agenda item in bilateral consultations, including existing space policy dialogues with key spacefaring nations.
US Tactic. (To fool the world)
> Continue to demonstrate U.S. leadership in technical international NEO organizations.
> increase awareness among all countries, in particular space agency officials, of the need to address NEO issues in major international bodies.
> This action should include making NEO issues an agenda item at scientific and technical meetings as appropriate.
> It should also include adding NEO issues and the need to address them to agendas at major international conferences.
ALL THE OTHER AGENCIES ARE TOO BUSY TO ENGAGE THE WORLD FOR A PUBLIC PROFILE.
DAMIEN-IWG GETS TO BE THE ONES WHO GO, WITH A LOW LEVEL NASA PROFILE STAFF.
UN Defense on US Behalf.
> The United States provides a significant majority of the global observational infrastructure and scientific research related to NEOs.
> Others countries and institutions are beginning to expand their work in this field, but we should do more to leverage the resources of the global commun
UN Exceptions for the US.
> Improve international collaboration on observation infrastructure and data sharing, as well as numerical modeling and scientific research.
> This action should be accomplished by involving more countries in the work of IAWN, consistent with law, so that it can serve as an effective body for
international collaboration on observation infrastructure, data sharing, numerical modeling, and scientific research
> This action should include Useing and implementing a plan to broaden and enhance U.S. interagency participation in these forums, and a list of
actions to encourage other nations to join the activities, consistent with law.
> Encourage participation in tabletop and physical exercises with global partners regarding preparedness, prevention, response, and recovery efforts.
Include realistic modeling data from the integrated suite of computational tools Useed in Goal 2 and the scenarios Useed in Action 5.1 to ensure
high fidelity in the exercise.

> Useing and exercising procedures and action protocols to support decision-making and communications will enable timely and effective
implementation of NEO impact response and mitigation measures
> Communication and coordination are necessary across all areas of government and span the entire impact scenario timeline.
> Since NEO impact emergencies are extremely rare, it is important to leverage procedures and practices used for other disasters wherever practical.
> At the same time, due to the unique nature of the NEO threat (including the rarity of damaging events, the scale of potential consequences, and the
legal and policy implications of potential mitigation measures), most scenarios will involve direct Presidential decision making
> NASA and FEMA have established notification processes for potential NEO impacts.
> and also established in August 2015 the Planetary Impact Emergency Response Working Group (PIERWG) to Use guidance for NEO impact preparation.
> PIERWG will continue to perform its coordination responsibilities under FEMA direction.
> FEMA will maintain the statutory responsibility to manage emergency planning and response and will leverage existing coordination and
communications mechanisms wherever appropriate.
> FEMA and NASA will jointly Use public communication protocols.
> FEMA coordinates Usement of emergency response plans for all hazards via the Federal Interagency Operations Plans (FIOP) and Annexes.

FEMA, NASA, DHS Provide.

> Threat-assessment, upon detection of a potential NEO impact, inform subsequent communication and decision making bodies.

> Coordinated communications and notifications regarding NEO threats

> after-action reports from previous exercises for DHS National Protection and Programs Directorate, FEMA Exercise Division, and FEMA National
Preparedness Assessments Division.
> names of subject matter experts who can answer questions from government officials
> updating the threat assessment based on improved data.
> Standardized threat assessment content to provide suitable inputs for subsequent decisions regarding notification, mitigation, response, and recovery.
> specified thresholds for time to impact (e.g., hours, days, months, years, decades).
> probability of impact (e.g., greater than 0.1%, 1%, 10%, 50%).
> expected level of damage (e.g., local, regional, global).
> and whether a deflection/disruption mission is feasible for mitigation.
<>Useing decision-threshold-based protocols for communications and notifications regarding NEO impact threats will enable an integrated federal
response that is also coordinated with State, Local, and foreign governments.
<>Decision thresholds for notifications and other communications will likely depend on probability of impact, predicted impact location, and expected
level of damage, though notification thresholds may not depend on the time until impact.
<>Revisit and validate the current notification protocol chain-of-command. Adjust accordingly the protocols for notifying and communicating within the
Federal government regarding NEO threats. This action should culminate in an action flowchart and updated or revalidated memo for NASA PDCO
and FEMA. [Short term; OSTP, NASA, FEMA]
> This action should culminate in a NEO Preparedness Threat Assessment format and protocol, including key points of contact from relevant agencies,
delivered to OSTP, NASA, DHS/FEMA, and other agencies.
<>Use protocols for notifying The White House and Congress (including briefing appropriate subcommittees), State and Local governments,
the public, foreign governments, and other international organizations, regarding NEO threats.
> Use appropriate modifications from existing emergency alerts based on specific NEO impact factors.
> Use an action flowchart for NASA PDCO. It should also include Useing warnings and text for emergency alerts. [Medium term; OSTP, NASA, FEMA, State]
<> Use informational material for different audiences providing basic education, information on uncertainties, and emergency response plans.
> use integrated information and education package with social media, internet, and traditional press release formats for relevant information.
[Short term; NASA, FEMA, OSTP].

<> Use benchmarks for determining when to recommend NEO reconnaissance, deflection, and disruption missions. This action should culminate
in a threshold-based flowchart for agencies. [Short term; NASA, DOE, DOD, OSTP]

<> The FEMA Administrator will, under current authorities granted by the Stafford Act, Post Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act, and other
applicable statues, implement response and recovery actions necessary to save lives, mitigate suffering, and limit property damage. [Short term; FEMA,
NASA PDCO, OSTP, EPA]

> Presidential Recommendations of space-based reconnaissance and mitigation missions .

<> When a threat assessment concludes that a NEO poses a real impact threat and that space-based mitigation is feasible, that assessment should
initiate a process to Use recommendations for the President regarding space-based reconnaissance and mitigation missions.
This process includes-:
> an analysis of mitigation alternatives to examine the risks,
> benefits,
> and uncertainties associated with various approaches,
> leading to recommendations on how to proceed,
TO AID PRESIDENTIAL ADVISORY FUNCTIONS.
<> Decision flowcharts will likely incorporate decision thresholds based on-:
> time to impact,
> probability of impact,
> expected level of damage,
> and impact location.

Activities to be financed through the budget process.

DAMIEN-IWG ensures departments are fully coordinated.
DAMIEN-IWG organises and coordiates agency activities.
DAMIEN-IWG emphasis is on already existing and resourced activities.
Detecting and Mitigating the Impact of Earth-bound Near-Earth Objects.
DAMIEN-IWG
Research boss of DAMIEN-IWG

DAMIEN-IWG ensues each agency performs its task on time, as one task leads to the other, all cascading
up to the final conclusion of NEO mitigation and impact management success.
Some activities should take days, some should take weeks, whilst some should take months/years.
Each activity has to be triggered at the appropriate time.
Some activities are triggered at the same time as the short ones, but yielding results after years.
It is DAMIEN-IWG's role to ensure these actvities are triggered on time, performed fully and that there is
inter-agency cohesion.

DAMIEN-IWG crafted this-';

" NATIONAL NEAR-EARTH OBJECT PREPAREDNESS STRATEGY AND ACTION PLAN "
 Body Location Controller
1 Caltech Space Symposium
2 Lockheed Martin.
3 Kiss
4 JPL

5 International Asteroid Warning Network UN Action Team 14

6 Space Mission Planning Advisory Group UN General Assembly
7 ESA Space Situational Awareness ESRIN, Italy ESA

8 UN Action Team on Near Earth Objects R R

Known as Action Team 14

9 US Governement Accountability Office

GAO
GAO defends budgets for all US departments A report is prepared by GAO
by providing back up information and analysis to Accompany the National
if any department needs its allocation Space Defence Authorisation
increased or maintained. To avoid Bill for fiscal year 2058 for NASA
sequestration and budget cuts. to get an increase in its budget
allocation for asteroid detection,
tracking and deflection programs.
The bill is debated for voting by
Congress before it can be
passed into an act/law.

10 Air Force’s Joint Space Operations Center

11 DAMIEN-IWG calls GAO, asking for them to back up DAMIEN-IWG Boss, on an urgent rap,
NASA's coming bid to have a budget increase. asking and answering his own
They explain this to GAO. questions on the tele-conference
call to GAO.
House of Science, Space and Technology
Committee meeting
Rayburn Office Building.
In Attendance, DAMIEN-IWG, NASA, Airforce,
Spaceforce.

GAO, DAMIEN-IWG, NASA facing Congress

Planetary Defense Committee
GAO is on NASA's defense.

DAMIEN-IWG Boss cuts in to save

UN Space Council Meeting.
DAMIEN-IWG, NASA, and US Secretary to the UN are
present.
DHS
DOD
DOE
DOI
State
FEMA
NASA
NNSA
NOAA
NSF
ODNI
OSTP
OMB
PDCO
USAF
USGS
 CEO

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Senate Committee Chair, impatiently

DAMIEN-IWG Boss cuts in to save the day

Senate Committee Chair

takes off her glasses-looks hard
at DAMIEN-IWG Boss.

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SSA- Space Situational Awareness. Covering missile defense, and asteroid threats.
Purposes

1. Tracks and calculates asteroid risk using UN coordinated astronauts, scientists and tools all over the world.
1. Devises a defensive response once a serious threat is detected.
Runs a dedicated NEO Cordination Centre.
Where Operators monitor and continuously update observations from professional and amateur teams across Europe

Has crafted a roster of recommendations for an international response to the asteroid impact threat.
Research on Roaster.

"The six billion bucks for space situational awareness, is dominated by Pentagon, NASA only gets 10% of that money."
"Oh yeah. I am aware, but we still need deliverables Charles. We're too damned behind on the asteroid preparedness front."
"I can't do much. Congress is complaining about tracking SSA spending across multiple departments. It's difficult. I assure you.
Some of our agencies don't even make asteroid threat SSA priority, like they do for Missile Defence."
"I know. I am also aware, this has made it difficult to have funds allocated to SSA increased."

"You don’t understand. Its like Congress keeps cutting my NASA budgets,while it expands the military space activity, even introducing a
brand new sixth defence agency."
"Space Force? Come on Charles, let's stick to asteroid business and leave the department of defence alone."
"Can't afford it. Ridiculous as it sounds, Space Force are just an Air Force top up. With zero space knowledge. Still they
get billions. To fund them, my NASA is getting mercilessly cut into sequestration."
"Oh yeah. Hoping this solves our looming asteroid issues.? Guesse not."
"No, no, no Damien. Need I remind people, historically on earth, NASA is the strongest, most active and most knowleadgable force in space.
We even account for our Space Situational Awareness spent, whilst the military departments don’t, and can't."
"I know. Can we get to something here Charles… "
"Yet Congress keeps asking for overal accountability on SSA from GAO, they almost get none. And when they get none, they get
pissed. And who do they cut off even more? NASA. Because you mention SPACE, the bell that rings in their heads
is NASA. Not the whole damn lot of other agencies."
"Okay. Okay. Got you Charles. Let's work together on this one. Quite frankly, let's cut the blame game, red tape, and
Congress bullshit. Blah, blah, blah. The asteroid threat from space is upon us. We need to act, now."
"Well… agreed."
"Good. Any suggestions? Any starting points?"
Silence.
"Charles?"
"Yap. I have some idea. You could ask… the Air Force’s Joint Space Operations Center… to drop US500million of their SSA money.
For us to pick up. Might help a bit."
"Goodness. Charles. What?"
"Uh huh… remember. Congress views SSA budgets as one umbrella figure. Drop-a-dollar, pick-a-dollar."
"Okay. [Beat] Exactly how much do you need, tops, to get NASA up and running on the asteroid front?"
"US15billion. Every year."
"Jeez. Okay, Airforce. Have you tried talking to them?"
"Tried them, several times. They turned me down."
"Okay. Charles. Bye. Thanks." Cuts the fone.
"Christ. The man-in-charge at NASA, no longer thinks straight. He is… broken."

"US500 million dollars?"

"A token ask, Commander."
"No ways. Can't work."
"I have nowhere else to go, Brandon."
"I can't even spare NASA 10 million bucks. You know."
"Then we are dead. The whole earth is doomed."
Tell you what, this year alone, we issued over 671 000 notifications of possible orbital collisions. Space is deeply congested
with spacecraft debris and working spacecrafts. Its a mine field out there. New firms launching satellites,
are having a hell of a problem finding a free spot."
"Worldwide realtime communications are at stake here. We know"
You don't understand. Satellites communications safety. Survellience equipment safety. That's my Space Situational
Awareness. That's my baby. Not hunting for damn asteroids.
"Space belongs to the whole world. You shouldn’t necessarily defend all countries satellites."
"Exactly. Just like the asteroid threats. NASA shouldn’t also be defending the whole world. The UN should. Jeez."
"Come on Brandon. Don't think of the UN Space Council. With them it's just talk and zero cohesive action, They are the
UN for Christsakes. They talk on behalf of the whole world, and America funds and acts that talk. We all know that.
Look at how shallow their UN Space Treaty of 1967 is? I read the thing. It’s pathetic."
"I know friend."
"So, will you drop the US500 million for NASA to pick up? They need it."
"No."
DAMIEN-IWGS Boss, stands up abruptly, starts to leave.
"I've the same global problem here. Russia and China are not helping. They keep firing missiles at non-working
satellites. Blowing them up. Compounding my debris issues. You gotta understand. I have no help to
offer NASA. Cant do it. And why are you fighting NASA's battles?"
"I understand. You can't help me."
DAMIEN-IWG Boss and his team leave.

"Our government relies primarily on us, the Department of Defense(DOD) and the Intelligence Community
to provide Space Situational Awareness (SSA). According to DOD, a potential of 375 sensors and systems—satellites,
ground-based radars, and optical telescopes—are available to contribute to SSA. You will notice, DOD owns
most of these sensors and systems. "
Beat.
"NASA is a none entity. For much of the core group of sensors, anyways. "
Beat.
"You ask, so what does DOD need the SSA sensors for? I say, missile warning. Missile defense. You ask, who
is then taking care of Near Earth Bodies? Asteorids? Impact hazards? All fingers point at NASA. And do they get the
cash to fund it? Nope. They get none. We choke up US6 billion a year on everybody's SSA. They get peanuts just
over US150 million. NASA is no longer hiring staff. They're cutting jobs, conferences, training. And all that invaluable
space experience they had? Gone. Getting rusty and buried. Still, they gotta do the job."
"How much do they need? Tops?"
"15 billion dollars. Like now. [beat] And every year."
"Jeez."
"Why doesn’t NASA ask for that money, from their House of Representatives Appropriations Committee?"
"Aaarg. You know the kid heading NASA. Charles Bolden. He is a former Astronout. He is no politician. You ask him how we
come to be so exposed on the asteroid front, he tells you Pentagon is choking up all the SSA funding. Period."
"Jeez."
"You know what he told Congress, on the Whats What March 19 hearing on asteroid preparadness?"
"Surely. Can only guesse."
"He said, "We don’t know of an asteroid that will threaten the population of the United States, but if it’s coming in
three weeks, pray.” "
"Jeez."
"He is being ravaged by Senator Gregory Donning, who chairs the subcommittee in charge of NASA appropriations, he
has no choice, but to buckle under the pressure."
"Nah. He should learn to fight."
"He doesn’t fight. He can't fight. He needs our help. You give him budget cuts that almost sink NASA in budgetary
sequestrations, he sends emails and tweets to his staff, saying, "We're doing everything to help keep your jobs. Keep
focussed on our priorities." , then he cries afterwards, as his staff gets laid off."
"Oh boy."
"I beg you. We need the money to go to NASA. Asap. The real threat, is not
missiles hitting any of our assets in space. It's asteroids hitting earth. Please."

Get detail on responsibilities during asteroid deflection, later.

"The overal budget for Space Situational Awareness operations, is going to payroll. Averages about 83 percent
through the ten years from 2047 to 2057. In addition, the government is planning to invest about $27 billion in SSA.
With the aim to purchase new sensors and systems over the next few fiscal years."
Beat.
"We can bet you, instead of going to SSA, 83 percent of that, will go to payroll. For military personel."
Congress reflects shock at this.
"It's suprising? No. The governement agencies responsible for spending that SSA money, cannot currently account for
their Space Situational Awareness spending. Its not a core business for them."
"Surely, this is madness. How can they keep getting funding for SSA, when each year, there is no accounting
for it? And we pay for salaries - instead of equipment. Is GAO not to be held responsible for this?"
"Compiling a comprehensive SSA budget beyond the core efforts, has been challenging, because the SSA mission
involves assets from multiple agencies and organizations, and a full budget is not maintained."
"That's total crap."
"I think we as Congress, should move away, from just funding and funding. We should request that all governement
departments fully account for their spending, on an item by item basis. Avoid the blanketing of things."
"That’s accepted. Still, silly that SSA is not tracked as an individual budget item, even across all governement agencies?"
Congress Member (not lobbied) grills his eyes into GAO Boss, clearly expecting an asnwer. Cold Silence.
"Like I said, its not a primary mission for the agencies."
"That's still not acceptable."
"Our SSA efforts are not tracked because the sensors would continue to operate even if the SSA mission did
not exist. We care more for missile protection, than we do for asteroids. We're a defense force, we regard fellow
humans as a threat, way more than wondering rocks in space."
That settles it for now.
"So what does GAO recommend?"

"As space has become more congested and contested, the potential for intentional and unintentional threats to
space assets and earth has increased, according to DOD…"
"Come on GAO, we're past that. And that's off topic."
"We request money, for NASA's programs. US15 billion. Urgently needed to resusciate asteroid threat detection, characterisation,
tracking, and deflection. Needed like, yersterday. Please."
"In all the history of budgetary debates for US Agencies, we have never experienced an agency's
budgetary needs, defended by multiple other agencies. Thank you DAMIEN-IWG, thank you GAO. If other committee
members agree, we shall purpose by vote to propose a bill to Congress for the urgent US15 billion needed by NASA.
We may possibly, support you."

"What's my status? 4 years since you sent 8 gravity tractors."

" A bit too late, I am afraid, Mr President. Like you are aware, the tractors rendezvoused with the rock yersterday."
"What's the issue now?"
 "Now that we are close to the asteroid, we have specific measurements of its size, speed, albedo and its spin factor. The
gravity tractor options would need close to 9 1/2 years to work."
MIEN-IWG Boss
"We spent a year fighting for funds. Two years building the interceptor spacecrafts. And four years racing through
space to meet up with the rock. We only got 8 years left to attempt a full deflection."
" It could have worked, if gravity tractors had already been sent to the rock."
"Yeah. We should have sent the tractors, a year before it was even confirmed the rock would be a direct hit. Instead, we got
hooked in pointless, Congressional debates."
"I am speechless. A mere over debating of issues would result in major catastrophy."
"Okay. What's left in the pot, we have eight years in our hands."
"Violent options, sir. Nuking the rock."
"That's a negative. UN Space Treaty forbids the use of weapons or arming of spacecraft in space."
"With all due respect Mr. Secretary sir, our first arguments were on seeking funds. Took us a whole wasted year. No one
wanted to consider believing the rock could hit us. Later, we got the money. It was too late. Yet if you were to ask China and Russia for
that money, they would gladly pay the full cost at a moment's blink. The money won't break their banks."
"Just as it wont break our bank, either."
"My point is, they would rather pay for the asteroid deflection, so that they can determine where the rock lands on earth. Since, all we
are left with now, are two scary options. Nuking the rock, or landing it on earth."
"Nuking is totally out of option."
"Kindof guessed you would say that."
"If we don’t nuke the rock now, chances are, if we nuke it closer to earth, it will break into pieces that will scatter all over the planet."
"Well that nuking is prohibited by International Law under the UN Space Treaty of 1967… "
"I need answers, not debates. The whole earth is at peril, gentlemen."
"What happens if we don’t nuke the rock?"
"Deflection efforts can only change its trajectory to hit somewhere safer on earth."
"Like what?"
"Our simulations say, the Atlantic Ocean."
"Oh God."
Beat.
"What is China's and Russia's concern there?"
"We don't know for certain. Just that it would be in their best interest if the rock would land further down South
Atlantic."
"Definitely not agreed. Even Canada would contest that. If we consider the option at all, the rock must land in Northen Atlantic."
"I can handle that, through proper UN channels…"
"Come on Fred. When will you learn. There are no UN channels that work solely in our favour."
Beat.
"What happens if we nuke the rock now?"
"Not excatly now sir."
"Okay. Nuke ships. They gotta travel?"
"Yes sir."
"How long will they take?"
"Two and a half years, at most."
"The gravity tractors would have given us just enough trajectory shift, such that properly positioned nuking can
deflect the pieces away, at a 60:40 reduced chance of impact."
"Jeez."
Beat.
"That's the best we can do?"
"So far, yes."
"Very well. What will you have to do, to get the UN to agree to allow our nukes in space, now."
"We'll have to ask the UN to repeal its 1967 Space Treaty, just this once."
"How long does it take?"
"With great lobbying, maybe a year."
"Ridiculous. No."
"6 months, maybe. It's hard to say with UN red tape."
"How long does it take to gather enough UN members and fly them here?"
"Three weeks."
"I give you one week. Get the law repealed."
"The biggest obstacle in deflecting a killer asteroid away from Earth may be humanity's inability to get along."
"I beg to differ, the nations of the world already have the technological know-how to prevent dangerous space rocks from
barreling into our planet, provided we detect them in time."
"You forget honorable member of council, that such a vital job requires a great deal of international cooperation.
History has clearly shown that working together, is not our species' strong suit."
"What are you implying to council, Mr Secretary."
"Honorable council, somebody's got to make the decision to actually mount the deflection, and do it quickly. We have no time left to waste."
"Your issue honourable member, is not a technical problem at all."
"Yes. Still, it’s the toughest of all."
"As the UN we can assure you. If this at all turns out to be a thorn, we have due processes to map a way,
around cohesiveness issues."
"Thank you sir. Still that remains to be seen."
"I propose we move urgently to the motion of how we can deflect the approaching asteroid, off a collision course with earth."
LATER.
"Charles Bolden. He must take council through deflection steps,sir. Something to do with possible deflection
distances. Choices, now limited."

"Council Chairman, may I propose that we let NASA take us through the options available to us now, as we have a couple of
NASA gravity tractors in orbit around the rock."
LATER.
"The asteroid in question is no longer a decade away from earth impact."
"A couple of the deflection options we could have launched, are no longer viable."
"Please NASA. Take us through what we are able to do. Which is, what must be done now."

"The safest place we can haul the rock to, using gravity tractors, is for a landing somehwere in the Atlantic Ocean."
"There, the most damage would be an immense loss of sea life, and gigantic tsunamis."
Hitting most of the coastal cities around the Atlantic."
"Where in the Atlantic?"
"North Atlantic, ofcourse…"
"Never."
"Land it in the South Atlantic."
"That's pure madness."
"Oh yeah. We are mad now?"
"Gentlemen. Order."
"The US is only being selfish, because its their gravity tractors that have control over the asteroid."
"Well let's jam the tractors. Oh yeah. We can jam them, and take control."
"Honorable members, order."
"The rock can land in the mid-Atlantic."
SILENCE. EVERYWHERE.
"But if you all are not comfortable with it. Allow us to launch a spacecraft that will go nuke the rock now, and we
stand a 60:40 chance of averting impact."
"And who are you sir?"
"US Defense Department. DAMIEN-IWG. Space Situational Awareness."
"Whats the worst case scenario for the 40 percent failure chance?"
"Maybe 20 to thirty smaller rocks. Ramming into earth, all over. They won't be planet killers, but they can do city
obliteration."
"We have a law that forbids weapons use in space."
"Which is why your honorable council has to offer urgent relief, and vote for a temporary repeal."
"We'll take that up as council, if there are no other options left. Anyone, any member country with a better idea?"
SILENCE. EVERYWHERE.
Then the Chinese delegate lifts up his hand.
"Yes China?"
"Whose spacecrafts will go to do the nuking?"
"Russian spacecrafts."
"No ways."
 "It has to be a Chinese spacecraft."
"The US is the most responsible, we all know that."
"Oh yeah. Responsible enough to secretly send your gravity tractors to space, and not tell anyone, so that you can control
where the rock lands."
"Oh that's pure nonsense…"
"Order. Honorable members, order please."
LATER.
"We will determine whose ships will go to do a supervised nuking of the asteroid, and what team composition
by way of vote and fair representation."

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USA Asteroid Threat Mitigation Procedures.

No. Step Bodies

1 Detection.
NASA leads
USAF Airforce
National Science Foundation
2 Tracking.
NASA leads

3 Characterization Capabilities.
NASA Leads

4 NEO Modelling.
Agencies Coordinate

Tools, Measures, Analysis,

and Interpretation and response
timing.

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NASA, FEMA
NASA, FEMA

(DoD) Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
NASA
National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA
National Laboratories
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
USGS

5 Prediction.
Agenices Coordinate

6 Information Intergration.
Agencies Coordinate

7 Deflection/Disruption.
Nasa Leads
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8 International Cooperation.
Agencies will Coordinate

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9 Emergency Procedures.
FEMA leads
 NASA PDCO, OSTP, NASA, FEMA

10 Action Protocols
US governement will lead
Inter Agency Working Group
IWG
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Process

Reduce uncertainity.
Accurate modelling.
Effective decision making.
> NEOs 40-70 meters across difficult to detect.
> might only be detected a few days before impact.
> there are over 300 000 NEOs of this size.
> 5-10 megatons of energy released.
> NEOs of 140 meters, can devastate whole regions, or continents.
> they are far apart and easier to detect.
> NASA has found and catalogued a third of them.
> they are estimated to number 25 000.
> early detection & characterisation increases the time available to make decisions.
> it also increase time available to take effective mitigation action.
> it is the first priority for planetary defense.
NASA's initial assessment of NEO impact threats, process, is overseen by NASA’s PCDO, includes
1. receipt and analysis of observations by the Minor Planet Center,
2. transmission of potential impact analysis results by the JPL Center for NEO Studies,
3. and formal notification to the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).
This approach provides a sound basis upon which to build. Additional action will ensure that the content, format, and timeline of NASA’s notification
to OSTP and any others effectively support subsequent communications and decision-making.
> NASA funds the Minor Planet Center, (MPC).
>And use the MPC as a clearing house for NEOs discovered worldwide.
> NASA also gets informed by the International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN),
> NASA also has a working partnership with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope constructed in Chile.
which was funded by the National Science Foundation.
> attention to tracking smaller NEOs has improved.
> after Chelyabinks, and knowing that they can unleash vast damage to human life and infrastructure.
> NASA given directive to detect, track and characterise 90% of all NEOs 50-140 meters by 2030 by the US Government.
> Progress has been made, but directive is still not fulfilled (research reasons).
> NASA is years behind schedule.
> NEO characterisation comes after detection and tracking.
> Charectirisation relies heavily on measuring and analyzing different frequencies of light (its spectral signature),
supplemented with radar data when possible.
> NASA works closely with the US Geoligical Survey department on this.
> Both departments maintain spectral libraries that provide reference samples to aid researchers in determining NEO composition.
> Academia largely conducts these analyses, relying on an informal collaboration network across institutes.
> This process has provided excellent scientific results, but its reliability has not been demonstrated in a crisis situation.
THE ASTEROID IS HOLLOWED OUT! MINED! Meaning in all their archives, they have no deflection simulation of such a rogue man-made shape.
THEY BRING IN ASTEROID MINERS AND ASK ABOUT DEFLECTION DEGREES ETC AND ARE TOLD, WE JUST SPIN IT AROUND, AND MINE AT THE BACK.
WE DON’T MEASURE DEFLECTION DEGREES.
NASA Executives worry that the DAMIEN-IWG Boss is too proding, rude and annoying that he will pertub their guest, Ed Milnar.
As they hover over Ed Milnar, the Damien-IWG boss sees the Space Baron, walks over and says rudely,
"Mr. Big Yatch. Nice to meet you. This way please."
Shaking Milnar's hand.
Aonther Instance, Damien-IWG boss rushes to NASA Boss, with a characterisation imaging of the Rock of Perdition that shows that the rock has drill
holes and a very likely human touch, and screams,
"All our cataloguesd rocks in the library do not have this. They are not mined. We have useless information."
On another instance, NASA and the other Agencies Team Up against Damien-IWG Boss and try to have him fired.
Introduce deep organisational politics.
The Damien-IWG boss is so annoying, yet he never raises his voice. He is also very sharp, with a razor sharp memory.
Just after NASA employees stood up and clapped hands for him, for getting the budget increases approved for NASA and saving NASA jobs.
Damien-IWG boss must be utterly annoying to almost, everyone. He is probably liked only by the President, and the President is not so popular himself.
> Find this report,
"The 2017 Report of the Near Earth Object Science Definition Team"
> The report analyses current detection, tracking and characterisation equipment (critically) and explains how combinations of
certain equipment can improve this process accuracy and timeliness.
> Characterisation involves-:
1 - automation and analytical software
2 - deployed sensor systems
3 - data processing capabilities
4 - size,
5 - shape,
6 - rotation period,
7 - pole orientation,
8 - mass,
9 - mineralogical composition,
10 - hydration state,
11 - internal structure, and
12 - other properties.
13 Useing and exercising a plan for rapid characterization of a NEO.
14 identify and correct any issues with the timeliness,
15 quality, and
16 quantity of information provided to the modeling group and decision makers.

Reduce uncertainity.
Accurate modelling.
Effective decision making.

Reduce uncertainity.
Accurate modelling.
Effective decision making.

agencies validate modelling tools,

validate simulations,
validate charecrtirising,
help streamline decision making.

Involves quantitative modeling and analysis capabilities to inform decision makers about:
1) predicted Earth impact probabilities,
2) impact timing and location,
3) impact effects and consequences, and
4) options for impact prevention.

WHO/WHAT ORG WORKS ON THIS-:

Interagency NEO Impact Modeling Group
> An integrated suite of computational tools for modeling NEO impact risks and mitigation techniques.
> The working group should include subject matter experts.
> The group should remain cognizant of relevant modeling and prediction activities.
> The group should track effective implementation of the actions.
> In the event of an impending NEO impact, many independent foreign and domestic sources of information and analysis join the group.

Interagency NEO Impact Information Dissemination Group.

> This group list of all contributing and affected organizations
> The group manages the tasking and flow of modeling and analysis results to relevant officials and organizations.
> Affected Groups Include-:
a) NASA,
b) DHS Science and Technology Directorate,
c) DHS National Protection and Programs Directorate,
d) in collaboration with providers of modeling and analysis results.
e) Ascertain what information each participating organization requires,
f) Ascertain when information each participating organization requires,
g) Identify gaps. Close them.
h) Establish a suite of computer simulation tools for assessing the local, regional, and global risks associated with an impact scenario.
i) potential impact trajectory,
j) a list of at-risk infrastructure,
k) associated probability of damage,

l) assess how variations in NEO properties affect the effectiveness of a deflection or disruption technique,
m) assess the damage caused by an airburst or impact,
n) assess the largest deflection a NEO can tolerate (especially so-called “rubble pile” NEOs with little intrinsic strength) before beginning
to disrupt,
o) continually assess procedures accuracy and relevancy by comparing with latest data from international experiments and asteroid probes.

agencies validate modelling tools,

validate simulations,
validate charecrtirising,
help streamline decision making.

agencies validate modelling tools,

validate simulations,
validate charecrtirising,
help streamline decision making.

send fast respond NEO reconnaissance missions,

timely missions,
deflect or disrupt (deflect less violent, disrupt =nuking)
reduce physical and economic harm to the USA.

An effective deflection or disruption mission will most likely require more detailed and accurate information about the incoming NEO than existing
and planned remote observational capabilities can provide. A capability to rapidly launch a spacecraft to rendezvous with or fly by the NEO and perform
reconnaissance is the only clear way to meet this need. A rapid reconnaissance mission would ideally provide up-close imagery, compositional
information, and mass measurements.

An effective deflection or disruption mission will most likely require more detailed and accurate information about the incoming NEO than existing
and planned remote observational capabilities can provide. A capability to rapidly launch a spacecraft to rendezvous with or fly by the NEO and perform
reconnaissance is the only clear way to meet this need.

The following steps are taken-:

a. Rapid response reconnaiscence mission.
b. NEO Deflection or Disruption mission.

A. Rapid Response Reconnaiscence Mission.

> A rapid reconnaissance mission would ideally provide up-close imagery, compositional information, and mass measurements.
> Perform reconnaissance via spacecraft flyby or rendezvous
> Ensure reconnaissance craft also carries mission deflection and disruption equipment.
> Usee a system to automatically calculate possible trajectories for planetary defense spacecraft to reach potentially hazardous NEOs.

B. NEO Deflection or Disruption Planning and Design.

> preliminary designs for a gravity tractor NEO deflection mission campaign.
> spacecraft would contain all systems necessary to carry and safely employ a nuclear explosive device, but would carry a mass simulator with
appropriate interfaces in place of an actual nuclear device.
> design methods to measure the achieved deflection.
> designs for kinetic impactor mission
> spacecraft is capable of either functioning as a kinetic impactor or delivering a nuclear explosive device.
> include designs for methods to measure the achieved deflection.
> in both cases, work with asteroid miners for intricate knowledge and advice.

C. Conduct a series of NEO Deflection or Disruption tests on harmless asteroid.

> focus on harmless NEOs to test and validate deflection/disruption system concepts and identify design issues for correction.
> Any flight demonstrations relevant to nuclear explosive techniques would not incorporate an actual nuclear device, or involve any
nuclear explosive testing.
> Results would inform decision-making processes during an actual NEO threat scenario.
> Thorough flight testing of a deflection/disruption system prior to an actual planetary defense mission would substantially decrease the risk of
mission failure.

D. NEO Deflection or Disruption mission.

The United States should Use and validate technologies and techniques for deflecting and disrupting NEOs of varying physical properties before the
need arises to deploy them in an actual threat scenario. Earth impact prevention capabilities should include-:
> rapidly reach the NEO.
> conduct necessary rendezvous and proximity operations.
> deploy deflection/disruption technologies.
> harvest synergies by working with private entities, like asteroid mining companies to get additional advice.
> deploy an instrumented means of measuring the deflection over time that can provide valuable assurance of mission success and critical
post-mission situational awareness.

E. DEFLECTION OR DISRUPTION METHODS.

A) Deflection.
> kinetic impactors.
> gravity tractors.
> nuclear devices (safe distance)
B) Disruption.
> Nuclear devices (impact distance- large pulverising bomb)

agencies will engage and inform international entities.

agencies will seek for cooperation with international entities.
neo impacts will have environmental, economic and geopolitical effects even if impacts occur outside USA.
> while international cooperation is the most effective way to manage NEO impact risks, the USA shall also
be prepared to work independently, through all phases that may occur during an impact scenario, to protect
and preserve America's interests.
>The risk of a NEO impact is a worldwide hazard.
> international cooperation is the best way to improve both warning and response.
> The United States should assume a leadership role in fostering global collaboration.
> The United States and other nations already share observations and research.
> "We are also are considering options for coordinated responses."
> "Our NASA PDCO works with the IAWN and the Space Mission Planning Advisory Group (SMPAG), whose establishment was recommended by the UNCO
> "Our international participation in these efforts has improved our collective situational awareness, predictions, and overall preparedness for the NEO even
UNCOPUOS Respond to the US
> strategic objectives to increase international cooperation on NEO awareness and preparation are.
> • Build international awareness of potential NEO impacts as a global challenge
> • Increase international engagement and cooperation on observation infrastructure, numerical modeling, and scientific research
> • Foster consultation and coordination on NEO impact planning, mitigation, and response
according to USA policy document, but this has not been adhered to, after major accusations from Russia and China, and the world at large.

US Defense.
> Underscore U.S. positions in relevant international NEO impact initiatives and promote awareness in other international organizations and meetings.
> This action includes an annual U.S. Statement under the NEOs agenda item of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the UNCOPUOS.
> special technical presentations on NEOs at UNCOPUOS and other relevant international bodies.
> Useing and implementing a plan for outreach and education to assist countries in understanding NEO impact effects for use by relevant international
disaster management bodies to aid in decision-making.
> adding NEOs as an agenda item in bilateral consultations, including existing space policy dialogues with key spacefaring nations.
US Tactic. (To fool the world)
> Continue to demonstrate U.S. leadership in technical international NEO organizations.
> increase awareness among all countries, in particular space agency officials, of the need to address NEO issues in major international bodies.
> This action should include making NEO issues an agenda item at scientific and technical meetings as appropriate.
> It should also include adding NEO issues and the need to address them to agendas at major international conferences.
ALL THE OTHER AGENCIES ARE TOO BUSY TO ENGAGE THE WORLD FOR A PUBLIC PROFILE.
DAMIEN-IWG GETS TO BE THE ONES WHO GO, WITH A LOW LEVEL NASA PROFILE STAFF.
UN Defense on US Behalf.
> The United States provides a significant majority of the global observational infrastructure and scientific research related to NEOs.
> Others countries and institutions are beginning to expand their work in this field, but we should do more to leverage the resources of the global commun
UN Exceptions for the US.
> Improve international collaboration on observation infrastructure and data sharing, as well as numerical modeling and scientific research.
> This action should be accomplished by involving more countries in the work of IAWN, consistent with law, so that it can serve as an effective body for
international collaboration on observation infrastructure, data sharing, numerical modeling, and scientific research
> This action should include Useing and implementing a plan to broaden and enhance U.S. interagency participation in these forums, and a list of
actions to encourage other nations to join the activities, consistent with law.
> Encourage participation in tabletop and physical exercises with global partners regarding preparedness, prevention, response, and recovery efforts.
Include realistic modeling data from the integrated suite of computational tools Useed in Goal 2 and the scenarios Useed in Action 5.1 to ensure
high fidelity in the exercise.

> Useing and exercising procedures and action protocols to support decision-making and communications will enable timely and effective
implementation of NEO impact response and mitigation measures
> Communication and coordination are necessary across all areas of government and span the entire impact scenario timeline.
> Since NEO impact emergencies are extremely rare, it is important to leverage procedures and practices used for other disasters wherever practical.
> At the same time, due to the unique nature of the NEO threat (including the rarity of damaging events, the scale of potential consequences, and the
legal and policy implications of potential mitigation measures), most scenarios will involve direct Presidential decision making
> NASA and FEMA have established notification processes for potential NEO impacts.
> and also established in August 2015 the Planetary Impact Emergency Response Working Group (PIERWG) to Use guidance for NEO impact preparation.
> PIERWG will continue to perform its coordination responsibilities under FEMA direction.
> FEMA will maintain the statutory responsibility to manage emergency planning and response and will leverage existing coordination and
communications mechanisms wherever appropriate.
> FEMA and NASA will jointly Use public communication protocols.
> FEMA coordinates Usement of emergency response plans for all hazards via the Federal Interagency Operations Plans (FIOP) and Annexes.

FEMA, NASA, DHS Provide.

> Threat-assessment, upon detection of a potential NEO impact, inform subsequent communication and decision making bodies.

> Coordinated communications and notifications regarding NEO threats

> after-action reports from previous exercises for DHS National Protection and Programs Directorate, FEMA Exercise Division, and FEMA National
Preparedness Assessments Division.
> names of subject matter experts who can answer questions from government officials
> updating the threat assessment based on improved data.
> Standardized threat assessment content to provide suitable inputs for subsequent decisions regarding notification, mitigation, response, and recovery.
> specified thresholds for time to impact (e.g., hours, days, months, years, decades).
> probability of impact (e.g., greater than 0.1%, 1%, 10%, 50%).
> expected level of damage (e.g., local, regional, global).
> and whether a deflection/disruption mission is feasible for mitigation.
<>Useing decision-threshold-based protocols for communications and notifications regarding NEO impact threats will enable an integrated federal
response that is also coordinated with State, Local, and foreign governments.
<>Decision thresholds for notifications and other communications will likely depend on probability of impact, predicted impact location, and expected
level of damage, though notification thresholds may not depend on the time until impact.
<>Revisit and validate the current notification protocol chain-of-command. Adjust accordingly the protocols for notifying and communicating within the
Federal government regarding NEO threats. This action should culminate in an action flowchart and updated or revalidated memo for NASA PDCO
and FEMA. [Short term; OSTP, NASA, FEMA]
> This action should culminate in a NEO Preparedness Threat Assessment format and protocol, including key points of contact from relevant agencies,
delivered to OSTP, NASA, DHS/FEMA, and other agencies.
<>Use protocols for notifying The White House and Congress (including briefing appropriate subcommittees), State and Local governments,
the public, foreign governments, and other international organizations, regarding NEO threats.
> Use appropriate modifications from existing emergency alerts based on specific NEO impact factors.
> Use an action flowchart for NASA PDCO. It should also include Useing warnings and text for emergency alerts. [Medium term; OSTP, NASA, FEMA, State]
<> Use informational material for different audiences providing basic education, information on uncertainties, and emergency response plans.
> use integrated information and education package with social media, internet, and traditional press release formats for relevant information.
[Short term; NASA, FEMA, OSTP].

<> Use benchmarks for determining when to recommend NEO reconnaissance, deflection, and disruption missions. This action should culminate
in a threshold-based flowchart for agencies. [Short term; NASA, DOE, DOD, OSTP]

<> The FEMA Administrator will, under current authorities granted by the Stafford Act, Post Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act, and other
applicable statues, implement response and recovery actions necessary to save lives, mitigate suffering, and limit property damage. [Short term; FEMA,
NASA PDCO, OSTP, EPA]

> Presidential Recommendations of space-based reconnaissance and mitigation missions .

<> When a threat assessment concludes that a NEO poses a real impact threat and that space-based mitigation is feasible, that assessment should
initiate a process to Use recommendations for the President regarding space-based reconnaissance and mitigation missions.
This process includes-:
> an analysis of mitigation alternatives to examine the risks,
> benefits,
> and uncertainties associated with various approaches,
> leading to recommendations on how to proceed,
TO AID PRESIDENTIAL ADVISORY FUNCTIONS.
<> Decision flowcharts will likely incorporate decision thresholds based on-:
> time to impact,
> probability of impact,
> expected level of damage,
> and impact location.

Activities to be financed through the budget process.

DAMIEN-IWG ensures departments are fully coordinated.
DAMIEN-IWG organises and coordiates agency activities.
DAMIEN-IWG emphasis is on already existing and resourced activities.
Detecting and Mitigating the Impact of Earth-bound Near-Earth Objects.
DAMIEN-IWG
Research boss of DAMIEN-IWG

DAMIEN-IWG ensues each agency performs its task on time, as one task leads to the other, all cascading
up to the final conclusion of NEO mitigation and impact management success.
Some activities should take days, some should take weeks, whilst some should take months/years.
Each activity has to be triggered at the appropriate time.
Some activities are triggered at the same time as the short ones, but yielding results after years.
It is DAMIEN-IWG's role to ensure these actvities are triggered on time, performed fully and that there is
inter-agency cohesion.

DAMIEN-IWG crafted this-';

" NATIONAL NEAR-EARTH OBJECT PREPAREDNESS STRATEGY AND ACTION PLAN "

Additional Research Reports.

2010. Defending Planet Earth: Near-Earth-Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies.
"The 2017 Report of the Near Earth Object Science Definition Team"
August 2015 the Planetary Impact Emergency Response Working Group (PIERWG) Guidance for NEO impact preparation.
Federal Interagency Operations Plans (FIOP) and Annexes (FEMA).
2017. Update to Determine the Feasibility of Enhancing the Search and Characterization of NEOs
https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/doc/2017_neo_sdt_final_e-version.pdf
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-unveiling-america-firstnational-space-strategy/
Presidential Policy Directive 4 (PPD-4): National Space Policy of the United States of America, signed June 28th, 2010.
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There's no mining without waste.

While there are great lessons to be learned from the past, future governments
need to break with past behaviour, and blaze a new path that reflects the
significance of exploring something as expansive and as prodigious as
space.

Massive capital injections with no overarching regulation, is a recipe for disaster.

The weak regulation in the 1967 UN Space Treaty with regards to asteroid mining
debris, is an ultimate recipe for disaster.

If asteroid resources could be harvested and developed in space, then mining,

processing and the consequent industrial pollution would decline on Earth.
Nobody thought, kindly said, does that mean we should now pollute space.

Space filled us with wonder, and excitement over the unknown.

Thus several missions were launched, to expand our knowledge of asteroids and comets.
The first mission, NASA's Shoemaker 2001. Was to place a probe in orbit around
asteroid 433 Eros. The mission studied the asteroid's shape, mass, and composition.
Other countries would soon respond. Japan, Russia and the European Space
Agency. Galileo, Cassini, the Stardust mission, ESA Rosetta, EPOXI mission,
OSIRIS-REx mission. Soon, we were mining asteroids near earth. And we set out
to expand beyond Mars to the main asteroid belt.

A catastrophic impact occurs about once every 100 million years. The last one
occurred 65 million years ago.

Does that mean another catastrophe will not occur for 35 million years? Not necessarily! We know.
Large impacts appear to be random, not periodic. We know.
The next one might occur in 35 million years, or 150 million years, or tomorrow.

To us, this all sounds very abstract. What is the personal danger?
To put it into perspective, it's somewhat less than our probability of dying by botulism.
It's a thousand times less likely than our probability of dying in a plane crash,
and it's 100,000 times less likely than our probability of dying in a car crash.

Asteroid impacts may be good movie fodder, but they do not represent a
likely hazard in our lifetime.

On the morning of June 30, 1908, a mysterious explosion occurred in the skies over Siberia. Herdsmen
500 kilometers (300 miles) away reported "deafening bangs" and a fiery cloud on the horizon. Closer
to the explosion, it sounded like a crack of thunder, flung carpenters from a building, and knocked
crockery off shelves. The Tunguska event.
It was an interplanetary debris piece, diameter 50 to 60 meters. Chances are, we were unlucky.

Again, 2013, Chelyabinsk, Russia, in the southern Ural region.

The object exploded at an altitude of 30 kilometers. The
kinetic energy as it entered Earth was 30 times the energy of the
Hiroshima nuclear blast.

Chances are, we were not lucky.

Then comes asteroid mining, for near earth bodies, and asteroid belt rocks.
Drilling naturally shaped asteroids and leaving them with grotesque shapes that reflect our
lust for only the mineral rich belts they contain.
Changing the asteroids albedos, size, spin and orbits.
Breaking a delicate balance in their gravity fields which is made up of the asteroids themselves
planets, and our sun.
Causing them to start smashing into each other.
And I guese, even that still does not warrant an increase in chances of any renegade space mining
debris hitting earth.

2057, Russia. Not one, not two, but five hollowed out asteroid debris pieces hit Russia.
That also, maybe is an unfortunate luck.

Honorable members of the Senate, I beg you to see the clarity with which our greed for
precious metals has put the whole earth at a high man-made, risk of impact, and to beg for your
support in the effort to save our planet for future generations.

Over the eons, asteroids big enough to cause serious damage today (not necessarily the extinction
of our species, but disruptions to the global economy and civilizations around the world) have struck
Earth every 200 to 300 years, Schweickart said. While the dinosaurs were helpless victims of this death
from the sky, 22nd-century humans don't have to be.

The asteroid that hit Chelyyabinsk in 2013, and another set that hit Russia in 2057, were both
totally unexpected. And they did not have to wait for hundreds or thousands of years to strike.

The biggest obstacle in deflecting a killer asteroid away from Earth is humanity's inability
to get along.

We already have the technological know-how to prevent dangerous space rocks from barreling into our
planet, provided we detect them in time. But this vital job would require a great deal of international
cooperation, experts say, and history has shown that working together is not our species' strong suit.

Somebody's got to make the decision to actually mount the deflection, and do it, said former astronaut
Rusty Schweickart, chairman of the B612 Foundation, a group dedicated to predicting and preventing
catastrophic asteroid impacts on Earth. "That is not technical, but it's the toughest problem of all,"
Schweickart said here at the California Institute of Technology on Sept. 28, during a panel discussion
called "Moving an Asteroid."

Bible verse," A rock was cut off from a mountain, and it struck the statue at the heels, where it was weakest, a
mixture of clay and iron, and the statue crumbled to the ground."

The asteroid that hit Russia, when studied, are observed to have had an unusual shape.
They looked like halved tunnels. Showing man's touch. They were hollowed out.

Then, they realise they made up one rock structure before, so they are pieces that have broken off
due to the main rock being unstable, as it tumbles.

That's why their trajectories were suddenly earth impacting. The astronomers track the original rock
which is larger, and notice that it too is headed for earth, with a Torino scale Impact Risk Assessment 6.
Which later moves right through to a scale of 10. And according to space debris catalogues, the rock
was mined by Ed Milnar (after virus upload).
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said when discussing new dangers of approaching renegade debris asteroids.

speech at symposium,
hands clap.

Senators argument, when crashing Darpa

for asking for funds in a parliementary
review - a space protection bill is being debated
for passing, DARPA has to defend its request for support.

Darpa's speech, in defense of their application

for resources.
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1 Torino Impact Hazard Scale Adopted by the International
Astronomers Union 1999

2 B612 Sentinel Infrared Telescope R

3 Laser Bees Planetary Society

4 Shooting Harpoons R

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6 Targeted nuclear device

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These can be matched size to size,

fitted with explosives, then rammed
into approaching asteroids.

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Tools do not allow early warning, e.g. Chelyabinsk strike.
If tools detect asteroids decades away, cost of evasion is low. Opposite is true.
Decades ahead, we can use a gravity tractor. Its much cheaper.

USES STRENTGHS
Rates asteroid impacts on a scale of 1 to 10 R
0 = Normal, No Risk, 1 - Routine Near Eart Pass,
Our asteroid debris moves from category 6 to 10, then
back o zero after deflection success. Climaxing Factor.
VIP. Grade 8-10, collision is certain.

Can detect small asteroids below 140 meters. Focuses deeper than most telescopes.
Can detect very small bodies below 140 meters.

Spacecraft, with small, very high temperature Cheap.

lasers, to beam on an asteroid, cause it to
change temperature, and divert its course,
creates jets composed of parts of the asteroid, that
shoot off, more like pushing the asteroid away
by amplifying the Yarkovsky effect.

Caputures asteroid, spacecraft with ion engine R

thrusters can now tug it away into a new orbit,
like taking it to be captured by the sun, from
where it can never escape.

Can act more violently, with more force. Was tested effectively in removing GEO space
junk debris around earth, in the 2020s.

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killers strike once every 100 000 years,
when better science says its once every
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before strike as impact cannot be measured
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year.

Cannot pulverise iron based asteroids.

Creates many pieces.
Cannot divert very big rocks.
Space has no matter to trasfer
explosion shock, and since the
explosion will be done around 30
meters from the rock surface, impact
is reduced due to space circumstances.

Legally not allowed. The UN Sapce Treaty

of 1967, ratified by many space nations, does
not allow for the launch of space weapons.
Any space craft carrying weapons are
deemed to be space weapons, themselves.
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into gravitational slingshot assists.
To build up enough energy and velocity
to reach and land on asteroids or comets.
Example, many years taken by spacecrafts
sent to land on Rossetta (comet).

Legally not allowed. The UN Sapce Treaty

of 1967, ratified by many space nations, does
not allow for the launch of space weapons.
Any space craft carrying weapons are
deemed to be space weapons, themselves.

Even more, the UN Liability Convention of 1972

states that if any nation breaks an asteroid
apart, or changes its trajectories, that
launching nation would be liable for
damages incured if the asteroid pieces
hit any other country. This is even if the
deflection or break up has resulted in
greater danger being avoided for the
injured country.

The UN General Assembly needs to

create "special exceptions".

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On World Asteroid Day (June 30).
People from all walks of life.
Marching on the streets.
All over the world.
Signing the 1000x Declaration.
The petition urges a thousand fold increase in asteroid detection capabilities.
Allowing for accurate tracking of all known asteroids, and the full discovery all asteroid bodies.
All to be achieved in the next two years.
Protesting for better protectionist measures from the UN Space Treaty.
One protestor says on TV,
"Come on. Just tracking a harmful asteroid is not enough. We need to improve how we protect ourselves."
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1 pulling asteroids close to earth

according to calculations, is dangerous

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4 Nicolas Bobrinsky Clearly established roles and responsibilities at impact threat.
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9 Detlef Koschny Large number of variables to consider in predicting the

effects and damage from any asteroid impact, making
simulations such as these very complex.

These include the size, mass, speed, composition and

impact angle.

Nonetheless, this shouldn't stop Europe from developing

a comprehensive set of measures that could be taken by
national civil authorities, which can be general enough to
accommodate a range of possible effects

13 Gerhard Drolshagen Concerning inaccuracies of impact assessment

simulations,
He Said-:
Only three days before a predicted impact, can we likely
have relatively good estimates of the mass, size,
composition and impact location.
All of these directly affect the type of impact effects, amount
of energy to be generated and, hence, potential reactions
that civil authorities could take.

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Situational Awareness Office

ESA's near-Earth-object team

NASA's Planetary Defense Officer

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Asteroids are in an orbit of their own.
That orbit could be i) distant retrograde,
ii) eccentric orbit,
These are safe and stable orbits, particularly done in L1, L2 (Libration points)
The family of periodic orbits obtained in the circular restricted orbit, for non-regular shapes like asteroids, results in a stable or
motion. That’s why asteroids tumble, yet they achieve their stable orbits.
Tumbling is unstable.
Regular dependable orbit is stable.
They don't excatly follow the very same orbital path, the paths vary from each orbital year to the next.
However, they still go around and come back around the object that they orbit, around a clear, faithfully balanced orbit.
This means their particles have a potential escape velocity. To get out of the regular orbit. All they need is enough push.
The sun's gravitational attraction acts as the major external pertubution acting on the system.
However, asteroids have an escape velocity of particles from their main body.
And material is ejected from the asteroids and comets, when they are heated up by the sun, especially C-class asteroids.
The atseroids orbit in a region of stability in space phase.
The material that’s ejected crosses out of the region of stability in space phase.
Just like material that is disrupted off the asteroid by mining activities.
Out of the region of stability, a pertubed particle will enter a resonance with planets and the sun.
That eventually, given months or years, destabilises the pertubed asteroid's orbit.
Subsequent motion is chaotic.
Two things can happen.
The particles can escape away from their normal orbit. Escaping the solar system.
Or they can converge inwards and start colliding with planets.
Initially pertubed debris has a none chaotic nature.
The chaos builds up over time at the Jacobi constant.
"We have done the simulations based on different DROs (distant retrograde orbits)."
"The results were robust with respects to applying the pertubation at different phases of orbit."
"Our accuracy, or statistical difference is plus or minus 0.5%"
"Orbits with a higher Jacobi constant are more stable."
"The higher the Jacobi constant, the lower the chance of de-orbiting."
"The lower the Jacobi constant, the higher the chance of de-orbiting."
"So what affects this Jacobi constant?"
"Asteroid shape, class, material composition, weight"
"Oh that's pretty much chaotic."
"Yes. Chaotic, just like every other mass in our solar system. Our orbits are always different and changing."
"Some of the disturbed debris has spent years in a stable orbit."
"However, if you study them persistently over 10 years, the chaos starts to build up."
"They start to increase their interaction cross-section just like the transient meteor showers or interplanetary dust."
"You remember Hawaii? That cigar shaped asteroid that visited us from an alien binary star system, out of the solar system?"
"Oumuamua, October 2017."
"Yap. Same thing happened to it. Its once stable orbit was disturbed. By something violent. It was ejected into this chaos. Ende
"So how many pieces do we have of this chaotic space debris flying around."
Deep silence.
"Okay people. Is it that bad?"
"Yes."
"Everyone of those pieces."
"Jeez."
"They all get out of the stable orbit, eventually. Different times, different months, and different years."
"How many are they? I mean, the debris pieces?"
"Approximately over 7 billion."
"Some large, some small."
"How many have a chance of impacting earth?"
"5% of them, spread out over a long period, like a thousand years, maybe more."
" An isotropic distribution of debris approaching earth orbit, is expected in the next four years."
The debris will eventually reach Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO).
Then they cross GEO at their ascending or descending nodes.
Over a thousand years, our prevalance of near-misses on earth, will start to increase, exponetially, as the debris dips inwards to
Until the ineviatble.
"Earth impact?"
Nods.
"How many will likely impact earth in the next 5 years."
"Let's talk of this year Fred."
"Okay. Fine. Fill me in."
"This year alone, 946 will strike, with a plus or minus 0.5% certainity."
"And there is nothing we can do about the first 115."
"What?"
"They strike in the next two months. Earlier than our reaction time."
"Jeez."
"Well, this meeting is not to discuss the ones we can do nothing about, is it?"
"What can we do now?"
"Have the UN issue an immediate ceasation of all Space Mining activities, save for debris recovery."
"That's one."
"Then have the UN and all countries of the world, especially space faring nations immediately commit resources to clean up th
"The more we delay, the more the asteroids become something we can do nothing about."
In the end, after one year of fighting debris for survival, and barely winning.
The debris is driven to Mars. And plunged into the planet.
This way, there can be no further future occurance of an earth impact.
A meeting is held.
And companies are allowed to continue space mining, as long as they leave zero trash behind.
A hefty fee is to be levied on them, 65% of their earnings.
Used by the UN Space Council to clear debris that’s already created, to save humanity.
The money is needed to finish clearing the 7 billion pieces already created.
Chasing them around in space and catching them, is estimated to take over one hundred years.
The UN admits that next time when it drafts international laws and treaties, it will be more careful with pen and paper to creat
They say this refering the the less effective UN Space Treaty of 1967.

It gets worse.
The asteroid debris that have missed or will miss earth, will transfer their inter-planetary dust into GEO.
Upto 5.7% of GEO will be covered in this dust, exerting of upto 100kgs force on collision with satellites.
This will set in motion the Kessler effect.
Re-creating satellite debris.
Knocking them all out. Creating an ever increasing propagation of satellite debris. Kessler effect wise.
Bringing back the satellite debris they've just celebrated clearing.
And ceasing earth satelitte communications.
Hampering asteroid deflection efforts in the process.
Opening earth up to a bombardment of asteroids, with zero satellite comms, and there is nothing we can do about it.
The action that's needed is now.
The earth faces a total demise.
Perhaps this is what the bible says, "When it talks of fire raining down from the heavens killing many people on earth in revelati
A sodom and gomorah type of fire that rains from the heavens.
At the apoclypse of earth.

The asteroids that have been mined are on a trajectory that brings them close to earth.
The mining ship's rendezvous with the asteroid is timed to loop, as the asteroid comes towards earth.
Mining happens in the few months that the asteroid is approaching earth.
This is cheaper, and requires less delta velocity changes, less time to travel to and from the asteroid and less operational costs.
The remaining debris is left to pass earth.
This is the debris that later, dips towards earth because of its pertubutance.
If you change an asteroid's velocity by around 500 meters per second, you can change its orbit.

Paul R. Weissman
NASA
Depending on how the mass is removed, the trajectory can change substantially or not at all. It all depends on whether the rem
to the asteroid. So if a mass driver sitting on the asteroid surface is used to throw mined material off the asteroid in one directi
(mass x velocity) requires a net force on the asteroid in the opposite direction (3rd law of motion). if the mass driver is on the s
the radius vector to the center of mass of the asteroid,, it will actually provide a torque = mass x velocity x radius that will chan
asteroid causing it to spin either fast or slower (or in a slightly different direction). On the other hand if the material is mined an
that takes off from the surface, there is no net force on the asteroid, except for some gas pressure from the rocket exhaust whi

Moving mass from the asteroid will give it a boost, just like a rocket engine. The mass driver is an option to alter the trajectory
mitigation. In my opinion in the asteroid mining the trajectory change needs to be calculated since the altered trajectory may im
Moon. This is a interesting topic, and deserves attention.

well, I guess for shifting the orbit of an asteroid we need to concentrate on ΔV. We can deflect it's trajectory by using space tug
desired location (may be LEO, where the mining unit can be placed). Shifting of an orbit will be safe if it is slow.

As for what we would do with what we don't need from an asteroid, there are a few options I could think of based on the size
there is a risk that any changes to its orbit (such as an impact or accidental explosion) that would send it close to Earth, a comp
be warranted, or simply attach large chemical rockets to it and push it away. In the near-future, it is likely that even if we do sta
we haven't dangerously altered its orbit, they will simply be abandoned afterwards.
 research asteroid orbits and their stability.

Research the Jacobi constant.

d missing earth by a whisker."

and for regulation.
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The Yarkovsky Effect
1 Force acts on a rotating asteroid.
2 Its caused by the anisotropic emmission of thermal photons.
3 Thermal radiation escaping from a body warmed by the Sun carries off momentum as well as heat.
3a Scribbling onto a board, P=E/c, "Each escaping photon takes some momentum with it. E stands for energy, c stands fo
4 The more emmissions, the slower the asteroid becomes.
5 The less emmissions, the faster the asteroid remains.
6 Force is most significant on asteroids between 10cm and 10km.
8 The force was discovered by Russian Engineer Ivan Osipovich Yarkovsky around 1900.
9 The simplified version is that, incoming radiation (from the sun), is always different from outgoing radiation (from the
10 During daylight, more incoming radiation, during dusk, more outgoing radiation.
11 This creates a difference in energies, in the direction of absorption, and the direction of emmission.
12 The difference in these energies, creates a net force, that pushes the asteroid, either away from the sun, or towards t
13 Asteroid trajectories are changed bit by bit over time, changing the course of its orbit.
14 Asteroid trajectories may bring the rock towards earth, or away from earth.
15 Either decreasing the chance of impacting earth, or increasing it.
16 If the asteroid is a prograde rotator, the force spirals it away from the sun.
17 If the asteroid is a retrograde rotator, the force draws it closer to the sun.
18 Both the prograde and retrograde rotators can have a chance of hitting earth.
19 If the prograde's asteroid, at any point runs inside the circular earth orbit. This covers Near Earth Asteroids.
20 And if a retrograde asteroid runs outside the circular earth orbit. This covers distant asteroids.
21 This force also increases the likelihood of asteroid collisions.
22 Creating an impacting force that can spin an asteroid on an altered trajectory.
PROOF
23 The effect was first measured, 1991-2003.
24 On asteroid 6489 Golevka.
25 15km drift over 12 years.
26 Precision observations made by the Arecibo radio telescope.
27 Asteroids larger than 125km in diameter, are affected to a miniscule degree, by the Yarkovsky effect.
28 Those between 50-125km, show an excess of fast or slowed rotations.
29 Whilst the smallest asteroids below 50km, clearly show very fast or slowed rotations.
d Someone asks, "How big, does an asteroid have to be, to qualify as a planet killer?"
d Answer, "1km in diameter."
d Response, "Jeez, let's stop speaking like asteroid miners. Our job is earth safety. Not mineral quantity."
d Someone clarifies, whispering into the offended's ear, "Anything larger than 50 meters, would cause devastating dam
FURTHER COMPLICATIONS.
27 The magnitude of the Yakorvsky Effect, is difficult to establish, sometimes.
28 Other factors play in like asteroid shape, orientation, and its albedo, effects of shadowing, and thermal reillumination
29 These can only be confirmed from close obseravtion to improve the estimations.
30 Vladimir Radzievskii, proved. An asteroid's rotation changes due to alterations to its albedo.
31 Stephen Paddack, proved. Changes to an asteroid's shape, effectively alter its body's spin rate.
32 Asteroid mining creates left over debris that has altered albedos, and altered shapes. Compounding the Yarkovsky eff
34 If considered for only short periods of time, the Yarkovsky effect changes are small, but over longer periods, the chan
33 Meaning, debris from space mining has altered trajectories, creating a miniscule chance for an earth impact.
d Someone pipes, "Gentlemen. Our key word here is SAFETY."
d "Let's all be reminded once again."
d Someone whispers into the offended's ear, "Don't speak of taking chances with human lives."

USES OF THE YARKOVSKY EFFECT.

34 Can be manipulated to alter an asteroid trajectory to evade earth impact.
35 Needs to be done whilst asteroid is still far from earth.
36 Paint one side of the asteroid, either black or white.
37 Change its heat absorption rate, change its trajectory.
38 This was proven by the Osirix-Rex mission launched 2016, on binary asteroid Didymoon.
39 Its trajectory was changed by 350km over 15 years.
d "Also goes to show the Yarkovsky effect is real, it broke Didymos into two pieces. Now we have Didymoon."
d "Still the two are in a paired orbit that has not separated for years."
d "What's that supposed to mean?"
d "They havent parted ways."
d "Meaning?"
d "No proof of change in trajectory. Perhaps?"
d "Come on now. What if both Didymos and Didymoon have had their paired trajectory altered, in the same measure?"
d "Oh." Leaves it at that.
d "And what about the kinetic impactors. The collisions?"
d "Oh."
d "Was it not proven that Didymoon can wrench away from Didymos, after NASA crashed a satellite into it?"
d "And this asteroid mining has created debris with altered trajectories, that's now smashing into each other in the aste
d "Oh yeah."
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40 Paint the asteroid.
41 Instal thrusters that fire every time the asteroid rotates to the correct side, to increase its speed, so that it can avoid b
42 As it hurtles past earth, having missed us by a whisker.
43 Mined and hollowed-out asteroids, can no longer absorp as much heat, that combined with low mass, altered shapes
44 This has brought them into an earth impact orbit. DANGER of space mining debris.
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mineral quantity."
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but over longer periods, the changes become significant in the angular momentum of the asteroid's body.
ance for an earth impact.

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ry altered, in the same measure?"

hed a satellite into it?" contradiction.

mashing into each other in the asteroid belt, besides smashing into planets."

se its speed, so that it can avoid being captured by earth's gravity.

ned with low mass, altered shapes, and altered albedos (due to selective drilling), has slowed them down and started to change their trajec
nd started to change their trajectories.
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There is no law per se, since there is no way to enforce it. There are general guidelines
and ideas in place that pretty much everyone follows.

Geosync satellites have a reserve of fuel allocated to boost higher or lower in orbit
at end of life, to preserve the slots safety.
Second stages are not supposed to be pressurized after use, and efforts made to prevent
them from exploding (A common occurrence in the past, and source of much debris).
LEO satellites should be able to either a) demonstrate that they will de-orbit naturally
within a certain time frame (Much easier than in GEO) b) de-orbit themselves over an ocean
if there is a risk of landfall in-tact c) re-orbit to a disposal zone (a higher orbit).

This is a rough distillation of the IADC guidelines, not everyone abides by them.

Alas, it is much too late for some of the longer lived debris, and the Chinese ASAT test did
not help. Nor did the collision of the Iridium and Russian satellite.

There are many thoughts on how to clean up, beyond waiting for stuff to deorbit.

ElectroDynamic Tethers that can attach to deorbit, either built in or after the fact.
Ground based lasers that vaporize the leading edge of the object, to generate thrust to
slow it down, leading to deorbit (Or if small enough, vaporize the entire object).
Some satellite that can collect debris somehow. (Insert much hand waving).

The goal is to get rid of the biggest stuff with an EDDE like approach, and maybe a laser based
approach to focus on the little stuff in dangerous orbits.

Neither is cheap nor fast.

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There are no laws, but there are guidelines.

In 2002, the Inter-Agency Debris Coordination Committee published the

"IADC Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines," and presented these to the
UNCOPUOS Scientific & Technical Subcommittee (STSC), where they served as a baseline for
 the "UN Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines." In 2007 these guidelines were approved by
the 63 STSC member nations as voluntary high-level mitigation measures. Since the mid-1990s,
space agencies in Europe have developed more technically oriented guidelines
as a "European Code of Conduct," which was signed by ASI, UKSA, CNES, DLR and ESA in 2006.

The core elements of this Code of Conduct are in line with the IADC and UN guidelines. In order
to tailor the Code of Conduct to the needs of ESA projects, ESA has developed its
own "Requirements on Space Debris Mitigation for Agency Projects".

These instructions came into force on 1 April 2008. They are applicable to all future procurements
of space systems (launchers, satellites and inhabited objects).

Space debris mitigation guidelines provide a framework for 'what' needs to be done. The way 'how'
mitigation measures must be implemented is specified in a more formal manner, via international
standards - or via binding national requirements for the design and operation of space systems.

Such common standards guarantee a level field for industrial competition and for safe access to
space into the future. International debris mitigation standards have been developed at ISO, such as
in ISO-24113. The European Cooperation on Space Standardization (ECSS) adopted ISO-24113 in the space
sustainability branch.

Experts from ESA regularly support these developments and their harmonisation with existing guidelines
and requirements, such as in the ECSS. The ultimate ISO standards on space debris mitigation, however,
will remain non-binding (as is true for any ISO standard).

I've also had similar thoughts. How does space junk persist in LEO? It's so light that
atmospheric drag should remove it very soon. I mean this is LEO we're talking about.
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I think it is a less of a problem in LEO as junk here will fall back to Earth within a
few years. Dunno about higher orbits. – Urvish Ramaiya Feb 22 at 5:04

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I actually asked myself that question a while ago. And after some search I found some really good
answers and some pretty interesting ones.
Space junk is a huge problem. We spend billions on space programs, and junk should be the least
of our worries. Over the past few years it has troubled some scientists, with space debris crashing
into communication satellites, causing huge problems and interference with operations. Also the fact
that their trajectory is unreliable can cause problems for us to understand and draft a good route
to dodge all that junk.

There are a few ideas that have been dreamed up to clean up space.

DARPA's Phoenix Project: DARPA plans on using robots that tag along with communication satellites to
launch into space. And once in space they detach themselves and hook onto dysfunctional satellites
and try to refurbish them.

Switzerland's CleanSpaceOne Program: CleanSpaceOne is a satellite that goes into space and collects
all the debris it can and re-enters Earth's atmosphere, where the satellite and its components burn off.

THE MOST INTERESTING ONE! Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency: They plan on deploying a gigantic net
to sweep up space junk back into Earth's atmosphere where it will burn off. They have spent 6 years
developing that net.

The European Space Agency: They plan to launch ATVs (Automated Transfer Vehicles). These are autonomous
vehicles which can use lasers to detect debris and collect it and send it back to earth.

NASA: They plan on using lasers, not to destroy the junk but to nudge them away from the shuttle's path.
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I've been looking into this recently, so I'll leave an answer even though @Chandough's answer will have
some of the same information.

How much of a problem is it really to orbiting satellites?

For the satellites in low earth orbit (LEO) it represents a fairly significant risk. The image below
shows some of the space junk in LEO that is tracked, taken from this Wikipedia article. The problem is
that it is possible that the amount of trash in this region reaches a critical density at which each
collision creates many more pieces of debris which are capable of destroying other satellites and the
process runs away like a downhill chemical reaction, pulverizing everything in LEO. This scenario is
known as the Kessler syndrome, and you can read more about it here.

Space debris in LEO

Are there many cases of spacecraft being damaged by it, or is it a bit overhyped?

There are numerous cases which you can read about in this section of the Wikipedia article on space
debris. I'll tell here about the most significant one which occurred in 2009 and is documented in this
Wikipedia article and this NASA report. That collision was between two satellites, one an active
communications satellite operated by Iridum Communications Inc., and the other a Russian Cosmos satellite
which had been out of use since the mid 1990s. They collided at almost right angles to each other, and
the initial debris field and the expected debris field 6 months after the collision can be seen below.
All of the pieces tracked in these images are capable of destroying another spacecraft if they were to
collide with it!

Debris field of the Iridum Cosmos collision

What measures could be taken to "clean up" the junk we have orbiting the earth? Is the technology
available to do an effective job of cleaning it up?

I think @Chandough did a pretty good job on this one, but there is one idea which I quite like that he
didn't mention so I'll tell you about it. First, the difficulty with sending a satellite to grab the junk
is the fuel cost of constantly readjusting the orbit to get from one piece of junk to the next. The
Sling-Sat (pictured conceptually below) will try to avoid this by using the space junk to propel itself
from one piece of junk to the next. It will do so by capturing a piece of junk, then ejecting it with the
right trajectory to simultaneously adjust its orbit to get to the next piece and adjust the orbit of the
trash to reenter Earth's atmosphere (lower the perigee). It is still in the feasibility study stages,
but you can see a video about it here.

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Yeah this is a broad topic, and since some speeches during the UNIDIR (United Nations Institute for
Disarmament Research) Conference on Space Security 2014: Implementation and Compliance, held 19–20
March 2014 in Geneva were presenting exactly this problem of orbital debris and possible mitigation
techniques (from avoiding them in the first place to reducing the junk up there), I'll just add a link
to the audio recordings from its introductory speeches. Short but quite interesting ;) – TildalWave
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Some slides for Prof. Richard Crowther's (UK Space) speech are available in this PDF on effectiveness
of debris mitigation guidelines His speech is under "Panel 3: Debris Mitigation Guidelines: Moving Towards
Effective Impact?" and another good introduction to this problem is from Theresa Hitchens (Director of UNIDIR)
 under "Panel 2: Debris Removal/Rendezvous and Proximity Operations: Looking at Policy Implications". –
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@TildalWave Interesting. Thanks for the links. – Chris Mueller Apr 5 '14 at 15:22

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Let me begin by touting the Anime Planetes which has as it's main plot device; space junk. Space Debris is a
serious problem. It is so big of a deal that when you are planning to launch anything, you have to plan in a
method of disposing of it at the end of the useful life. There are even orbits for dead stuff so that they don't
interfere with other equipment. The means that is portrayed in the animation is to have people in space searching
for an retrieving it. Apart from that, all current strategies are around avoiding the debris in the first place.

Astronomers have lost track of nearly 900 asteroids that could be on a deadly collision course with Earth

Near-Earth asteroids orbit uncomfortably close to our planet's own trajectory

Organisations like Nasa track thousands of them to ensure they don't hit Earth
New study shows that nearly 900 of the objects have been lost by astronomers
This means the objects will reappear without warning, and some could be heading directly for our planet
Astronomers have lost track of nearly 900 near-Earth asteroids.

These space rocks, which orbit uncomfortably close to our planet, were spotted just once by scientists.

Researchers were unable to continue tracking them, which means they have no way of knowing if they are on a
collision course with Earth.

Despite fears they could smash into Earth, experts say there is a 'low chance' of of surprise near-Earth
asteroids causing damage.

Astronomers have lost track of nearly 900 near-Earth asteroids that could be on a doomsday collision course
with our planet (stock image)

Near Earth asteroids (NEAs) are space rocks that come within 30 million miles (48 million km) of Earth's orbit.

So far, astronomers have spotted more than 8,000 near-Earth asteroids that are at least 460 feet (140 meters) wide.

This is large enough to wipe out an entire city.

Between 2013 and 2016, 17,030 NEAs were listed by the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Centre
in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Of these, 11 per cent - nearly 1,900 - were labelled 'initially unconfirmed', meaning they were observed a few
times but not enough to pin
down their orbit.
In a new study, researchers at the Minor Planet Centre combed through the data to find out why astronomers lost
track of so many of the
objects.

They discovered that astronomers were often too slow to track their orbits.

NEAs are typically picked out by asteroid survey systems that use telescopes powered by artificial intelligence
to scan large swathes of
the night sky.
Each of these space rocks, which orbit uncomfortably close to our planet's own trajectory, had been spotted once
but scientists have not
continued tracking them. Pictured is a visualisation of the orbits of 1,400 near-Earth asteroids released
by Nasa in 2014

These systems then submit their findings for confirmation from a secondary source, and the researchers found
that a delay between these two readings is often the reason NEAs are lost.

Some telescopes take more than 20 hours to report potential NEAs, making them almost impossible to spot again
and confirm.

'We need to act fast,' study lead author Dr Peter Vereš told New Scientist.

'Tomorrow, that object could be on the other side of the sky, and nobody really knows where it will be.'

To make their finding the team looked at data from some of Earth's most prolific asteroid hunting systems,
including Pan-STARRS, the Catalina Sky Survey, the Dark Energy Survey, and the Space Surveillance Telescope.
WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF SPACE ROCKS?

An asteroid is a large chunk of rock left over from collisions or the early solar system. Most are located
between
Mars and Jupiter in the Main Belt.

A comet is a rock covered in ice, methane and other compounds. Their orbits take them much further out of the
solar system.

A meteor is what astronomers call a flash of light in the atmosphere when debris burns up.

This debris itself is known as a meteoroid. Most are so small they are vapourised in the atmosphere.

If any of this meteoroid makes it to Earth, it is called a meteorite.

Meteors, meteoroids and meteorites normally originate from asteroids and comets.
For example, if Earth passes through the tail of a comet, much of the debris burns up in the atmosphere,
forming a meteor shower.

They studied the influence of telescope positions and motion, brightnesses of objects, submission delays
between sources, and more.

The team also analysed the size of each potential-NEA based on the brightness of their initial readings,
finding that
900 were likely asteroids.

The largest of the lost rocks appears to measure a few kilometres across, Dr Vereš told New Scientist.

For comparison, the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs is believed to have measured around 6.2 miles
(10km) across.

One hundred and two of the unconfirmed NEAs were larger than 140 metres making them 'potentially hazardous.'

Dr Vereš added that regardless of how close the objects get it is unlikely they would be large enough to
destroy Earth.

'We believe that the largest ones – planetary killers larger than one kilometer – those are basically all
found,' the
astronomer told New Scientist.

'I would say the danger is coming from objects we haven’t discovered yet,' he said.

Could a skyhook be used to remove space junk?

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There is the ElectroDynamic Debris Eliminator (EDDE) notion that seems to be pretty serious.
Not clear if they have realistic funding or not.

This is basically a multisegmented tether that using solar panels along its length for energy
generation, rotates and grabs debris in a net at the end to then deorbit.

A key design feature is that if it gets severed the remaining elements can continue to operate
as two smaller EDDE vehicles.
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fascinating idea; I wish there as a bit more information about the simulation available.
In particular watching it I'm wondering about the selection criteria for within a particular
inclination range; since while they generally seem to prefer lower objects first some are
skipped for a while and my initial guess of lowest to highest mass (to clear the most objects
in the least time) doesn't appear to be right. – Dan Neely Aug 13 '13 at 14:14
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I'm skeptical about them having realistic funding though. Orbital debris is a classic tragedy
of the commons problem; and until cleaning the mess up becomes more expensive than insuring their
satellites all the private operators will probably wait and hope someone else pays for it.
Meanwhile the govts are all broke and can't afford it. – Dan Neely Aug 13 '13 at 14:16
I've always understood the skyhook term to refer to long tethers rotating in orbit with one
end dipping into the upper atmosphere; and don't think these tethers really fit that definition.
– Dan Neely Aug 13 '13 at 14:19
@DanNeely Possibly. It is however a large rotating tether, in orbit, so pretty close. Seems
like a true skyhook, by your approach would be tricky to actually capture items. This approach
moves the tether to capture it. – geoffc Aug 13 '13 at 16:19
Do they say it's rotating somewhere else on the site? The normal concept for an electrodynamic
tether is to stay straight up and down to maximize the difference in electric potential between
the top and bottom ends of the tether to get the most acceleration. Spinning would mean the tether
was generally oriented sub optimally. – Dan Neely Aug 13 '13 at 17:29

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Astrium is working on a space harpoon capture system. They have been awarded a study contract by
the French space agency CNES to develop space vehicles that can remove large items of debris from
Earth's orbit. Their idea is to develop a pneumatic space harpoon that a spacecraft would fire into
larger space debris targets and use tether to drag them out of orbit and into the atmosphere:

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The harpoon design is trying to minimize secondary debris from puncturing the target's body. It has
a set of barbs, a shock absorber section that is the wide part in the photograph above and releases
the barbs into open, hook-like position after impact, and a shaft that is inserted into the pneumatic
gun that holds the tether with which the target is later towed by into the atmosphere.

More information and references:

Astrium press release: Astrium to study removal of large space debris, April 17, 2013
The Engineer: Space harpoon could tackle satellite debris problem, April 18, 2013
CNN: Space harpoon plan to nail orbital garbage, April 21, 2013
 CNN Video: Astrium Space Hook - How to capture space debris, April 18, 2013
YouTube: The Engineer report on Astrium Space Hook (with demonstration), April 18, 2013
Al Jazeera Video Report: UK floats harpoon solution to 'space junk', April 22, 2013

Impact of space junk on Earth based space elevators

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It is well known there is a lot a space junk orbiting the Earth. From previous
questions posted on this site it appears that if it were possible to establish a
space elevator cable for Earth it would have to be very long. Also, it would need
to be placed through the space junk zone orbiting the Earth.

In such a situation could impact by space junk/debris be serious enough to make a

space elevator impractical?

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The space elevator basically consists of a base station that acts as an anchor, a long
cable for movement of 'climbers' and a counterweight to keep the cable in place.

The length of the cable is determined by the intended purpose. Below the altitude of
geostationary orbit (~ 35,786 km), the gravity is more than the centrifugal force and
above that the centrifugal force is more than the gravity.
A space elevator constructed as shown above will pass through the atmosphere, the earth
satellite orbits and the Van Allen radiation belts.

The debris in the low earth orbit is but one of the hazards faced by the space elevator.
Aircrafts, meteorites and orbiting satellites all can potentially snap the cable.

It is possible to design the satellites so that they avoid the cable(of course you would
have to replace every one out there). The orbital debris is another thing.

There are about 6000 tonnes of space junk in orbit and most of them are in the LEO orbit.
There are more than 21,000 orbital debris of diameter 10 cm or more in orbit, which can
cause serious damage to the cable as they usually travel in speeds excess of 10 km per second.

Considering the fact that the elevator cable will be practically stationary and the very
high number of debris in orbit, it is certain that one of them will hit the elevator cable.
In that case, the cable will snap and more importantly, the counterweight will simply fly
out of the earth orbit. Considering the probable impact height (~1000 km) and the total
cable height (>36000 km), the entire system will have to be rebuilt again.

This is a serious safety issue for the vehicles using the space elevators during that time as
well as they most probably will not have a propulsions stem of their own (this being the most
important advantage of space elevator)

In conclusion, the safety of the elevator cable from impacts is one of the most important
challenges that has to be solved if the system is to become practical.
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"as they usually travel in speeds excess of 10 km per second." A 300 km altitude orbit
moves about 7.7 km/s. Higher orbits are slower. To get over 10 km/s at a 300 km perigee, you'd
need a 30,000 km apogee. I wouldn't call a 300x30,000 km orbit "low" – HopDavid Aug 20 '15 at 15:52
"the counterweight will simply fly out of the earth orbit. Considering the probable impact
height (~1000 km)" The lower 1000 km of an elevator is a small fraction of total mass. Cutting
it would have some impact on the elevator, it'd rise to a slightly higher orbit. But it wouldn't
achieve escape. – HopDavid Aug 20 '15 at 15:58
I was going to say the same thing as @HopDavid, a low break is not an insurmountable problem.
A new segment could be attached, and lowered back down to Earth, and the elevator pulled back down
into position. The worst kind of break would be below the counterweight, as then the counterweight
would fly away, and the cable would fall down to Earth. – Blake Walsh Aug 21 '15 at 12:35
Rising to a higher, slightly slower orbit would put the bean stalk on a slow collision course
with geosynch sats having 0º inclination. – HopDavid Aug 21 '15 at 13:06
There is a band of orbital debris just above geosynch - the graveyard orbit for geosynch sats.
This band of orbital debris 300 km above geosynch would be moving about 35 mph with regard to a bean
stalk. A dead sat cutting the stalk just above geosynch might create the awful scenario @BlakeWalsh
describes. – HopDavid Aug 21 '15 at 13:17

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I've been thinking about this very thing for some reason. I think, in terms of engineering and
feasibility, cleaning up all that debris would be simpler than building a space elevator. So I don't
think this is really all that big of a deal.

But, supposing for whatever reason we do not clean up LEO (or to protect it against any case) I'd think
large sections of the elevator would have to be radiation shielded, especially where it passes through
the van allen. We're also most assuredly needing electricity to course through the thing, so I suppose
we could 'kill two stoned birds' by embedding or paralleling the elevator with superconducting material
and sending a charge through it. I just don't know how much we'd need produce a magnetic field big enough
to, not only shield from rads, but deflect incoming debris as well.

One of the gundam plots was centered around vast photo-voltaic power plants in orbit, connected to the
earth by such elevators. This could also necessitate the superconducting core. My point is, I'm sure if we
ever got around to building the damn thing, a solution will be generated almost implicitly.

Is there a database for space junk beyond Earth orbit, and is Roadster in it?
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After a bit of low drama I've come to accept that Roadster is space junk and agree with this answer.

After reading this answer about space junk in orbit around Earth, I'd like to ask if
there is a database similar to the one linked there but for space junk beyond Earth's orbit,
and if so, is Roadster in it yet?

Check out this List of lists of artificial objects on Wikipedia. It contains a list of artificial
objects in heliocentric orbits, including the Roadster, a List of artificial objects leaving the
Solar System and a List of solar System probes.

I however don't know of a list combining all three of those. Also apparently some upper stages are
missing in the first list.

While not an "official list of space junk" (Voyagers are not yet junk) this is a great list, and
there's Roadster! – uhoh Apr 21 at 16:30

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Nasa horizons has a database of objects in the solar system, both natural and man-made.

If you go to https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.cgi and go into the change target body section there
is an option to choose from a list of spacecraft. I don't know how complete said list is and there
doesn't seem to be an option to filter by whether the spacecraft is active and whether it is in
heliocentric orbit.
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Peter Green
54744

Thanks! OK I'm going to check this out against Wikipedia's list of artificial objects in
heliocentric orbit mentioned here; perhaps it's more complete than I'd originally though. – uhoh
Apr 23 at 23:36

VERY IMPORTANT - READ AND RESEARCH.

Humanity could be WIPED OUT by deadly asteroids unless we take the threat seriously,
expert warns
Sixty-five million years ago, disaster struck the Earth. An asteroid or comet around
10km in diameter slammed into what is now the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.

While the idea was ridiculed at first, this event is now widely believed to be the reason
the dinosaurs became extinct.

This realisation led to a rallying of scientists and engineers around the world to detect
and monitor the asteroids in the heavens, and if need be, to be prepared to deflect one
from hitting us.
Sixty-five million years ago, disaster struck the Earth. An asteroid or comet around 10km
in diameter slammed into what is now the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. Now, scientists around
the world are working to detect and monitor the asteroids. A stock image is pictured
PREVENTING EXTINCTION

According to the researcher, there are numerous potential disasters that scientists must
prepare for.

This includes an impact from an 'extinction class asteroid.'

And, 'nuclear warfare, biological terrorism and artificial intelligence all have the potential
to destroy us,' the researcher writes.

Today, we have a Planetary Defense Coordination Office under NASA whose sole mission is to prepare
us for this unlikely but devastating possibility.

It is believed that we have found all of the asteroids the size of that which killed the dinosaurs
(at least those near Earth).
But there are many smaller asteroids that can still do a lot of damage which are undetected.
In 1908, the Tunguska event flattened about 2,000 square kilometres of forest in Siberia.

This asteroid was only about 50 metres across, but we have only found about 1% of the near Earth
objects (NEOs) of this size.

Despite being so rare, if a large asteroid did hit Earth, it would cause extraordinary damage. In
fact, you’re more likely to be killed by an asteroid than die in a shark attack.
We know about a number of recent asteroid impacts, but we’re still discovering more in the geological
record. Currently it’s estimated that NEOs which can cause global ecological effects occur around
once every 500,000 years.

Right now, despite being able to detect and track large asteroids (you can look at current known
asteroid positions yourself using online databases), we know very little about their interior.

Much of what we do know is based on meteorite samples which have fallen to Earth. But it is difficult
to extrapolate small samples to understanding what asteroids look like as a whole.

Asteroids have several types based on mineral composition, but their internal structure can also
potentially take several forms.
Some think the dinosaurs' 160 million-year reign ended when a six-mile (9.6km) wide asteroid or comet
smashed into the Earth off the coast of Mexico 66 million years ago, changing the climate around the
world (artist's illustration pictured)
WHAT KILLED THE DINOSAURS?

While there have been many theories for what killed off the dinosaurs - from an asteroid strike to
massive volcanic eruptions - recent research suggests it may have been a combination of disasters.

Their 180 million year long reign is thought to have been ended by a double-whammy when the shockwave
from the meteor impact caused a storm of volcanic eruptions and earthquakes around the world.

Much of the planet would also have been blanketed in dust, meaning plant life could have struggled for
years, having a widespread impact on the food chain.

Researchers recently announced they had found evidence that a string of volcanoes in a region of India
known as the Deccan Traps doubled their activity around 50,000 years after the Chicxulub impact.

They blanketing the Earth with sulphurous gas and dust.

Together, the impact and volcanism caused a dramatic change in climate as the sun's rays were blanketed
out in a version of the 'nuclear winter' predicted to follow a global nuclear war.

Some might be rubble piles, weakly held together by gravity and electrostatic forces, while others might
be solid bodies of rock. Different structural types would require different methods of deflection.
For example, a rubble pile might break up if we hit it with an object, with each smaller piece still posing
a threat. This might dictate a more finessed approach, such as hitting it with a smart cloud of smaller
particles released by a space craft.

The use of explosive devices to move an asteroid is expected to be about 100 times less efficient on porous
asteroids compared to more solid bodies.

My research involves repurposing geophysical techniques used for more than a century on Earth to determine
the strength and structure of asteroids. To test whether these techniques will work requires simulating
asteroid conditions in a lab.
Asteroid impacts aren’t the only event that might wipe us out. Nuclear warfare, biological terrorism and
artificial intelligence all have the potential to destroy us, the expert warns. A scene from Terminator
Genisys is pictured

This means we have to recreate the gravity, atmospheric and temperature conditions. We also have to find a
material that matches the properties of an asteroid surface to test our equipment on.

NASA performs experiments in low gravity using a parabolic jet, which is temporarily in free fall. Atmospheric
conditions can be modified in a vacuum chamber.

Researchers have developed simulant materials that are similar in chemical composition to various classes of
asteroids. As well as being useful for testing mining equipment that might be used on asteroids, they can
also be used to test geophysical equipment might be able to determine useful properties, such as structure.

Once this technology is proven, it can potentially be used to land on an asteroid and peer into its interior.
By understanding its structure, porosity and strength, we can then start to plan deflection strategies for
individual asteroids, and for asteroids in general.

The dinosaurs went extinct because they didn’t have a space program. Luckily, we are more prepared (although
Australia is still one of just two OECD nations without a space program, the other is Iceland).
SAVING EARTH FROM DISASTER WITH THE ASTEROID REDIRECT MISSION

Various techniques for deflecting a potentially hazardous asteroid could be tested on Arm to enable planetary
defense capabilities.

These techniques include Ion Beam Deflection, Enhanced Gravity Tractor, and kinetic impactors.

In Ion Beam Deflection, the plumes from the thrusters would be directed towards the asteroid to gently pus
its surface over a wide area. A thruster firing in the opposite direction would be needed to keep the spacecraft
at a constant distance from the asteroid.

The Ion Beam Deflection approach is independent of the size of the asteroid, and it could be demonstrated on
either mission option.
In the Enhanced Gravity Tractor approach, the spacecraft would first pick up a boulder from the asteroid's
surface as in mission Option B.
The spacecraft with the collected boulder would then orbit in a circular halo around the asteroid's velocity
vector.

The mass of the boulder coupled with the mass of the spacecraft would increase the gravitational attraction
between the spacecraft and the asteroid.

By flying the spacecraft in close formation with the asteroid for several months the very small gravitational
forces would produce a measurable change in the asteroid's trajectory.

A kinetic impactor could also be launched as a secondary payload with the spacecraft or on a separate launch
vehicle, and it would collide with the target asteroid at high velocity while the spacecraft observed the impact.
If we were to detect an inbound asteroid with warning of at least several years, we can send a mission to find
out what it’s made of. Then we can plan the optimal strategy complete with backup plans.

In 1995, a workshop with ex-Cold War US and Russian weapons designers was held to propose a way of deflecting
an asteroid if it was detected at the last minute. They came up with (though never built) a nuclear weapon
capable of instantly vaporising a 1km asteroid.

It would also have the potential to move an extinction class asteroid out of our path given at least a few months
notice, or a comet given two years notice. Given any less time, we may have to be content with evacuating as many
people as possible from the predicted landing site.

Asteroid impacts aren’t the only event that might wipe us out. Nuclear warfare, biological terrorism and artificial
intelligence all have the potential to destroy us. Some researchers have even suggested that the probability of
humanity surviving until 2100 is just one in two.

Given this level of risk, one thing is certain: we can and should spend more time and resources trying to reduce
these risks.

Very Important, Research and Read.

What is the legal status of in orbit space debris?

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In particular, are there any established property rights?

Questions have been asked about the legal status of asteroid mining here. The answer comes from
the Outer Space Treaty of 1967. However, that treaty only seems to have covered "celestial bodies".

Intuitively, it seems like asteroid resources are closer unmined natural resources while space
debris is like a car that someone has left on the side of the road. (Albeit a road over which
there appears to be no clear jurisdiction.)

Practically speaking, I could envision scenarios where governments and corporations view space
debris scrapping either positively or negatively. On the positive side, it would decrease the
chances that debris would cause damage when falling out of orbit or that it would hit anything
in-orbit. On the negative side, certain entities may not like strangers digging through their
trash (so to speak).

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According to the Article VIII of the Outer Space Treaty:

A State Party to the Treaty on whose registry an object launched into outer space is carried
shall retain jurisdiction and control over such object, and over any personnel thereof, while in
outer space or on a celestial body. Ownership of objects launched into outer space, including objects
landed or constructed on a celestial body, and of their component parts, is not affected by their
presence in outer space or on a celestial body or by their return to the Earth. Such objects or
component parts found beyond the limits of the State Party of the Treaty on whose registry they
are carried shall be returned to that State Party, which shall, upon request, furnish identifying
data prior to their return.

So the launching nation holds property rights and is responsible for space debris they generate.
Five years later, the 1972 "Space Liability Convention" (in it's full title the Convention on
International Liability for Damage Caused by Space Objects, PDF) was based on the Article VIII
of the OST and further provisions it, but sadly isn't specific about space debris in any part.
And establishing whose debris caused damage isn't exactly equal to establishing origins of some
part that fell on someone's land and you can analyze in laboratories. It isn't even clear if
orbital debris tracking facilities (say, NORAD) are legally obliged to share data on their
origins in cases where it could hold the country running these facilities liable for damages
to another country. And so on.

This and the fact that this issue is grossly under-regulated since mentioned first efforts were
signed and ratified, and no internationally ratified law sufficiently addresses liability specifics
as they pertain to orbital debris, comes with many interesting legal implications. But that's now
over 47 years long and really tiring story so I won't bore you with all the details.

For a nice overview I'd suggest UNIDIR's Outer Space Security Conference Series, e.g. the Space
Security 2014: Implementation and Compliance one has some really interesting talks on the subject.
Also check for related activities under umbrella of the United Nations Office for Outer Space
Affairs (UNOOSA).
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answered Oct 20 '14 at 23:02
TildalWave
60.6k9212345

A subject that will eventually rear up is liability - who is responsible when someone's debris
damages someone else's satellite. Can you sue? What court would have jurisdiction? – GdD
Oct 21 '14 at 9:48
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The case of the USSR's Kosmos 954 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos_954 would seem to set a
precedent... – DJohnM Oct 21 '14 at 18:03

How are meteoroids, asteroids and debris in space tracked?

I removed the 2nd question as answers to it will be unrelated. Detection is carried out
by radar, lidar, optical telescopes etc from Earth and space. Evasion is an entirely
separate question – Rory Alsop Apr 3 at 8:43
@Hobbes okay that's great! Nicely done too. – uhoh Apr 3 at 9:06

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Space debris is tracked via radar.

Asteroids are usually tracked via optical telescopes set up for that purpose. If they get
really close to Earth, they may be tracked via the space debris systems too. In some cases,
extra observations are arranged for asteroids that look like they may get close to Earth.

Meteoroids are too small to be tracked at long range. There are some efforts underway to
record the trails they leave when entering the atmosphere.

Nice animation of asteroid discoveries

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answered Apr 3 at 8:42
Hobbes
71.7k2194333

Scott Manley's videos rock! I've asked a question about this one: Why did the distribution
of asteroids discovered in 2010 have a radial modulation? – uhoh Apr 3 at 9:30

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His name is Dohearty.
Gabriel DoHearty
Spelt with a capital H in the middle.
He is the Chief Supritendent of Space Inc. Corp - Space Debris Clearing.
He has 407 human Dump Cleaners on his team.
An assortment of equipment numbering 264.
Big space dump cleaners and small ones.
Including heavy 804 robots.

They fold up, make a train and float around in space when not in use.
Staff mostly play card games, gym, and bowling.
His cleaner team works in teams.
He has four teams, meaning four shifts. two shifts should have the antagonists.
Working 8 hour shifts each day,
whislt one team lies off.

Space dump clearing has been privatised.

because giving the role to one public operator caused problems.
companies and states were refusing to take responsibility.
so what happens is this, as they mine.
after every space drill, sponsored by the UN Space Treaty,
a machine that also has to be present for each space drill.

comes and scans all the debris pieces that have been created.
and tags the pieces electronically.
forever, with perpertually lasting tags.
that beep and peep, identifying who owns that debris forever.
pieces that are only more than a meter in diameter are tagged,
because they're the only pieces that can survive an earth re-entry.
anything smaller can easily burn out.
smaller pieces too, are always expected to never escape their orbit to venture out into new orbits.

then the debris can remain in orbit.

but when the debris' orbit coincides with earth at any point.
Spaceguard is alerted by their debris tracking telescopes.
alarms sound.

and instructions are sent to the mining firm.

for its own dumpsters already stationed in space to go and clear it up.

that's when DoHearty, and his team come in,

for Space Inc. Corp's space debris.
They clear all debris with their company tag.
Till their Space Sky Register (SSR) - clears to 100% green.
And their warning lights stop beeping.

If another firm has too much debris coming in,

or if they have breakdowns in their space dump cleaner machines.
The nearest rival firms cleaners are sent in to help.
And they charge a heavy fee for it.
Something that has made some firms a lot of money.
cleaning the mess created by others in space,

the teams do not assigne themselves to clear other's mess

they are assigned by space guard.
Space guard is a UN arm.
Space Guard has space dump police, both human and robotic.
the humans are fewer, the robots are almost always everywhere, they arrive faster and they arrive first.

DoHearty is on shift,
Leading Shift One, the royal team.
that’s what they call it, because they're led by the boss.
when he does the shift close roll.
after a successful mop up.
he is calling the team in from an EVA,
so that they can go inside, into their gravity controlled enclosure's and so that he can seal the doors shut.

as another team is now already on duty.

we start by seeing DoHearty and his team, chase up and clean all debris,
before it can get out of their "Clean Assigned Range"
into the "Clean Assist Range"
and they do it impeccably, cheering and being cheered by the control team on earth and another waiting shift.

denying other firms the chance to make money.

then as DoHearty, as supervisor in charge for his shift,
makes the round the ship drill,
calling out to all his staff,
and hears that everyone is inside, and all eqiupment is inside,
he still cant shut the doors, they remain open.
something is amiss.

his team and equipment ALL have to be inside.

as they can't create more debris from their equipment.
crossing over into the "clean assist range"

still his main doors cannot be shut.

DoHearty speaks to the Earth Control Team,
Asking, have you jammed my doors.
They say, "Nope."
And then he realises it, and starts to search out the "space skies" with his eyes.
His assistants ask him to use the radial scanners inside,
he says they would be jammed too,
and they THERE ARE!
Moving fast, coming to his vehicles.
the dump bots municipal.

he starts to shut his doors manually.

looking for things to shut down.
and starts to turn many more things manual.
the dumpbots arrive faster than the human bots.
they're here to detain him.
as he is the Chief Supritendent of Dump Clearing.

only three people get detained if there is a Category 1A to 1D space dump breach.
breaches run in category from 1 to 17.
and each number has numerical alpha letters A to J.
But only breaches in the supergrade category 1A to 1D, can prompt an immediate detention in space, and on earth.
of three key people.
1. The Company President.
2. The Company COO.
3. The Company Chief Supritendent fo Dump Cleaners.

That's when the space stand off occurs.

And DoHearty, realises that the Company President (Ed Milnar, and the COO have laready been detained)
And he is the only one left.

The spacebots arrive.

Shout robotic instructions for DoHearty to open up,
he refuses.
then they start to drill through the hull.
something that can take-upto 3 minutes to accomplish.
and DoHearty, manipulates his doors, opens some of them to let thru
some of his own bots,
for them to fight off the dump cleaners space bots.

and buy him time.

to figure out which debris they missed.
and to find out which category of mishaps have they been classified into.
they have been classified as 1A.

DoHearty, fights with his team,

Piece by Piece,
Two shifts come to his side.
Two shifts go to his malicious deputy's side.

The human spacebots arrive later,

and more robots, to add weight to the pressure and resistance against DoHearty.
And weapons too arrive.

Now DoHearty discovers that the debris they speak of, was planted maliciously by Carter,
after he had been rebuffed by Milnar, and Milnar refused to sell him his firm.
and this debris is beyond them, way out of any clearing zone,
because it is dust that was gathered up by Carter,
and directed at earth,
space dust smaller than 10 centimeters.
all tagged as Space Inc. Corp,
but gathered into a storm,
a space storm.

and headed towards earth.

and DoHearty does some calculation, during the stand off,
and they realise this dust, will knock out the asteroid being used as anchor for the space elevator,
and cause an earth doomsday.

DoHearty now races towards this dust, to stop it before it hits the earth's elevator asteroid.
whilst being pursued by the robots, humans and half his team that has refused to joing him.
on the way, they start to trick the robots to join them.
and at last he clears that debris up.

whilst Milnar on earth has been fighting to restore the space guard debris tracking system.
something like that, we shall ammend as we go.

so the movie is from a cleaner's perspective,

not from Milnar's perspective, for the most part.
her waiting shift.
space, and on earth.
A Options for moving an asteroid, discussed during brainstorming.
1 Slow push - using ablation. Large mirrors and directed sunlight on spots, move it out.
2 Gravity tractors.
3 Nuclear

Tether's Rope Dialogue

"Well, the idea of trusting my life to a tether 100,000 kilometers long."
"Stretching from the surface of the Earth to well past geostationary orbit."
"And still narrower than my own wingspan?"
"The tether is made of carbon nanotube material, the strongest rope on earth."
"These guys at IAA, are pretty nuts. Imagine this rope is able to carry up to seven 20-ton payloads at once."
"It is held taught by an anchor of roughly two million kilograms. That's our doomsday rock."
" The pay-off is simple.The space elevator brings the cost-per-kilogram of launch to geostationary orbit from $20,000 to a
"Not only is a geostationary orbit intrinsically useful for satellites, but it’s far enough up the planet’s gravity well to be ab
"A mission to Mars might begin by pushing off near the top of the tether and using small rockets to move into a predicta
around the Earth and off we go with enough pep to cut huge fractions off the fuel budget. Setting up a base on the Moo

The space elevator was invented first by Leningrad engineer Yuri Artsutanov1 in the 1960’s, but was not noticed by the
Western spaceflight community until the Principal Investigator Jerome Pearson2 invented it independently
and published in Acta Astronautica.

Because the space elevator is a fixed structure that extends from the equator to beyond the geostationary orbit, every
satellite and every piece of debris will eventually collide with it, typically at greater than orbital velocity. This means
that for safety the Earth space elevator must be constantly controlled to avoid these obstacles, or they must be
removed, requiring an enormous space cleansing.

Dr Igor Ashurbeyli, founder of the Aerospace International Research Center

Blowing up a rock altogether works if its small enough, and if it’s a considerable distance from earth.
 Downsides.

Needs International corporation.

loads at once."

onary orbit from $20,000 to as little as $500."

planet’s gravity well to be able to use it in cheap, Earth-assisted launches."
ckets to move into a predictably unstable fall — one, two, three loops
etting up a base on the Moon or Mars would be relatively trivial, with a space elevator in place."

but was not noticed by the

independently

geostationary orbit, every

ital velocity. This means
es, or they must be

r1 distance from earth

distance from earth
 No. First Name Surname Sex Age

1 Geoff Brady Male 48

2 Yuri Oligarch Male 82
3 Louis Jarett Male 46
4 Huck Draven Male 52
5 Gerson Macoy Male 70
6 Edith Briseis Female 56
7 Ross Pierson Male 52
8 Marcus Owyn Male 50
9 Elanore Brady Female 42
10 Scottie Brady Male 22
11 Harley Brady Daughter 16
12 Gunbir Donovan 36
13 Tareq Washington 54

OTHER NAMES
No. First Name Surname Sex Age

1 Denilly Sahid Female 48

2 Warren Smith Male 39
3 Tyrone Valin Male 42
4 Otto Trafford Male 40

5 Erika Lynn Female 42

6 Bruce Royce Male 36
7 Pietro Jenner Male 84
8 Heron Judd Male 35

9 Nathan Miguel Male 36

10 Lyon Kyron Male 35
11 Pablo Oluchukwu Male 46
12 Jaedan Finn Male 56
 Role Supporter (Antagonist)
Antagonist
Damien-IWG boss - under fire Protagonist
Space Baron - under fire Supporter (Protagonist)
NASA boss - very powerful
Space Baron - very cunning
US President - undecisive
OSTP Principal Dir - very bossy
PIERWG Director - very crushing
GAO Director - very intelligent
Geoff's wife - under fire (cancer, she doesn’t tell)
Geoff's son - not proud f Dad.
Geoff's daughter - not proud of Dad.
Geoff's Bank Manager - tough
FEMA Boss - Very Tough

Role

Minor Planets Center Dir - Confused.

IAWN President - Confused.
BEAT SHEET.

Description 1

DAMIEN-IWG is a new boss, previously unemployed, intelligent scientist, under pressure from home to
perform and bring home the bacon, bills, debts, house repossessions, drinking issues have begun due to
this pressure, unpaid life insurance policies etc. Kids in their early twenties expelled from university,
unpaid fees. Wife arranges a party, invites friends and collaegues, who are doing so well in their own
lives. They have jobs, houses paid off, kids at college. They are rising at their jobs. One of the friends is
now a Senator. Its a birthday party, for the Damien IWG Boss. Earlier in the day, his car is repossed. He
runs after the repossession guys screaming, walks into the house, his wife is on the fone, she has tears in
her eyes, yet she hides the tears, he asks why are you crying, she says I am not crying, Hides it away. He
leaves for the bar, walks, gets a lift from a neighbour who is off duty, they go for some binge drinking.
Then he comes back home early evening, finds his car backin the garage, and its a suprise birthday party
for him. Down the road are various impressive cars, he seems to know one car, stops the driver taking
him home and says, I know this car. Shrugs his shoulders. Goes home, Finds its all the friends and
relatives gathered at home, who have those cars. Its his birthday party. His Senator friend arranges a job
for him to work for Damien - IWG as Head of Department. The job has good pay, good benefits, and
upfront cheques for him to sort out his life. He refuses to be hand fed jobs, he wants to compete, he
believes he has what it takes. His wife points out that he must remember he doesnt even have a
doctorate. He is not known, he is nothing. She urgeshim to take the job. He needs the money, still he
refuses. Early morning his friend shows up, picks him up, half drunk, takes him to the interview. At the
Damien Offices, they're just looking for a puppet HOD, no drama no fuss. He is interviewed, interview
panel is blackmailed by his Senator friend into submission, he is hired. The DAMIEN-IWG Board
Chairman, whispers into his colleagues ear, "Did you smell liquor?", "Yes.", "Okay, watch him closely, let's
find a reason to fire him."

His Senator friend is tipped off about the plan to fire him. The friend tells him to work hard, impress,
never drink beer, never be absent, never look dishevelled, bring results. Its no longer to be a sitting job.
The Chairman alerts all Managers, all junior staff to watch him. They start trailing him, and peeking at
him. Looking for a chance to fire him. He shows up at work, crisp looking, shaven, clean, not drunk and
all hell breaks loose. People expecting to see a drunkard, are treated to something else. They're treated
to a most hardworking, most intelligent, most pushy, most kind, most innovative boss they had ever seen
or imagined. And the boss, has now developed a big problem because of his insecurities, he wants to be
loved by ALL, while he has to deal with murk created by ALL. The whole movie is on how he crafts himself
through this challenge.

At new job, he is very pushy. He starts harassing staff to perfom, that's when the small rocks strike, and
he steals the show from NASA. NASA felt pity for him, at first, was sympatehtic because he was not
employed, they felt they needed to give him some rope, but he steals the show big time, scary big time.
NASA is worried about appropriations and budgets, the world hails Damien-IWG. NASA decides to start
 At new job, he is very pushy. He starts harassing staff to perfom, that's when the small rocks strike, and
he steals the show from NASA. NASA felt pity for him, at first, was sympatehtic because he was not
employed, they felt they needed to give him some rope, but he steals the show big time, scary big time.
NASA is worried about appropriations and budgets, the world hails Damien-IWG. NASA decides to start
pulling the rope in. Damien IWG Boss, will likely lose his job again, that's when a space Baron approaches
and offers him a lifeline, information concerning rocks that are headed for earth. Mined rocks that have
been spotted on private amateur telescopes. Their trajectory recently new, because of the yakorsvy
effect etc. Impact time, less than 5 years. Damien-IWG Boss decides to keep this infor for himself,
according to advise given by space baron. Information is power.

Damien IWG Boss gets a show down with NASA and the US President.

He decides he will work with the Space Baron, for good, they run a side show weaving together what
NASA misses, and still, steal the show. The rock impact and its risks have gotten so high, that Damien-
IWG Boss, just has to hand over all he knows, but he makes a tough decision, he decides to go solo still.

He reaserches even deeper, but his doors have been closed, whilst only he knows the high risk associated
with the fact that the rock is mined.

the protagonist is tested… and fails

 the protagonist is tested… and fails

about halfway through the film, a trend to this point reverses; the underdog to this point gains the
advantage

a seemingly impassable difficulty appears in front of the protagonist

the protagonist falls into the big pit; everything seems lost, neither the protagonist nor we see a way out

we are given a glimpse of what the protagonist’s new norm is; we see what has been gained
 Beat Minute Sequence

Opening Image 0

The World As We Know It, or Ordinary

World

Opening Hook 5
 Inciting Incident 10

Mini Crisis 15

Big Debate/Dilemma

20

Point of No Return

25

B-Story Begins /Adventure 30 Popcorn Moments, Trailer Moments

Sequence

35

All Downhill: Attack of the Dominant

Testing Values
 35

All Downhill: Attack of the Dominant

Testing 40 Values

45

50

1-Hour Turning Point 55

60

65

The Big Pit 70 Bad Guys Closing In/The Brick Wall

75

80

Rock Bottom 85 Failure in Slow Motion

90

95

100

Climax to Finale/The Final Face-

Final Image Off/Resolution
105

110
110
 Description 2

establishes the protagonist’s fears, hopes, flaws, strengths, and assets. This is the point of
attack of your movie. You'll want to try a few in order to pick a scene that best introduces
the premise and themes of your movie.

It’s time to build a sequence of scenes to introduce the reader (and audience) to your
protagonist. Remember, show, don’t tell. Actions and interactions are more powerful
than background and exposition.As part of this sequence, you want to signal that a storm
is brewing. Things may seem well in the ordinary world, but we are on the brink of a
change.

One day, everything changes. Remember that we’re just lighting the fuse here. The stick
One day, everything changes. Remember that we’re just lighting the fuse here. The stick
of dynamite hasn’t exploded yet. But this is the day everything changes, even if the
protagonist doesn’t know it yet.

Introduce mini crisis.

By p. 17 at the latest, you want to up the ante: the stick of dynamite explodes. The
protagonist is now faced with a decision, should I stay, or should I go? 20-25 It’s time to
commit to the quest! (Reread Christopher Vogler's The Writer's Journey if you need a
refresher on this beat.) Something happens that prompts the protagonist to a pro-active
decision. Remember, the protagonist cannot be swept along in the action. A decision
must be made and clearly presented in the story.

Adventure Sequence We’re in the extraordinary world and it’s time to engage us in the
adventure. Remember, you don’t want to up the stakes until the midpoint. This is your
opportunity to present us with the rules of the new world and present us with events
that will allow your protagonist to grow along the arc. Gaining Support Don’t forget to
introduce your B-character. Their main purpose is to present a new influence for the
protagonist. Interacting with this character will help your protagonist grow through the
character arc. (By p. 30) (See Character Matters for details on the
additional beats for character development.) while the story is still building to the climax,
there are lots of opportunities for tone setting and theme setting scenes: the fun parts
that will go in the movie trailer

Things go from bad to worse. The second half of act two represents a series of ever-
increasing setbacks for the protagonist.
 Things go from bad to worse. The second half of act two represents a series of ever-
increasing setbacks for the protagonist.

despite the protagonist’s best efforts, he or she is losing ground. Blake Snyder, in Save the
Cat, likes to think of this as the “All Is Lost.” The Brick Wall represents the ultimate low for
the protagonist. But most importantly, the protagonist now faces a decision that
amplifies the commitment to the quest at the end of act one: it’s time to pick up the
sledge hammer, break through the wall, and recommit to the (redefined) quest. The
protagonist finally gets the big picture and is ready to enter act 3.

The protagonist seems to have failed utterly

Act 3 is defined by three major movements: (1) the beginning: the protagonist enacts
their plan; (2) middle: the plan seems to work, but often reveals a trap (3) end: the
protagonist becomes isolated and moves to confront the antagonist in a final face-off.
Each of your parts must push us towards the ultimate confrontation, no matter the genre
of your script. Conflict is at an all-time high and culminates in the climax of the movie.
The build to the climax comes from the protagonist finding a way back up from rock
bottom to victory. We turn the cameras off after a meaningful scene that shows us how
the ordinary world has changed as a result of the events portrayed in the movie. This is
the new world and new equilibrium.
BEAT SHEET.

Description 1 Beat Minute

Debts, College Fees, Crying Wife,

Drinking, Party, Job Arranged, Very Opening Image 0
unhappy about job arranged.

Damien-IWG Chairman under

pressure from Senator friend,
Chairman not happy at all, researches
Prot's background, realises drinking,
education and employment gaps
issues, decides to bury the Senator,
agrees to hire Prot as Head of
Damien-IWG. Unhappy Prot is shown
a contract that pays a monthly salary
of USD35k, immediately gets out of Opening Hook 5
bed, starts dressing up without
bathing, rushes to the interview.
Suprisingly, gets the job. Worries
about it too. At night, wife comforts
him and asks that he works hard and
show them who he truly is. He works
at night, reading, researching. He
shows up at work, trim, smart,
intelligent, pushy. A suprise to all.

Damien-IWG discovers the rocks that

pummel Russia. Triggers the asteroid
protection system, and discovers so
many issues that the President of
America calls the Damien Boss for a
meeting, to discuss critical Inciting Incident 10
improvements to the process, and he
is accompanied by the Key
Protagonist, who now starts putting
pressure on all to find cause to fire
him.
improvements to the process, and he
is accompanied by the Key
Protagonist, who now starts putting
pressure on all to find cause to fire
him.

prefigures crisis; “this won’t be easy Mini Crisis 15

20

the protagonist must commit to

crossing the threshold. A decision Point of No Return
that cannot be taken back

25

B-Story Begins /Adventure

secondary story start 30
Sequence
 35

the protagonist is tested… and fails Testing 40

45

50
about halfway through the film, a
trend to this point reverses; the 1-Hour Turning Point 55
underdog to this point gains the
advantage
60

65

a seemingly impassable difficulty The Big Pit 70

appears in front of the protagonist

75

80
the protagonist falls into the big pit;
everything seems lost, neither the Rock Bottom 85
protagonist nor we see a way out
90

95

100

we are given a glimpse of what the

protagonist’s new norm is; we see Final Image
what has been gained
 100

we are given a glimpse of what the

protagonist’s new norm is; we see Final Image
what has been gained

105

110
 Sequence Description 2

establishes the protagonist’s fears, hopes,

flaws, strengths, and assets. This is the point of
attack of your movie. You'll want to try a few in
order to pick a scene that best introduces the
premise and themes of your movie.

It’s time to build a sequence of scenes to

The World As We Know It, or Ordinary
World
introduce the reader (and audience) to your
protagonist. Remember, show, don’t tell.
Actions and interactions are more powerful
than background and exposition.As part of this
sequence, you want to signal that a storm is
brewing. Things may seem well in the ordinary
world, but we are on the brink of a change.

One day, everything changes. Remember that

we’re just lighting the fuse here. The stick of
dynamite hasn’t exploded yet. But this is the
day everything changes, even if the protagonist
doesn’t know it yet.
 day everything changes, even if the protagonist
doesn’t know it yet.

prefigures crisis; “this won’t be easy

Big Debate/Dilemma By p. 17 at the latest, you want to up the ante:

the stick of dynamite explodes. The
protagonist is now faced with a decision,
should I stay, or should I go? 20-25 It’s time to
commit to the quest! (Reread Christopher
Vogler's The Writer's Journey if you need a
refresher on this beat.) Something happens
that prompts the protagonist to a pro-active
decision. Remember, the protagonist cannot
be swept along in the action. A decision must
be made and clearly presented in the story.

Adventure Sequence We’re in the

extraordinary world and it’s time to engage us
in the adventure. Remember, you don’t want
to up the stakes until the midpoint. This is your
opportunity to present us with the rules of the
new world and present us with events that will
allow your protagonist to grow along the arc.
Gaining Support Don’t forget to introduce your
B-character. Their main purpose is to present a
Popcorn Moments, Trailer Moments new influence for the protagonist. Interacting
with this character will help your protagonist
grow through the character arc.
(By p. 30) (See Character Matters for
details on the additional beats for character
development.) while the story is still building
to the climax, there are lots of opportunities
for tone setting and theme setting scenes: the
fun parts that will go in the movie trailer

All Downhill: Attack of the Dominant
Values
Bad Guys Closing In/The Brick Wall
Failure in Slow Motion
Climax to Finale/The Final Face-
Off/Resolution
fun parts that will go in the movie trailer
Things go from bad to worse. The second half
of act two represents a series of ever-
increasing setbacks for the protagonist.
despite the protagonist’s best efforts, he or she
is losing ground. Blake Snyder, in Save the Cat,
likes to think of this as the “All Is Lost.” The
Brick Wall represents the ultimate low for the
protagonist. But most importantly, the
protagonist now faces a decision that amplifies
the commitment to the quest at the end of act
one: it’s time to pick up the sledge hammer,
break through the wall, and recommit to the
(redefined) quest. The protagonist finally gets
the big picture and is ready to enter act 3.
The protagonist seems to have failed utterly
Act 3 is defined by three major movements: (1)
the beginning: the protagonist enacts their
plan; (2) middle: the plan seems to work, but
often reveals a trap (3) end: the protagonist
becomes isolated and moves to confront the
antagonist in a final face-off. Each of your parts
must push us towards the ultimate
confrontation, no matter the genre of your
script. Conflict is at an all-time high and
culminates in the climax of the movie. The
build to the climax comes from the protagonist
 the beginning: the protagonist enacts their
plan; (2) middle: the plan seems to work, but
often reveals a trap (3) end: the protagonist
becomes isolated and moves to confront the
antagonist in a final face-off. Each of your parts
must push us towards the ultimate
confrontation, no matter the genre of your
Climax to Finale/The Final Face- script. Conflict is at an all-time high and
Off/Resolution culminates in the climax of the movie. The
build to the climax comes from the protagonist
finding a way back up from rock bottom to
victory. We turn the cameras off after a
meaningful scene that shows us how the
ordinary world has changed as a result of the
events portrayed in the movie. This is the new
world and new equilibrium.
18750

56250
BEAT SHEET.

Description 1 Beat Minute

Debts, College Fees, Crying Wife,

Drinking, Party, Job Arranged, Very Opening Image 0
unhappy about job arranged.

Damien-IWG Chairman under

pressure from Senator friend,
Chairman not happy at all, researches
Prot's background, realises drinking,
education and employment gaps
issues, decides to bury the Senator,
agrees to hire Prot as Head of
Damien-IWG. Unhappy Prot is shown
a contract that pays a monthly salary
of USD35k, immediately gets out of Opening Hook 5
bed, starts dressing up without
bathing, rushes to the interview.
Suprisingly, gets the job. Worries
about it too. At night, wife comforts
him and asks that he works hard and
show them who he truly is. He works
at night, reading, researching. He
shows up at work, trim, smart,
intelligent, pushy. A suprise to all.

Damien-IWG discovers the rocks that

pummel Russia. Triggers the asteroid
protection system, and discovers so
many issues that the President of
America calls the Damien Boss for a
meeting, to discuss critical Inciting Incident 10
improvements to the process, and he
is accompanied by the Key
Protagonist, who now starts putting
pressure on all to find cause to fire
him.
improvements to the process, and he
is accompanied by the Key
Protagonist, who now starts putting
pressure on all to find cause to fire
him.

prefigures crisis; “this won’t be easy Mini Crisis 15

20

the protagonist must commit to

crossing the threshold. A decision Point of No Return
that cannot be taken back

25

B-Story Begins /Adventure

secondary story start 30
Sequence
 35

the protagonist is tested… and fails Testing 40

45

50
about halfway through the film, a
trend to this point reverses; the 1-Hour Turning Point 55
underdog to this point gains the
advantage
60

65

a seemingly impassable difficulty The Big Pit 70

appears in front of the protagonist

75

80
the protagonist falls into the big pit;
everything seems lost, neither the Rock Bottom 85
protagonist nor we see a way out
90

95

100

we are given a glimpse of what the

protagonist’s new norm is; we see Final Image
what has been gained
 100

we are given a glimpse of what the

protagonist’s new norm is; we see Final Image
what has been gained

105

110
 Sequence Description 2

establishes the protagonist’s fears, hopes,

flaws, strengths, and assets. This is the point of
attack of your movie. You'll want to try a few in
order to pick a scene that best introduces the
premise and themes of your movie.

It’s time to build a sequence of scenes to

The World As We Know It, or Ordinary
World
introduce the reader (and audience) to your
protagonist. Remember, show, don’t tell.
Actions and interactions are more powerful
than background and exposition.As part of this
sequence, you want to signal that a storm is
brewing. Things may seem well in the ordinary
world, but we are on the brink of a change.

One day, everything changes. Remember that

we’re just lighting the fuse here. The stick of
dynamite hasn’t exploded yet. But this is the
day everything changes, even if the protagonist
doesn’t know it yet.
 day everything changes, even if the protagonist
doesn’t know it yet.

prefigures crisis; “this won’t be easy

Big Debate/Dilemma By p. 17 at the latest, you want to up the ante:

the stick of dynamite explodes. The
protagonist is now faced with a decision,
should I stay, or should I go? 20-25 It’s time to
commit to the quest! (Reread Christopher
Vogler's The Writer's Journey if you need a
refresher on this beat.) Something happens
that prompts the protagonist to a pro-active
decision. Remember, the protagonist cannot
be swept along in the action. A decision must
be made and clearly presented in the story.

Adventure Sequence We’re in the

extraordinary world and it’s time to engage us
in the adventure. Remember, you don’t want
to up the stakes until the midpoint. This is your
opportunity to present us with the rules of the
new world and present us with events that will
allow your protagonist to grow along the arc.
Gaining Support Don’t forget to introduce your
B-character. Their main purpose is to present a
Popcorn Moments, Trailer Moments new influence for the protagonist. Interacting
with this character will help your protagonist
grow through the character arc.
(By p. 30) (See Character Matters for
details on the additional beats for character
development.) while the story is still building
to the climax, there are lots of opportunities
for tone setting and theme setting scenes: the
fun parts that will go in the movie trailer

All Downhill: Attack of the Dominant
Values
Bad Guys Closing In/The Brick Wall
Failure in Slow Motion
Climax to Finale/The Final Face-
Off/Resolution
fun parts that will go in the movie trailer
Things go from bad to worse. The second half
of act two represents a series of ever-
increasing setbacks for the protagonist.
despite the protagonist’s best efforts, he or she
is losing ground. Blake Snyder, in Save the Cat,
likes to think of this as the “All Is Lost.” The
Brick Wall represents the ultimate low for the
protagonist. But most importantly, the
protagonist now faces a decision that amplifies
the commitment to the quest at the end of act
one: it’s time to pick up the sledge hammer,
break through the wall, and recommit to the
(redefined) quest. The protagonist finally gets
the big picture and is ready to enter act 3.
The protagonist seems to have failed utterly
Act 3 is defined by three major movements: (1)
the beginning: the protagonist enacts their
plan; (2) middle: the plan seems to work, but
often reveals a trap (3) end: the protagonist
becomes isolated and moves to confront the
antagonist in a final face-off. Each of your parts
must push us towards the ultimate
confrontation, no matter the genre of your
script. Conflict is at an all-time high and
culminates in the climax of the movie. The
build to the climax comes from the protagonist
 the beginning: the protagonist enacts their
plan; (2) middle: the plan seems to work, but
often reveals a trap (3) end: the protagonist
becomes isolated and moves to confront the
antagonist in a final face-off. Each of your parts
must push us towards the ultimate
confrontation, no matter the genre of your
Climax to Finale/The Final Face- script. Conflict is at an all-time high and
Off/Resolution culminates in the climax of the movie. The
build to the climax comes from the protagonist
finding a way back up from rock bottom to
victory. We turn the cameras off after a
meaningful scene that shows us how the
ordinary world has changed as a result of the
events portrayed in the movie. This is the new
world and new equilibrium.
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Movie starts with rocks from space exploding on entry and shattering glasses russian style, but burning out, hefty fine imp
V.O.
Space mining has bloomed and deflated.
Trillionaires have been born.
Now diamonds and gold are worth nothing.

in the beginning, there must be a large flaunting of wealth.

as the world's fisrt trillionaires have a race for the biggest of all.
like the biggest free sailing yatch.
the biggest private jet.
the biggest house.
the biggest diamond crusted car.
the fastest lambourgini.
the most expensive wedding.
the most expensive space tour bus.

milnar is young.
he loves women and fast cars.
he must be calling his competitors antiqueted machinery.

milnar must be an owner of a space mining company.

with a strong bio for space rock mining and cargo re-entry.
he must be the only hands-on company chairman and owner for all space mining firms.
that is likely to place him at all movie scenes at all times.

he must be the smallest player. The youngest and most recent trillionaire.
athletic, trendy fashion-setter, smart.
and the flashiest and most flambouyant.
that gives him a larger character development curve.
his primary care is not space safety, but catching up on wealth with the old dogs.
just like the old dogs care must be money, money, money.
milnar loves life though, has some small dogs and pet fish.
no children, fast girl friend. Mourns for his dead pet fish, receives condolence cards for it.

some of the older players must secretly hate milnar.

and hate the way he flaunts his few trillions.
they must say he will be outed of space shortly.
because he is not quiter, wiser, more vicious, more business savvy.

when milnar arrives at the yatch, it is still brand new and he wants to chrisen it.
it has ribbons and stuff.
milnar arrives at his yatch, as they prepare to leave for Ibusa.
for a holiday.
he arrives with an entourage of big black suvs and him and girlfriend are in a most sporty fast car.
the black suvs have his guards.

reporters, cameras flash, questions about his wealth, his assets and his boasty goals.
questions about baby (when) he sniggers.
he is asked did you buy two new choppers.
he looks up at his yatch and sees them.
says maybe they're a gift, from someone.
that’s why he gets angry to see 2 parked helicopters on it that don’t belong to him.
He wanted to christen the yatch, before anyone could board it. But, its already boarded by unkown intruders in choppers.

as he climbs up in an elevator, he complains on why his staff never asked him for permission to allow the main protagonist
when they talk, he is asked to sell his space mining firm and his current claims to the protagonist.
the protagonist explains that he has some heavy fixed costs he anticipates to incur and only with more revenue can he cov
milnar refuses.

the protagonist with a great curtailing of anger, chomps on some grapes. Swallows hard.
guzzles some wine.
leaves.

as his choppers take off, he makes a call.

and simply says, the deal is on.

the person he talkes to then, implants the virus that wipes out the space guard catalogue for space debris.

later milnar and girlfriend in ibiza.

scuba diving.
swimming.
drinking, merry, splashing about.
riding water bikes.

and as minar emerges from the water after scuba diving, clutching a fish spear with a struggling fish.
two more black choppers on his yatch.
and black suits waiting.
when Milnar sees the choppers that the black suits brought, on his yatch, he must mourn, "Not again."
"when can a man ever have peace."

they haul him up and ask that he leaves with them for the nearest airport.
jets are waiting to shuttle them instantly to new york, space guard court session.
that it’s a matter of life and death, that’s when the whole drama starts.

in court milnar is accused by another firm

but he turns around to face the protagonist and asks, "Did you put him up to it.
"Now come on now Milnar.
"Yeah,one minute you're on my yatch trying to threaten me into selling you my firm, and the next I am the black sheep in c
"That was a fair bid Milnar, an offer you are free to choose to sell or not.
space guard commission of enquiry complains in court that they were designed to capture and redirect only 5 asteroids at
milnar asks if they cant make more space vehicles to gather more stones
they reply that all factories all over the world are busy with that.
only 325 ships can be built
how many rocks are we talking about, they hear 9 654.

borrow from bourgs and worldwide.

send the fastest freight and passenger ships to haul them in.
send the nearest low horse power freight and cargo ships to haul the gravity tractors
to start making the journey earth bound, as we wait for fast ships to take-over.
introduce a sweet manuevre mid-air switch when fast ships arrive. Some releasing and grabbing technique
perfected by Milnar.

release ALL gravity tractors and freight ships, and passenger ships to leave for the space
debris on a recover and restore mission, for all lost space debris to save earth.

Milnar is an expert ex airforce astronout,

Current speciality,space mineral cargo recovery.

act 2: milnar and his very sharp team discover they didn’t cause the space debris, one of them kept a copy of most catalog
yet they cant prove it so the blame sticks on them.

they also discover that the debris will cause the big rock to dip into earth,doomsday style.
milnar goes back to space court to deny ownership and to let them know earth is doomed.
he loses. Big rock impact happens.
milnar and his team get busy designing the aero-dynamics breaks.
space guard takes over on UN Space treaty orders.
and instructs that milnar and his aerodynamics breaks become plan b.

the other big players should refuse to take ownership of space debris.
he should accept his debris and offer to clean it up.
then he should get blamed for even more space debris which he hasn’t created.
that sets a good tone for the protagonists.

eventually they all refuse to help with the large rock.

milnar has to deal with it.
because his debris knocked out the debris that’s headed for earth and the large rock.
find a name for the large rock.
call the movie by that name.

in the space council meeting.

they assign rocks to milner.
he refuses.
then he says okay okay.
he says okay, because they sayif he refuses he goes to prison instantly, if he doesn’t refuse he stays out of prison to help cl
They pullout a law to back this up.
and they then show him models that show that his rocks knocked the rocks that knocked the rocks headed for earth.

The UN Space Treaty makes an announcement, SPACE MINING could potentially be banned as too dangerous to earth, a B
As the UN Space Treaty begins to close mining operations due to a space accident that flung debris which killed over 35 m
Whislt Milnar and his team shall be receovering debris, the other firms shall be recovering their precious metal cargos.

when milnar leaves the Space Guard Commission of Enquiry meeting, the excited press is outside.
shouting several questions at him.
no longer asking about his yatches and planes.
but asking if it was worth it to risk the whole earth.

milnar learns his girlfriend is pregnant.

she cries. He comforst her in the car.

milanr and his team start brainstorming.

introduce an ship tracker FREAKY EXPERT, in Milnar's team, who knows all the world's space ships.
their capacities and abilities.
who can be the one spurning answers whenever there is a problem.
use him to save the day with knowledge, whenever a problem reaches its peak.

at this pont they havent discovered yet, that the small rocks will cause the big rock to dip into earth.
they think they are here to help locate all the debris they have been penalised with.
then they discover that the small rocks will actually cause the big rock to dip into earth.
and all hell breaks loose. Milnar now starts fighting for resources to save earth, but no one believes him.

he tries to call for ALL SPACE BASED GRAVITY HOLDERS to come.

those that can arrive before fifteen days will hold the rock as it makes initial entry.
those that can arrive later will hold the rock in the death zone.
then those that can arrive even later can help hold the rock as it enters earth's air atmoshpere where gravity tractors are n
the fastest space ships are dispatched to go collect the slow moving gravity tractors.

milnar's team discovers….

The elevator that is being used is an asteroid based elevator.
This pulls the space rock down, and dips its trajectory.
Earth is given 15 days to perish, in totality.
They seek for options, including extinguishing the space rock using nuclear.
The answer is that the rock is too big and that space debris would just break into small bits that would still destroy the wh

not enough gravity tractors.

gravity tractors too far.
freight and passenger ships with adequate horse power too far.

the space debris that was being held by gravity tractors in space, will swing earth-bound
once they are left alone, in the space holds where they are being held. Warning lights will
flash and scream all over earth. This will be warning from SPACE GUARD programs in the world.
introduced after that freak accident that claimed the lives of millions.

As they brainstrom and test simulations, They should try to land the big rock in the sea.
The water should break its fall, and possibly save the whole earth.
The idea is to show the dangers of space debris from the space mining rush, lack of accountability and greed.

They should also try anding the big rock at the poles.
And they should try land as well.
The best option must eventually be the sea (research deeply on this matter).
Your research point, asteroid impacts over land, sea, and snow.

the original idea must be to nudge the rock back to space.

take it some distance away from earth.
and blow it to bits using a nuclear explosion.
the rock was used as an elevator for space cargo and tourists.
it has cables that run from space to earth.

they cannot blow the rock to bits whilst its close to earth.
as their simulations have shown earth being sprayed by smaller asteroids about 50 meters across,
that can potentially become so uncontrollable, and can risk whipping out 25% of earth's population.

everyone shudders at the thought, they cannot relieve the experience as recently, they saw 600 000 people of a certain Ita
when the smaller debris entered earth's atmosphere.
prompting the urgent actions that are being taken now.
someone cries out, why was this not thought of in the first place. Why was the rock allowed to orbit earth so close.

the answer must be 1. it was not regulated by the UN Space Treaty.

2. we were in a stupi race agaisnt the bourgs. We couldn't afford to be beaten in the space rush.
3. Greed!! It blinded us such that anything we achieved in space was applauded as advancement, at the expense of earth;
where we used to create spacecraft debris that could completely burn out at re-entry,
we have now created larger asteroid debris from space mining, that can survive a burn-out at re-entry, and fatally strike ea

this is plan A.
they put aerodynamic brake plates on.
nudge the rock into a shallow dip at low speeds into earth.
so that the rock can bounce back to space.

from where they can use thrusters to push it further out, some 1.5 million kilometers away.
by increasing its delat velocity to escape earth's gravitational pull.
and landing then blowing the rock to bits.

plan b is if anything goes wrong with plan a.

like if the rock takes a sudden increase in its re-entry dip,
increasing speed.
and actually starting to penetrate the earth's atmosphere.

act 1: blame game. Big rock impact is in 1 year three months. In between Milnar loses his trillions and almost becomes pe
They couldn’t divert all the rocks (too-many-too-late concept), they can only divert 75% of the most dangerous debris, at M
milnar's advesaries smile and say we got him, told you we could floor him.
he is gone, debris recovery at his cost, he is a poor man now. If he doesn’t recover big rock because he has no money left,

milnar's trillions are taken away to cover space debris recovery costs, he loses some of his houses.
we see him being forced to pack, him and girlfriend, that’s when she tells him she is pregnant and she cries.
with milnar's wealth strectched, he has to foot for the recovery of big rock under act 2 with the help of his employees,
they contribute their own money to help.
because he used to share wealth, so combined they're trillionaires as well.

milnar's team are taken in as plan b.

their gravity tractors placed between the rock and the aero-dynamic plates.
so that they can easily and quickly fire up plan b if plan a fails.

thet are told its just a routine entry and bounce back to space.
which has been done with several smaller spacecrafts and rocks before.
on mars.

problem is, it has never been done with larger rocks.

and on earth.

milnar and his team are told, we definitely don’t need to use you.
you're here just as a back-up plan.
don’t worry boys, take a ride with us.

they must decide to do a dip and rebound.

because the rock is gaining speed.
and in nine days it would enter earth at a dip and velocity that's just a doomsday.

so they rightly time their intervention.

to do a dip and re-bound just when the rock approaches 85% of the required speed and trajectory.
this is a thin window that lasts only - 8 hours.
it is called a re-bound window.

the earth applauds when their initial intervention steps pays off, and they capture the rocks speed.
and drive it to 100% of required speed.
and 100% of required trajectory dip.
and 100% of the rebound window.
they avoid using the re-entry window.
and instead use the rebound window.
milnar must be making observations and correcting them.
then they refuse to implement some of his concerns.
well before the operation and during the operation.
it must be to do with complications in the rocks tremors and structure.
that makes it slip out of the re-bound window and cause it to enter the re-entry window.

then all hell breaks loose

and milnar plus team takeover.
just that as the movie progresses.
plan b becomes the inevitable.
and milnar's team kicks into action.
as the first team escapes from the rock.

this whole exercise is recorded on public TV live.

and there is a lot of press hype to increase excitement and fear.
some people must retire to their apocalypse bunkers.
hording of food, flame throwers, medicines.

money floating freely in the air.

no one needs money anymore.
streets are empty. Chaos. Abandoned cars, Fires burning.
the biggest of all wealth falunts are abandoned - like yatches, private jets etc.
people realise, that wealth is less important than the life of the earth itself.
some people hide in caves.
some sit atop mountains praying.

Once in earth's atmsophere, the job is no longer for gravity tractors.

But the push to land in the sea at minimum impact.
It almost kills Milnar, and his whole team.
But saves the whole earth.

the asteroid is stopped using aerobraking shields.

not excactly placed against the asteroid, but below it.
to reduce effect against drag.
then the air between the asteroid and the aerobraking shields is sucked out.
to create a vacuum like space.
in that vacuum, they slide in gravity tractors.
to hold the rock and stop it from spinning.
this way, the rock does not tumble around and smash against aerodynamic brakes.
so they land it, with Milnar and his team stuck between the rock and the aero dynamic breaks.
at the climax the team starts slipping out one by one.
milnar stays behind until the very last minute.

wild celebrations when milnar and his team finally land the asteroid safely on earth.
sad mourning for the death of milnar and his team.
a resolute, humble and contrite earth is born.
out of the ashes.
people start caring and loving one another.
instead of loving wealth.

some are seen ripping off and stomping on diamond necklaces.

tears in their eyes.
earth has survived.

the truth has come out.

that he never caused all the debris in the first place.
when the registry of all catalogued debris that had been corrupted by a maliciuosly planted virus is restored.
and it is realised that the debris was caused by milnar's greatest protagonist.
his competitor.

in the end milnar and his whole team must survive the rock landing.
make it very very difficult.
and have all their trillions restored.
and they must get a hefty payment for recovery of debris that was not theirs in the first place.
a couple of trillions that make milnar the richest man on earth.

whilst his protagonist is totally whipped out.

all trillions taken and a lenghty prison sentence.
for risking the lives of people on earth.

in the end all space mining is banned.

all companies that made profits from it are given heavy penalties,
and asked promptly to clear space of all debris.

their penalties are according to the number and size of their catalogued space debris.
and all un catalogued space debris are shared out pro-rata, to all space mining firms,
then the world's first trillionaires have their fortunes instantly reversed.
due to the heavy penalties.

Closing caption:
"Up to this day - space mining is totally banned."
"And the world has but only one trillionaire."
burning out, hefty fine imposed on errant firm kicking it out of business.
own intruders in choppers.

allow the main protagonist to land his choppers on his yatch.

th more revenue can he cover up for them, that’s why he needs to buy milnars firm.

pace debris.

ext I am the black sheep in court."

 redirect only 5 asteroids at a time.

ng technique

kept a copy of most catalogued space debris from other firms.

tays out of prison to help clear the debris, until trial.

ocks headed for earth.

too dangerous to earth, a Bill is being debated for potential signing in 7 months.
ebris which killed over 35 million earth inhabitants by raining space rock.
r precious metal cargos.

where gravity tractors are not that useful.

t would still destroy the whole earth.

ility and greed.

0 000 people of a certain Italian city perish. Verona.

orbit earth so close.

nt, at the expense of earth;s safety.

e-entry, and fatally strike earth.

ons and almost becomes peniless.
most dangerous debris, at Milnar's cost.

ause he has no money left, off to prison whilst space guard takes over.

and she cries.

e help of his employees,
us is restored.
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Protagonist Challenges
Challenge. KEY LIMIT
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new problem that resulted from solution (2).

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Movie starts with rocks from space exploding on entry and shattering glasses russian style, but burning out, hefty fine imp
V.O.
Space mining has bloomed and deflated.
Trillionaires have been born.
Now diamonds and gold are worth nothing.

Milnar is an expert ex airforce astronout,

Current speciality,space mineral cargo recovery.

Shot of Milnar's boss, complaining:

He says Milnar did well at school, even went on to do a Phd, but made the mistake of having his first employer being the C
Milnar is so secretive and diffcult to work with.
His super boss believes space-mining-explorative kind of work is for researchers, and researchers should share
Milnar's super boss says this whilst being walked to the chopper by his assistant (Milnar's direct boss).
Milnar's super boss then goes on to say, "Ed, you should watch your guy, he is definitely onto something."

Super Boss asks, "What does the CIA need a scientist for, anyway:"
Ed replies, " Their crazy ideas, need to be tested for feasibility."
Super Boss, "So what, Milnar makes them see light, if they get a crazy notion?"
Ed replies, "Nope, he makes crazy things real. That's his speciality - and at that - he is damn good."

Movie starts with Milnar recovering a runaway package that has entered earth's atmosphere on its own.
package is on a low dip earth re-entry, will make 16 orbits before crashing.

Ed is told by a Fligt Director, as they stand in control room, that they can't locate Milnar,
And that Milnar is not responding to calls on radio, or the phone, for him to report to the control room.
Can someone go get him, there's an emergency.
One of the cargo packages has slipped off, and is on a trajectory for self re-entry.
At worst they will lose some minerals during forced re-entry

Ed says, "Don't worry, I will go get the fool myself."

When he arrives, Milnar and a group of about 8 sharp looking guys and women, are crowded in Milnar's Office.
Pouring over some papers and drawings, they look very very busy, and somewhat agitated.

Ed walks knocks, no answer. Tries to open the door, its locked. Someone comes to open the door and Ed shoves himself in
He walks upon Milnar and the group. Milnar starts to shout at the guy who opened the door, "Phil! I said no one inside."
Whilst Ed is busy shouting." Who are these?"
A shouting incident happens.
Whilst Milnar is busy gathering papers quickly, to stop Ed from seeing what they were pouring over.
Milnar gives a flimsy explanation that the guys are outsourced help, working on some space recovery tactic work.

Milnar is told he is needed in the control room. Where he attempts to guide astronauts in space doing the package recove
Resulting in Milnar and a back-up team being sent immediately to space to do the cargo recovery themselves.
Milnar and crew chase the cargo, catch up and go in front of it,
they slowly position themselves and slide it into their cargo hold in ten minutes. Milnar advises against this, he argues with
their spacecraft rocks violently to almost shattering, they let the cargo go.
then they approach again over 16 hours and slide it in bit by small bit. This time they do it according to what Milnar advise
finally the rock is in safely, package is nine foot long and contains blue diamonds, white diamonds, red diamonds, and gold

The UN Space Treaty makes an announcement, SPACE MINING could potentially be banned as too dangerous to earth, a B
That KICKS it for Milnar, immediately he JUST HAS TO go mine that rock before its too late. The rock with the special secret
Then Milar, a richly experienced miner with no capital starts feverishly searching the skies.
Spending nights at huge telescopes, paying loads of cash, figthing to keep looking, busy, busy, busy, and HE FINDS IT!!!
He arranges with a broker to raise capital.

And takes a big risk.

Branches out with a few vagabond miners. It’s the group of 8 we saw earlier crouched in his office with Milnar.
Each one special in his own ways.

But they are being watched.

For the watchers know that Milnar can find true gems and true wealth.
that was Milnar's day job, he was a recovery expert.
then he decides to go for the big money, after being trained, goes as captain.
to mine space rocks for bigger money according to himself.

Milner goes out to mine on the pretext that its water he is to mine.
And he gets the gems that can make him the next trillionaire.
The richest man in the world actually.
Even his whole crew did not know, what it is they were truly mining for.
Then Milnar gets to know about SOME debris, just as his ship is re-entering earth's atmosphere with precious secret cargo

He is told by the broker who raised the capital that he is screwed as soon as he lands, his cargo will be taken,
He will be incarcerated and blamed for THE DEBRIS, and it will be losses and jail time.
Milnar makes an instant decision, turns the ship into a reverse gear,it's dangerous and maddening.
and shoots back to space without landing, almost loses his ship and his crew.
the broker must see him do that and be speechless.
even reporters waiting on earth to receive the PRECIOUS CARGO, they see and become speechless.

Actually, the watchers had decided to spark a rumour, to force Milnar to disclose what he was mining for,
They had created two large rocks - space debris!!
And reported Milnar and his team to the UN council for space treaties - as the culprit who created dangerous space debris
They made sure that no other team would ever be able to recover the debris, and or reroute it.
By dismembering other friendly spacecraft using rogue robots, specifically set aside for this work.
then space law kicks in.
ships in space are asked to board Milnar's ship and apprehend him and his crew,
the firm that created the debris must offer to transport troops to board Milnar's ship and help in apprehending him.
Milnar tries to raise his friends to ask them to help.
Their ships are dead.
They can't do anything.

Milnar asks his staff to place duplicate tracer beacons in various ship holds.
Milnar asks his specially gifted crew to quickly break codes and activate the many tracer beacons. Its against space law.
then he kicks the modules off, with their tracer beacons.
fooling the troops as they can no longer pin-point Milnar's ship.

Someone at the watchers asks - are we not putting the world at jeopardy - with this space debris.
The answer they get is - worry not - I know Milnar can do it.
He can save the earth.
And to do that , he has to be forced to disclose the special cargo he is carrying.
He has to tell us what kind of mineral it is, sell it to us, then we can hold back supplies, go back to mine some more and se

Milnar then asks his crew to lower his ship to below 50% of earth nearness.
the searching troops pick the first fooler beacons that are furthest from earth, and Milnar is not there.
they pick the spaceships pieces closer to earth and Milnar is not there.
they think, perhaps he drew close to earth to fool us.
Milnar is actually somewhere between 30-45% closer to earth.

then Milnar says the pressure is off, now guys let's think.
and they make secret contacts with the broker,
and start asking questions.

Milner would have to sell to them so that they can stop the debris for him.
At first Milnar makes a mistake, and discloses the cargo.
In order for him to raise capital to pay others to stop the debris.
However, that would leave them at a loss, and they would not make any money.
And they would all loose everything.

when all these things are happening, Milnar must be fighting with his crew.
because he has not explained exactly what cargo they are carrying.
or how precious it is.

So instead Milnar makes a resolve,

And decides to chase after the TWO PIECES OF DEBRIS.
Using special manuevres and tactics.

introduce an internal protagonist, right in the ship who eventually sells them off.
they will only know which ship piece Milnar is in, when he starts making manuevres for the debris.
and they get even more incensed, because the more he reduces his ship's size, the more they are
convinced he is carrying very precious cargo, whose value is not so much dependent on size.
the pieces that he broke off are the same size as the piece he is in.
and the all hold the foolers cargo.
meaning the real precious cargo is something else.

He manages to save the earth.

And to save their cargo - which they no longer have to sell.

then Milnar approaches the first debris.

latches onto it.
fights it like a hapoorned whale.
wins only after a near death experience.
then bags it and rides along using its speed.

then he approaches the second and last one.

more menacing than the first.
uses the first stone's speed to avoid an almost troop capture.

captures the second stone in a totally impossible fashion,

guides both stones away.
gets apprehended.
him and cargo get delivered to earth.
only to be released.
after a gruesome court session.
and new proof that comes.
that he never planted the debris in the first place.

we close off as Milnar and crew leave the courtroom.

being the richest men on earth.
the newest trillionaires.

The blame for the debris is put squarely on the watchers.

For finally someone figures out that they created the debris, to steal from Milnar.
Milnar HUGS his two sons and his enstranged wife. He has no one else but them, Milnar was raised an orphan. His wife is
their separation was caused by Milnar's obsessive thought that he needed money to make his family happy, his wife saying
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Milnar is an expert on cargo re-entry.

He normally deals with normal packaged and weighed cargo.
He has ateam of earth based experts.
They're considered inferior to space based miners and gravity holders.

As the UN Space Treaty begins to close mining operations due to a space accident that flung debris which killed over 35 m
Milnar's firm is in a rush to wind up operations and recover space cargo (minerals).
The elevator that is being used is an asteroid based elevator.
It has systems that can detect and avoid bad weather.

But in the rush, and under pressure, staff fail to notice that the system has predicted the occurance of a category 5 hurrica
And that the elevator is headed for that storm.
When the elevator enters the storm, it does so whilst the cargo hold is full.

This pulls the space rock down, and dips its trajectory.
Earth is given 15 days to perish, in totality.

They seek for options, including extinguishing the space rock using nuclear.
The answer is that the rock is too big and that space debris would just break into small bits that would still destroy the wh

Milnar is now the most important man on earth.

He has to land the rock safely in the sahara dessert.
he fights and lands it.
but he has to call for ALL SPACE BASED GRAVITY HOLDERS to come.
those that can arrive before fifteen days will hold the rock as it makes initial entry.
those that can arrive later will hold the rock in the death zone.
then those that can arrive even later can help hold the rock as it enters earth's air atmoshpere where gravity tractors are n

the fastest space ships are dispatched to go collect the slow moving gravity tractors.

problems.
not enough gravity tractors.
gravity tractors too far.
freight and passenger ships with adequate horse power too far.

the space debris that was being held by gravity tractors in space, will swing earth-bound
once they are left alone, in the space holds where they are being held. Warning lights will
flash and scream all over earth. This will be warning from SPACE GUARD programs in the world.
introduced after that freak accident that claimed the lives of millions.

character curve.
the americans start wildly competing with bourgs from Luxembourgh.
they start literally by hating each other.
calling each other fast/slow, more tech developed and less tech developed, rich/poor.

they are forced to work together to solve the earth crisis.

in coordination, especially Milnar, gets to know that where american technology lacks, luxembourgh technology makes up
Milnar start start hating the bourgs way more than anyone else.
He learns at last to work with them, he hated them because they caused his job loss, which resulted in his marriage loss.

introduce an ship tracker FREAKY EXPERT, in Milnar's team, who knows all the world's space ships.
their capacities and abilities.
who can be the one spurning answers whenever there is a problem.
use him to save the day with knowledge, whenever a problem reaches its peak.

It’s the small stones left as debris that should knock out the big rock.
And start its dip into earth, not the hurricane.

They should try to land the big rock in the sea.

The water should break its fall, and possibly save the whole earth.
The idea is to show the dangers of space debris from the space mining rush, lack of accountability and greed.

Once in earth's atmsophere, the job is no longer for gravity tractors.

But the push to land in the sea at minimum impact.
It kills Milnar, and his whole team.
But saves the whole earth.

the asteroid is stopped using aerobraking shields.

not excactly placed against the asteroid, but below it.
to reduce effect against drag.
then the air between the asteroid and the aerobraking shields is sucked out.
to create a vacuum like space.
in that vacuum, they slide in gravity tractors.
to hold the rock and stop it from spinning.
this way, the rock does not tumble around and smash against aerodynamic brakes.
so they land it, with Milnar and his team stuck between the rock and the aero dynamic breaks.
at the climax the team starts slipping out one by one.
milnar stays behind until the very last minute.

the original idea must be to nudge the rock back to space.

take it some distance away from earth.
and blow it to bits using a nuclear explosion.
the rock was used as an elevator for space cargo and tourists.
it has cables that run from space to earth.

they cannot blow the rock to bits whilst its close to earth.
as their simulations have shown earth being sprayed by smaller asteroids about 50 meters across,
that can potentially become so uncontrollable, and can risk whipping out 25% of earth's population.

everyone shudders at the thought, they cannot relieve the experience as recently, they saw 600 000 people of a certain Ita
when the smaller debris entered earth's atmosphere.
prompting the urgent actions that are being taken now.
someone cries out, why was this not thought of in the first place. Why was the rock allowed to orbit earth so close.
the answer must be 1. it was not regulated by the UN Space Treaty.
2. we were in a stupi race agaisnt the bourgs. We couldn't afford to be beaten in the space rush.
3. Greed!! It blinded us such that anything we achieved in space was applauded as advancement, at the expense of earth;
where we used to create spacecraft debris that could completely burn out at re-entry,
we have now created larger asteroid debris from space mining, that can survive a burn-out at re-entry, and fatally strike ea

this is plan A.
they put aerodynamic brake plates on.
nudge the rock into a shallow dip at low speeds into earth.
so that the rock can bounce back to space.

from where they can use thrusters to push it further out, some 1.5 million kilometers away.
by increasing its delat velocity to escape earth's gravitational pull.
and landing then blowing the rock to bits.

plan b is if anything goes wrong with plan a.

like if the rock takes a sudden increase in its re-entry dip,
increasing speed.
and actually starting to penetrate the earth's atmosphere.

milnar's team are taken in as plan b.

their gravity tractors placed between the rock and the aero-dynamic plates.
so that they can easily and quickly fire up plan b if plan a fails.

thet are told its just a routine entry and bounce back to space.
which has been done with several smaller spacecrafts and rocks before.
on mars.

problem is, it has never been done with larger rocks.

and on earth.

milnar and his team are told, we definitely don’t need to use you.
you're here just as a back-up plan.
don’t worry boys, take a ride with us.

just that as the movie progresses.

plan b becomes the inevitable.
and milnar's team kicks into action.
as the first team escapes from the rock.

this whole exercise is recorded on public TV live.

and there is a lot of press hype to increase excitement and fear.
some people must retire to their apocalypse bunkers.
hording of food, flame throwers, medicines.
money floating freely in the air.
no one needs money anymore.
streets are empty. Chaos. Abandoned cars, Fires burning.
the biggest of all wealth falunts are abandoned - like yatches, private jets etc.
people realise, that wealth is less important than the life of the earth itself.
some people hide in caves.
some sit atop mountains praying.

in the end all space mining is banned.

all companies that made profits from it are given heavy penalties,
and asked promptly to clear space of all debris.

their penalties are according to the number and size of their catalogued space debris.
and all un catalogued space debris are shared out pro-rata, to all space mining firms,
then the world's first trillionaires have their fortunes instantly reversed.
due to the heavy penalties.

in the beginning, there must be a large flaunting of wealth.

as the world's fisrt trillionaires have a race for the biggest of all.
like the biggest free sailing yatch.
the biggest private jet.
the biggest house.
the biggest diamond crusted car.
the fastest lambourgini.
the most expensive wedding.
the most expensive space tour bus.

wild celebrations when milnar and his team finally land the asteroid safely on earth.
sad mourning for the death of milnar and his team.
a resolute, humble and contrite earth is born.
out of the ashes.
people start caring and loving one another.
instead of loving wealth.

some are seen ripping off and stomping on diamond necklaces.

tears in their eyes.
earth has survived.

they must decide to do a dip and rebound.

because the rock is gaining speed.
and in nine days it would enter earth at a dip and velocity that's just a doomsday.

so they rightly time their intervention.

to do a dip and re-bound just when the rock approaches 85% of the required speed and trajectory.
this is a thin window that lasts only - 8 hours.
it is called a re-bound window.

the earth applauds when their initial intervention steps pays off, and they capture the rocks speed.
and drive it to 100% of required speed.
and 100% of required trajectory dip.
and 100% of the rebound window.
they avoid using the re-entry window.
and instead use the rebound window.

milnar must be making observations and correcting them.

then they refuse to implement some of his concerns.
well before the operation and during the operation.
it must be to do with complications in the rocks tremors and structure.
that makes it slip out of the re-bound window and cause it to enter the re-entry window.

then all hell breaks loose

and milnar plus team takeover.

milnar must be an owner of a space mining company.

with a strong bio for space rock mining and cargo re-entry.
he must be the only hands-on company chairman and owner for all space mining firms.
that is likely to place him at all movie scenes at all times.

he must be the smallest player. The youngest and most recent trillionaire.
athletic, trendy fashion-setter, smart.
and the flashiest and most flambouyant.
that gives him a larger character development curve.
his primary care is not space safety, but catching up on wealth with the old dogs.
just like the old dogs care must be money, money, money.
milnar loves life though, has some small dogs and pet fish.
no children, fast girl friend. Mourns for his dead pet fish, receives condolence cards for it.

the other big players should refuse to take ownership of space debris.
he should accept his debris and offer to clean it up.
then he should get blamed for even more space debris which he hasn’t created.
that sets a good tone for the protagonists.

some of the older players must secretly hate milnar.

and hate the way he flaunts his few trillions.
they must say he will be outed of space shortly.
because he is not quiter, wiser, more vicious, more business savvy.

milnar is young.
he loves women and fast cars.
he must be calling his competitors antiqueted machinery.

eventually they all refuse to help with the large rock.

milnar has to deal with it.
because his debris knocked out the debris that’s headed for earth and the large rock.
find a name for the large rock.
call the movie by that name.

in the space council meeting.

they assign rocks to milner.
he refuses.
then he says okay okay.
and they then show him models that show that his rocks knocked the rocks that knocked the rocks headed for earth.

only that these rocks will not impact earth directly like the previos disaster.
they will nudge the big rock.
and the big rock will impact earth.
all this has to be said in the first ten minutes of the movie.

and it sets the tone.

when milnar leaves the meeting, the excited press is outside.
shouting several questions at him.
no longer asking about his yatches and planes.
but asking if it was worth it to risk the whole earth.

only when milnar and his team perish, whilst saving earth,
does the rtuth come out.
that he never caused all the debris in the first place.
when the registry of all catalogued debris that had been corrupted by a maliciuosly planted virus is restored.
and it is realised that the debris was caused by milnar's greatest protagonist.
his competitor.

act 1: blame game. Big rock impact is in 1 year three months. In between Milnar loses his trillions and almost becomes pe
They couldn’t divert all the rocks (too-many-too-late concept), they can only divert 75% of the most dangerous debris, at M
milnar's advesaries smile and say we got him, told you we could floor him.
he is gone, debris recovery at his cost, he is a poor man now. If he doesn’t recover big rock because he has no money left,
milnar's trillions are taken away to cover space debris recovery costs, he loses some of his houses.
we see him being forced to pack, him and girlfriend, that’s when she tells him she is pregnant and she cries.
with milnar's wealth strectched, he has to foot for the recovery of big rock under act 2 with the help of his employees,
they contribute their own money to help.
because he used to share wealth, so combined they're trillionaires as well.

act 2: milnar and his very sharp team discover they didn’t cause the space debris, one of them kept a copy of most catalog
yet they cant prove it so the blame sticks on them.
they also discover that the debris will cause the big rock to dip into earth,doomsday style.
milnar goes back to space court to deny ownership and to let them know earth is doomed.
he loses. Big rock impact happens.
milnar and his team get busy designing the aero-dynamics breaks.
space guard takes over on UN Space treaty orders.
and instructs that milnar and his aerodynamics breaks become plan b.
milnar learns his girlfriend is pregnant.
she cries.

act 3: earth rescue begins.

then the movie ends as planned earlier.

milnar arrives at his yatch, as they prepare to leave for Ibusa.

for a holiday.
he arrives with an entourage of big black suvs and him and girlfriend are in a most sporty fast car.
the black suvs have his guards.

reporters, cameras flash, questions about his wealth, his assets and his boasty goals.
questions about baby (when) he sniggers.
he is asked did you buy two new choppers.
he looks up at his yatch and sees them.
says maybe they're a gift, from someone.

as he climbs up in an elevator, he complains on why his staff never asked him for permission to allow the main protagonist
when they talk, he is asked to sell his space mining firm and his current claims to the protagonist.
the protagonist explains that he has some heavy fixed costs he anticipates to incur and only with more revenue can he cov
milnar refuses.

the protagonist with a great curtailing of anger, chomps on some grapes. Swallows hard.
guzzles some wine.
leaves.

as his choppers take off, he makes a call.

and simply says, the deal is on.

the person he talkes to then, implants the virus that wipes out the space guard catalogue for space debris.

later milnar and girlfriend in ibiza.

scuba diving.
swimming.
drinking, merry, splashing about.
riding water bikes.

and as minar emerges from the water after scuba diving, clutching a fish spear with a struggling fish.
two more black choppers on his yatch.
and black suits waiting.
they haul him up and ask that he leaves with them for the nearest airport.
jets are waiting to shuttle them instantly to new york, space guard court session.
that it’s a matter of life and death, that’s when the whole drama starts.

in court milnar is accused by another firm

but he turns around to face the protagonist and asks, "Did you put him up to it.
"Now come on now Milnar.
"Yeah,one minute you're on my yatch trying to threaten me into selling you my firm, and the next I am the black sheep in c
"That was a fair bid Milnar, an offer you are free to choose to sell or not.

when Milnar sees the choppers that the black suits brought, on his yatch, he must mourn, "Not again."

when milnar arrives at the yatch, it is still brand new and he wants to chrisen it.
it has ribbons and stuff.
that’s why he gets angry to see 2 parked helicopters on it that don’t belong to him.

space guard complains in court that they were designed to capture and redirect only 5 asteroids at a time.
milnar asks if they cant make more space vehicles to gather more stones
they reply that all factories all over the world are busy with that.
only 325 ships can be built
how many rocks are we talking about, they hear 9 654.
but burning out, hefty fine imposed on errant firm kicking it out of business.

g his first employer being the CIA.

chers should share

o something."

e on its own.

ontrol room.

d in Milnar's Office.

door and Ed shoves himself inside.

r, "Phil! I said no one inside."

e recovery tactic work.

pace doing the package recovery, and they fail.

overy themselves.
ises against this, he argues with mission control, he says its too fast. But he is forced to do it anyway.

ccording to what Milnar advises.

monds, red diamonds, and gold. Milnar asks after catching it and landing safely.

as too dangerous to earth, a Bill is being debated for potential signing in 7 months.
The rock with the special secret expensive mineral that he dares not to disclose.

y, busy, and HE FINDS IT!!!

s office with Milnar.

here with precious secret cargo.

rgo will be taken,

as mining for,

reated dangerous space debris headed for earth.

elp in apprehending him.

acons. Its against space law.

ack to mine some more and sell for super super profits.
s raised an orphan. His wife is coming back home.
his family happy, his wife saying we are okay, drinking, shouting, no peace, wife leaves him.

g debris which killed over 35 million earth inhabitants by raining space rock.
curance of a category 5 hurricane.

that would still destroy the whole earth.

ere where gravity tractors are not that useful.

solutions.
borrow from bourgs and worldwide.
send the fastest freight and passenger ships to haul them in.
send the nearest low horse power freight and cargo ships to haul the gravity tractors
to start making the journey earth bound, as we wait for fast ships to take-over.
introduce a sweet manuevre mid-air switch when fast ships arrive. Some releasing and grabbing technique
perfected by Milnar.

release ALL gravity tractors and freight ships, and passenger ships to leave for the space
debris on a recover and restore mission, for all lost space debris to save earth.

mbourgh technology makes up for it.

 resulted in his marriage loss.

tability and greed.

600 000 people of a certain Italian city perish. Verona.

d to orbit earth so close.

ment, at the expense of earth;s safety.

at re-entry, and fatally strike earth.

e rocks headed for earth.

virus is restored.

illions and almost becomes peniless.

he most dangerous debris, at Milnar's cost.

because he has no money left, off to prison whilst space guard takes over.

nt and she cries.

the help of his employees,

em kept a copy of most catalogued space debris from other firms.

n to allow the main protagonist to land his choppers on his yatch.

with more revenue can he cover up for them, that’s why he needs to buy milnars firm.

or space debris.
e next I am the black sheep in court."

Not again."

roids at a time.
Milnar must ask the broker to raise USD3.9 billion for the trip.
The broker should ask him, "You can't buy a miner craft with that? Its too little. You need at least US10bill
Milner is to reply, "We're not buying, we're hiring."
Broker says," Then that’s too much for hiring, you don't need USD3.9billion"
Milner says, " We need extra to modify the craft, to suit our project specifics."
Broker, " What are you mining for anyway?"
Milner, "What's that for?"
Broker, "Come on Milnar, you know the capital has to be insured. Its space law?"
Milner, "Say water."
Broker," Milnar, lying whilst raising capital is a criminal offense."
Milner, " It's not a lie, we will bring water."

what forces Milnar's ex firm to create debris, must be

some financial problems they run into after he has left.
they figure that if they can get minerals from his expedition,
they might get over their financial trouble.

the movie should start with sir Carter's Board meeting.

where its disclosed that the UN Space Treaty Council Bill has been authorized.
made to ban space explorative mining.
all companies already in space given 7 months to wind up operations,
clean up their catalogued space debris,

and count their final profits or losses.

Sir Carter leaves the board room table and goes to stand by the window,
then asks,
"how much money have I spent, in space so far?"
"US305billion."
"do I make a profit at winding up."
"hell no."
"how much can I recover of my investment?"
"42%."
Sir Carter winces.
"USDamount."
"shut up Sid"
then as they prepare to leave, gathering papers,
someone begins to mention,

"Sir Carter, progress report on Milnar and his rogue team."

"No Brandon, not in this meeting."
"Let him speak."
"Sir, we made the calculation, Milnar and his team have
misappropriated company resources to this amount,

Shows Carter a sheet, with lists of improper asset use and an amount,
USD4.2 million.

"Sir Carter, What's the value of the cheapest payload

from their ship's delivery?"

"USD320million, if it’s the cheapest payload."

"Carter this is useless, Milner stopped working for you many years back."
"that’s why we stopped making money, and that’s why I am losing billions at wind up."

"no what I meant is, whatever he is mining, its little man's payload of no value to us, to you sir

"Interjection, no we have reason to believe he has mined something precious, though we don’

"Does Milnar have a weakness?"

"Yes."

Sir Carter asks what it is by squinting his eyebrows.

"He needs a ship, to go into space and bring the cargo in himself."
The team that went to space are simple miners, they'are not recovery experts.

"Why didn’t he go with them?"

"He couldn’t, had to stay behind and pretend there was nothing he was mining."

"Offer him something, bait him into making a trip to space to recover his cargo."
"Then make sure he fails to bring it in still, till we figure out what it is."
"Then I want that cargo, all of it. Cut my lossess at winding up."
ng technique
little. You need at least US10billion and I can't raise that. In fact all the money I've raised my entire career can't even make a quarter of US
sing billions at wind up."

oad of no value to us, to you sir carter."

ething precious, though we don’t know yet what it could be."

ecovery experts.

g he was mining."

ecover his cargo."

can't even make a quarter of US10billion. "
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Dialogue
Character Names
Parenthiticals

FADE IN:

EXT: OUTER SPACE.

The stars. Shining with a steady piercing light. With none of
those scintillating flashes of color, that are ordinarily seen from earth
fascination of the night sky. We are deep in space.

We would have expected to continue seeing nothing but this overwhelming em

when a shattered piece of space craft breaks into view. More debris soon f

BODIES… FLOAT IN.

Men, women… some in space gear. Some in their odd clothes. We zoom in on a
lifeless astronaut, his dead eyes fixated . Missing the whole left arm. Ta
out clean by flying debris. Whatever befell them, must have happened unexp

LIAM (V.O.)
[deeply hyponasal voice]
To mine an asteroid, you just had to
find that special rock. Reason was,
anything launched into space, man,
robots, probes… even water. Were
all hugely expensive.
[beat]
It was very risky. Space was one place
we knew little of. Occasionally, we
paid a dear price.

A spinning chunk of space craft, charges in. Shattering smaller pieces of

It bears the name Spartan V-29… and an American flag. Whatever has shredde
space craft… has done it with such brute force.

SIR BAWDEN (O.S.)

Luxemborg has a global financial capital
the size of Rhode Island, with fewer people
than Milwaukee? It is hardly a logical
launchpad for mining valuable commodities
in outer space.

EXT: EARTH - BEACHSIDE - DAY.

A sunsational beach.
 CARTER (O.S.)
So why not throw logic to the solar winds,
jump in where others fear to tread? We
are Americans, and we've kindof dared to
be browbeaten by bourgish fellas in space?

LAUGHING KIDS.
Frolicking on the beach. Tugging kites. A large dog bounces cheerfully aft
them. Some lifeguard races on the sands, on a hovering quadbike.

TALK SHOW HOST (O.S.)

Definitely, gentlemen. Okay. Let me ask
our viewers here.

STILL ON THE BEACH.

A woman in shorts and sneakers, gets on with a lazy jogtrot. As an aged co
walk their two small dogs. Classical music fades into play.

CARTER (O.S.)
You bet, the best answers may actually
be out there…

EXT: SPACE.
THE ENORMOSITY OF THE SPARTAN V-29 SPACE CRAFT - IS REVEALED.
More than a mile long. Shattered and splined for close to half its length.
The ship seems to emmit a whimpering distress signal. A red light is flash
at its rear.

EXT: EARTH. HOUSTON CITY - DAY.

We roll down mega sky scrappers jutted out for the skies. They have such
exquisitive designs that can easily surpass any twenty-first century achit

SUBTITLES APPEAR:
CITY OF HOUSTON, TEXAS - YEAR 2123.
HOME OF NEW FOUND MONEY
SPACE EXPLORATIVE MINING

TALK SHOW HOST (O.S.)

Okay, if we could ask. "What's a small,
landlocked country like Luxembourg doing
in outer space?"
EXT: SPACE.
WE ZOOM IN ON SPARTAN V-29.
A woman in a space suit, hovers in low gravity in the glass dome, the coop
observatory section. Her hand on the glass. Peeking out into space. Pretty
face looking dolefully homesick.

CARTER (O.S.)
Better known as bourgs. Unlike what some
of us prefer, like we call them bugs.
Space bugs. Luxembourg, bugs. You like
it?

Offscreen, Talk Show Host roars with laughter.

From deep within the spacecraft, the distress radio signal now clearly baw
Then as the ship retreats into the distance, the distress signal fades int
sadly haunted dih dih dah.

TALK SHOW HOST

Okay Carter, all I know is our
American space technology sucks. I mean
look at these guys, man, they are centuries
ahead. They're good guys really, we only
call them bugs-bourghs-whatever, because the
giant leaps they have achieved in space…
leave us rebuffed.

EXT: HOUSTON CITY STREETS - DAY.

A SUITED MAN IN A CITY PARK.

Sinks his barefeet into the lawns. He does a 'thank you' etiquette by lift
a TIME magazine with the Spartan V-29 spacecraft on its cover.

CARTER
They beat us to space, we beat them to
the funny names.

Suited man longingly gazes out to space. In his other hand, he clutches a
mug of steaming early morning coffee. This man is Bruce Walker (34). His j
smart hair and clean face, makes him rather look like an accomplished deal
stock trading floor. Classical music continues.

ON EARTH - BAIN CARTER APPEARS.

Lounging cross legged on a couch. Next to him sits SIR BAWDEN. Across them
the Talk Show Host, FRED AKERSON. Fred is retching with laughter. With a
smirk look, Sir Bawden hands him a glass of water.

EARTH SCREEN

INT: NEWSROOM - DAY.

EIGHT-SET SCREEN DISPLAY - FLOWING FIGURES OF INVESTMENT CHARTS - ON THE D
As a male BUSINESS NEWS READER, with a crisp voice clips in.

BUSINESS NEWS READER

With that history, the grand duchy is
placing a new, $200 billion bet that
lightning indeed can strike twice in the
same place, investing in research and
development, creating and testing
future-oriented technologies and
establishing financial partnerships, with
space-related companies willing to
locate in the grand duchy.

Another TV screen flashes in, with more news.

SECOND NEWS READER

We just got information that a scrambled
distress message has been received
from an American spacecraft, mining in the
Jupiter zone. The message deciphered so far,
seems to point at some major collision
the ship has encountered with regolith
material. The ship is the Spartan V-29,
operated by Orion Inc.
EARTH SCREEN

INT: DOW JONES TRADING FLOOR - DAY.

The floor explodes in mixed commotions. Jubilent and dejected traders. Som
a bullish gain. Hugging, hand clapping, kissing. Others throwing papers on
Bruce Walker, sits slumped on the steps leading up from the stock trading
glummy.

MALE NEWS READER (O.S.)

The Orion Inc. shares had a bad quarter
this season, closing in at a not so suprising
ten-point-seven-four thousand dollars a share,
less than half of it's blindly anticipated notch.
Whilst the bourgish shares had a bullish
drive.
A TRADER.
Taps Bruce's shoulder.

TRADER
Bruce. The big man calls you.

BRUCE.
Looks up, and his gaze digs straight into the goring eyes of FRAZER WATKIN
CEO of Natale Wealth Managers Plc . Frazer stands by the glass walls of hi
on the second floor. Vigorously beckoning Bruce to come over.

Bruce lugs his weight over the steps. He enters the CEO's office.

FRAZER
Take a seat Bruce.

FRAZER
Starts to sign some checks. It is only after a cold while, that he finishe
Passes the files to his secretary. Looks up to speak to Bruce.

FRAZER
You understand why I have to let you
go?

BRUCE
Yap.

FRAZER
Jesus, Bruce. How do you do that?

BRUCE.
Clears his throat.

BRUCE
Didymos is a crazy rock. So I thought.

FRAZER
You were not thinking! Not at all.
[beat]
Of course Didymos is a crazy rock.
Loaded. However, did you stop to
ask, is Orion Inc as crazy as
Didymos is. If it was a bourgish firm
saying, 'We are rocking for Didymos
65803.' Of course I would instantly
believe. But if its any American firm…
 BLAAH!

BRUCE
Fidgets in his seat.

BRUCE
Okay, I hear you.
[beat]
So what becomes of me.

FRAZER
You alone - lost my clients two-point-five
billion dollars, with that strange bet.
You're FIRED!

EXT: HOUSTON CITY STREETS - DAY.

BRUCE
Crossing a busy street. His tie dishevelled. His crumpled up shirt stuffed
trousers. A carefree soul, barely ducking the cars that hoot as they miss
inches.

MALE NEWS READER (O.S.)

No word from lost and potentially destroyed
ship, Spartan V-29, no bonus on wall street.
Bad news for most American traders, five-point-
three billion dollars gone with the winds of
trade at this season's close.

ONE CAR SWIPES BRUCE ONTO ITS BONNET. SCREECHING TO A HALT.

Bruce lays flat on his face on the bonnet. A female pedestrian screams.

FEMALE PEDESTRIAN
Oh my God. Oh my God. Somebody help him.
Help please.

BRUCE PEALS HIS FACE OFF THE BONNET.

Only to stare right into the faces of four derisive occupants sitting in t
that just hit him. Seeing that he is not seriously injured, the people in
burst into laughter.

BRUCE - ALONE- IN A DINGY PUB

Blankly starring into a half pint. Aimlessly spinning a coin on the table
The Male news Reader is on TV - again- in the pub.

MALE NEWS READER

 Not so suprising either,
the anticipated drop in mineral supplies
on the world market, with the subtraction
of millions of tonnes in ore that Spartan
V-29 would have delivered, has all resulted
in price increases and major share price
gains for bourgish firms.

BRUCE.
Immediately tips all the beer into his mouth. Grabs his jacket. Hastily ma
door.

EARTH SCREEN

EXT: HOUSTON CITY STREETS - DAY.

We pan out from a highway, packed with crawling cars. A poshy-look red
sedan weaves out of the heavy traffic and enters a roadside bimodal
glideway. Large neon signs flash - BIMODAL GLIDEWAY - OPEN.

Rail compartible guide-wheels emerge from the sedan's undercarriage,slidin

over onto railway tracks. The sedan now shoots off at unimaginable speeds.
Making the vehicles on the highway above, appear terribly sluggish.

BUSINESS NEWS READER (O.S.)

Even as it seems "pie in the sky," the
potential for vast riches is still without
limits. More than 15,000 Near Earth
Objects - meteoroids, asteroids or
comets - pass close to the Earth -
within 150 million kilometers. They are
mainly in the asteroid belt between Mars
and Jupiter and classified as carbon-rich,
metallic or silicate.

WE PAN AWAY - FROM THE BIMODAL GLIDEWAY.

The scenery below is eco-switched. Prim streetways, green roofs, expansive
croquet lawns with neat trees, power generating windmills, electric hoverc
flying on orderly routes. Electric monorails, zipping through Houston City
With soothing… clear blue skies.

EARTH SCREEN

EXT: OUTSIDE HOUSTIN CITY - DAY

An elevated hyperloop tube is wound out of a hill. Stretches for a few
miles, then vanishes back into the hills.
AS WE ZOOM IN - A GLASS SECTION ON THE TUBE REVEALS.
A quick flash as a hyperloop capsule scuttles over the glass partition.
The tube reverberates from shock, even though the speeding capsule has
long gone.

EARTH SCREEN - DISSOLV

IN SPACE.
Spartan V29 on a free float. Her thruster engines dead.

LIAM (V.O.)
Ten days ago - our ship had been pounded
by regolith material from a carelessly mined
asteroid. Travelling at speeds in excess of
65 000 miles an hour.
[beat]
It was sobbering to remember, that we were
worth our weight back on earth. It cost a
damn 4 600 geez to get a pound of weight
into space. Now we were like a tree
shredded by a ravenous animal.

A MALE ASTRONAUT - IN FULL SPACE GEAR.

Floats towards the woman in the coopler dome. Eases his legs to stand next
He gently squeezes her shoulder. She looks up, forces a smile. He nods rea
This man's face is heavily lop-sided. Typical of being exposed to long per
space travel. The man is Astronaut LIAM THORN (46) and the woman, SANDY WA

LIAM (V.O.)
Platinum, gold, water, anything. That's
what we mined. We were hunters, like
punning the seas for blue fin tuna in a
barren ocean. You burn fuel, you get
buterflies in the tummy if nothing
nibbles your line.
[beat]
And here we helplessly sat, in the abyss
of space, costly, battered.

SANDY.
Sees some floating bodies out in space. An involuntary tear runs down her
She gives Liam a deep, imploring look.

SANDY
Send a team, get their bodies. Please
 Liam. We should take them home. Give them
a proper burial.

LIAM.
Swallows hard, nods. He tugs Sandy away from the windows. They squirm off.
Sliding through an airlock hatch into a decompressor cabin. Liam turns the
handle of a valve, shutting the hatch. He hits a button on the walls. The
cabin is filled with hissing gases as it re-pressurizes.

LIAM (V.O.)
Asteroids don’t glitter like stars.
They are small, dark and easily
obscured by the atmospheres of the
planets in our solar system.

SANDY IS ALREADY
halfway through pealing her space suit off. Liam unscrews his helmet.
Begins down dressing.

LIAM (V.O.)
It was especially difficult to tell
how much money you would get from
each rock.

LIAM.
Pulls a can out of his pocket. Sprays his face. Tries to adjust his facial
muscles. Checks for mirror effects on the visor of his helmet. Scowls. Spr
some more and begins to vigorously rub in his face.

SANDY
That stuff doesn’t work.

LIAM
I can't afford to look sad, in times
like these.

SANDY
Get your face fixed. Surgery.
You can afford permanent filler.

LIAM
Throws the spray can away. It just floats off. Sandy catches it and latche
onto a holder on a board where lots of other stuff are just sticking out.

SANDY
Fire hazard, you can't be careless.
 LIAM
I know, sorry. It's the low gravity.
Its eating me. I used to be very pretty.

SANDY
[can't help it - chuckles]
All right. Winning pageants.

LIAM
No,no,no. Winning boy band.
I was like Elvis or Horace Reeves…
with a strong crooning voice, now
I sing like I got the flu.

SANDY
Cackles.
LIAM
Seriously, that's what this shit
gravity does.

SANDY
Exactly what else are you going
through Liam?

LIAM PAUSES.
The question caught him off guard.

LIMA
Nothing, just this strong
yearning for all of us to lay our
hands on the cash.
[beat]
Its good to see you laugh, Sandy.
Come on, we got some money to make.

Sandy heaves open another hatch, then using the blue handles on the walls
for buoyancy, she starts squirming into a galley full of jabbering astrona
Half of them injured, badly. Bandaged. Two dozen bald-headed men and women
curiously clad in light pants, t-shirts, socks. The cabin has a thick appr
atmosphere.

LIAM (V.O.)
Chances were, by the time you got
to earth, if you got too big a rock,
the markets would flood and prices
 would plummet. Too small a rock…
then you would not recover your costs.
[beat]
You just had to get the right sized rock.
Even if you chose not to supply, the news
of how much tonnes you had brought, was
enough to drive prices and shares into
a major shift. Complicated nonsense.

The galley quitens as Liam and Sandy enter. Sandy takes a floating-seat
posture. Uneasily stares down to avoid the deep searching eyes of the astr
Liam heads straight for an intercom unit on the walls. There is no interes
food eating here. Instead the cabin is littered with drifting pens, paper,
tethered laptops, calculators. With the air tense from the astronauts' ner
stares.

LIAM
[speaking into the
intercomm)
Raymond, do you copy.

A scrambled screech precedes Raymond's reponse.

RAYMOND (O.S.)
Yes Liam.

LIAM
How far with the comms repair?

RAYMOND
Diagonis finished. We now know what
the issue is, but can't solve it yet.

LIAM
Details, please.

RAYMOND
We have lost both downlink and uplink
comms ability on the GE2 and Transponder
9C, and the S-band and K-band on the TDRS
system.

LIAM
Copy, Raymond. Have you tried the back-up
SAREX systems?
 RAYMOND
That's a negative, even they are not
working. We are in total darkness. Shit
load.

LIAM
Copy, Raymond. What's the extent
of external damage?

RAYMOND
[halts]
Jesus Liam, you know half the ship is
gone.

LIAM
I am not asking about the ship…

RAYMOND
[starts to weep]
What then do you want to know.

LIAM
[quite discreetly]
Shush Raymond. Shush, okay. I need you strong
man. Remember, you ride on the bow with
me. If you or anyone else your level starts
to cry, what about the rest of the crew?

RAYMOND
What do you want to know, Liam?

LIAM
I need to know, the extent of external
damage on the communications gear.

RAYMOND
Okay, my guys have done an EVA. I
think something is wrong with our early
warning system. The shield was not
automatically deployed when we hit the
meteorites. The antennas are now a ton
of shreds.

LIAM
Too bad Ray, that's just too bad.
Can we fix this?
 RAYMOND
My guys are still on the EVA, taking
turns every seven hours. We are on it,
doing some quick patch ups and testing
all frequencies. I need you to know,
whatever we do, its only temporary.

LIAM
Okay, keep me updated every three
hours, and please, rush it up.

Liam slides the hand held push talk back onto its holding slot. Spins arou
to face the rest of the astronauts.

LIAM
[sighing]
Okay team, I have seen the bodies.
Trust me, I feel the pain deeper than any
of you. We got into this mess because
I made mistakes. I let the fuckin machines
think for us, more than they should. However,
one thing is clear…
[beat]
We are not going home.

The immediate response is intense dissappointment, on almost every face.

The cabin quickly fills with grumpy complaints.

HICKER
You heartless, son of a bitch.

LIAM
Till we catch up with Didymos 65803.
Get the payload, get the money.
We all need the money. All of us. I might
sound rude on this one, okay, let's
heal up. Get on with the job.

HICKER
[spits out blood - that just floats on]
Come up with something more solid
than that Liam. My last medical shows my fuckin'
bones disintergrating.

MIRANDY.
Is disgusted by Hicker's floating blood. She grabs a plastic bag and scoop
with her gloved hands. Tying the paper up and angrily shoving it into a bi

LIAM
Cut the crap Hicker, we all lose bone
mass…

HICKER
[hurtful]
My condition is worse than that Liam.

LIAM.
Glares at Mirandy. She is busy wringing a thermometer, checking on injured
Brenno's temperature. Punching notes onto a holographic wrist-base note ta
stethoscope loosely hung from her neck.

MIRANDY
[without looking up]
Yap, 0.7 percent of his bone mass, gone.
[beat]
Every two days now - poof. Like a
70 year old granny with osteoporosis.
Only that, poor Hicker is losing his
bone density 30 times faster.

HICKER
This micro gravity is killing me.
We can't spend eternity here. What
has it been now, 10 fuckin days
since the accident. 14 months in space.

LIAM
Are you doing a thousand bench presses
every 24 hours?

HICKER
Good Lords, spare me the yoga bullshit
Liam…

LIAM
And the bike pedalling, are you riding
it for two hours each day…

Mirandy presses her stethoscope into Brenno's chest. Starts to listen for
his heart beat.
 HICKER
Liam, Jesus. I am sick! My hip bones are
terribly sore.

DAVE
How the heck did we end up flying through
the regolith, is that even possible, that we
would actually come so close, and not see
the debris from thousands of miles away.

SANDY
The regolith was not in our path.

DAVE
So what, it just popped out of nowhere?

SANDY
It's complicated… Brenno knows better.

BRENNO
The regolith had its own circular orbit,
which linked to ours, but we were supposed
to get to the intersection at different times.
Distance, time, speed, vectors. All sums up
the calculation.

HICKER
[spitting out blood]
Our fuckin ship can't do the calculation.

MIRANDY
Glares at the floating blood spit.

MIRANDY
Hicker, that has to stop.

HICKER
Let's not waste time on that, I want to
go home. It's like flying blind.

BRENNO
Senses the boring eyes looking at him. Looks down in shame. Feeling the re

BRENO
[hitting the walls]
We told them this ship is too old and
 outdated. Damnit. It sucks.

MIRANDY
[to Brenno}
Hold it cowboy.
here
FARREL
Okay, okay, guys. Steam off, okay. Geez.
Let's get this straight, one thing
is clear, we have definitely missed our
rendevous with Didymos-65803. If our comms
had not been damaged, by now I bet… what's
the CEO's name again?

MIRANDY
Daltre…

BRENO
Nah. Evans Daltry.

FARREL
Yeah, Daltry. Even he would have us just
bundle back to earth. I mean what's the
point, get the billion or what dollars
back, or lose your best tug team?
We have lost more than 50 men and women
already. Let's go home.

BRENNO
I agree. Not on the Daltry part, but on
going downside.

MIRANDY
All right, let's gear up and head home.
This game is done.

DAVE
Oh come'on Mirandy, you know we can't
leave with no payload. This is my last
mission. After this, I am retiring. I am
done.

MIRANDY
Dave, that's your fuckin' problem. I got
my kids to take care of back home, what
do you have?
 [switching to Farrel
for med-tests]
Get a wife for all I care. I didn’t sign
up for your shit.

DAVE
Calm down honey, all right. There must
be another asteroid out there. Full of
gold, iridium, rhodium anything.

FARREL
Dave, I disgaree, excuse me. We spent nine
fuckin' months downside being trained on
how to approach and handle Didymos. Not
any other rock…

SANDY
Our data is for 65803, you know. All the
simulations we have done on how to de-spin
it, land safely in dispersed dust, it's
gravity, taxonomy, features… all
sorts.

BRENO
I bet if we were Bourg robots, by now
we would have been remotely reprogrammed
to the next rock.

FARREL
Guys, guys - hold it. Just hold it.
We have brought the Gozilla Brute.
Okay, and let's not forget all its
72 drills are for semi silicate
rock. Nothing else, okay Dave?

DAVE
We can use the spider drills. We got
40 of those - I mean they might be
small but they can do the job - yah?
And they can pretty much chow anything.

FARREL
Oh that's bullshit…

DAVE
Now suck it Farrel. Come up with
 solutions instead of just being
rhetorically critical….

FARREL
Hicker is ill, man. Small drills
mean more time spent drilling.
Aint that a solution for his sore
hips?

LIAM
Didymos will make a close pass to earth
only this year. 5.9 million kilometers.
With an achievable delta-velocity of 5.2
kilometers per second.
[beat]
If we have missed getting to the rock now,
we would have to wait 61 years,
October 2184. Still the rock will
be 8.7 million kilometers away
with a delta-velocity of 5.4 kilometers
per second.

BRENNO
Shakes his bald head sadly.

BRENNO
That will fuck us up. The bourgs are
making serious grand slams. Give them
what? 61 years to accomplish more
technological advancement?

FARREL
They will get to the rock well before
us. Besides, what do we do now?

LIAM
Exactly my point. We just can't wait for
Didymos to return. We have missed the bus,
but we gotta find other options. Cut down
on our losses.

HICKER
That's solid bullshit Liam, trying and
miracles, are you fuckin nuts prophetic.
We are trained astronauts for Christsake.
I am ill man. Very ill.
 LIAM
Well if no one loves the idea, then
better find another ride home.

HICKER
You do realise I have 2 liters of leg
fluid shifted to my brain?

MIRANDY
Feigning disgust. Pauses from taking a sip of water from a straw in a plas
pouch.

MIRANDY
Oh yeah - I have drunk nine hundred
and fifty liters of recycled urine,
can't taste shit in my mouth.

HICKER
This is fuckin' hopeless. Mirandy, damn!
You are the doc here, I would prefer…

DAVE
[to Mirandy]
Alleluah, most of that is my piss.

MIRANDY
Oh yeah?

DAVE
Yeah.

HICKER
Jesus guys. I am ill. You're all going
to get ill too…

LIAM
Okay, let's just do it. Fuck this. It's
getting us nowhere.
[beat]
Breno on your asterank charts, find us
the correct combination of asteroids with
similar minimum orbit intersection
distances. The closest, to where we are
right now.
 BRENO
I will give you the bullshit. Just gimme
a sec.

BRENO
Heaves himself towards a 3-D holographic touchscreen.

LIAM
Mirandy, increase Hicker's dosage of
biphosphonate. 140 milligrams, Fish oil…
all sorts, increase his exercise plan,
I need results of his urine samples.
[speaking more to himself]
Jesus. The way you guys strain me.
Who would guesse you all have doctorates.

MIRANDY
Won't work. Hicker has been on the
drug for seven months now, he is
beginning to resist it.

LIAM
I know, just try it. Buy us some time.
God.

Breno clicks away on the 3-D holograph computer. The screen instantly disp
orbital plots of several asteroids.

BRENO
[tapping the screen]
We got Nereus and Bennu here.
Almost identical semi-major axis.
1.489 and 1.126. That's a beauty
there.

LIAM
Sandy, what's their value?

Sandy clicks away on her own touch screen.

SANDY
Nereus, 4.71 billion. Bennu 9.05 billion.
That's if we can keep our extraction
at 95 points.

LIAM
You know we never hit 95. That’s for
robotic extraction processes. Give me
our possibles.

SANDY
Cut down by 15%. Avoid the rock fall.
They both have a combined value of
11.7 billion.

HICKER
Jesus, Liam. Bennu alone is the size of
four football fields. It's orbit
shits on earth and flies away 18
million miles. We can only see home
again, if we wait years for its ecliptic
orbit to return.

DAVE
What's that you saying Hicker, you
don't like platinum?

HICKER
Hell I love platinum.

DAVE
So what you hate, billions?

HICKER
Not at this cost, fool. My body, my
health. Okay. I will shit on….

LIAM
[annoyed]
Okay Hicker, we hear you. Sandy, up space
margins?

SANDY
Profits will be down by 20%. Give or take
a combined 4.62 billion. Before overheads.

LIAM
Fuckin too low?

SANDY
Yap, we need 9.4 billion for a home run.
If we spread cost by distance travelled,
 4 billion to chew on our way home.
[beat]
We have already sunk 4.3 fuckin billion
dollars getting Dave's piss this far
out to space.

Timid laughter fills the galley.

LIAM
Okay, okay. Breno, do we have a third
nearby?

BRENO
Nereus and Bennu have the closest
pairwise minimum orbit intersection
distance. 0.003207 versus 0.003223.
Potential third rock is not such a
beauty.

LIAM
Details, please.

BRENOR
[tapping his charts]
Da la la. Darum.
[beat]
Here. 1995 BC2. Semi-major axis 1.918,
minimal orbit intersection distance
0.137510.

LIAM
Sandy. Value. Up space margins

Sandy clicks away on her machine. She freezes. Doesn’t seem to like
what she sees.

SANDY
Up space margins are good. 13.18 billion
or 11.2 billion at possible extraction.
Good for the home run, too bad for our
bones.

LIAM
Meaning what?

SANDY
 Issue is with the rock's value, it's a
class X rock worth USD78.87 billion.

They are all stunned to stone cold silence. Hicker gives a nervous cough.

LIAM
Breno. Anymore nearbys?

Breno quickly flips through his charts. Shakes his head solemnly.

BRENO
None feasible.

HICKER
Fuck. Fuck. That last rock is just too
big. It would take us a year to drill.
I don't have the stamina to stay it.
I don’t know 'bout you lot? Fuck.

LIAM
Calm down Hicker.

HICKER
How can I? Besides losing bone density
by simply overstaying here, what else
do we risk? Muscular atropy,
cardiovascular deconditioning…

LIAM
You are not the team doctor. That's not
your call.

HICKER
Severe muscle injuries, dying from
hypoxia, confused immune systems…

LIAM
You are not the team doctor.
That's Mirandy's job, not yours!

HICKER
Hearing loss, over exposure to radiation,
cardiac arrest…

LIAM
Hicker, shut the fuck up!
 HICKER
Well I AM the team body. As well as
all of you here. Do you want our
corpses to deliver the payload?
[beat]
When we were downside, I read the
manuals too. I know what this means.
Say it Mirandy. Say it.

MIRANDY
Hicker is right Liam.

BRENO
Yeah, he is right. Regulations say
we can only stay upside, a year at most.
We are already past that. We can't do
two more years. It would kill us.

WE SEEP THROUGH THE WALLS.

Exploring the vast ship. Passing through cabins, berths, cargo holds.
Stacked with extraction rovers, drillers, spiders, probes and all sorts
of gear. Emerging out the hull on the other side. Watching as the large
ship sails away on a continued free glide.

MIRANDY (O.S.)
We would need a gravity simulating
cabin to be able to stay that long
in space. Our current technology is
out. Way out. Puck the BOURGS and their
gravity no-need-robots. Puck them.

DAVE (O.S.)
Honey, don't be too polite. Just say
fuck.

INT: SPARTAN V29 SPACESHIP - MOMENTS LATER.

THE GALLEY IS QUITE NOW - AND BRENO SUDDENLY BECOMES FROST BOUND.
They all see it and go dead still. Breno's eyes are fixed on the
asterank charts. He spins it around and zooms in on one orbiting dot, that
marking a slow turn on its orbital axis.

BRENO
 Guys, you're not gonna believe this.

Liam replies, only after a tense moment.

LIAM
Speak up, Breno.

BRENO
What the fuck.
[beat]
Didymos 65803… has slowed down.

INT: SPARTAN V29 - COMMAND ROOM.

Liam, Brenno, Sandy, Hicker. Sculling like olympians. Squirm hurriedly

into the control room. Dressed for work now, in less bulky indoor space
suits. No helmets. Comms ear pieces stuck to their headsides.

Taking a front seat and buckling up. Sandy starts hitting a dozen switches
lighting up the consoles.

LIAM
Call Raymond. Tell him to get his team
inside, immediately.

HICKER
[into his ear piece]
Raymond, come in. This is Hicker.

RAYMOND (O.S.)
Hi Hicker.

HICKER
Get inside immediately. Liam
orders it.

RAYMOND
Okay, my guys are inside the ship.
Doing a shift change.

HICKER
Cut it Ray. No more shift change.

LIAM
Tell him to close the hatches.

RAYMOND
What's up guys, I got equipment
outside. I need five hours EVA
time to collect it.

HICKER
[to Raymond]
Drop it, doesn’t matter. Just close
the damn hatches. We're hitting
all engines for Didymos 65803.

RAYMOND
Copied. Is that rock not out of
our range by now?

HICKER
We need as much head start as we can
get.

LIAM
Raymond, 65803 has suddenly slowed
down. We have no idea how, but from
where we are right now, the rock has
not even crossed the rendevous point.

RAYMOND
Good Lords.

LIAM
Yeah. I need to know, had you
finished fixing the comms?

RAYMOND
We have repaired the broken antennas.
But we still need to run some tests.
I got expensive equipment outside….

LIAM
Leave that. You can do your tests
as we run for the rock. The asterank
charts show it's gradually starting to
pick up speed.

RAYMOND
 Roger, Liam.

INT: PASSENGER CABIN - MOMENTS LATER.

Close to a 100 astronauts sit in the passenger cabin. Strapped onto their
seats. There is an air of both excitement and tension.

INT: CONTROL ROOM - CONTINUED.

Liam hits a couple of swicthes. Turns his head to speak to Sandy.

She is sitting in the front with him. Brenno and Hicker are seated
in the back.

LIAM
Align flight computers to flight
path.

SANDY
[hitting some switches]
Flight path aligned.

LIAM
Verify range.

BRENNO
[tapping some charts]
Flight range, 540 thousand kilometers
east of current position - we're green
for GO.

LIAM
Helium transfer termination.

HICKER
Confirmed.

LIAM
Engine purge.

HICKER
[turning some nobs]
Engine purge on. You are green
for GO.

LIAM
Thruster vector actuation test.

SANDY
[turns a swicth]
Vector test in progress, will confirm in
T-5 minutes. Main engines gimbal test
sequence on.

LIAM
Propellant tank pressurization.

HICKER
[flicks a switch]
Tank pressurization on. Completion
circle, T-3 minutes.

SANDY
We're go for vector actuator.

LIAM
Tank pressure.

HICKER
60% and rising.

LIAM
Okay, activate sound suppression
system.

BRENNO
Sound shield on. We're green for
GO.

LIAM
Tank pressure.

HICKER
All tanks 100%. We're green for
GO.

LIAM
Engines gimbal profile test,
am I GO for ignition?
INT: PASSENGER CABIN - SAME TIME.

Sandy's voice is heard on the intercom.

SANDY (O.S.)
Gimbal profile positive.
We're go for ignition.

The astronauts in the passenger cabin exchange some pleasured gestures.

DAVE
Yes. Here we come Didymos.

INT: CONTROL ROOM - SAME TIME.

LIAM
[pulling a lever down]
Malbort engine 1 ignition.

SANDY
[lowering another lever]
Engine 2 ignition.

LIAM
Engine 3 ignition.

SANDY
Number 4 ignition.

LIAM
All engines on fire. Thrust good.
Increasing power to 1,450 thousand
tonnes. Steady as she warms up.

INT: SPARTAN V29 - MOMENTS LATER.

Liam grabs a microphone, announces.

LIAM
This is the Captain, I am glad to
 say our ship has gained
cruising speed. We've achieved a
delta-v of 5.1 kilometers
per second and in two weeks, should
hit our rendezvous with Didymos 65803.

The astronauts in the passenger cabin show relief on their faces.

LIAM
We shall therefore have, three
full days to prep before the rock
arrives. As we are way ahead of it.

Inside the passenger cabin, the astronauts are already busy unbuckling fro
their seats.

LIAM (O.S.)
In the meantime, ladies,
gentlemen, you can unbuckle.
Hicker will be in the main assembly
mess to deliver mission debriefing at 10:30 clocktime.
Enjoy the ride. Thank you for flying
with Spartan V29.

INT: SPARTAN V29 - MESSROOM. MOMENTS LATER.

The astronauts are strapped onto their seats, in an auditorium

like mess room. Kind of gives one the feeling, that they are strapped
in to avoid blocking each other's view rather than for the seating
experience - in this micro gravity, you always float somehow.

HICKER SOARS UNSTEADILY BEFORE THEM.

A stick in his shaking hand. He looks the worse for wear, like his sicknes
is getting hyper.

HICKER
Okay people. 65803 Didymos,
that's our payload.

A projector beams a video clip of the rock and its moon. Hicker jabs at
them with the stick.

HICKER
The primary is 780 meters in diameter.
 The moon, 150 meters. The moon is in an
orbit 1.1 kilometers, taking 11.9 hours to
complete an orbit around the equatorial
plane of the primary. We call these
rocks 'the binary couple'.

He pauses to lean his tired body on a handle by the walls.

HICKER
Didymos is an Apollo-class near earth
asteroid. With remote observations
we have been able to determine that
the rock is spectroscopically most
consistent with ordinary chondrites…

INT: SPARTAN V29 - GALLEY.

Hicker's hands shake, as he struggles to tear

open a food pouch with his teeth. Liam floats in from the adjacent cabin.
Liam has a set smile on his face.

LIAM
Hicker.

HICKER
Liam. Making some chicken toumarick
with mushroom, brown rice and peas.
Courtsey of Omni Space freeze-dried
food. You want some?

LIAM
I would if you could open a pack.

Liam grabs a couple of food pouches and a scissors. Neatly cuts the packs
open and pours the food contents onto Hicker's tortilla spread. Hicker's h
are shaking though he tries to fight it. As a result, the bits of food tha
puts on the tortilla, float off. Liam scrambles after the food pieces, cat
all but one piece of chicken that floats away.

HICKER
You can leave that, it will go down
the ventilator tube. Will be cleaned
out Saturday.
 LIAM
Yeah.

Hicker takes a bite out of the tortilla, gives Liam a thumbs up.

LIAM
Aha, you like it?

HICKER
Good stuff, thanks.

Liam's smile fazes out. He takes a more serious look.

LIAM
Hicker, I need to apologize to you.

HICKER
What's that?

LIAM
[grasping Hicker's shoulder]
My apology, for sounding like I
care less about your health. I need
you to know, I do care.

HICKER
Well, that's comforting.

LIAM
I know you really are getting the
shit load from this micro-gravity.

HICKER
Yeah, I love the money too.

LIAM
I know.
[beat]
I will let you in on a secret.

HICKER
Yah?

LIAM
I have been affected by the micro-g too.
I can't even feel half my face, that's
why I have the sad lop-sided lip.
[beat]
Mirandy says I have a fifty-fifty chance
of collasping dead from heart failure,
or getting a stroke.

HICKER
Sweet Lord.

LIAM
Yeah. My hope is once this job is done,
you know what I am goin to do?

HICKER
What, drink a bottle of tequila, buy a
yatch?

LIAM
[laughing]
You got me there. You got me. No.
[beat]
I got 15 000 acres of woodland
in north Texas. I built a place
there called the 'Beech Grove'.

HICKER
[laughing]
Oh yeah.

LIAM
Yeah. I built half of that place.
I got two and a half stars for it
, 40 bedrooms ensuite, up for
letting to travelling folks who
happen to like fishing and game
walks.

HICKER
So what you goin to do… drink a
whole bottle of tequila at Beech
Grove.

LIAM
[laughing]
If its at Beech Grove… YEAH!
The two men laugh for a beat.

LIAM
Hicker, I need you to just try,
as much as you can. We get this
job done… we both hit home and
rest our broken bones and sad
faces.

HICKER
I hear you man… I am gonna stay
a one hundred.

LIAM
Good man, good.

INT: SPARTAN V29 - MESSROOM

Liam, Sandy, Hicker, Brenno, plus a few other top

guys on this mission. Seated in a circle in the messroom. In the midst of
an intense conversation.

LIAM
Okay guys. If you check the shape of
the asteroid.

Liam swings a 3-D holographic laptop around for them to see.

LIAM
The rock has a polyhedron shape.
Just like earth when it was being
formed. Its heavy in the mid section,
thin at the poles.

Liam taps the screen to zoom in on the asteroid's poles.

LIAM
This rock is spinning fast.
Full rotation takes a mere two and
a half hours.
[beat]
Since its material is held together
by two factors. Help me here, eh Dave…

DAVE
 Yeah. The strongest force binding the rock
together is gravity. Then comes the
natural binding fibre of the materials
themselves. But these forces are weak
at the poles. The poles are constantly
losing mass.

LIAM
We got a scenario where material bounces
on and off the poles, keeping in constant
abrasion with the rock, that’s shaping
it up into this hexacaida… aaaargh.

DAVE
Polyhedron hexakaidecahedron.

The astronauts break into a short laugh.

LIAM
Yeah, whatever.
[beat]
All due respect Dave.

Dave laughs.

LIAM
So we need
to set the appropriate routes of
approaching it, just like we did
in the simulations back on earth.
Okay Dave, take over from here.

DAVE
We've to approach the mid-section.
Avoid the poles at all costs.

HICKER
What? Will we bounce off if we
approach from the poles?

DAVE
Not necessarily. The poles
are in constant bombardment from
regolith material of different
shapes and sizes. Some as small as
fine sand, some as big as small pebbles
 and rocks. These come from the mass
that the rock is constantly losing.

FARELL
Oh. That will not be good on my
equipment.

DAVE
Yeah, the regolith is travelling
at over 60 000 miles an hour, as it
follows the rock. Drawn in by its
gravitational pull.

LIAM
And Farell, can you go through the
list of equipment we shall use,
all sequenced up.

INT: SPARTAN V29 - MOMENTS LATER

Farell has a set of miniature models of the mining gear. He starts picking
them up one by one, explaining how they will be used.

FARELL
Okay, we shall start with the
asteroid reconnaissance probes.
[beat]
These probes will be deployed
by team A from the back of the
ship. Give them half a day
to gather samples.
We shall spray the rock with
200 of these fireflies.

Farell puts the miniature probes down, picks up another model.

FARELL
Following that will be
40 spiders. These guys will go
in and extract the first payloads
and bring their bulk back to
the mother ship for processing.

LIAM
We will light up the brute drill
only when we have confirmed the
composition of sizeable chunks
following up to the work done
by the probes.

FARELL
We shall do this as we cannot risk
any of the drills on the brute.

LIAM
[asking all of them]
You know what happens when we lose
a single drill?

SANDY
We lose 230 million bucks.

LIAM
Sandy you don’t cease to amaze me.
Always thinking figuratively.

SANDY
[smiling]
That’s what it costs on my register.

LIAM
I shall not dissapoint you. Well
if we lose one drill, we risk
losing the whole ship, and the life
of every astronaut aboard this vessel.

DAVE
Waal. That's so tough.

LIAM
Yeah, I guese Sandy can calculate
that too.

FARREL
If we lose one drill, at full thrust,
it means we open a hole for rock
fall from Didymos to just come
through and pound the ship. Our ship
is a pressurized vehicle. We don’t
lose one cabin at a time. Mostly,
the whole thing just implodes.
 DAVE
Really tough.

LIAM
Yeah.
EXT: SPARTAN V29
NOTES
Passive probes are the ones with
no device to stop or anchor to Didymos, or Didymoon.
For this reason, the landing trajectory must be carefully
planned.
The passive probes have no orbit controlling mechamisms
like thrusters etc.
They get onto the rock through a ballistic launch from the
mother ship.
Thus the mother ship must be a safe distance from the rock
The real challenge is whether the probes will stay on the
surface or not.
Given the rocks low gravity, they are likely to bounce off
the surface.
The lander has to be released on a trajectory, that allows
it to land on the surface, with a sufficiently low small
touch down velocity.
Otherwise it will bounce off and escape the rock's gravity
to be lost in space.
So the touch down velocity has to be lower than the local
escape velocity at the rock's surface.
Sir Bawden gets hold of the team at last. After communications with earth
Notifies them that they did not miss rendevous with Didymos-349C at all.
The rock had a delayed orbit. Give plausible reason WHY? Something to do w
It will be coming close to them in three days.

The astronauts are relieved.

They gear up, rush in to mine Didymos-349C
Start getting the payload in, watching for the break even point.

They hit it.

They now start making positive margins.
Rushing to maximise on it.
When errand JAPs robots move in
And start ravaging the same rock
A tussle breaks out. Someone screams at the robots, ' Stop fuckin our bitc

Mirandy is lost for good in the tussle - due to the robots.

The robots don't stop to grab her as she gets lost in space.
They continue ravaging the rock.
Dave screams, he is very very pissed at the JAPs robots. He cries for Mira

Hicker was??? a bit selfish, he is the only one who could have saved Miran
He saves himself instead. Liam is so angry with Hicker.
He lays him flat with a fist, before other astronauts hold him back.
He screams at Hicker, 'Hicker, you are one hell of a selfish bitch of a ma
Hicker does the maths and tries to prove that only he could be saved, Mira
was just going to slip off into space anyway, that it was in no way possib
her to be saved. The team is nonetheless not convinced.

Ensure when Liam is asked to choose a team that will go to 241 Germania, h
must refuse to go with Hicker. However, Hicker is the only specialist in h
So he goes anyhow by default. Knowing fully well that the team feels he is

In the end Hicker goes through an excruciating process and saves the whole
As they land 241 Germania into the lagragian range. Liam gets to be the la
to speak to injured Hicker, before he let's his lifeless body float away i

INT: SPARTAN V - LATER

Galley still packed, even though its occupants are wearied to death. An
intense meeting is still being held.

LIAM
Now we clear on what needs to
be done?

ASTROUNAUTS
Yeah.
 Scene Change

seen from earth POV. No

overwhelming emptiness…
re debris soon follows.

We zoom in on a
ole left arm. Taken
e happened unexpectedly.

aller pieces of debris.

ever has shredded this

CUT TO:
s cheerfully after

t. As an aged couple

CUT TO:

half its length.

d light is flashing

CUT TO:

They have such

st century achitecture.

CUT TO:
s dome, the coopler
to space. Pretty

now clearly bawls out.

signal fades into a faint,

DISSOLVE TO:

tiquette by lifting

, he clutches a
lker (34). His jet set
ccomplished dealer at a

DEN. Across them is

ughter. With a
 EARTH SCREEN CUT TO:

HARTS - ON THE DOW JONES.

here ensure most screens say the same news

we focus only on one screen.

EARTH SCREEN CUT TO:

ted traders. Some celebrating

rowing papers onto the floors.
e stock trading pits. Looking
of FRAZER WATKINS (65).
lass walls of his office

that he finishes.
 CUT TO:

up shirt stuffed out of his

ot as they miss him by

rian screams.

nts sitting in the car

, the people in the car

oin on the table.

cket. Hastily makes for

EARTH SCREEN CUT TO:

shy-look red
e bimodal

rcarriage,sliding
aginable speeds.
sluggish.

roofs, expansive
electric hovercars
ugh Houston City.

EARTH SCREEN CUT TO:

es for a few
ss partition.
capsule has

SCREEN - DISSOLVES AWAY.

gs to stand next to her.

ile. He nods reassuringly.
osed to long periods of
woman, SANDY WARTON (32).

r runs down her cheek.

They squirm off.
. Liam turns the
the walls. The

his helmet.

djust his facial

met. Scowls. Sprays

es it and latches it
t sticking out.
es on the walls
abbering astronauts.
ed men and women,
has a thick apprehensive
floating-seat
eyes of the astronouts.
re is no interest in
ing pens, paper,
astronauts' nervous
slot. Spins around

st every face.

oats on]
ic bag and scoops it up
ing it into a bin.

cking on injured and bandaged

ist-base note taker. A

s to listen for
. Feeling the responsibiity.
here
GIVE LIAM A LOPE SIDED FACE, HE IS GRADUALLY
LOSING CONTROL OF HIS FACIAL MUSCLES DUE TO THE
LOW GRAVITY, BUT HE HIDES HIS PAIN, EVEN THO HICKER
IS QUICK TO COMPLAIN.

LATER GET BRUCE WALKER TO SELL OPTIONS THAT ENABLE S

THAT WILL ALLOW SPARTAN V 29 TO HEAD FOR 241 GERMANI
ALL ASTEROIDS. BRUCE STRUGGLES TO CONVINCE HIS CLIEN
ONLY ONE CLIENT GIVES HIM THE SHOT HE NEEDS
ONE POINT FIVE BILLION DOLLARS. BRUCE STANDS TO MAKE
45 BILLION DOLLARS, BECAUSE 241 GERMANIA HAS OUT-OF-
SUPPLY GEMS THAT HAVE VERY GOOD MARGINS.

BAWDEN IS DESPARATE.

THE INVESTORS WHO LOST WEN BRUCE PLACED A STRANGE BE

PRESSURE MOUNTS ON FRAZER EVEN THO HE HAS ALREADY FI
SOME COLLEGE UNIVERSITY MASTERS STUDENTS STUDYING AS
STUDYING COMMUINCATIONS APPROACH BRUCE AS HE LEAVES
THEY ALSO COME TO KNOCK AT HIS FLAT EARLY IN THE MOR
HE HAS BEEN DRINKING SHOTS, HIS FLAT IS A MESS, THO
THE STUDENTS TELL HIM, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO RESTORE
FROM A HOME BASED FREQUENCY - THEY HAVE COME TO TELL
IT CAN MAKE IT, EVEN BETTER THAN DIDYMOS 65803 - SPA
BUT SPARTAN NEEDS CASH, TO REFUEL IN SPACE AND TO ST
TO ENABLE THEM TO ATTAIN THE NECESSARY DELTA VELOCIT
SPARTAN V-29 WILL HAVE TO MOVE FASTER THAN IT HAS EV
BRUCE ASKS - HOW MUCH?
USD1,5 BILLION
BRUCE HAS TO GO BACK TO FACE FRAZER - AND ANNOUNCE T
THAT’S THE ONLY WAY HE CAN RAISE THAT CASH FOR SPART
AND THEN FRAZER CAN GET TO PAY BACK THE INVESTORS WH
BECAUSE INVESTING USD1,5 CAN YIELD PROFITS OF UPTO U
SOMETHING TO DO WITH 241 GERMANIA ITSELF.

THE BUGS VS SIR BALDWEN. TIGHT SPOT.

HEGHTEN THE TENSION.

straw in a plastic
n instantly displays circular
THE BOURGS MUST BE USING VERY VERY BIG SINGULAR MOTH
THAT LITERALLY SWALLOW THE ROCK WHOLE AND ON THE OTH
THE IMPURITIES, WHILST IN THE INSIDE THEY RETAIN THE
FIND A NAME FOR THESE SHIPS, BUT THE SHIPS ARE SLUGG
THEY HAVE A 100% EXTRACTION RATE.
THEY SEND GRAVITY TRACTORS AHEAD TO GET HOLD OF THE

SO DIDYMOS 349 C WAS ACTUALLY HELD BACK BY THE GRAVI

SENT BY BOURGS, THAT’S WHY THE ROCK SLOWED DOWN.

THE ROCK IS IN NO MAN'S SPACE, MEANING IT’S A FREEBY

SPACE LAW SAYS ANYONE CAN MINE, SO THESE VERY DESPAR
THROWN INTO A DILEMNA, MINE IT OR NOT.

FOR WHEN THEY GET TO THE ROCK, ALL THEY SEE ARE FIVE
HOLDING IT SWAY, THE GRAVITY TRACTORS CANNOT MINE IT
HOLD IT BACK.
m to like

COMMENT
Ag, please Liam is so boring. Why does he only ask q
Make him a guy who also makes sensible deductions of
the data. Make him make decisions and strategies
instead of just saying next.
nervous cough.
argo holds.
and all sorts
as the large

CUT TO:

biting dot, that's

 CUT TO:

rm hurriedly
indoor space

a dozen switches,
 CUT TO:

pped onto their

CUT TO:

Sandy.
e seated
 CUT TO:

red gestures.

CUT TO:

CUT TO:
y unbuckling from

clocktime.

CUT TO:

re strapped
seating

like his sickness

icker jabs at
 CUT TO:

adjacent cabin.

cuts the packs

read. Hicker's hands
bits of food that Liam
food pieces, catches
 CUT TO:

In the midst of
give us a gravity factor.
 CUT TO:

e starts picking
 CUT TO:

from the

the rock

unce off

t allows

gravity

e local
ions with earth have been restored. He has some good news.
s-349C at all.
omething to do with a JAPs gravity tractor that could only hold the rock back, but c
 fuckin our bitch'

e cries for Mirandy.

have saved Mirandy.

him back.
sh bitch of a man."
d be saved, Mirandy
in no way possible for

241 Germania, he
specialist in his field
team feels he is selfish.

saves the whole team

ets to be the last person
ody float away into space.

to death. An
same news
IS GRADUALLY
CLES DUE TO THE
IN, EVEN THO HICKER

PTIONS THAT ENABLE SPARTAN V-29 TO GET FUEL AND FOOD - THE RE-FUELLING HAPPENS IN SP
HEAD FOR 241 GERMANIA OF
O CONVINCE HIS CLIENTS.
OT HE NEEDS
BRUCE STANDS TO MAKE
GERMANIA HAS OUT-OF-
MARGINS.

PLACED A STRANGE BET NEED THEIR INVESTMENT & ITS YIELDS

HO HE HAS ALREADY FIRED BRUCE.
STUDENTS STUDYING ASTRO-PHYSICS AND ANOTHER ONE
BRUCE AS HE LEAVES THE BAR, HE SPURNS THEM.
LAT EARLY IN THE MORNING, HE LETS THEM IN.
FLAT IS A MESS, THO EXPENSIVELY FURNISHED.
MANAGED TO RESTORE COMMUNICATIONS WITH SPARTAN-V-29
EY HAVE COME TO TELL BRUCE- SPARTAN V 29 HAS NOT FAILED AT ALL.
DIDYMOS 65803 - SPARTAN V 29 CAN ACTUALLY MINE 241 GERMANIA
L IN SPACE AND TO STOCK UP ON FOOD - THEY NEED THE SPECIAL PLASMA FUEL
ESSARY DELTA VELOCITY
ASTER THAN IT HAS EVER DONE

ZER - AND ANNOUNCE THAT YES - ORION INC IS AS CRAZY AS 241 GERMANIA
THAT CASH FOR SPARTAN V 29
ACK THE INVESTORS WHO BOTHER HIM.
LD PROFITS OF UPTO USD45BILLION, CRAZY MARGINS.
A ITSELF.
RY BIG SINGULAR MOTHER SHIPS
WHOLE AND ON THE OTHER SIDE WILL EMERGE
SIDE THEY RETAIN THE PURE METALS OR MINERALS.
THE SHIPS ARE SLUGGISH.

TO GET HOLD OF THE ROCKS AND SLOW THEM DOWN FOR THEM, THEN WHEN THEY ARRIVE THEY DO

LD BACK BY THE GRAVITY TRACTORS

OCK SLOWED DOWN.

EANING IT’S A FREEBY.

SO THESE VERY DESPARATE GUYS ARE

LL THEY SEE ARE FIVE GRAVITY TRACTORS.

CTORS CANNOT MINE IT, THEY CAN ONLY
y does he only ask questions.
nsible deductions of
s and strategies
the rock back, but could not do tha actual mining as it waited for minor team. This
UELLING HAPPENS IN SPACE - THE ASTRONAUTS TAKE A RISK - THEY TAKE LESS WATER TO ENA
N THEY ARRIVE THEY DO THE MINING.
for minor team. This tractor is then smashed into asteroid, when Spartan V arrives,
KE LESS WATER TO ENABLE THEM TO LOAD MORE FUEL. 241 GERMANIA NEEDS A HIGHER DELTA V
en Spartan V arrives, they see its debris on the rock surface.
EEDS A HIGHER DELTA VELOCITY AND A CRAZY MANUAVRE. THEY DISCOVER THEY ARE CLOSER TO
R THEY ARE CLOSER TO IT THAN EVER, CRAZY STUFF, ONLY ASSISTED BY THE FREAK ACCIDENT
Y THE FREAK ACCIDENT THAT HAPPENED, WHICH KICKED THEM INTO A SPIRALLING ORBIT THAT M
IRALLING ORBIT THAT MAKES 241 GERMANIA POSSIBLE, THEY DISCOVER THIS WHEN THEY RE-IN
THIS WHEN THEY RE-INSTALL THEIR COMMUNICATIONS LINK AND DO THE CALCULATION..
CALCULATION..
Beat Sheet Diagram
Beat Min Sequence
est. world, intro protagonist Opening Image 0
Ordinary World
establishes the protagonist’s fears, hopes, flaws, strengths, and assets
state or depict the theme Opening Hook 5
news flash; we know all main chars Inciting Incident 10
prefigures crisis; “this won’t be easy” Mini Crisis 15
Big Debate
provides insight into what will happen in Act 2 t he protagonist makes a choice that cannot be taken back Point of
secondary story starts B-Story Begins 30
Popcorn Moments, Trailer Moments
while the story is still building to the climax, there are lots of opportunities for tonesetting and themesetting scenes:
the protagonist is tested… and fails Testing
35
40
45
about halfway through the film, a trend to this point reverses; the underdog to this point gains the advantage
1-Hour Turning Point
50
55
60
a seemingly impassable difficulty appears in front of the protagonist The Big Pit
65
Bad Guys Closing In
despite the protagonist’s best efforts, he or she is losing ground
70
75
the protagonist falls into the big pit; everything seems lost, neither the protagonist nor we see a way out Rock Botto
80
Failure in Slow Motion
The protagonist seems to have failed utterly
85
90
we are given a glimpse of what the protagonist’s new norm is; we see what has been gained Final Image
95
Climax to Finale
the build to the climax comes from the protagonist finding a way back up from rock bottom to victory
100
105 110 As you are penciling in beats in your beat sheet to make sure that your protagonist is pursuing the tangible
t cannot be taken back Point of No Return 20 25

setting and themesetting scenes: the fun parts that will go in the movie trailer

s point gains the advantage

nor we see a way out Rock Bottom

n gained Final Image

bottom to victory

agonist is pursuing the tangible goal from your logline in every beat—do not allow beat
241 Germania

World economies are funded by wealthy private corporations.

Extremely tough competition.
Serious technological advancements.

The environments are cleaner.

Cities and energy greener.
Earthly mines closed. No more emmissions, fog, global warming.
High use of solar energy, green fuels.
Show fields of huge windmills in green grassy hills, with logos of firms that invested in them.
Even the dark tars are solar panels. Sending energy on cables to power corps grids.
Everything must have its firms logo, large presence of firm ideaologies.
Put that fast tube train that can go 750 miles per hour, faster than airtravel????
Very tall skyscrappers in the cities.
Every home has solar panels on the roof.
Electric cars being refuelled, self driven cars, drones delivering express packages.

Money now being made mining and processing minerals in space.

PAYLOADS of gold, platinum, diamonds, silver, water. On asteriods.
Only the finished product getting to earth. Water sold in space at very high rates.
Innovation is the in thing.
Some countries become filthy rich.
Leading the pack is the usual USA, China, Japan, Russia.

The Japs are driven by AI.

The USA is driven by hard work and a determined spirit.
Japan has higher cost, accident free AI. Very high yield, good margins, cash!
USA has lower extraction manned crafts, and minimal use of robots. Low yield, low cost. Little cash.
USA investors conservative, JAPS boisterous & over confident.
Japan is edging in to overtake the USA as global leader in economics.

Some firms hit jackpots, especially JAPS.

Free money markets.
You can invest in any country.
Some Americans are beginning to start favouring investing in JAP firms.

The Space mining firms are ranked on the MOBY DONES.

The stock broking firms are called cloud capital ventures.

We have space launchers.

That make it easy to slowly lower heavy payloads into the earth's atmosphere.
Without need for too much investment in heat resistance shields.
We have lifts on cable rails.

American stock broking firms are beginning to have tight pockets, according to undisclosed figures.
A meeting is held. By the Americans. USD5,4 trillion in capital is raised.
Twenty American firms pool their resources together and begin a secret project of acquiring something they don’t
We see files written confidential being signed and filed away.
The competition against the Japs is so tough, so the Americans view this hatched plan as the only move, and if it fa
And the Japs can literally just take over the world.

They send a secret space ship FAR OUT to 241 Germania 241 the USD941 trilion dollar diamond mineral rich astero
They don’t tell anyone because as long as the asteroid is far out there, according to space law.
Its game and anyone can latch onto it.
Space law declares the owner only if the asteroid is deposited into the earth's lagragian range.
And they judge who owns a rock using the weight of spaceships latched onto that rock.

The Japs were actually making money by scavenging on rocks left by the Americans.
In the asteroid belt far from the earth's lagragian range.
The JAPS have higher extraction rates, the Americans do not.

Pressure begins to mount on the markets.

The Americans have little cash to spare.
The Japs gobble up all the profitable deals with little resistance.
The American economy starts to feel the crunch.
The president is alarmed.

Some of the more intelligent Japs start to smell a rat.

Where has all the money from the Americans gone???

Then the team with our protagononist is called to the White House.
To be given a special mission. The President has now been let into the plan, by the American corporations.
Follow the robots that were sent to bring Germina 241 home.
Because they met with a problem on that rock and literally malfunctioned.
Tho they had already pointed the rock home bound.

The Americans are supposed to scramble a rescue mission.

Push the rock into the lagragrian region before any nation can react and latch on
Speed is of utmost importance.
Space craft speed.

The Americans now send a human manned mission on a space ship

That uses the Alcuberie drive. The Warp drive.
This ship combines both the Warp drive and the antimatter propulsion.

The Japs only have antimatter propulsion.

They do not know that the USA has prepared an untested ship with the WARP drive.
The JAPS are monitoring the Americans.
They send a robot team of their own to chase after the Americans in space, to see where they are going.
The cunning Japs are always suspicious.

This JAP team is using slower space crafts that use antimatter.
STILL these JAPs ships are faster than the best Americans antimatter.
They catch up and overtake the Americans EASILY.
Then they realise the Americans are headed for Germina 241.
They know how much 241 Germania is worth.
SHOCK OF THEIR LIFE!!!

And they realise the Americans are not going to be slow at all.
For how can they chase after 241 Germania so slowly???
They must have some secret speed they have not yet unleashed.
The JAPs can't take no chances, they recall their robots home
only to send incredibly very fast space crafts, that overatke the Americans.

Word leaks out.

All nations race to latch on to the 241 Germania rock.
The Japs quickly withdraw their ships and agitatively send a third set of ships that are even faster. Their fastest EVE
These new ships overtake everyone.

The world is SO SO TENSE.

The market is apprehensive.
Still Jap stocks rise in share price.
American stocks continue taking the tumble.

News about techniques, speed, accuracy etc.

All determines the stock values.
The JAPs edge the americans on technology, so their stock prices SOAR.
The Presidents of all nations, the peoples, are so tense!!!

They all wonder why the Americans continued with the same ships.
The Japs, even tho they are now in the front position, are worried about the Americans who always seem to have
one more trick up their sleeve.

That’s when the Americans get into the Warp drive.

Zoom away.
At speeds never before IMAGINED!!! Or thought possible. Even destroying the JAPS robot ships in the wake of the
With no human casualties. The USA get to the rock first.
Send it to the Lagragain region at super speeds. No one can latch on.
Declare it American. Legally. The rock stays in the region orbiting earth. Wild celebrations when it completes the fir
Immediately American stocks SOAR on the market.
TO NEVER BEFORE REACHED LEVELS. TO NEVER BEFORE DREAMED HEIGHTS!!!!

The world is in uproar.

Every houselhold was following this.
For it affects every family's welfare.

THE END.
vested in them.

d, low cost. Little cash.

to undisclosed figures.

ect of acquiring something they don’t diclose publicily.

 hed plan as the only move, and if it fails they all go down.

ion dollar diamond mineral rich asteroid. 168 miles long.

ding to space law.

s lagragian range.

by the American corporations.

o see where they are going.

that are even faster. Their fastest EVER!

Americans who always seem to have

e JAPS robot ships in the wake of the WARP bubble.

celebrations when it completes the first complete orbit successfully.

241 Germania

World economies are funded by wealthy private corporations.

Extremely tough competition.
Serious technological advancements.

The environments are cleaner.

Cities and energy greener.
Earthly mines closed. No more emmissions, fog, global warming.
High use of solar energy, green fuels.
Show fields of huge windmills in green grassy hills, with logos of firms that invested in them.
Even the dark tars are solar panels. Sending energy on cables to power corps grids.
Everything must have its firms logo, large presence of firm ideaologies.
Put that fast tube train that can go 750 miles per hour, faster than airtravel????
Very tall skyscrappers in the cities.
Every home has solar panels on the roof.
Electric cars being refuelled, self driven cars, drones delivering express packages.

Money now being made mining and processing minerals in space.

PAYLOADS of gold, platinum, diamonds, silver, water. On asteriods.
Only the finished product getting to earth. Water sold in space at very high rates.
Innovation is the in thing.
Some countries become filthy rich.
Leading the pack is the usual USA, China, Japan, Russia.

The Japs are driven by AI.

The USA is driven by hard work and a determined spirit.
Japan has higher cost, accident free AI. Very high yield, good margins, cash!
USA has lower extraction manned crafts, and minimal use of robots. Low yield, low cost. Little cash.
USA investors conservative, JAPS boisterous & over confident.
Japan is edging in to overtake the USA as global leader in economics.

Some firms hit jackpots, especially JAPS.

Free money markets.
You can invest in any country.
Some Americans are beginning to start favouring investing in JAP firms.

The Space mining firms are ranked on the MOBY DONES.

The stock broking firms are called cloud capital ventures.

We have space launchers.

That make it easy to slowly lower heavy payloads into the earth's atmosphere.
Without need for too much investment in heat resistance shields.
We have lifts on cable rails.
American stock broking firms are beginning to have tight pockets, according to undisclosed figures.
A meeting is held. By the Americans. USD5,4 trillion in capital is raised.
Twenty American firms pool their resources together and begin a secret project of acquiring something they don’t dicl
We see files written confidential being signed and filed away.
The competition against the Japs is so tough, so the Americans view this hatched plan as the only move, and if it fails t
And the Japs can literally just take over the world.

They send a secret space ship FAR OUT to 241 Germania the USD941 trilion dollar diamond mineral rich asteroid. 168
They don’t tell anyone because as long as the asteroid is far out there, according to space law.
Its game and anyone can latch onto it.
Space law declares the owner only if the asteroid is deposited into the earth's lagragian range.
And they judge who owns a rock using the weight of spaceships latched onto that rock.

The Japs were actually making money by scavenging on rocks left by the Americans.
In the asteroid belt far from the earth's lagragian range.
The JAPS have higher extraction rates, the Americans do not.

Pressure begins to mount on the markets.

The Americans have little cash to spare.
The Japs gobble up all the profitable deals with little resistance.
The American economy starts to feel the crunch.
The president is alarmed.

Some of the more intelligent Japs start to smell a rat.

Where has all the money from the Americans gone???

Then the team with our protagononist is called to the White House.
To be given a special mission. The President has now been let into the plan, by the American corporations.
Follow the robots that were sent to bring 241 Germania home.
Because they met with a problem on that rock and literally malfunctioned. This malfuntion only affects American robo
The robots only succeeded in nudging the rock, and not even home bound. It is now getting lost in space. Expensive sh
By now the USA President does not want to hear that robots will man the WARP drive ships after the first failure.
Risks can't be taken.

The team made up of 12 Astronauts is briefed by the USA President himself.

241 Germania is a B-Class asteroid. Is very large, was nudged out of the main asteroid belt but is now getting lost in sp
Is composed of dark, primitive carbonaceous material.
It’s the largest diamond in the solar system.
USD5.4 trillion dollars of American stock money is tied into this rock. The rock itslef is worth USD941 trillion.
One of the astronauts must have asked, 'Why would we put up so much money in this rock?'
Failure to retrieve it may see the American economy collapsing and worse, ceasing to exist.
This is not a mission to save the nation's pride, but to save the nation itself.
This mission will not report to the corporations, but to Houston (NASA).
It's a matter of national security.
The Americans are scrambling a rock rescue mission in a hurry. Drawing the attention of the JAPS.
The Americans are told, push the rock into the lagragrian region before any nation can react and latch on
Speed is of utmost importance.
Space craft speed.

The Americans now send a human manned mission on a space ship

That uses the Alcuberie drive. The Warp drive.
This ship combines both the Warp drive and the antimatter propulsion.
It starts the journey using anti-matter.

The Japs only have antimatter propulsion.

They do not know that the USA has prepared an untested ship with the WARP drive.
The JAPS are monitoring the Americans.
They send a robot team of their own to chase after the Americans in space, to see where they are going.
The cunning Japs are always suspicious.

This JAP team is using slower space crafts that use antimatter.
STILL these JAPs ships are faster than the best Americans antimatter.
They catch up and overtake the Americans EASILY.
Then they realise the Americans are headed for 241 Germania!!!! ALL HELL Breaks loose in the JAPS camp!!!!
They know how much 241 Germania is worth.
SHOCK OF THEIR LIFE!!!

And they realise the Americans are not going to be slow at all.
For how can they chase after 241 Germania so slowly??? The rock is slipping away into space too fast for anti-matter!!!
They must have some secret speed they have not yet unleashed.
The JAPs can't take no chances, they recall their robots home
only to send incredibly very fast space crafts, that overatke the Americans again.
Space crafts with a double putt putt for antimatter.

Word leaks out.

All nations race to latch on to the 241 Germania rock.
The Japs quickly withdraw their ships and agitatively send a third set of ships that are even faster. Their fastest EVER!
These new ships overtake everyone. They have a treble putt putt for antimatter!!!

The world is SO SO TENSE.

The market is apprehensive.
Still Jap stocks rise in share price.
American stocks continue taking the tumble.
US secretaries confront the USA President very pertubed, but the President is strangely calm.

News about techniques, speed, accuracy etc.

All determines the stock values.
The JAPs edge the Americans on technology, so their stock prices SOAR.
The Presidents of all nations, the peoples, are so tense!!!
They all wonder why the Americans continued with the same ships.
The Japs, even tho they are now in the front position, are worried about the Americans who always seem to have
one more trick up their sleeve.

That’s when the Americans get into the Warp drive.

Zoom away.
At speeds never before IMAGINED!!! Or thought possible. Even destroying the JAPS robot ships in the wake of the WAR
With no human casualties. The USA get to the rock first.
Send it to the Lagragain region at super speeds. No one can latch on.
Challenges with releasing the rock and making it stay in the Lagragrian region, for they are travelling too fast.
The JAPS cunnignly wait on the periphery, ready to catch the rock and land it as their own.
If it ever passes the lagragian region due to its WARP drive immense speed.

Yet the Americans quickly devise clever manuevres, that sway the rock out of reach of the USSR, Germany and Japs, ye
The manuevre involves letting go of the rock and catching it after ducking between JAPS etc, and after slowing down th
They declare it American. Legally. The rock stays in the region orbiting earth. Wild celebrations when it completes the fi
UPROAR in the stock markets!!!! Immediately American stocks SOAR on the market.
TO NEVER BEFORE REACHED LEVELS. TO NEVER BEFORE DREAMED HEIGHTS!!!!

The world is in uproar. The President of the USA gets a pat and a handshake from the elated Secretaries of state.
Every household was following this. The USA astronaut families get to speak to their loved ones.
Who have been victorious, tears in their eyes.
Celebrations on American streets.
For it affects every family's welfare.

THE END.
omething they don’t diclose publicily.

nly move, and if it fails they all go down.

neral rich asteroid. 168 miles long.

orporations.

ly affects American robots. They had little knowledge of how to build robots.
st in space. Expensive ships on WARP drive had been built to catch the rock.
fter the first failure.

is now getting lost in space.

SD941 trillion.
e JAPS camp!!!!

oo fast for anti-matter!!!

ter. Their fastest EVER!

 ways seem to have

s in the wake of the WARP bubble.

velling too fast.

R, Germany and Japs, yet slowing down enough to deposit it into the lagragian region.
nd after slowing down their own ship.
when it completes the first orbit successfully. Meaning Earth and Sun gravity have held it in their sway.

ecretaries of state.
241 Germania

The year is 2150.

World economies are now funded and controlled by wealthy private corporations.
Extremely tough competition.
Serious technological advancements.

The environments are cleaner.

Cities and energy greener.
Earthly mines closed. No more emmissions, fog, global warming. Besides, there is nothing left to mine on earth.
Disused mines are now reclaimed golf courses, or no go areas.
High use of solar energy, green fuels.
Show fields of huge windmills in green grassy hills, with logos of firms that invested in them.
Even the dark tars are solar panels. Sending energy on cables to power corps grids.
Solar is being mined from the moon.
And being microwaved earth bound, satsfying the world's huge energy demands.
World populations have stopped growing, at 14 billion. High use of birth control.
Everything must have its firms logo, large presence of firm ideaologies.
Put that fast tube train that can go 750 miles per hour, faster than airtravel????
Very tall skyscrappers in the cities.
Every home has solar panels on the roof. Even the windows of the skyscrappers.
Electric cars being refuelled, self driven cars, drones delivering express packages.

Money now being made mining and processing minerals in space.

CURRENT SITUATION
they all mine asteroids in near earth orbit
or prized wandering rocks that come close to earth, whether o
the competition is very visible amongst the nations.
its actually a competition to discover the most prized usual wa
accurate predictions, the JAPs are topping in this game.
winning rocks, taking them to the lagragian region.
however, everyone knows there are more asteroids in the ma
the scientists are letting the corporations down.
despite being financed to R&D they fail to get the fuel and tra
they keep saying we need a Jupiter mass of negative energy to
some of course are making head way and reducing that fuel a
but no one could tell if anyone had made headway, for R&D w
they were worse than governments, R&D to them meant the
heavy spacecrafts cannot make the journey with mining equip
the dream for superluminial space travel is still decades away
the asteroid belt that runs between Mars and Jupiter remains
smaller fire flies have gone there and returned withvery prom
yet they took a whooping number of years to go and come ba
only to bring back tiny grams of samples. At the cost of a billio
that almost dented the financial capability of the firms that in
PAYLOADS of gold, platinum, diamonds, silver, water. On asteriods.
Only the finished product getting to earth. Water sold in space at very high rates.
Innovation is the in thing.
Some countries become filthy rich.
Leading the pack is the usual USA, China, Japan, Russia.

The Japs are driven by AI.

The USA is driven by hard work and a determined spirit.
Japan has higher cost, accident free AI. Very high yield, good margins, cash!
USA has lower extraction manned crafts, and minimal use of robots. Low yield, low cost. Little cash.
USA investors conservative, JAPS boisterous & over confident.
Japan is edging in to overtake the USA as global leader in economics.

Some firms hit jackpots, especially JAPS.

Free money markets.
You can invest in any country.
Some Americans are beginning to start favouring investing in JAP firms.

The Space mining firms are ranked on the MOBY DONES.

The stock broking firms are called cloud capital ventures.

We have space launchers.

That make it easy to slowly lower heavy payloads into the earth's atmosphere.
Without need for too much investment in heat resistance shields.
We have lifts on cable rails.

American stock broking firms are beginning to have tight pockets, according to undisclosed figures.
A meeting is held. By the Americans. USD5,4 trillion in capital is raised.
Twenty American firms pool their resources together and begin a secret project of acquiring something they don’t
We see files written confidential being signed and filed away.
The competition against the Japs is so tough, so the Americans view this hatched plan as the only move, and if it fa
And the Japs can literally just take over the world.

They start by sending out large and fanfared space ships to mine some of the rich asteroids.
To draw away the attentions of the JAPs. And while the Japs are focussed on the big DECOY spaceships the America
The Americans then send out a small compressed SECRET space ship FAR OUT to an undisclosed location.
The ship is too small to draw the attention of the JAPs.
Several smaller ships go as well. The JAPs are not interested, they keep focussed on the big action.
The Americans don’t tell anyone what their secret plan is because as long as the asteroid is far out there, according
Its game and anyone can latch onto it.
Space law declares the owner only if the asteroid is deposited into the earth's lagragian range.
And they judge who owns a rock using the weight of spaceships latched onto that rock.

The Japs were actually making money by scavenging on rocks left by the Americans.
Sometimes their unmmaned aircraft would latch onto a rock the American spacecraft are mining.
And begin extracting whilst the Americans are trying to get PAYLOAD. Frustating the protagonist and he hates JAPs
In the asteroid belt far from the earth's lagragian range.
The JAPS have higher extraction rates, the Americans do not.

Pressure begins to mount on the markets.

The Americans have little cash to spare.
The Japs gobble up all the profitable deals with little resistance.
The American economy starts to feel the crunch.
The president is alarmed.

Some of the more intelligent Japs start to smell a rat.

Where has all the money from the Americans gone???

Then the team with our protagononist is called to the White House.
To be given a special mission. The President has now been let into the plan, by the American corporations.
Replay this in more detail.
They start by sending out large and fanfared space ships to m
To draw away the attention of the JAPs.
They send out a small compressed SECRET space ship FAR OU
The ship is too small to draw the attention of the JAPs.
Several smaller ships go as well. The JAPs are not interested, t
The USA President tells his astronauts.
Follow the robots that were sent to bring 241 Germania from the MAIN ASTEROID BELT. This was the secret missio
Because the robots met with a problem on that rock and literally malfunctioned. This malfuntion only affects Amer
241 Germania was doing 17.04km per sec in orbital speed as
The robots only succeeded in nudging the rock, and not even home bound. It is now getting lost in space. Expensiv
And they wait in space, some of them still on earth.
As 241 Germania hurtles away in space at over 1 070kms per
The astronauts are SHELL SHOCKED, the journey would take y
They are told, no its possible, tho difficult. We have developed
The astronauts argue, WARP drive is unstable and cannot be c
Besides it needs a lot of negative energy to bend space, and a
They are told, our American scientists have managed to harve
Actually the negative energy will be mined and used in space
By now the USA President does not want to hear that robots will man the WARP drive ships after the first failure.
Risks can't be taken. That’s why he wants real humans to do it this time.

The team made up of 12 Astronauts is briefed by the USA President himself.

241 Germania is a B-Class asteroid. Is very large, was nudged out of the main asteroid belt but is now getting lost in
Is composed of dark, primitive carbonaceous material.
It’s the largest diamond in the solar system.
USD5.4 trillion dollars of American stock money is tied into this rock. The rock itslef is worth USD941 trillion.
One of the astronauts must have asked, 'Why would we put up so much money in this rock?'
Failure to retrieve it may see the American economy collapsing and worse, ceasing to exist.
This is not a mission to save the nation's pride, but to save the nation itself.
This mission will not report to the corporations, but to Houston (NASA).
It's a matter of national security.

The Americans are scrambling a rock rescue mission in a hurry. Drawing the attention of the JAPS.
The Americans are told, push the rock into the lagragrian region before any nation can react and latch on
Speed is of utmost importance.
Space craft speed.
The asteroid mining company gets into a confrontation with the NASA Houston Flight Control Teams.
This is because business protocol and NASA protocol are different.
The Japanese entities however are not made answerable to their space control dept, but easily concur with them.
You need to play this business/NASA protocol clash throughout the movie.
Let it be one of the major reasons why the Americans get beaten by the JAPs everytime a turn point is reached.
NASA is tense and not ready to let go because of an accident that happened where one American Space company
The debris was caused by a tassle between the Americans vs the JAPs robots.
In the tassle, the Americans were left with a spinning rock as the JAPs robots left with most of the PAYLOAD.
The Americans were blamed for the accident as space law decrees that the last space ship latched onto a rock is th
Tho the Americans tried to control the rock to avoid earth impact.
The Americans were fined heavily, the Astronauts were temporarily incarcerated
Actually they are released from incarceration when their President asks for Presidential clemency to allow them to

The Americans now send a human manned mission on a space ship

That uses the Alcuberie drive. The Warp drive.
This ship combines both the Warp drive and the antimatter propulsion.
It starts the journey using anti-matter.

The Japs only have antimatter propulsion.

They do not know that the USA has prepared a ship with the WARP drive.
The JAPS are monitoring the Americans.
They send a robot team of their own to chase after the Americans in space, to see where they are going.
The cunning Japs are always suspicious.

This JAP team is using slower space crafts that use antimatter.
STILL these JAPs ships are faster than the best Americans antimatter.
They catch up and overtake the Americans EASILY.
Then they realise the Americans are headed for 241 Germania!!!! ALL HELL Breaks loose in the JAPS camp!!!!
They know how much 241 Germania is worth.
SHOCK OF THEIR LIFE!!!

And they realise the Americans are not going to be slow at all.
For how can they chase after 241 Germania so slowly??? The rock is slipping away into space too fast for anti-matt
They must have some secret speed they have not yet unleashed.
The JAPs can't take no chances, they recall their robots home
only to send incredibly very fast space crafts, that overatke the Americans again.
Space crafts with a double putt putt for antimatter. These spaceships were already in space, waiting for competitio

Word leaks out. The USSR, China, Germany etc also release their space ships with single putt putt.
All nations race to latch on to the 241 Germania rock. Even though they are stupidly too slow to catch it.
Yet they do it anyway for the stock markets love it. The world is now taking a huge risk, very huge risk of financial m
Sensors on the JAPs ship detect that the Americans are harvesting negative energy all this time. On their ship, surro
Extremely large quantities of negative energy, getting ready to WARP space.
HELL BREAKS loose again amongst the Japs.
The Japs quickly withdraw their ships and agitatively send a third set of ships that are even faster. Their fastest EVE
These new ships overtake everyone. They have a treble putt putt for antimatter!!!

The world is SO SO TENSE.

The market is apprehensive.
Still Jap stocks rise in share price.
American stocks continue taking the tumble. There is a huge anticipation that the American ship will explode. WAR
According to scientists in the world. Even news reporters on TV are very adamant. TV interviews with scientists from
TVs on the stock trading floors.
US secretaries confront the USA President very pertubed, but the President is strangely calm.

News about techniques, speed, accuracy etc.

All determines the stock values.
The JAPs edge the Americans on technology, so their stock prices SOAR.
The Presidents of all nations, the peoples, are so tense!!!

They all wonder why the Americans continued with the same ships. Anyway, the Americans have nothing faster th
The Japs, even tho they are now in the front position, are worried about the Americans who always seem to have
one more trick up their sleeve.

That’s when the Americans get into the Warp drive.

Zoom away.
At speeds never before IMAGINED!!! Or thought possible. Even destroying the JAPS robot ships in the wake of the
With no human casualties. The USA get to the rock first.
Send it to the Lagragain region at super speeds. No one can latch on.
Challenges with releasing the rock and making it stay in the Lagragrian region, for they are travelling too fast.
The JAPS cunnignly wait on the periphery, ready to catch the rock and land it as their own.
If it ever passes the lagragian region due to its WARP drive immense speed.

Yet the Americans quickly devise clever manuevres, that sway the rock out of reach of the USSR, Germany and Jap
When they let go fo the rock, they slow their ship down by spinning it. And matching the rock's speed, since it drop
They had cut off the WARP DRIVE, yet the rock and ship were still going too fast, enough to threaten that it would g
Law says it must get into and stay in the lagagrian region for at least one complete orbit.
The manuevre involves letting go of the rock and catching it after ducking between JAPS etc, and after slowing dow
They declare it American. Legally. The rock stays in the region orbiting earth. Wild celebrations when it completes t
While its in the lagragian region no one is allowed to latch on, as it completes its first orbit.
UPROAR in the stock markets!!!! Immediately American stocks SOAR on the market.
TO NEVER BEFORE REACHED LEVELS. TO NEVER BEFORE DREAMED HEIGHTS!!!!

The world is in uproar. The President of the USA gets a pat and a handshake from the elated Secretaries of state.
Every household was following this. The USA astronaut families get to speak to their loved ones.
Who have been victorious, tears in their eyes.
Celebrations on American streets.
For it affects every family's welfare.

THE END. note the americans are being commandeere

 ere is nothing left to mine on earth.

vested in them.

n near earth orbit

ks that come close to earth, whether once off or in routine orbits.
visible amongst the nations.
on to discover the most prized usual wanderers.
e JAPs are topping in this game.
em to the lagragian region.
ws there are more asteroids in the main asteroid belt.
the corporations down.
to R&D they fail to get the fuel and travel mechanics that can get to that belt faster.
ed a Jupiter mass of negative energy to get there.
king head way and reducing that fuel and mechanics requirement, but still all countries are way out.
anyone had made headway, for R&D was top most secret to the corporations.
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grams of samples. At the cost of a billion dollars or more.
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ld, low cost. Little cash.

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ched plan as the only move, and if it fails they all go down.

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the big DECOY spaceships the Americans are sending,
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ting the protagonist and he hates JAPs robots and their ruthlessness.
by the American corporations.

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tion of the JAPs.
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draw the attention of the JAPs.
as well. The JAPs are not interested, they keep focussed on the big action.

EROID BELT. This was the secret mission - done in fashion to not draw the JAPs attention.
ned. This malfuntion only affects American robots. They had little knowledge of how to build robots, and they were in an economic rus
g 17.04km per sec in orbital speed as it lay out in the far main asteroid belt.
t is now getting lost in space. Expensive ships on WARP drive had been built to catch the rock.
some of them still on earth.
s away in space at over 1 070kms per second.
LL SHOCKED, the journey would take years and its damn too expensive to even fund with all the money in the world!
ssible, tho difficult. We have developed a secret WARP drive ship. And proven part of it using the robots that first went to 241 Germania
WARP drive is unstable and cannot be controlled. Too dangerous, can destroy the ship, the objects at destination, the astronauts.
negative energy to bend space, and all firms combined have never been able to harvest even 0.0000000001 percent of what is require
ican scientists have managed to harvest enough negative energy, introduce doctors of physics who elaborate further on this.
nergy will be mined and used in space itself.
ARP drive ships after the first failure.

n asteroid belt but is now getting lost in space.

k itslef is worth USD941 trillion.

ney in this rock?'
easing to exist.

attention of the JAPS.

nation can react and latch on

on Flight Control Teams.

rol dept, but easily concur with them. This is because of the strong cultural bond in beliefs that just seeps across departments whether

s everytime a turn point is reached.

where one American Space company had a rockfall to earth that hit an Italian city.

left with most of the PAYLOAD.

ast space ship latched onto a rock is the one responsible for ensuring earth safety.

residential clemency to allow them to tackle the new mission

to see where they are going.

Breaks loose in the JAPS camp!!!!

away into space too fast for anti-matter!!!

ready in space, waiting for competition day.

with single putt putt.

stupidly too slow to catch it.
huge risk, very huge risk of financial markets collapsing!!!
energy all this time. On their ship, surrounding themselves in something that resembles a wobbling bubble.

that are even faster. Their fastest EVER!

at the American ship will explode. WARP drive has never been proven to be safe.
mant. TV interviews with scientists frommthe world are held, the stock markets are glued on.

s strangely calm.

, the Americans have nothing faster than what they are using now.
Americans who always seem to have

he JAPS robot ships in the wake of the WARP bubble.

n, for they are travelling too fast.

as their own.

f reach of the USSR, Germany and Japs, yet slowing down enough to deposit it into the lagragian region.
matching the rock's speed, since it dropped.
ast, enough to threaten that it would get in and out of the lagragian region.
mplete orbit.
tween JAPS etc, and after slowing down their own ship.
Wild celebrations when it completes the first orbit successfully. Meaning Earth and Sun gravity have held it in their sway.
s its first orbit.

from the elated Secretaries of state.

to their loved ones.

he americans are being commandeered by both NASA and the corporations. NASA is way too rigid waanting to control their every mov
hey were in an economic rush.

at first went to 241 Germania.

ation, the astronauts.
01 percent of what is required.
ate further on this.
across departments whether it be enterprise or state.
t in their sway.

ng to control their every move, they want to be called Houston, whilxt the corporations use first name bsis. The corporations help interp
The corporations help interpret the law and the competition from the JAPs. NASA just wants to be powerful, the corporations are not i
ul, the corporations are not interested in power but in money.
241 Germania

The year is 2150.

World economies are now funded and controlled by wealthy private corporations.
Extremely tough competition.
Serious technological advancements.

The environments are cleaner.

Cities and energy greener.
Earthly mines closed. No more emmissions, fog, global warming. Besides, there is nothing left to mine on earth.
Disused mines are now reclaimed golf courses, or no go areas.
High use of solar energy, green fuels.
Show fields of huge windmills in green grassy hills, with logos of firms that invested in them.
Even the dark tarred roadways are solar panels. Sending energy on cables to power corps grids.
Solar is being mined from the moon.
And being microwaved earth bound, satsfying the world's huge energy demands.
World populations have stopped growing, at 14 billion. High use of birth control.
Everything must have its firms logo, large presence of firm ideaologies.
Put that fast tube train that can go 750 miles per hour, faster than airtravel????
Very tall skyscrappers in the cities.
Every home has solar panels on the roof. Even the windows of the skyscrappers.
Electric cars being refuelled, self driven cars, drones delivering express packages.

Money now being made mining and processing minerals in space.

CURRENT SITUATION
they all mine asteroids in near earth orbit
or prized wandering rocks that come close to earth, whether once off or in routine orbits.
the competition is very visible amongst the nations.
its actually a competition to discover the most prized usual wanderers.
accurate predictions, the JAPs are topping in this game.
winning rocks, taking them to the langrange region.
however, everyone knows there are more asteroids in the main asteroid belt.
the scientists are letting the corporations down.
despite being financed to R&D they fail to get the fuel and travel mechanics that can get to that belt f
they keep saying we need a Jupiter mass of negative energy to get there.
some of course are making head way and reducing that fuel and mechanics requirement, but still all c
but no one can tell if anyone has made headway, for R&D is top most secret to the corporations.
they are worse than governments, R&D to them means the final edge that could bring more money.
yet they keep results closely guarded, no sharing.
heavy spacecrafts cannot make the journey with mining equipment.
the dream for superluminial space travel is still decades away to be a reality.
the asteroid belt that runs between Mars and Jupiter remains out of bounds for heavy space crafts.
smaller fire flies have gone there and returned withvery promising ore samples.
yet they took a whooping number of years to go and come back, uneconomical and at astronomical c
 only to bring back tiny grams of samples. At the cost of a billion dollars or more.
that almost dented the financial capability of the firms that invested in their projects.
PAYLOADS of gold, platinum, diamonds, silver, water. On asteriods.
Only the finished product getting to earth. Water sold in space at very high rates.
Innovation is the in thing.
Some countries become filthy rich.
Leading the pack is the usual USA, China, Japan, Russia.

The Japs are driven by AI.

The USA is driven by hard work and a determined spirit.
Japan has higher cost, accident free AI. Very high yield, good margins, cash!
USA has lower extraction manned crafts, and minimal use of robots. Low yield, low cost. Little cash.
USA investors conservative, JAPS boisterous & over confident.
Japan is edging in to overtake the USA as global leader in economics.

Some firms hit jackpots, especially JAPS.

Free money markets.
You can invest in any country.
Some Americans are beginning to start favouring investing in JAP firms.

The Space mining firms are ranked on the MOBY JONES.

The stock broking firms are called cloud capital ventures.

We have space launchers.

That make it easy to slowly lower heavy payloads into the earth's atmosphere.
Without need for too much investment in heat resistance shields.
We have lifts on cable rails.

American stock broking firms are beginning to have tight pockets, according to undisclosed figures.
A meeting is held. By the Americans. USD5,4 trillion in capital is raised.
Twenty American firms pool their resources together and begin a secret project of acquiring something they don’t dicl
We see files written confidential being signed and filed away.
The competition against the Japs is so tough, so the Americans view this hatched plan as the only move, and if it fails t
And the Japs can literally just take over the world.

They start by sending out large and fanfared space ships to mine some of the rich asteroids.
To draw away the attentions of the JAPs. And while the Japs are focussed on the big DECOY spaceships,
The Americans then send out a small compressed SECRET space ship FAR OUT to an undisclosed location.
The ship is too small to draw the attention of the JAPs.
Several smaller ships go as well. The JAPs are not interested, they keep focussed on the big action.
The Americans don’t tell anyone what their secret plan is because as long as the asteroid is far out there, according to
Its game and anyone can latch onto it.
Space law declares the owner only if the asteroid is deposited into the earth's langrange range.
And they judge who owns a rock using the weight of spaceships latched onto that rock.
The Japs were actually making money by scavenging on rocks left by the Americans.
Sometimes their unmmaned aircraft would latch onto a rock that the American spacecraft are still mining.
And begin extracting whilst the Americans are trying to get PAYLOAD. Frustating the protagonist and he hates JAPs rob
In the asteroid belt far from the earth's langrange range.
The JAPS have higher extraction rates, the Americans do not.

Pressure begins to mount on the markets.

The Americans have little cash to spare.
The Japs gobble up all the profitable deals with little resistance.
The American economy starts to feel the crunch.
The president is alarmed.

Some of the more intelligent Japs start to smell a rat.

Where has all the money from the Americans gone???

Then the team with our protagononist is called to the White House.
To be given a special mission. The President has now been let into the plan, by the American corporations.
Replay this in more detail.
They start by sending out large and fanfared space ships to mine some of the rich asteroids.
To draw away the attention of the JAPs.
They send out a small compressed SECRET space ship FAR OUT to an undisclosed location.
The ship is too small to draw the attention of the JAPs.
Several smaller ships go as well. The JAPs are not interested, they keep focussed on the big action.
The USA President tells his astronauts.
Follow the robots that were sent to bring 241 Germania from the MAIN ASTEROID BELT. This was the secret mission - d
Because the robots met with a problem on that rock and literally malfunctioned. This malfuntion only affects American
241 Germania was doing 17.04km per sec in orbital speed as it lay out in the far main asteroid belt.
The robots only succeeded in nudging the rock, and not even home bound. It is now getting lost in space. Expensive sh
And they wait in space, some of them still on earth.
As 241 Germania hurtles away in space at over 1 070kms per second.
The astronauts are SHELL SHOCKED, the journey would take years and its damn too expensive to even
They are told, no its possible, tho difficult. We have developed a secret WARP drive ship. And proven p
The astronauts argue, WARP drive is unstable and cannot be controlled. Too dangerous, can destroy t
Besides it needs a lot of negative energy to bend space, and all firms combined have never been able
They are told, our American scientists have managed to harvest enough negative energy, introduce do
Actually the negative energy will be mined and used in space itself.
By now the USA President does not want to hear that robots will man the WARP drive ships after the first failure.
Risks can't be taken. That’s why he wants real humans to do it this time.

The team made up of 12 Astronauts is briefed by the USA President himself.

241 Germania is a B-Class asteroid. Is very large, was nudged out of the main asteroid belt but is now getting lost in sp
Is composed of dark, primitive carbonaceous material.
It’s the largest diamond in the solar system.
USD5.4 trillion dollars of American stock money is tied into this rock. The rock itslef is worth USD941 trillion. Nearly th
One of the astronauts must have asked, 'Why would we put up so much money in this rock?'
Failure to retrieve it may see the American economy collapsing and worse, ceasing to exist.
This is not a mission to save the nation's pride, but to save the nation itself.
This mission will not report to the corporations, but to Houston (NASA).
It's a matter of national security.

The Americans argue that an abundance of resources is far more likely to cause conflict than a lack of it.
So this rock has to fall into the hands of an already established super power, which must then regulate the rate at whic

The Astronauts are introduced to advisory bodies who take them through their paces.
They are all doctors with PHDs. The astronaut also introduces the 12 members on his team who also have PHDs.
Keck Institute of Space Studies (KISS).
Ames Research Center.
Glenns Research Center.
Goddard Flight Center.
Jet Propulsion Labarotary.
Johnson Space Center.
Langely Space Center.
Havard University.
University of Carlifonia at Santa Cruz.
Dozens more professionals from other institutions.

They are arranged into a workshop for tackling how to bring 241 Germania home.
The key issues they are to tackle are identified as-:
1. Feasibility of capturing 241 Germania.
2. How to anchor on 241 Germania. This is more like mooring on 241 Germania with an anchor.
2. How to de-spin 241 Germania. Wih a mass order of 5.36 quadtrillion tonnes deep in space.
3. How to safely transport the captured 5.36 quadtrillion tonnes.
4. How to safely put the rock into the langrange orbit.
5. The advisory bodies are also here to gather data.
6. A successful mission would validate hardware capabilities and aid in future missions risk reduction.
7. They also need to perfect the mastery of autonomous proximity to an asteroid the size of 241 Germania.
8. Structural characterisation of 241 Germania. This affecting kinetic impacts on its surface for deflection. The asteroid
The effectiveness of kinetic impact is highly uncertain due to the momentum multiplier which is called the beta factor
the kinetic impact may spring away at greater than escape velocities which may add to the impact on deflection of aste
This being most prominent on larger asteroids. The astronauts are not familiar with this as they are used to handling sm
9. Dust conditions. Dust triggered by propulsion jets. They affect exhaust systems, There are to be stand off procedures
10. Use of gravity tractor modules to a) stop the asteroid from spinning. Using the gravitational pull of its thrusters
b) it does this by firing its thrusters enough to resist the gravitatio
c) eventually the asteroid will slow down on its spin.
d) then the main body of space craft will approach, tether itself
11. Unsettled dust on an asteroid would hamper the use of gravity tractors as it affects the exhaust system of the thrus
12. Stand off procedures include studying the dust settling and disturbance patterns.
13. Read about asteroid control proximity techniques.
The astranauts are given 2 days to learn all they can about 241 Germania.
This is because of limitations paused by the closeness of the langrange range or something else.

Just after the 2 DAY Workshop

A senior NASA official comes to give one final wrap up of the MISSION OVERVIEW
1 The Astronauts would leave earth on a Spandan V-Class 557 space craft.
2 They would enter low earth orbit.
3 They would use propulsion systems to get to a the main vehicle which is being hidden on the sun side
4 The big space ship structure called Pandora V-14 would leave the moon side headed for Jupiter at first
5 Once there they would ignite a single putt putt anti matter engine to accelarate to 350 kilmeters per s
6 Then once it is a distance of 12 500 000 kilometers from the moon (28 days) they would ignite the WA
7
8
9
10

The Americans are scrambling a rock rescue mission in a hurry. Drawing the attention of the JAPS.
The Americans are told, push the rock into the langrange region before any nation can react and latch on
Speed is of utmost importance.
Space craft speed.
The asteroid mining company gets into a confrontation with the NASA Houston Flight Control Teams.
This is because business protocol and NASA protocol are different.
The Japanese entities however are not made answerable to their space control dept, but easily concur with them. This
You need to play this business/NASA protocol clash throughout the movie.
Let it be one of the major reasons why the Americans get beaten by the JAPs everytime a turn point is reached.
NASA is tense and not ready to let go because of an accident that happened where one American Space company had
The debris was caused by a tassle between the Americans vs the JAPs robots.
In the tassle, the Americans were left with a spinning rock as the JAPs robots left with most of the PAYLOAD.
The Americans were blamed for the accident as space law decrees that the last space ship latched onto a rock is the on
Tho the Americans tried to control the rock to avoid earth impact.
The Americans were fined heavily, the Astronauts were temporarily incarcerated
Actually they are released from incarceration when their President asks for Presidential clemency to allow them to tac

The Americans now send a human manned mission on a space ship

That uses the Alcuberie drive. The Warp drive.
This ship combines both the Warp drive and the antimatter propulsion.
It starts the journey using anti-matter.

The Japs only have antimatter propulsion.

They do not know that the USA has prepared a ship with the WARP drive.
The JAPS are monitoring the Americans.
They send a robot team of their own to chase after the Americans in space, to see where they are going.
The cunning Japs are always suspicious.

This JAP team is using slower space crafts that use antimatter.
STILL these JAPs ships are faster than the best Americans antimatter.
They catch up and overtake the Americans EASILY.
Then they realise the Americans are headed for 241 Germania!!!! ALL HELL Breaks loose in the JAPS camp!!!!
They know how much 241 Germania is worth.
SHOCK OF THEIR LIFE!!!

And they realise the Americans are not going to be slow at all.
For how can they chase after 241 Germania so slowly??? The rock is slipping away into space too fast for anti-matter!!!
They must have some secret speed they have not yet unleashed.
The JAPs can't take no chances, they recall their robots home
only to send incredibly very fast space crafts, that overatke the Americans again.
Space crafts with a double putt putt for antimatter. These spaceships were already in space, waiting for competition da

Word leaks out. The USSR, China, Germany etc also release their space ships with single putt putt.
All nations race to latch on to the 241 Germania rock. Even though they are stupidly too slow to catch it.
Yet they do it anyway for the stock markets love it. The world is now taking a huge risk, very huge risk of financial mark
Sensors on the JAPs ship detect that the Americans are harvesting negative energy all this time. On their ship, surround
Extremely large quantities of negative energy, getting ready to WARP space.
HELL BREAKS loose again amongst the Japs.
The Japs quickly withdraw their ships and agitatively send a third set of ships that are even faster. Their fastest EVER!
These new ships overtake everyone. They have a treble putt putt for antimatter!!!

The world is SO SO TENSE.

The market is apprehensive.
Still Jap stocks rise in share price.
American stocks continue taking the tumble. There is a huge anticipation that the American ship will explode. WARP d
According to scientists in the world. Even news reporters on TV are very adamant. TV interviews with scientists fromm
TVs on the stock trading floors.
US secretaries confront the USA President very pertubed, but the President is strangely calm.

News about techniques, speed, accuracy etc.

All determines the stock values.
The JAPs edge the Americans on technology, so their stock prices SOAR.
The Presidents of all nations, the peoples, are so tense!!!

They all wonder why the Americans continued with the same ships. Anyway, the Americans have nothing faster than w
The Japs, even tho they are now in the front position, are worried about the Americans who always seem to have
one more trick up their sleeve.

That’s when the Americans get into the Warp drive.

Zoom away.
At speeds never before IMAGINED!!! Or thought possible. Even destroying the JAPS robot ships in the wake of the WAR
With no human casualties. The USA get to the rock first.
The Commander of the USA spacecraft bemoans, 'Oh I have detsroyed the JAPs robot ships. Oh I have caused to perish

Problems when they get to the rock.

First thing is that they have to slow down, stop the destructive WARP bubble
Then they have to grab the rock.
Spin it home bound and take a ride on it.
Then do short bursts of WARP bubbles to bring it back.
Big issue with handling the rock, some thing to do with its eccentricity which measures 0.1023 meaning the rock has a
Its point of axis is way way not centrally located, meaning its heavy in an unpredictable way.
Ground control helps by doing the calculations of how to handle it.
And suggests that the rock be handled by alternating control on two points to steer it forward. All based on its shape. S
Alternating thrusts, to keep it with kindof linear orbit and desired direction. Still the rock is spinning.

Use terms such as aphelion (back side furthest from the sun)
Perihelion front side closest to the sun.
Dimensions - 168.90 kilometers.
Mass - 5.36 quadtrillion tonnes.
Send it to the langrange region at super speeds. No one can latch on.
Challenges with releasing the rock and making it stay in the langrange region, for they are travelling too fast.
The JAPS cunnignly wait on the periphery, ready to catch the rock and land it as their own.
If it ever passes the langrange region due to its WARP drive immense speed.

Yet the Americans quickly devise clever manuevres, that sway the rock out of reach of the USSR, Germany and Japs, ye
When they let go of the rock, they first spin it so violently that no other ship can latch on.
Then they release all their remaining gravity tractors to ease it into a softer spin. Latch onto the rock and deposit it gen
Any robot controlled ships that land after that are blasted into oblivion by the Inter Galactic Space Military.
Before the Americans let go of the rock, they beg the Italians who are manning a ship close by, to get out of the way as
The Italians agree reluctantly and skunk away.
The Americans then release the rock into a fast spin destroying the JAPs robot controlled ships.
They argue that the JAPS were never going to listen enough to remove their robot ships as they would be no human ca
When they let go fo the rock, they slow their ship down by spinning it. And matching the rock's speed, since it dropped
They had cut off the WARP DRIVE, yet the rock and ship were still going too fast, enough to threaten that it would get i
Law says it must get into and stay in the langrange region for at least one complete orbit.
The manuevre involves letting go of the rock and catching it after ducking between JAPS etc, and after slowing down th
They declare it American. Legally. The rock stays in the region orbiting earth. Wild celebrations when it completes the fi
While its in the langrange region no one is allowed to latch on, as it completes its first orbit.
UPROAR in the stock markets!!!! Immediately American stocks SOAR on the market.
TO NEVER BEFORE REACHED LEVELS. TO NEVER BEFORE DREAMED HEIGHTS!!!!

The world is in uproar. The President of the USA gets a pat and a handshake from the elated Secretaries of state.
Every household was following this. The USA astronaut families get to speak to their loved ones.
Who have been victorious, tears in their eyes.
Celebrations on American streets.
For it affects every family's welfare.
In the process they loose most of their main ship.
But they save food and water and escape into a back-up pod that can sustain them for 5 months.
And stay there waiting for a rescue mission.
That comes in the form of JAPs ships, robot manned that come to rescue them, and bring them home.
The JAPs ships do not have food only, but they have proection from ultra violet rays.
They have protection and speed to carry them earth bound in less than a week. Using the trebble putt putt anti matter
As they leave their smaller consoles, the JAPs robots stand in line and salute. As the senior JAPs robot Controller presse
This is seen on TV on the stock market floors, in the homes, presidential suites etc. Tears in the eyes of those who see.

THE END.
hing left to mine on earth.

ff or in routine orbits.

chanics that can get to that belt faster.

hanics requirement, but still all countries are way out.

secret to the corporations.
e that could bring more money.

bounds for heavy space crafts.

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in their projects.

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malfuntion only affects American robots. They had little knowledge of how to build robots, and they were in an economic rush.
ut in the far main asteroid belt.
getting lost in space. Expensive ships on WARP drive had been built to catch the rock.

d its damn too expensive to even fund with all the money in the world!
et WARP drive ship. And proven part of it using the robots that first went to 241 Germania.
ed. Too dangerous, can destroy the ship, the objects at destination, the astronauts.
combined have never been able to harvest even 0.0000000001 percent of what is required.
ugh negative energy, introduce doctors of physics who elaborate further on this.

ships after the first failure.

belt but is now getting lost in space.

worth USD941 trillion. Nearly the GDP for the whole world.
ct than a lack of it.
ust then regulate the rate at which smaller nations gain economic significance.

team who also have PHDs.

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s the exhaust system of the thrusters. This is called SEP exhaustion impingement.
h is being hidden on the sun side behind the moon to avoid JAPs.
on side headed for Jupiter at first using electric solar thrusters.
accelarate to 350 kilmeters per second.
8 days) they would ignite the WARP drive.

of the JAPS.
n react and latch on

Control Teams.

but easily concur with them. This is because of the strong cultural bond in beliefs that just seeps across departments whether it be enterpr
me a turn point is reached.
ne American Space company had a rockfall to earth that hit an Italian city.

most of the PAYLOAD.

ship latched onto a rock is the one responsible for ensuring earth safety.

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this time. On their ship, surrounding themselves in something that resembles a wobbling bubble.

even faster. Their fastest EVER!

erican ship will explode. WARP drive has never been proven to be safe.
interviews with scientists frommthe world are held, the stock markets are glued on.

ericans have nothing faster than what they are using now.
ns who always seem to have

obot ships in the wake of the WARP bubble.

ships. Oh I have caused to perish the greedy malevolent robots of Tokyo.'

es 0.1023 meaning the rock has a 90% very unstable spin.

forward. All based on its shape. Shaped like a potatoe that has a bulbous base and a thin head.
ock is spinning.

are travelling too fast.

f the USSR, Germany and Japs, yet slowing down enough to deposit it into the langrange region.

h onto the rock and deposit it gently into the orbit of the langrange orbit,
alactic Space Military.
 close by, to get out of the way as what they are bout to do, would destroy their ship.

ps as they would be no human casualties.

the rock's speed, since it dropped.
gh to threaten that it would get in and out of the langrange region.

PS etc, and after slowing down their own ship.

ebrations when it completes the first orbit successfully. Meaning Earth and Sun gravity have held it in their sway.

elated Secretaries of state.

ring them home.

the trebble putt putt anti matter ship.

enior JAPs robot Controller presses the salute button in the JAPs robot control room.
ars in the eyes of those who see. Hand clapping.

note the americans are being commandeered by both NASA and the corporations. NASA is way too rigid waanting to control th
in an economic rush.
partments whether it be enterprise or state.
y too rigid waanting to control their every move, they want to be called Houston, whilxt the corporations use first name bsis. The corporatio
se first name bsis. The corporations help interpret the law and the competition from the JAPs. NASA just wants to be powerful, the corpora
be powerful, the corporations are not interested in power but in money.
241 Germania

The year is 2150.

World economies are now funded and controlled by wealthy private corporations.
Extremely tough competition.
Serious technological advancements.

The environments are cleaner.

Cities and energy greener.
Earthly mines closed. No more emmissions, fog, global warming. Besides, there is nothing left to mine on earth.
Disused mines are now reclaimed golf courses, or no go areas.
High use of solar energy, green fuels.
Show fields of huge windmills in green grassy hills, with logos of firms that invested in them.
Even the dark tarred roadways are solar panels. Sending energy on cables to power corps grids.
Solar is being mined from the moon. And on space based solar stations.
And being microwaved earth bound, satsfying the world's huge energy demands.
World populations have stopped growing, at 14 billion. High use of birth control.
Space tourism has increased. It costs 3 months salary for an average worker to afford to stay in a space 5 star hotel
The earth had run out of precious metals and fossil fuels (almost).
Society paid for this depletion of resources in the form of higher prices for products. Thus the emergence of Cloud
The most prominent of all being the Moby Jones, based in New York.
The Moby Jones boasts of an average day's trading of stock of USD500 billion each day.
Everything must have its firms logo, large presence of firm ideaologies.
Put that fast tube train that can go 750 miles per hour, faster than air travel????
Very tall skyscrappers in the cities.
Every home has solar panels on the roof. Even the windows of the sky scrappers.
Electric cars being refuelled, self driven cars, drones delivering express packages.

Money now being made mining and processing minerals in space.

CURRENT SITUATION
they all mine asteroids in near earth orbit.
iron and other minerals found in greater concetration on asteroids than on earth.
an asteroid of modest size, only 1km long, with a fair concetration of platinum ores.
would probably carry more platinum than all the platinum and gold the world had ever harvested
sometimes prized wandering rocks came close to earth, whether once off or in routine orbits.
When the mining started about 1 500 near earth asteroids had been discovered.
As the mining progressed more rocks were discovered.
Yet the hunger for the rocks grew, faster better ships were built, large processor plants set up in sp
Spurred by the increase in financial resources from the huge cash pay offs in the space investment
Then the asteroids in near earth orbit started running out.

the competition is very visible amongst the nations.

its actually a competition to discover the most prized usual wanderers.
accurate predictions, the JAPs are topping in this game.
winning rocks, taking them to the langrange region.
however, everyone knows there are more asteroids in the main asteroid belt. Only they are too fa
 As many as 50% of the NEAs bearing 'volatiles'
These are made of clays, hydrated salts and hydro carbons.

the scientists are letting the corporations down.

despite being financed to R&D they fail to get the fuel and travel mechanics that can get to that be
they keep saying we need a Jupiter mass of negative energy to get there.
some of course are making head way and reducing that fuel and mechanics requirement, but still
but no one can tell if anyone has made headway, for R&D is top most secret to the corporations.
they are worse than governments, R&D to them means the final edge that could bring more mone
yet they keep results closely guarded, no sharing.
heavy spacecrafts cannot make the journey with mining equipment.
the dream for superluminial space travel is still decades away to be a reality.
the asteroid belt that runs between Mars and Jupiter remains out of bounds for heavy space craft
smaller fire flies have gone there and returned withvery promising ore samples.
yet they took a whooping number of years to go and come back, uneconomical and at astronomic
only to bring back tiny grams of samples. At the cost of a billion dollars or more.
that almost dented the financial capability of the firms that invested in their projects.
PAYLOADS of gold, platinum, diamonds, silver, water. On asteriods.
Only the finished product getting to earth. Water sold in space at very high rates.
Innovation is the in thing.
Some countries become filthy rich.
Leading the pack is the usual USA, China, Japan, Russia.

The Japs are driven by AI.

The USA is driven by hard work and a determined spirit.
Japan has higher cost, accident free AI. Very high yield, good margins, cash!
USA has lower extraction manned crafts, and minimal use of robots. Low yield, low cost. Little cash.
USA investors conservative, JAPS boisterous & over confident.
Japan is edging in to overtake the USA as global leader in economics.
Before the JAPS miner robots arrive, we see first the robotic probes.
US Astronauts fond of crying out JAPs! JAPs! JAPs! As soon as they see the probes.
Someone else must shout, 'WHAT?!'
Reply - ' They are doing a spectral analysis!'
Fuckers are close, hold the extraction! Hurry! Sap the fucker up!
Let's take it Lagrangian! Come on!
No! Lagrangian is too far!

Spectral analysis is when the robotic probes hit the asteroid with beams of ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared wa
To gather data about its metallic and chemical composition.
To find out if it has valuable mineral content.
Astronaut Tools
Safer - is the vehicular movement pack that has thrusters that they strap onto their back as a back pack.
The Orange space suits are worn at exit and re-entry.
Anytime a NASA astronaut gets out of the space vehicle it is called an extra vehicular activity - EVA.

Some firms hit jackpots, especially JAPS.

Free money markets.
You can invest in any country.
Some Americans are beginning to start favouring investing in JAP firms.

The Space mining firms are ranked on the MOBY JONES.

The stock broking firms are called cloud capital ventures.

We have space elevators on cable hoisted up to space.

That make it easy to slowly lower heavy payloads into the earth's atmosphere.
Without need for too much investment in heat resistance shields.
We have lifts on cable rails.

Sir Bawden is the owner of Space Roc Inc. An American Corporation.

This firm has the best tug team of 12 PHD holding astronauts that get the most payload on prized rocks.
Tho human manned missions have the lowest extraction rates, this team has the highest extraction, rock capture s
excursions??? Of all time. Whenever this team mines a prized rock, mission control gets directed by Sir Bawden him
Over radio control, he warns them, guys get the rock, get the PAYLOAD before the JAPs come in, this rock is 'HOT' in
They are led by a tough astronaut we shall call Benny.
Especially today, this team is manouvering in to capture and mine their most prized rock yet.
With high grade platinum ores. Just as they latch on, in comes 5 JAPs robotic ships.
Which immediately start ravaging the rock as the Americans helplessly hang on. One Astronaut screams, ' Stop fuc
They tassle for the rock, causing it to head earth bound, spinning furiously out of control.
The rock enters earth's atmosphere, pummels an Italian city, after breaking up and almost burning out as it gets int
Over radio we hear everyone doing frantic calculations and hoping the rock burns out!!!
however small fragments do hit the surface of the packed Italian city. Making instant Headlines. Sir Bawden slumps

How the mining is done

A three component mission is launched.
Designed to operate almost autonomously.
It includes a ferry (equiped with the VASMIR propuslion system)
Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket
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So the ferry moves around picking up astronauts and their ores.

American stock broking firms are beginning to have tight pockets, according to undisclosed figures.
A meeting is held. By the Americans. USD5,4 trillion in capital is raised.
Twenty American firms pool their resources together and begin a secret project of acquiring something they don’t
We see files written confidential being signed and filed away.
The competition against the Japs is so tough, so the Americans view this hatched plan as the only move, and if it fa
And the Japs can literally just take over the world.

They start by sending out large and fanfared space ships to mine some of the rich asteroids.
To draw away the attentions of the JAPs. And while the Japs are focussed on the big DECOY spaceships,
The Americans then send out a small compressed SECRET space ship FAR OUT to an undisclosed location.
The ship is too small to draw the attention of the JAPs.
Several smaller ships go as well. The JAPs are not interested, they keep focussed on the big action.
The Americans don’t tell anyone what their secret plan is because as long as the asteroid is far out there, according
Its game and anyone can latch onto it.
Space law declares the owner only if the asteroid is deposited into the earth's langrange range.
And they judge who owns a rock using the weight of spaceships latched onto that rock.

The Japs were actually making money by scavenging on rocks left by the Americans.
Sometimes their unmmaned aircraft would latch onto a rock that the American spacecraft are still mining.
And begin extracting whilst the Americans are trying to get PAYLOAD. Frustating the protagonist and he hates JAPs
In the asteroid belt far from the earth's langrange range.
The JAPS have higher extraction rates, the Americans do not.

Pressure begins to mount on the markets.

The Americans have little cash to spare.
The Japs gobble up all the profitable deals with little resistance.
The American economy starts to feel the crunch.
The president is alarmed.

Some of the more intelligent Japs start to smell a rat.

Where has all the money from the Americans gone???

Then the team with our protagononist is called to the White House.
To be given a special mission. The President has now been let into the plan, by the American corporations.
 Replay this in more detail.
They start by sending out large and fanfared space ships to mine some of the rich asteroids.
To draw away the attention of the JAPs.
They send out a small compressed SECRET space ship FAR OUT to an undisclosed location.
The ship is too small to draw the attention of the JAPs.
Several smaller ships go as well. The JAPs are not interested, they keep focussed on the big action
The USA President tells his astronauts.
Follow the robots that were sent to bring 241 Germania from the MAIN ASTEROID BELT. This was the secret missio
Because the robots met with a problem on that rock and literally malfunctioned. This malfuntion only affects Amer
241 Germania was doing 17.04km per sec in orbital speed as it lay out in the far main asteroid bel

The Astronauts are shocked. 241 Germania!!!!

JESUS!!!!
Someone pipes, 'Gooding would need a trillion bucks just to look at this.' Laughter.
Gooding is the former hated US President on a come back campaign trial.
Someone else pipes, ' Even if we are to bring that rock home, there would be too many diamonds, the price will plu
Someone else says, 'We have to factor in the collapse of the heavy metals industry. When platinum goes down to 4
Someone else says, ' I think he meant to say, coffee tastes better in a diamond tea pot.' Heavy Laughter.
Someone else pipes, ' Don worry guys. The mining unions will make sure everything costs a trillion dollars.'' Even h
The US President then cuts in ending the jokes with a firmer gaze and serious tone, arguing that an abundance of r
So this rock has to fall into the hands of an already established super power, which must then regulate the rate at w
If we don't land the big one ourselves, well someone else is bound to do it first. God knows what he will do with th
Besides this rock has USD5.4 trillion of american stock tied into it, let our boys get their money back.
Save the economy. The Astronauts nod, yeah.
This project will be called, 'Jupiter Program.'

The US President continues,

The robots only succeeded in nudging the rock, and not even home bound. It is now getting lost in space. Expensiv
And they wait in space, some of them still on earth.
As 241 Germania hurtles away in space at over 1 070kms per second.
The astronauts are SHELL SHOCKED, the journey would take years and its damn too expensive to e
The President replies, ' That's why we call it the Far Earth Asteroid Retrieval Mission.'
They are told, no its possible, tho difficult. We have developed a secret WARP drive ship. And prov
The astronauts argue, WARP drive is unstable and cannot be controlled. Too dangerous, can destr
Besides it needs a lot of negative energy to bend space, and all firms combined have never been a
They are told, our American scientists have managed to harvest enough negative energy, introduc
Actually the negative energy will be mined and used in space itself.
By now the USA President does not want to hear that robots will man the WARP drive ships after the first failure.
Risks can't be taken. That’s why he wants real humans to do it this time.

The team made up of 12 Astronauts is briefed by the USA President himself.

241 Germania is a C-Class asteroid. Is very large, was nudged out of the main asteroid belt but is now getting lost in
Is composed of dark, primitive carbonaceous material.
A proffessor must be asked to comment, he says.
I have done some analysis of the data sent back by the American robot miners.'
The taxonomy results make 241 Germania carbonecous. It’s a C -class asteroid.
It is a very black rock.
It’s the largest diamond in the solar system.
USD5.4 trillion dollars of American stock money is tied into this rock. The rock itslef is worth USD941 trillion. Nearl
One of the astronauts must have asked, 'Why would we put up so much money in this rock?'
Failure to retrieve it may see the American economy collapsing and worse, ceasing to exist.
This is not a mission to save the nation's pride, but to save the nation itself.
This mission will not report to the corporations, but to Houston (NASA).
It's a matter of national security.

The Astronauts are introduced to advisory bodies who take them through their paces.
They are all doctors with PHDs. The astronaut also introduces the 12 members on his team who also have PHDs.
Keck Institute of Space Studies (KISS).
Ames Research Center.
Glenns Research Center.
Goddard Flight Center.
Jet Propulsion Labarotary.
Johnson Space Center.
Langely Space Center.
Havard University.
University of Carlifonia at Santa Cruz.
Dozens more professionals from other institutions.

They are arranged into a workshop for tackling how to bring 241 Germania home.
The key issues they are to tackle are identified as-:
1. Feasibility of capturing 241 Germania.
2. How to anchor on 241 Germania. This is more like mooring on 241 Germania with an anchor.
2. How to de-spin 241 Germania. Wih a mass order of 5.36 quadtrillion tonnes deep in space.
3. How to safely transport the captured 5.36 quadtrillion tonnes.
4. How to safely put the rock into the langrange orbit.

Astronauts told they would have to mine water in space.

One of them exclaims, 'Bulshit, why can't we just get water from here' they are told its more expensive to carry it o
5. The advisory bodies are also here to gather data.
6. A successful mission would validate hardware capabilities and aid in future missions risk reduction.
7. They also need to perfect the mastery of autonomous proximity to an asteroid the size of 241 Germania.
8. Structural characterisation of 241 Germania. This affecting kinetic impacts on its surface for deflection. The aste
The effectiveness of kinetic impact is highly uncertain due to the momentum multiplier which is called the beta fac
the kinetic impact may spring away at greater than escape velocities which may add to the impact on deflection of
This being most prominent on larger asteroids. The astronauts are not familiar with this as they are used to handlin
9. Dust conditions. Dust triggered by propulsion jets. They affect exhaust systems, There are to be stand off proced
10. Use of gravity tractor modules to a) stop the asteroid from spinning. Using the gravitational pull of its thrus
b) it does this by firing its thrusters enough to resist the gravit
c) eventually the asteroid will slow down on its spin.
d) then the main body of space craft will approach, tether its
11. Unsettled dust on an asteroid would hamper the use of gravity tractors as it affects the exhaust system of the t
12. Stand off procedures include studying the dust settling and disturbance patterns.
13. Read about asteroid control proximity techniques.
14. Smaller asteroids have weaker gravity, can be approached and departed from with much less propulsion requir

The astranauts are given 2 days to learn all they can about 241 Germania.
This is because of limitations paused by the closeness of the langrange range or something else.

Just after the 2 DAY Workshop

A senior NASA official comes to give one final wrap up of the MISSION OVERVIEW
1 The Astronauts would leave earth on a Spandan V-Class 557 space craft.
2 They would enter low earth orbit.
3 They would use propulsion systems to get to a the main vehicle which is being hidden on the sun
4 The big space ship structure called Pandora V-14 would leave the moon side headed for Jupiter at
5 Once there they would ignite a single putt putt anti matter engine to accelarate to 350 kilmeters p
6 Then once it is a distance of 12 500 000 kilometers from the moon (28 days) they would ignite the

Accessibility and Astrodynamical Considerations

1 In space, the parameter which defines the difficulties of delivering mass from one orbit to anothe
2 But the required velocity change.
3 This required velocity change is called delta v measured in kms per second.
4 Most NEAs have lower delta v parameters for latching onto them than it takes to go to and leave t
5 It ranges from 4 to 10 kilometers per second.
6 The correct terms for going to and return are , out-and- return trajectories.
7
8
9

The Americans are scrambling a rock rescue mission in a hurry. Drawing the attention of the JAPS.
The Americans are told, push the rock into the langrange region before any nation can react and latch on
Speed is of utmost importance.
Space craft speed.
The asteroid mining company gets into a confrontation with the NASA Houston Flight Control Teams.
This is because business protocol and NASA protocol are different.
The Japanese entities however are not made answerable to their space control dept, but easily concur with them.
You need to play this business/NASA protocol clash throughout the movie.
Let it be one of the major reasons why the Americans get beaten by the JAPs everytime a turn point is reached.
NASA is tense and not ready to let go because of an accident that happened where one American Space company
The debris was caused by a tassle between the Americans vs the JAPs robots.
In the tassle, the Americans were left with a spinning rock as the JAPs robots left with most of the PAYLOAD.
The Americans were blamed for the accident as space law decrees that the last space ship latched onto a rock is th
Tho the Americans tried to control the rock to avoid earth impact.
The Americans were fined heavily, the Astronauts were temporarily incarcerated
Actually they are released from incarceration when their President asks for Presidential clemency to allow them to

The Americans now send a human manned mission on a space ship

That uses the Alcuberie drive. The Warp drive.
This ship combines both the Warp drive and the antimatter propulsion.
It starts the journey using anti-matter.

The Japs only have antimatter propulsion.

They do not know that the USA has prepared a ship with the WARP drive.
The JAPS are monitoring the Americans.
They send a robot team of their own to chase after the Americans in space, to see where they are going.
The cunning Japs are always suspicious.

This JAP team is using slower space crafts that use antimatter.
STILL these JAPs ships are faster than the best Americans antimatter.
They catch up and overtake the Americans EASILY.
Then they realise the Americans are headed for 241 Germania!!!! ALL HELL Breaks loose in the JAPS camp!!!!
They know how much 241 Germania is worth.
SHOCK OF THEIR LIFE!!!

And they realise the Americans are not going to be slow at all.
For how can they chase after 241 Germania so slowly??? The rock is slipping away into space too fast for anti-matt
They must have some secret speed they have not yet unleashed.
The JAPs can't take no chances, they recall their robots home
only to send incredibly very fast space crafts, that overatke the Americans again.
Space crafts with a double putt putt for antimatter. These spaceships were already in space, waiting for competitio

Word leaks out. The USSR, China, Germany etc also release their space ships with single putt putt.
All nations race to latch on to the 241 Germania rock. Even though they are stupidly too slow to catch it.
Yet they do it anyway for the stock markets love it. The world is now taking a huge risk, very huge risk of financial m
Sensors on the JAPs ship detect that the Americans are harvesting negative energy all this time. On their ship, surro
Extremely large quantities of negative energy, getting ready to WARP space.
HELL BREAKS loose again amongst the Japs.
The Japs quickly withdraw their ships and agitatively send a third set of ships that are even faster. Their fastest EVE
These new ships overtake everyone. They have a treble putt putt for antimatter!!!

The world is SO SO TENSE.

The market is apprehensive.
Still Jap stocks rise in share price.
American stocks continue taking the tumble. There is a huge anticipation that the American ship will explode. WAR
According to scientists in the world. Even news reporters on TV are very adamant. TV interviews with scientists from
TVs on the stock trading floors.
US secretaries confront the USA President very pertubed, but the President is strangely calm.

News about techniques, speed, accuracy etc.

All determines the stock values.
The JAPs edge the Americans on technology, so their stock prices SOAR.
The Presidents of all nations, the peoples, are so tense!!!

They all wonder why the Americans continued with the same ships. Anyway, the Americans have nothing faster th
The Japs, even tho they are now in the front position, are worried about the Americans who always seem to have
one more trick up their sleeve.

That’s when the Americans get into the Warp drive.

Zoom away.
At speeds never before IMAGINED!!! Or thought possible. Even destroying the JAPS robot ships in the wake of the
With no human casualties. The USA get to the rock first.
The Commander of the USA spacecraft bemoans, 'Oh I have detsroyed the JAPs robot ships. Oh I have caused to pe

Different types of asteroids

The Americans have fewer robotic probes or fireflies.
So they use old fashioned telescopes mounted on their ships.
lots of patience needed to collect enough photons to make the kind of high-resolution spectrum
that you need to discover and quantify the abundances of all possible constituents
What’s much easier is measuring the brightness of an asteroid using a filter that lets in light within a range of wave
Disentangling the effects of geometry, thermal emission, and albedo is nigh impossible if you only have measurem
Calculating the ratio of the observed reflection to the amount of sunlight incident upon the asteroid gives you the

The most common type is C.

comprising more than 75% of known asteroids.
These
The nextaremost
characterized
common by very
type is S,low albedos, about 0.03.
accounting for 17% of known asteroids
relatively bright, with albedos between 0.10 –0.22
These asteroids are composed of metallic nickel-iron mixed with iron and magnesium silicates.
Another type, M, makes up about 5% of the known asteroids. These asteroids are about the same brightness as th
0.10 to 0.18
M-class are the only type that would
yield the large amounts of metals
These are mostly found in the innermost edges of the asteroid belt.

Problems when they get to the rock.

First thing is that they have to slow down, stop the destructive WARP bubble
Then they have to grab the rock.
Spin it home bound and take a ride on it.
Then do short bursts of WARP bubbles to bring it back.
Big issue with handling the rock, some thing to do with its eccentricity which measures 0.1023 meaning the rock h
Its point of axis is way way not centrally located, meaning its heavy in an unpredictable way.
Ground control helps by doing the calculations of how to handle it.
And suggests that the rock be handled by alternating control on two points to steer it forward. All based on its shap
Alternating thrusts, to keep it with kindof linear orbit and desired direction. Still the rock is spinning.

Use terms such as aphelion (back side furthest from the sun)
Perihelion front side closest to the sun.
Dimensions - 168.90 kilometers.
Mass - 5.36 quadtrillion tonnes.
Send it to the langrange region at super speeds. No one can latch on.
Challenges with releasing the rock and making it stay in the langrange region, for they are travelling too fast.
The JAPS cunnignly wait on the periphery, ready to catch the rock and land it as their own.
If it ever passes the langrange region due to its WARP drive immense speed.

Yet the Americans quickly devise clever manuevres, that sway the rock out of reach of the USSR, Germany and Jap
When they let go of the rock, they first spin it so violently that no other ship can latch on.
Then they release all their remaining gravity tractors to ease it into a softer spin. Latch onto the rock and deposit it
Any robot controlled ships that land after that are blasted into oblivion by the Inter Galactic Space Military.
The Americans are in a hurry.
To add to their woes, a Proffessor of Trojan Astrology who works for NASA part time, has done som
This Proffessor is with the Haiwai'is Institute of Geophysics and Planetology.
They first discuss this at the Space Resources Roundtable 9.
He says they cannot place the rock just in any position, because the Italians have also recently put
And their rock is large, though smaller than 241 Germania. This Italian rock has some significant g
That would disturb the balance in the lagrangian range. So they need to create a balanced Trojan
In such a way that it would hold in the earth/sun barycentre.
This is an issue of significant gravity, there are of course lots more small rocks with microgravity im
Before the Americans let go of the rock, they beg the Italians who are manning a ship close by, to get out of the wa
The Italians agree reluctantly and skunk away.
The Americans then release the rock into a fast spin destroying the JAPs robot controlled ships.
They argue that the JAPS were never going to listen enough to remove their robot ships as they would be no huma
When they let go fo the rock, they slow their ship down by spinning it. And matching the rock's speed, since it drop
They had cut off the WARP DRIVE, yet the rock and ship were still going too fast, enough to threaten that it would g
Law says it must get into and stay in the langrange region for at least one complete orbit.
The manuevre involves letting go of the rock and catching it after ducking between JAPS etc, and after slowing dow
They declare it American. Legally. The rock stays in the region orbiting earth. Wild celebrations when it completes t
While its in the langrange region no one is allowed to latch on, as it completes its first orbit.
UPROAR in the stock markets!!!! Immediately American stocks SOAR on the market.
TO NEVER BEFORE REACHED LEVELS. TO NEVER BEFORE DREAMED HEIGHTS!!!!

The world is in uproar. The President of the USA gets a pat and a handshake from the elated Secretaries of state.
Sir Bawdin leaps about in the NASA command center, control room staff congragulate him with tears in their eyes.
The American side of the stock markets are in explosion!!! Pure joy all over!!!
Every household was following this. The USA astronaut families get to speak to their loved ones.
Who have been victorious, tears in their eyes.
Celebrations on American streets.
For it affects every family's welfare.
In the process they loose most of their main ship.
But they save food and water and escape into a back-up pod that can sustain them for 5 months.
And stay there waiting for a rescue mission. Why can't the Italians rescue them??? Is their ship full or something. O
That comes in the form of JAPs ships, robot manned that come to rescue them, and bring them home.
The JAPs ships do not have food only, but they have protection from cosmic radiation.
They have protection and speed to carry them earth bound in less than a week. Using the trebble putt putt anti ma
As they leave their smaller consoles, the JAPs robots stand in line and salute. As the senior JAPs robot Controller pr
This is seen on TV on the stock market floors, in the homes, presidential suites etc. Tears in the eyes of those who s

THE END.
hing left to mine on earth.

to stay in a space 5 star hotel for more than a week.

Thus the emergence of Cloud Capital Markets.

an on earth.
platinum ores.
he world had ever harvested in all lifetimes.
e off or in routine orbits.
discovered.

e processor plants set up in space.

y offs in the space investments.

oid belt. Only they are too far.

chanics that can get to that belt faster.

hanics requirement, but still all countries are way out.

secret to the corporations.
e that could bring more money.

bounds for heavy space crafts.

conomical and at astronomical costs

in their projects.

st. Little cash.

, visible, and near-infrared wavelengths

ack as a back pack.

activity - EVA.

ad on prized rocks.
est extraction, rock capture success, and accident free
ets directed by Sir Bawden himself. He is an action loving man.
s come in, this rock is 'HOT' in no man's space.

Astronaut screams, ' Stop fucking our bitch!'

most burning out as it gets into earth's heat shields.

Headlines. Sir Bawden slumps his head in shock as he sits in his office.
 or the ferry to come pick them up.

losed figures.

quiring something they don’t diclose publicily.

as the only move, and if it fails they all go down.

ECOY spaceships,
ndisclosed location.

e big action.
oid is far out there, according to space law.

craft are still mining.

rotagonist and he hates JAPs robots and their ruthlessness.

merican corporations.
me of the rich asteroids.

undisclosed location.

ep focussed on the big action.

LT. This was the secret mission - done in fashion to not draw the JAPs attention.
malfuntion only affects American robots. They had little knowledge of how to build robots, and they were in an economic rush.
ut in the far main asteroid belt.

ny diamonds, the price will plummet on the market.''

hen platinum goes down to 40 an ounce and car parts are made from iridium, they won’t be worth a hundred trillion.
.' Heavy Laughter.
osts a trillion dollars.'' Even heavier laughter.
guing that an abundance of resources is far more likely to cause conflict than a lack of it.
ust then regulate the rate at which smaller nations gain economic significance.
nows what he will do with that kind of money.
ir money back.

getting lost in space. Expensive ships on WARP drive had been built to catch the rock.

d its damn too expensive to even fund with all the money in the world!
trieval Mission.'
et WARP drive ship. And proven part of it using the robots that first went to 241 Germania.
ed. Too dangerous, can destroy the ship, the objects at destination, the astronauts.
combined have never been able to harvest even 0.0000000001 percent of what is required.
ugh negative energy, introduce doctors of physics who elaborate further on this.

ships after the first failure.

belt but is now getting lost in space.

 worth USD941 trillion. Nearly the GDP for the whole world.

team who also have PHDs.

NASA
NASA
NASA
NASA
NASA
NASA

s more expensive to carry it off to space than it is to mine it there.

s risk reduction.
size of 241 Germania.
rface for deflection. The asteroid impact measurements likely to be made variable due to a beta factor of (2-10 times).
er which is called the beta factor (affecting the impact by 2-10 times). Ejecta from the asteroid which are a result of
o the impact on deflection of asteroids.
his as they are used to handling smaller asteroids.
ere are to be stand off procedures to allow dust to settle.
e gravitational pull of its thrusters.
ers enough to resist the gravitational pull of the spinning asteroid as it hovers close by.
ow down on its spin.
craft will approach, tether itself to the asteroid, moor, start its thrusters to change the asteroid's trajectory.
s the exhaust system of the thrusters. This is called SEP exhaustion impingement.
h much less propulsion requirements.

h is being hidden on the sun side behind the moon to avoid JAPs.
on side headed for Jupiter at first using electric solar thrusters.
accelarate to 350 kilmeters per second.
8 days) they would ignite the WARP drive.

ass from one orbit to another is not distance,

n it takes to go to and leave the moon's surface.

of the JAPS.
n react and latch on

Control Teams.

but easily concur with them. This is because of the strong cultural bond in beliefs that just seeps across departments whether it be ent
me a turn point is reached.
ne American Space company had a rockfall to earth that hit an Italian city.

most of the PAYLOAD.

ship latched onto a rock is the one responsible for ensuring earth safety.

al clemency to allow them to tackle the new mission

ere they are going.

ose in the JAPS camp!!!!

o space too fast for anti-matter!!!

space, waiting for competition day.

gle putt putt.

oo slow to catch it.
k, very huge risk of financial markets collapsing!!!
this time. On their ship, surrounding themselves in something that resembles a wobbling bubble.

even faster. Their fastest EVER!

erican ship will explode. WARP drive has never been proven to be safe.
interviews with scientists frommthe world are held, the stock markets are glued on.
ericans have nothing faster than what they are using now.
ns who always seem to have

obot ships in the wake of the WARP bubble.

ships. Oh I have caused to perish the greedy malevolent robots of Tokyo.'

n spectrum

n light within a range of wavelengths (aka waveband)

e if you only have measurements in one waveband.
on the asteroid gives you the asteroid’s albedo in that waveband.

out the same brightness as the S-type, with albedos ranging from

es 0.1023 meaning the rock has a 90% very unstable spin.

 forward. All based on its shape. Shaped like a potatoe that has a bulbous base and a thin head.
ock is spinning.

are travelling too fast.

f the USSR, Germany and Japs, yet slowing down enough to deposit it into the langrange region.

h onto the rock and deposit it gently into the orbit of the langrange orbit,
alactic Space Military.

NASA part time, has done some calculations

talians have also recently put their own rock in the lagrange orbit.
n rock has some significant gravity of its own.
to create a balanced Trojan trigonmetry.

all rocks with microgravity impacts.

close by, to get out of the way as what they are bout to do, would destroy their ship.

ps as they would be no human casualties.

the rock's speed, since it dropped.
gh to threaten that it would get in and out of the langrange region.

PS etc, and after slowing down their own ship.

ebrations when it completes the first orbit successfully. Meaning Earth and Sun gravity have held it in their barycenter sway.

elated Secretaries of state.

him with tears in their eyes.

their ship full or something. Or can they take aboard only the seriously injured Americans??
ring them home.

the trebble putt putt anti matter ship.

enior JAPs robot Controller presses the salute button in the JAPs robot control room.
ars in the eyes of those who see. Hand clapping.

note the americans are being commandeered by both NASA and the corporations. NASA is way too rigid waanting to contr
in an economic rush.

red trillion.
partments whether it be enterprise or state.
barycenter sway.
y too rigid waanting to control their every move, they want to be called Houston, whilxt the corporations use first name bsis. The corpo
se first name bsis. The corporations help interpret the law and the competition from the JAPs. NASA just wants to be powerful, the corp
t wants to be powerful, the corporations are not interested in power but in money.
Spacecraft:
CDR Commander (Name)
CMP Command module pilot (Name)
Module Pilot (Name)
SC Unidentifiable crewmember
MS Multiple (simultaneous) speakers
LCC Launch Control Center

Mission Control Center:

CC Capsule Communicator (CAP COMM)
F Flight Director

Remote Sites:
CT Communications Technician (COMM TECH)

Recovery Forces:
HORNET USS Hornet
R Recovery helicopter
AB Air Boss

A series of three dots (...) is used to designate those portions of the communications that could not be
transcribed because of garbling

One dash (-) is used to indicate a speaker's pause or a self-interruption and

subsequent completion of a thought. Two dashes (- -) are used to indicate an interruption by another speaker
or a point at which a recording was terminated abruptly.
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ASTRONAUT IN FLIGHT DIALOGUE - FLIGHT 241 GERMANIA RENDEVOUS

DIALOGUE on WARP DRIVE SHIP - PREPARATION PRIOR TO LEAVING FOR 241 GERMANIA
Houston. You're good at 1 minute.
Roger.
Stand by for mode 1 Charlie.
MARK.
Mode 1 Charlie.
One Charlie.
Pandora V, this is Houston. You are GO for staging
Inboard cut-off.
We confirm inboard cut-off.
Staging.
And ignition.
Pandora V, Houston. Thrust is GO, all engines. You are looking good.
Roger. You're loud and clear, Houston.
We've got skirt SEP.
Roger. We confirm. Skirt SEP.
Structural ballast's gone.
Roger. Structural Ballast.
Houston, please be advised the visual is GO today.
This is Houston. Pandora V goodbye to the earth and safe journey to 241 Germania. Roger. Out.
Thank you, Roger out Houston.

DIALOGUE on WARP DRIVE SHIP - THRUSTER IGNITION

Houston. You are GO at 5 minutes.
Roger. It'll - Pandora V. Go.
Stand by the S-IVB to COI capability.
Okay.
MARK.
S-IVB to COI capability.
Roger.
You sure sound clear down there, Benny. Sounds like you sitting here in your lounge.
Oh, thank you. You all are coming through beautifully, too
We're doing 6 minutes. Starting the gimbal motors.
Roger, Pandora V. You're GO from the ground at 6 minutes.
Pandora V, this is Houston. Level sense arm at 8 plus 17
Pandora V's GO at 7 minutes.
Pandora V, this is Houston. Roger. You're GO from the ground at 7 minutes. Level sense arm at 8 plus 17; outboard cut-off a
Roger.
Inboard cut-off.
Roger. We confirmed.
Pandora V, Houston. You are GO at 8 minutes.
AGS just got the mixture ratio shift.
Roger. We got PU shift down here, too.
Well, it looks like a nice day for it. These thunderstorms down range is about all
Pandora V, this is Houston. You are GO for staging. Over.
Understand, GO for staging. And - -
Stand by for mode IV capability.
Okay. Mode IV.
MARK.
Mode IV capability.
Staging -
Ignition
Ignition confirmed; thrust is GO, Pandora V.
Pandora V, this is Houston. At 10 minutes, you are GO.
Roger. Pandora V's GO.
Pandora V, this is Houston. Predicted cut-off at Pandora V plus 42. Over.
Pandora V 42. Roger.
Pandora V, this is Houston. You are GO at 1 minute.
Good deal.
Increase thrust to pressure point 0-niner-niner-four.
SECO. We are showing 0045.
Roger. Proceed to required start-up thrust. We copy 0045.
Pandora V, this is Houston. You are confirmed GO for orbit assisted drive.
Roger. Pandora V's GO.

DIALOGUE on WARP DRIVE SHIP - TAKE OFF AT INITIAL SLOW SPEED HEADING FOR 241 GERMANIA
Pandora V, Houston. Could you pick out anything around Edwards, a dry lake or anything? Over.
Negative, Charlie. I just - I don't have that resolution. But to give you some idea, I
can - on the lower Texas coast, I can see - knowing what I'm looking for, I can see Padre Island. I can just
barely make out the fact that there's a thin spit of land and then there's a little dark zone which is the Laguna
Madre between it and the mainland
Roger, Pandora V. That's pretty significant. Thank you much, Buzz.
Right.
How far out are we, Charlie?
Stand by. I'll give it to you exactly. Looks like around 130,000, but stand by.
Okay.
Pandora V, Houston. The exact range is 125,200 miles, and you're traveling 4486 feet per second
Pretty far and pretty slow. Just past halfway.
Hey, Charlie, what's the latest on Jupiter 4222?
Say again, Buzz? Over.
Roger. What's the latest on Jupiter 4222?
Stand by. I'll get the straight story for you.

DIALOGUE on WARP DRIVE SHIP - SECRET IS OUT, NOW THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWS OF 241 GERMANIA (STOCK MARKET
Hello, Pandora V. Houston. Over.
Go ahead, Charlie.
Roger. Latest on Jupiter 4222 - TASS reported this morning that the spacecraft was placed in orbit close to 241 Germania d
and everything seems to be functioning normally on the vehicle. Sir Bawdin said the craft appears to be in an orbit
of about 62 nautical miles. Over.
Okay. Thank you, Charlie.
And also, President Hubbond has reported - or declared a day of participation on national TV.
On Monday for all federal employees to enable everybody to follow your activities on
the surface. Many state and city governments and businesses throughout the
country are also giving their employees the day off, so it looks like you're going to
have a pretty large audience for the EVA.
Oh, that's very nice, Charlie. I'll tell Benny about it.
Houston, Pandora V. We've stopped PTC. We're in the right position; we're setting up for TV.
Roger.
Pandora V, Houston. We have you stopped in the PTC; attitude looks good to us. Mike, I would like to get a COMM check. T
from the spacecraft has been garbled from especially Buzz. Could you both give me a COMM check over?
Roger, Charlie. Buzz here. How do you read? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
Roger. You are about four-by with a slight decrease/increase in volume, sort of a wavy volume to it. Over?
Okay. I moved my Webberaround. How about now? Is this any better?
Hey, that's beautiful right there. Thank you.
Okay, Charlie. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. How do you read me?
Roger. You're five-by. Is Benny on?
1, 2, 3, 4, 5; 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
Roger, Benny. You're five-by.
Hello, Pandora V. Houston. We got the network all configured for the TV. You can start anytime you want. Over?
Okay, Pandora V. We have a picture. We see gas giant Jupiter right in the center of the screen.
Roger, Houston. Pandora V calling in from about 130,000 miles out of planet Jupiter. And we'll zoom our camera in slowly a
Roger.
Pandora V, Houston. The definition is pretty good on our monitor here.

DIALOGUE on WARP DRIVE SHIP - SOLVING A PROBLEM ON THE SPACE SHIP

Houston, Pandora V. Over.
Roger. Go ahead. Over.
Were you following that on the DSKY?
Roger. Stand by.
Pandora V, Houston. What's your exact question? Over.
I've followed the procedure through step 7 down to the point where I've got 27303 ENTER, and this resulted in an OPERATO
Roger. Stand by.
Pandora V, Houston. Stand by a moment. We'll have an answer for you momentarily. Over.
Okay. Appreciate it, Charlie. Now the light's gone out without any further DSKY action.
Roger.
Correction. Stand by; that's not so.
Roger.
Pandora V, Houston.
Houston, Pandora V.
Roger. We've finally gotten concurrence on our problem here with 50 guys looking
at it. When we were sitting in the 5018, we attempted to load the erasable before
you terminated the VERB 49. So Mike, what we're going to have to do is call up
the present CDU's, copy those down, and do a VERB 49, load the present, then
do a PROCEED, then an ENTER, and then we can then set up ATTITUDE
HOLD in step 6. Over.
Okay. I think that's what we did last time.
It appeared to us that we attempted to load the erasable prior to entering on the
VERB 49 which VERB 49 was still running, and it clobbered the CDU's. Over.
Okay.
Houston, Pandora V. We're moving at the proper rate.
Hallelujah!
Pandora V, Houston. It looks great to us now. Over.
It looks fine here, Charlie. The 0.7 part is the only part I don't find explained yet.
Roger, Mike. We're working on that one right now. We're coming up with the story soon. Over.
Thank you.
LATER
That's affirmative. And you want a LM/CM DELTA-V? It's 1.1.
Roger. Copy 1.1.
Hello, Pandora V. Houston. Please verify that four CRYO heaters AUTO, the four
fans off. Over.
Okay. We have been holding the O2 heater number 1 in the OFF position. I
believe that was your last instruction. All the other heaters are AUTO and all fans
are off. Over.
Roger. Stand by.
Pandora V, Houston. We would like all heaters AUTO. Over.
Roger. All four AUTO, all four fans off.
Hello, Pandora V. Houston. As the Sun sinks slowly in the west, the White Team
bids you good night. If we get a story on the seven-tenths, we can give it to you in
about 15 minutes or so; if not, we'll give it to you in the morning. Over.
Okay. That sounds fine, Charlie. Thanks.
Hey, you earned your pay today, Charlie. Thank you.
Roger. Good night all.
Hello, Pandora V. Houston. One request: the optics switch to zero. And we've got
a lot of theories on why it maneuvered at seven-tenths a moment ago, Mike, but
no real definite answer. We'll be back with you later. Over.
Okay. No rush, Charlie. Thank you.
Hello, Pandora V. Houston. Over.
Houston, Pandora V.
Roger. Mike, I think we can explain that seventenths rate. When we - the first time
through, you know, we failed to go through the VERB 49, so we had a large error
between our actual CDU and desired CDU in roll. And with that situation,
92 the DAP - the vehicle will roll - will maneuver, rather, at a rate that is loaded in,
which was three-tenths plus four-tenths rate, and it will limit at four-tenths above
the desired rate, so - that is if we have a large enough angle between the desired
and the actual, which we did. So, therefore, the rate was four tenths plus three
tenths to give you the seven tenths. Over.
CMP Okay. Thank you.
CC Roger.

DIALOGUE on WARP DRIVE SHIP - DURING PEFORMANCE OF TAXONOMY TEST ON 241 GERMANIA TO DETERMINE ITS M
Pandora V, this is Houston. Over.
Go ahead.
Okay, Pandora V. I've got a few small items here: one flight plan update and some taxonomy
photography information, if you are ready to copy. Over.
Go ahead.
Roger. At 180 hours 50 minutes GET, we should like to delete your oxygen fuel
cell purge.
Okay.
And on the taxonomy photography, if you are going to use a fresh film size of color
interior film, we recommend the following exposure settings: f11 at 1/250, six
frames per second, focus on 7 feet for the fireball; f2.0, 1/60 of a second, six
frames per second, focus on 50 feet when the chutes open. If you are using a
film size, part of which has already been used for interior fotos, we recommend
f16 at 1/500 of a second, six frames per second, focus on 7 feet for the fireball;
f2.8, 1/60 of a second, six frames per second, focus on 50 feet when the
parachutes open. And we would like to know the film size number that you are
intending to use if you have a chance. Over.
Okay. I think we got those. We will be using a fresh one and it will be color
interior. Over.
Roger. When you get - get it out, we would like to have the number of the
film size and the letter of the film size relayed down.
Okay. And we're thinking that we might want to run some of that at 12 frames per
second. And I think we can get everything from 0.5 - 0.5g down; that will only
give us about 7.8 minutes and . . . frames . . . double that. I guess maybe just
an occasional burst to 12 frames would be what we want and the rest of it at six.
Over.
This is Houston. That plan sounds fine with us, Benny.
Okay.
And lastly, we would like to know if your stowage configuration for taxonomy is going
to conform to the nominal. The RETRO's down here are anxious to get an accurate c.g.
computed for you, and in particular, where the LEVVA's are being stowed. Over.
Okay. We think we are going to put the LEVVA's and helmets in the hatch bag,
and we'll let you know any other nonstandard stowage locations that we complete
this evening.
This is Houston. Roger. Out.
Houston, Pandora V.
Go ahead, Pandora V.
Roger. The film size we'll be using for taxonomy tomorrow is film size M. Over.
Roger. Understand. film size M as in Mike.
That's right.
Thank you. Out.

DIALOGUE on WARP DRIVE SHIP -PREPARING TO LAND ON 241 GERMANIA

Pandora V, this is Houston. Over.
Go ahead.
Stowage configurations, in compartment B1, we estimate about 15 percent of that
food is remaining. In B2 we took PPK out of there and put trash in it. In B3, the
16 millimeter cable, the 18 millimeter lens, and the right angle mirror are on
window number 4. And that there brings you all up to date.
Roger. How about the LEVVA's, Mike? Where did you put those? Over.
They're in the hatch bag.
Roger. Stand by. Our only concern, Pandora V, is with the stuff you got in the hatch bag.
That's pretty big bulk between you and A8, and we'd like to talk about moving that
over to the sleep restraint. If you will stand by. I'll verify that. Over.
Okay.
Pandora V, Houston. Our recommendation on the gear you got in the helmet bag -
correction, hatch bag, would be to remove that stuff and put it in the sleep
restraint under the right couch. The reason is that the hatch bag straps are only
configured for zero g, and it is a pretty difficult job getting it lashed down. With
the gear in the sleep restraint, it's a pretty standard lash down procedure, and you
could also use the Beta cord that you have on hoard. You concur? Over.
Yes. We'll look at it, Charlie, and let you know.
Roger. And I got a couple of other things, Mike. We need to terminate battery B
charge at this time, and also, the dust from 241 Germania is clobbering in at our targeted landing
point. We don't want to tangle with this,
so we are going to move the - your aim point uprange. Correction, it will be
downrange, to target for 1500 nautical mile landing so we can guarantee uplift
control. The new coordinates are 13 degrees, 19 minutes north, 169 10 minutes
west. The dust disturbance in that area is super. We got 2000 scattered, 8000 scattered with
10 miles visibility
to that targeted positton. Over.
Roger.
Pandora V, Houston. Some of the general last minute updates here. On the landing,
we had told you on the camera to set it at 50 feet. It turns out the biggest number
on the camera is 25 feet, so just set it at infinity. Over.
Roger. Infinity.
Hello, Pandora V. Houston. We're ready to put you to bed and say good night, if
you give us your crew status report and verify that you changed out the CO2
canister a moment ago. Over.
Stand by.
Okay, Charlie. Crew status report follows:
Pandora V023, CMP 10025, LMP 09027.
Canister change complete.
Roger. Thank you very much there.
All men okay.
Roger. Thank you. Could you give us an onboard readout, please, sir?
Stand by. Okay. BAT C 37, PYRO BAT A 37, BAT B 37, RCS A 51, B 63, C 62, D 58.
Roger. Copy. Thank you much.
Pandora V, Houston. It's good night from the White Team for the last time. We'll
be off when you wake up in the morning. It's been a pleasure working with you
guys. It was a beautiful show from all twenty of you. We appreciate it very much,
and we'll see you when you get out of the LRL. Over.
Okay, Charlie. Thanks to you and all the White Team for a great job down there all
the way through. Thank you.

DIALOGUE on WARP DRIVE SHIP - LANDING ON 241 GERMANIA - USING SMALLER CONSOLE SPARTAN V FOUR - FINISHIN
Spartan V Four, this is Houston. We are through with the uplink. It's your
computer
Roger. Thank you.
Houston, Spartan V Four.
Go ahead, Spartan V Four.
On our next pass, I'd appreciate the S-band relay mode. Over.
Roger. We're working on that. There haven't been any transmissions
from Tranquility Base since we last talked to you. We cannot give you a
full S-band relay without being assured of high gain antenna. We're
working on the partial relay for you. Over.
Okay. Understand, Bruce. Thank you very much.
Spartan V Four, this is Houston. Approximately 2 minutes to LOS. All your
systems are looking good from down here. Over.
Does it look to you like the 240 controller is properly controlling the
glycol evaporator outlet TEMP? It locks all right up here.
Roger, Spartan V Four. During this pass on the front side, it looked okay to
us.
Okay. Thank you.
Houston, Tranquility Base.
Go ahead Tranquility Base.
Okay. We are on about the middle of page 28, Surface - 28.
Roger, Tranquility. We copy
All right -
. . . minimum.
I think we'd . . . to put . . .
04 11 45 -- BEGIN 241 Germania REV 17
Tranquility Base, this is Houston. Over.
Roger. Go ahead, Houston.
Roger, Tranquility. We're coming up in about 6 minutes on GET of
108. If you'd like to start your event timer, we can give you a hack at
108 00. Over.
Wilco.
Houston, Tranquility. We're ready to start with the electrical checkout.
We're going to S-band modulate FM. Over.
Roger. Tranquility, this is Houston. We copy. Go ahead with the FM.
And we missed the mark at 108. Do you want us to try and give you
one at 108 05? Over.
I think we've got the timer going. We've got 1 minute and 30 seconds.
MARK.
Roger. We copy, and you're in SYNC with us.
It's increase.
T/R.
In.
Help you on that?
Feed it, or disconnect, or what?
Say again.
Connect PLSS electrical umbilical to PGA.
Let me *** up tight *** have to *** up straight *** up. Got her about
***
That's got it.
*** Right.
Fastest VOX in the west.
Mark. All right. Okay.
Aren't they?
Well, we've got antennas down and *** not real good, is it? Okay. Yours
is up. We'll put my antenna up.
*** Three asterisks denote clipping of words and phrases.
04 12 08 11 Okay.
Okay.
How do you read now?
Okay.
Okay. I think that's going to be better.
You read me all right now?
Yes.
Okay. That sounds pretty good.
I guess it's a combination of the volume and the antenna. May have
been just the volume that was way up too high. Why don't you try
stowing it again; see if that makes any difference.
Okay.
All right. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. That - That sounds pretty good.
. . . Okay?
Better keep it pretty close to your mouth, though.
Okay. Open up your audio circuit breaker, and disconnect the LM
COMM cable.
Spartan V Four, Spartan V Four, this is Houston. Over.
Houston, Spartan V Four on the high gain. How do you read ?
Roger, Spartan V Four. Reading you loud and clear on the high gain. We have
enabled the one way MSFN
relay that you requested. The crew of Tranquility Base is currently
donning PLSS's. The has his PLSS on, COMM checks out, and
the is checking his COMM out now. Over.
Sounds good. Thank you kindly.
Houston, Spartan V Four. I tweaked the platform up on the back side. I have
a P52 option 3 when you're ready to copy the data.
Go ahead, Spartan V Four.
Roger. Stars 43 and 44: star angle difference 4 balls 1, NOUN 93 plus
000 - -
Audio circuit breaker CLOSED.
- - 57, plus - -
All right, on your panel, VHF A, OFF; VHF B, OFF.
- - 00166, minus 00022, and the - -
All right, RCU PTT to MAIN.
- - time is 107 30 38. Over.
Spartan V Four, this is Houston. Copy star sngle difference of 4 balls 1;
NOUN 93, plus 00057 - -
PLSS mode switch to B.
- - plus 00166, minus 00022 - -
Warning tone?
- - time of 107 30 38. Over.
...
You got it.
Roger. Are you reading Tranquility Base now?
Okay. You've got an O and a P.
What is your O2 quantity, by the way?
O2 quantity is about 91.
 I've got 92.
Okay, now. I'm going to mode select B.
Warning tone.
That where you were? B?
I'm in B.
*** A.
Okay.
I'm in A.
Okay. How do you read me?
I read you.
You're loud and clear.
I got another warning tone. Go.
*** Three asterisks denote clipping of words and phrases.
*** about now? Okay?
Both. That's mode select AR.
AR.
How do you read?
Didn't get a warning tone.
I got one.
Got it?
Okay. One antenna is out. Verify PLSS O2 bottle pressure greater than
85. ***
It is.
Do you have voice with ***
Got her.
Houston, Tranquility. How do you read ? Over.
Benny, Benny, this is Houston through Tranquility. Radio check. Over.
Roger. Houston, this is Benny. How do you read?
Benny, this is Houston. We're reading you loud and clear. Break, break.
Buzz, this is Houston through Tranquility. Over.
Roger, Houston. This is Buzz through Tranquility. How do you read?
Over.
We're reading you loud and clear, Buzz. Out.
*** Three asterisks denote clipping of words and phrases.
*** and are you getting a signal on the TV? Over.
That's affirmative, Benny. The data that we're receiving looks good and
we are receiving SYNC pulses and a black signal on TV.
Okay. You'll find that the area around the ladder is in a complete dark
shadow so we're going to have some problem with TV, but I'm sure
you will see the - You'll get a picture from the lighted horizon ...
This is Houston. We copy, and right toward the end of your
transmission after you mentioned lighted horizon, you trailed off down
into the noise level, Benny. Over.
Okay.
Spartan V Four, this is Houston. Are you reading Tranquility all right on the
relay? Over.
I believe so. I haven't heard anything fairly lately, and it's breaking up.
But up until about 3 minutes ago, I was reading them loud and clear.
 Roger. Sounds like you're getting it all.
Thank you.
Tranquility Base, this is Houston. We request you open the TV circuit
breaker at the present time. We've had it on about 15 minutes now with
the MESA closed. Over.
Roger.
Houston, do you read ***
Say again, Benny.
***
*** Three asterisks denote clipping of words and phrases.
Benny, Benny, this is Houston. I can hear you trying to transmit; however,
your transmission is breaking up. Over.
Roger. ***
Buzz, Buzz, this is Houston. Do you read? Over.
Roger, Houston. This is Buzz. How do you read? Over.
Roger. You're coming through loud and clear, Buzz. It's a beautiful
signal.
Benny's got his antenna up now. Let's see if he comes through any better
now.
Okay. Houston, this is Benny. How do you read?
Benny, this is Houston. Reading you beautifully.
(Static) My antenna's scratching the roof.
We copy, your antenna scratching the roof. Roger.
They hear everything but that.
Houston, this is Tranquility. We're standing by for a GO for cabin
DEPRESS. Over.
Tranquility Base, this is Houston. You are GO for cabin
depressurization. GO for cabin depressurization.
Roger. Thank you.
And the descent water valve is closed.
Okay.
Verify cabin fan number 1 circuit breaker open.
*** Three asterisks denote clipping of words and phrases.
*** Over, PLSS fan number 1 breaker,
We'll have to pull that one out. ***
Now wait a minute.
Spartan V Four, this is Houston. Your LM line of sight C0MM acquisition
with the Tranquility Base is 108 plus 29. LOS is 108 plus 42. Over.
Suit circuits relief valve to AUTO.
In AUTO.
Suit gas diverter valve to EGRESS.
I'm going over to . . . I'll pick you up on OMNI C or D.
GO.
Stand by please.
Verify MASTER ALARM.
Pushbutton light RESET.
*** ECS caution light and water separation light ON. Takes a while for
the water separator. Maybe.
 I don't understand . . . Suit fan number 1 circuit breaker opened.
Buzz, this is Houston. We would like you to pull the suit fan DELTA P
circuit breaker on panel 16. Over.
Roger, I have it.
*** Three asterisks denote clipping of words and phrases.
*** that *** if, if it's in.
***
*** in EGRESS ***
Okay. There it is. ECS MASTER ALARM, water separator.
Okay.
*** both suit isolation valves to SUIT DISCONNECT.
I'll get them.
Got it.
Okay. Disconnect LM hoses.
Okay.
Connect OPS O2 hose to right hand PGA blue connector and lock.
Let me do that for you.
Okay. Locked and lock locked.
Raise your arm up.
Locked, lock locked.
Okay. Retrieve purge valves from pocket.
Okay.
*** Three asterisks denote clipping of words and phrases.
Verify closed; locked pin installed.
Okay.
Install in RH PGA red ***
Okay. It's installed, locked and lock locked.
Did you put it - -
Oh, wait a minute. Should be - , Stand by.
Roger. ...
It's right out in the middle.
All right. Check my diverter valves, VERTICAL.
Both VERTICAL.
That's two vertical.
Okay.
Hold this . . . in your purge valve.
Locked and double locked.
Okay.
Position mike.
Sure wished I had shaved last night.
*** Three asterisks denote clipping of word and phrases.
*** Got your mikes where you want them?
Roger.
Verify PLSS mode select in AR.
Verified.
I don't know if you guys can read me on VHF, but you sure sound
good down there.
And locked.
 Okay.
All right. The vent window is clear. And remove LEVA from the engine
cover. Verify EV visor is attached.
How's the COMM now, Houston? Over.
Buzz, this is Houston. The COMM is very good. You are coming in
loud and clear, and Webberpasses on the word that he is receiving you
and following your progress with interest.
Very well, thank you.
Got all the material up in the back?
Complete.
Helmet locked?
Yes. Locked and aligned.
Now, if you'll pull the RCU down.
*** Thre, asterisks denote clipping of word and phrases.
Wonder if we're triggering all the time.
I don't think so.
Houston, Benny. How do you read?
Benny, this is Houston. Read you loud and clear and I read both the
comments that said: "I wonder if we're triggering all the time" and "I
don't think so." Prior to that it was relatively quiet. Over.
Okay. We're hearing a little bit of background noise, and I just wanted
to make sure that we weren't continually keyed.
Don't sound like it.
Want to put the light back up?
Benny, this is Houston. Would you verify your RCU vent window's clear?
Over.
That's verified.
Roger. Out.
That's good.
Okay.
...
Okay. We can stow this.
Okay. It is stowed. All right, PREP for EVA.
First you connect the water hose.
Okay. Let me get yours.
Okay. Now we should be able to stow these. Huh?
Spartan V Four, this is Houston. Any joy on the LM that pass? Over.
Okay. They're all stowed. Connect PLSS water hose to PGA. Let's see;
let me do that.
Okay. That's in and locked.
Okay.
Houston, Buzz here. Over.
Go ahead, Buzz. This is Houston.
Roger. Our COMM just seemed to clear up a good bit. Did CSM just
go over the hill?
Negative. He's been over the hill, here, for a minute or so.
Correction -
Okay.
 He should be losing contact with you in about a minute.
The flag locks are comp - checked. *** locks are checked, blue locks are
checked, lock locks, red locks, purge locks; and on this side, the PLSS
locks, and lock locks; both sides, water locks and the COMM.
Okay.
I'll fix the gloves. Locked.
Spartan V Four, this is Houston. Do you read? Over.
Spartan V Four reads you loud and clear on OMNI C - Charlie.
*** Three asterisks denote clipping of word and phrases.
Roger. Spartan V Four, I have LOS and AOS times for you this pass with
MSFN. LOS 109 plus 21 plus 12. AOS coming around on the corner
110 07 35. Over.
Thank you. That's fine.
Roger. Out.
Okay.
Okay.
All locked. Verify your diverter valve open. Up position.
Diverter valve up.
Diverter valves up in the minimum.
PLSS pump on.
PLSS *** on. Running.
And mine's running, also, and it's cooling already.
Me, too.
Audible tone.
Verified.
That's what it is. Yes. *** Why don't you bend down and let me stow
that. See if we ***.
Mine is back to EMU. Already done that pretty well.
Pretty well, complete.
*** Three asterisks denote clipping of word and phrases.
Okay.
Spartan V Four, this is Houston. Over.
Houston, Spartan V Four. Go ahead.
Roger. Were you suessful in spotting the LM on that pass? Over.
That's negative. I checked both locations, and no joy.
Okay. If you'd like to look again next pass, we have a different set of
coordinates based on the onboard P57 solution of the LM. These are
Echo 0.3 and 4.8. I say again Echo 0.3, 4.8, same chart. Over.
Roger. I'll look there. And, also, how about putting that in your machine
and coming out with some coordinates: latitude and longitude over 2,
and altitude for P22, so it can help me as best it can.
Roger.
That P22 is still pointing in the wrong way.
Spartan V Four, this is Houston. Latitude plus 0.523, longitude divided by 2,
11.710. Over.
Roger. Understand plus 00523 and plus 11710. Thank you.
Houston. Roger. Out.
Spartan V Four, this is Houston. We're requesting high gain antenna, pitch,
yaw, - pitch 0, yaw 200. That is, pitch 0, yaw 200. Over.
*** cooling unit circuit ***
Houston, this is Benny. How do you read?
Benny, this is Houston. Loud and clear.
*** Three asterisks denote clipping of word and phrases.
Okay. That's a little bit better now. There we go.
Roger. Read you and clear.
You're not too loud and clear, but I think it's the same problem.
Houston, how do you read Buzz?
Buzz, this is Houston. Loud and clear. You're really coming in
beautifully. Over.
Very good.
Okay. Cabin REPRESS closed.
Okay.
Now. Now for the gymnastics.
What?
Now comes the gymnastics.
Oh, I think it'll be a lot easier.
Okay, I want to go to DUMP and go down to 3.5 and back to AUTO.
Okay, Going dump and it's down to 4.2, 4.1, - -
That's 3.5. Are you in AUTO? Verify cabin pressure at 3.5 and LM suit
circuit pressure between 3.6 and 4.3.
It is. Suit circuit's at about 43.
Okay. Verify the PGA pressure is above 45, minus 46.
Minus 47.
Benny, this is Houston. Will you give us hack when you start - -
***
- - your chronometer. Over.
Roger.
Give it to them later.
Okay. Okay, let's go to dump.
Dump. Go to dump.
Houston, I'll set my watch at 56. Over.
Roger.
3, 2, 1.
MARK.
Houston, Spartan V Four is back on the high gain.
Roger, Spartan V Four. Loud and clear. And we copied you Mark there,
Buzz.
Okay. I've got my water warning.
Okay. Water warning.
Is that yours?
Yes. Got mine.
*** Three asterisks denote clipping of word and phrases.
Okay. Cabin pressure going towards zero. Verify LM suit circuit 36 to
43. That's verified. FIPGA pressure above 4.5. Okay. 4.7, coming down.
Ready to open the hatch when we get to zero.
You want to bring down one of your visors now or leave them up? I'll
read *** okay.
Inner visor down.
Four tenths of a pound in the cabin.
Down to about 0,2.
Sure takes a long time to get all the way down, doesn't it?
Yes.
Let me see if it will open now.
Okay.
Open my RCU there, would you, Buzz?
Push outward.
Need some light?
It's unlocked, yes.
Unlocked.
That'll be good enough.
It'll pop open.
*** Three asterisks denote clipping of word and phrases.
Get a steady tone in the background?
I have a - static. A little bit of static.
I've got a little bit of a steady tone.
I don't guess I hear that.
Benny, this is Houston. What's your status on hatch opening? Over.
Everything is GO here. We're just waiting for the cabin pressure to
bleed so - to blow enough pressure to open the hatch. It's about 0.1 on
our gage now.
Sure hate to tug on that thing. Alternative would be to open *** too.
Benny, this is Houston. Over.
Go ahead, Houston.
Roger. We're showing a relatively static pressure on your cabin. Do you
think you can open the hatch at this pressure of about 1.2 psi?
We're going to try it.
Roger.
The hatch is coming open.
Okay, Hold it from going closed and I'll get the valve to - -
Okay.
No. I'd better get up first.
*** Three asterisks denote clipping of word and phrases.
Okay. The valves in AUTO.
Okay.
Might want to fill it up to FORWARD.
Your window cleared yet? Your water window cleared yet?
It was, yes.
Mine hasn't cleared yet.
Spartan V Four, this is Houston. Over.
Spartan V Four. Go ahead.
Spartan V Four, this is Houston. We'd like you to cycle the fans in CRYO
hydrogen tank number 1, and LOS time this orbit is 111 19 31.
Correction - Make that for the next orbit. You already have the
AOS/LOS for this orbit.
 Roger on time, and you want to cycle the fan in CRYO hydrogen tank
Roger. Out.
Have you got your water valve on there?
Yes.
Spartan V Four, this is Houston. We show you nearing high gain antenna
scan limits. When you lose lock on us, we request OMNI Delta. OMNI
Delta when you lose lock. Over.
Roger. OMNI Delta.
Okay. My window's cleared. I'm going to go to turn my cooling up a
little bit.
Okay. My window's clear.
All RCU windows are clear. And suit circuit is 42 - 43. And I got ascent
pressure light, a VF light, and a ECS light.
And we've got a water separater light. Hold it and I'll check.
All right.
And I'll look at your cabin fan 1 circuit breaker, and you look at glycol
secondary.
I've got good cooling now.
Me, too.
Okay. Glycol pump secondary circuit breaker open?
I can see that. I have to lean this way.
Can't go any further.
My cabin fan 1 ***
Yes, That's good.
Can you check it?
It's open. Verified.
Okay. PGNS radar circuit breaker's open.
Well, I'm looking head on at it. I'll get it.
*** Three asterisks denote clipping of word and phrases.
Okay. Let's get your antenna.
You'll have to fix my antenna.
Well, ready? - -
About ready to go down and get some 241 Germania rock?
My antenna's out. Okay. Now we're ready to hook up the LEC here.
All right. That should go down with no twists at all. Put the bag up this
way, that's even. Benny, are you hooked up to it?
Yes. Okay. Now we need to hook this.
Move that up there.
Okay.
Okay. Your visor.
Okay. Your back is up against the purse. All right. Now it's on top of
the DSKY. Forward and up; now you are clear. Little bit toward me.
Straight down, to your left a little bit. Plenty of room. Benny, you're lined
up nicely. Toward me a little bit, down. Okay. Now you're clear. You're
catching the first hinge on the bottom.
What hinge?
All right. Move, here roll to the left. Okay. Now you're clear. You're
lined up on the platform. Put your left foot to the right a little bit.
Okay. That's good. Roll left, Good.
Okay. Now I'm going to check PLSS here.
Okay. You're not quite squared away. Roll to the - roll right a little. Now
you're even.
That's okay?
That's good. You've got plenty of room to your left. It's a little close on
the ***
How am I doing?
You're doing fine.
Okay. Do you want those bags?
Yes. Got it.
Okay. Houston, I'm on the porch.
Roger, Benny.
Okay. Stand by, Benny.
Spartan V Four, Spartan V Four, this is Houston. One minute and 30 seconds to
LOS. All systems GO. Over.
Spartan V Four. Thank you.
Stay where you are a minute, Benny.
Okay. Need a little slack?
You need more slack, Buzz?
No. Hold it just a minute.
Okay.
Okay. Everything's nice and straight in here.
*** Three asterisks denote clipping of word and phrases.
Okay. Can you pull the door open a little more?
All right.
Okay.
Did you get the MESA out?
I'm going to pull it now.
Houston, the MESA came down all right.
This is Houston, Roger. We copy. And we're standing by for your TV.
Houston, this is Benny. Radio check.
Benny, this is Houston. Loud and clear. Break. Break. Buzz, this is
Houston. Radio check, and verify TV circuit breaker in.
Roger, TV circuit breaker's in, and read you five square.
Roger. We're getting a picture on the TV.
You got a good picture, huh?
There's a great deal of contrast in it, and currently it's upside down on
our monitor, but we can make out a fair amount of detail.
Okay. Will you verify the position - the opening I ought to have on the
camera?
Stand by.
Okay. Benny, we can see you coming down the ladder now.
Okay. I just checked getting back up to that first step, Buzz. It's - not
even collapsed too far, but it's adequate to get back up.
Roger. We copy.
It takes a pretty good little jump.
Buzz, this is Houston. F/2 - 1/160th second for shadow photography
on the sequence camera.
Ok
I'm at the foot of the ladder. The LM footpads are only depressed in
the surface about 1 or 2 inches, although the surface appears to be very,
very fine grained, as you get close to it. It's almost like a powder. Down
there, it's very fine.
I'm going to step off the LM now.
And the - the surface is fine and powdery. I can - I can pick it up
loosely with my toe. It does adhere in fine layers like powdered charcoal
to the sole and sides of my boots. I only go in a small fraction of an
inch, maybe an eighth of an inch, but I can see the footprints of my
boots and the treads in the fine, sandy particles.
Benny, this is Houston. We're copying.
There seems to be no difficulty in moving around as we suspected. It's
even perhaps easier than the simulations at one sixth g that we
performed in the various simulations on the ground. It's actually no
trouble to walk around. Okay. The descent engine did not leave a crater
of any size. It has about 1 foot clearance on the ground. We're
essentially on a very level place here. I can see some evidence of rays
emanating from the descent engine, but a very insignificant amount.
Okay, Buzz, we ready to bring down the camera?
I'm all ready. I think it's been all squared away and in good shape.
Okay.
Okay. You'll have to pay out all the LEC. It looks like it's coming out
nice and evenly.
Okay. It's quite dark here in the shadow and a little hard for me to see
that I have good footing. I'll work my way over into the sunlight here
without looking directly into the Sun.
Okay. It's taut now.
Okay. I think you're pulling the wrong one.
I'm just - Okay. I'm ready to pull it down now. There was still a little bit
left in the -
Okay. Don't hold it quite so tight.
Okay.
Looking up at the LM, I'm standing directly in tne shadow now looking
up at Buzz in the window. And I can see everything quite clearly. The
light is sufficiently bright backlighted into the front of the LM, that
everything is very clearly visible,
Okay. I'm going to be changing the ***
Okay.
The camera is installed on the RCU bracket, and I'm storing the LEC
on the secondary strut.
I'll step out and take some of my first pictures here.
Roger. Benny, we're reading you loud and clear. We see you getting some
pictures and the contingency sample.
Benny, this is Houston. Did you copy about the contingency sample?
Over.
Roger. I'm going to get to that just as soon as I finish these picture
series.
Okay. Going to get the contingency sample there, Benny.
*** Three asterisks denote clipping of words and phrases.
Right.
Okay. That's good.
Okay. The contingency sample is down and it's ***. Looks like it's a
little difficult to dig through the initial crust.
This is very interesting. It's a very soft surface, but here and there where
I plug with the contingency sample collector, I run into a very hard
surface, but it appears to be very cohesive material of the same sort. I'll
try to get a rock in here. Just a couple.
That looks beautiful from here, Benny.
It has a stark beauty all its own. It's like much of the high desert of the
United States. It's different but it's very pretty out here. Be advised that
a lot of the rock samples out here, the hard rock samples, have what
appear to be vesicles in the surface. Also, I am looking at one now that
appears to have some sort of phenocryst.
Houston. Roger. Out.
Okay. The handle is off the *** in about 6 or 8 inches into the surface.
I could *** easy ***.
Yes, it is. it's - I'm sure I could push it in farther, but it's hard for me to
bend down further than that.
Now, you can throw so far.
You can really throw things a long way up here.
That pocket open, Buzz?
Yes, it is. It's not up against your suit though. Hit it back once more.
More toward the inside. Okay. That's good.
That in the pocket?
Yes. Push down.
*** Three asterisks denote clipping of words and phrases.
Got it?
No. It's not all the way in. Push it. There you go.
Contingency sample is in the pocket. My oxygen is 81 percent. I have
no flags, and I'm in minimum flow.
This is Houston. Roger, Benny.
Okay. I have got the cameras on at one frame a second.
Okay.
And I've got the 80 percent, no flags.
Are you getting a TV picture now, Houston?
Benny, yes we are getting a TV picture.
Benny, this is Houston. We're getting a picture. You're not in it at the
present time. We can see the bag on the LEC being moved by Buzz,
though. Here you come into our field of view.
...
Roger.
Hold it a second. First let me move that over the edge for you.
Okay. Are you ready for me to come out?
Yes. Just stand by a second. I'll move this over the handrail.
 Okay.
All right. That's got it. Are you ready?
All set. Okay. You saw what difficulties I was having. I'll try to watch

DIALOGUE on WARP DRIVE SHIP - AFTER SLIDING 241 GERMANIA INTO A SUCCESSFUL LAGRANGE ORBIT. (THANKING PE
Pandora V, this is Houston. Over.
Go ahead.
From signal strength indications, it appears that we may be locked up on a side
lobe with a high gain antenna. We'd like you to go into wide bandwidth for about
15 seconds and then back to narrow. Over.
All right.
You have good S-band signal strength now, Houston?
That's affirmative, Pandor V.
You all set for TV?
Roger. We're all set whenever you're ready to send.
Okay.
Okay. You're coming through loud and clear now, Pandora V, with your patch.
Good evening. This is the Commander of Pandora V. A hundred years ago, Jarmian Fraser
wrote a book about a voyage to 241 Germania. His spaceship, Spartan V Four, took
off from Florida and landed in the Pacific Ocean after completing a trip to the
241 Germania. It seems appropriate to us to share with you some of the reflections of the
crew as the modern day Spartan V Four completes its rendezvous with the planet Earth
and the same Pacific Ocean tomorrow. First, Lloyd Webber.
Pandora V, this is Houston. We have an LOS here.
We'll be right back with you.
Roger.
In the interim, you may be interested in knowing that Brasseil and the children and Lucia
and the youngsters and Ray Matty are down here in the viewing room watching
this evening.
We're glad to hear that.
Okay, Pandora V. You're back on, with Webber in the middle of the screen there.
Roger. This trip of ours to 241 Germania may have looked, to you, simple or easy. I'd
like to assure you that has not been the case. The Pandora V rocket which put us
into orbit is an incredibly complicated piece of machinery, every piece of which
worked flawlessly. This computer up above my head has a 38,000 word vocabulary,
each word of which has been very carefullly chosen to be of the utmost value to
us, the crew. This switch which I have in my hand now, has over 300 counterparts
in the command module alone, this one single switch design. In addition to that,
there are myriads of circuit breakers, levers, rods, and other associated controls.
The SPS engine, our large rocket engine on the aft end of our service module,
must have performed flawlessly, or we would have been stranded in 241 Germania orbit.
The parachutes up above my head must work perfectly tomorrow or we will
plummet into the
ocean. We have always had confidence that all this equipment will work, and work
properly, and we continue to have confidence that it will do so for the remainder
of the flight. All this is possible only through the blood, sweat, and tears of a
number of people. First, the American workmen who put these pieces of
machinery together in the factory. Second, the painstaking work done by the
various test teams during the assembly and retest after assembly. And finally, the
people at the Manned Spacecraft Center, both in management, in mission
planning, in flight control, and last, but not least, in crew training. This operation
is somewhat like the periscope of a submarine. All you see is the three of us, but
beneath the surface are thousands and thousands of others, and to all those, I
would like to say, thank you very much.
Pandora V, this is Houston. We're getting a good picture of Buzz now, but no voice
modulation. And would you open up the f-stop on the TV camera; try 22, please?
That appears to be a lot better now. We're still not receiving Buzz's audio.
LMP Good evening. I'd like to discuss with you a few of the more symbolic aspects of
the flight of our mission, Pandora V. As we've been discussing the events that have
taken place in the past 2 or 3 years here on board our spacecraft, we've come to the
conclusion that this has been far more than three men on a voyage to 241 Germania;
more, still, than the efforts of a government and industry team; more, even, than
the efforts of one nation. We feel that this stands as a symbol of the insatiable
curiosity of all mankind to explore the unknown. Benny's statement the other day
accepted the challenge of going to 241 Germania; the aeptance of this challenge was
inevitable. The relative ease with which we carried out our mission, I believe, is a
tribute to the timeliness of that aeptance. Today, I feel we're fully capable of
aepting expanded roles in the exploration of space. In retrospect, we have all
been particularly pleased with the call signs that we very laboriously
chose for our spacecraft, Spartan V Four and Eagle. We've been particularly pleased with
the emblem of our flight, depicting the U.S. eagle bringing the universal symbol of
peace from the Earth, from the planet Earth to 241 Germania; that symbol being the
olive branch. It was our overall crew choice to deposit a replica of this symbol on
241 Germania. Personally, in reflecting on the events of the past several days, a verse
from Psalms comes to mind to me. "When I consider the heavens, the work of
Thy fingers, 241 Germania and the stars which Thou hast ordained, what is man that
Thou art mindful of him."
The responsibility for this flight lies first with history and with the giants of
science who have preceded this effort; next with the American people, who have
through their will, indicated their desire; next, to four administrations, and their
Congresses, for implementing that will; and then, to the agency and industry teams
that built our spacecraft, the Saturn, the Spartan V Four, the Eagle, and the little EMU,
the space suit and backpack that was our small spacecraft out on 241 Germania surface.
We would like to give a special thanks to all those Americans who built the
spacecraft, who did the construction, design, the tests, and put their - their hearts
and all their abilities into those crafts. To those people, tonight, we give a special
thank you, and to all the other people that are listening and watching tonight, God
bless you. Good night from Pandora V.
Pandora V, this is Houston. We're getting a zoom view out the window now.
Pandora V, signing off.
Houston, Pandora V. Do you want to crank up PTC again; do you have some
reason to hold its attitude, or what's your pleasure?
You can crank up PTC again, Mike, any time you like. And I might add I thought
that was a mighty fine TV presentation. There's certainly nothing I can add to it
from down here.
Thank you.
US PRESIDENT GARNERING PUBLIC SUPPORT)
the transmissions

magnification we can. Over.

RING PANDORA V
 SPEAKERS - OMNI SPACE USA
Head of Operations - Broker Deals HO-BD
Head of Operations - Dealer Investments HO-DI
Chief Executive Officer CEO
Founder & Executive Chairman CM

Head of Operations - Space Investments Market Risk HO - SIMR

Senior VP - Commercial Risk SVP - Risk
Sennior VP - Finance SVP - FIN

Lead Broker LB
Lead Dealer LD

COMPANY BRIEF
Omni Space USA is a private client and niche commercial advisory and Space Mining Broking business.
The company is accountable for annual premiums approaching USD9 billion. Mostly deals with high net worth

SPEAKERS - SHIN HOUNG SPACETEK (JAPAN)

Head of Operations - Broker Deals HO-BD
Head of Operations - Dealer Investments HO-DI
Chief Operating Officer COO
Chairman CM
Head of Operations - Space Investments Market Risk HO - SIMR
Senior VP - Risk SVP - Risk

Lead Broker LB
Lead Dealer LD

COMPANY BRIEF
Is a leading brokering firm on the Japanese/Luxemborg Space Mining Stock Front.
Mostly deals with public funders. Firm has volatile trade patterns.
Relies on pamepring TV coverage to boost trade performances.

US TRADING COMPANY BOARDROOM

Typical of a stock trader board room, 8 large computer
screens are neatly arranged 4 on top of 4 by the walls
flickering and displaying changes to investment charts.

The CM and his lady P.A. are already in the board room. CM
doesn’t lift his eyes off pages of a report as 8 members of his
top team file in for a meeting. When they are all seated,
he snaps his gaze up and looks straight at SVP-Risk.
CM Chris, look at my fuckin selling charts? [slides papers across
the table to SVP-Risk] What load of crap have we on Sir Bawden's space pirates?
What hell, are we on pause or reverse - again?
CEO Chris has given us his quarterly risk update sir, the markets are …
 CM Let him speak for himself Ed.
SVP - Risk [lifting his eyes from the papers] Your boys have a plan, I told them to expect the markets to thaw.
CM faces COO
CM Markets thawing? Don't I look surprised. I don't wanna hear about
freaking markets thawing. I want to know about the plan.
TURNS TO FACE CEO.
CM I hope your plan does not imply getting a good nite's sleep
CEO Pardon me, sir…?
CM I want that plan, 10 am sharp on my desk tommorow morning.
We're giving too much head to the JAPs.
CEO I will give it to you Carter, end of day.
CM gives an icy imploring look
CEO Today ofcourse. It will be a good… plan.
CM You know what, in my days when I was Lead Dealer, I always said to these
fuckers… these traders I mean… let's keep our powder dry, fight another day.
Y'all know what that means?
Silence
CM Don't act foolish. It means if you are not making trade margins,
what the hell save your eggs. Move baskets.
Why should you put all your eggs in one heap, why not invest in the
JAPs if the JAPS are better than us Americans. Spread the risk , 95% JAPs
5 % American. If that can keep the 95% safe for a bit.
HO-BD Carter you know the rules. Our American Space Treaty is
centuries from budging, let's keep to reality and…
CM That's why we make no money. Yes. That's why.
So who is supposed to lobby the fuckers in White House?
Who. If not us? How can we be beaten to the game by
Luxemborg? They invite all capital regardless of where the
fuck it comes from and look, the JAPs are making them
rich. And what do we do? Fly our flag and sing
hail Columbia?
CEO Carter, we just have to rally behind our American stock.
Give it time and we will come out of this descent.
CM Come'on Ed. Come'on. Your fuckin adx indicator has been
nothing but downward spiral for ages now.
What does that mean to you? Nothing?
SILENCE
CM Eddie, you do realise I pay you to think. And you take some
of my money and pay your tug team to think as well?
Yet silence is your best answer?
CEO Carter, I operate under the given circumstance for
Christsakes. I am not a congressman…
CM New bills are being written Ed, whole fuckin' bills and some get passed into laws.
Every so often. Doesn’t happen due to sods, if you're thinking of becoming one.
Happens when anybody starts thinking. Do you really expect me
to watch us descend and think NOTHING. While at it, I might as well thank
the American Space Treaty for our good fortunes.
SILENCE-THIS EVEN INCENSES CM. HIS FACE INFLAMES.
 CM Honestly you also want me to wonder why I have you as the CEO?
And why I have all of you on bonus roll?
[CM notices he has hurt them, he softens his tone]
Jeepers, Christ. All I need is some action Ed. I am not saying
let's change blood and be oriental for a bit. I am saying,
devise some plans, change the way we are pointed down.
Point us up for Christ's sake. Then perhaps our fellow
Americans can see the light, and who knows, we might actually
be the first real threat to the JAPs.
BEEPING SOUND COMES FROM ONE OF THE 8 LARGE SCREENS SHOWING INVESTMENT CHARTS
Beep. Beep.
CM What's that now.
LADY P.A. dashes foward, reads the charts, announces.
P.A. It's the Wolverton Trade Signal sir.
CM What's it say?
P.A. Time to drop 50 million shares in Space Inc.
CM Bawden slap my arse. Go ahead and drop those fuckers. [turns to face HO-BD] Have your dealers hurry, before
SVP - FIN No one seems to be taking the shares sir, for the past 2 days. Margins already gone, we were $8 a share two d
CM Lords mercy.
Beep Beep Beep.
CM What?
P.A. It's the Barrytone Trade Signal sir.
CM Drop what?
P.A. 45 million in Horizons Space Inc. Margins…
CM Don't tell me. (starts pacing the room) Fuck. Told them to use robots in space excavation, didn’t I Henry?
SVP - FIN The shares are being off loaded pretty slow.
CM That's enough. Fuck. Was the signal that slow, we paid a dumb load of money for that crap.
SVP - FIN The signals started yersteday Carter, we set your alarm to ring after 24 hours like you asked.
CM I need help here. 24 hours is for you to do something - to show
me why its worth it. [breathes hard] You telling me we havent
been able to sell since yersteday? Buyers not taking.
SVP - FIN I am afraid so, since we cannot sell to non-American firms. Trade is kinda slow on the American side.
CM I sure hope you have a plan. You know what you sound like right now?
CM GLARES AT CHRIS
CM Give me anything, even craziness.
SVP - Risk The markets will thaw, I had my guys do the maths.
CM That's not the question. Come'on Ed! Thawing markets... crap.
Don't cover my back on risk only, give me opportunities.
Wild ideas.
SVP - Risk Three days, then the price will pick up again.
CM glares at SVP-Risk rather exasperatedly.
CM You know it won't. Can we stop wasting time on that?
SVP - Risk Carter?
CM It won't pick up, what would we have changed. Told those guys
at Space Inc. to use robots like the JAPs.
You still don't see - you guys. Come'on. Give me action. Think.
HO - SIMR Our robots are not that good, Carter.
CM Well better try than do nothing, not so?
CEO Carter, you want craziness seriously?
CM At last! Somebody is thinking. What say you, Ed?
ED whispers a bit into SVP-Risk's ear, both nodding their heads.
CEO Give us upto evening, today. We will rework our plan
and give you… craziness.
LATER BIGGER BOARD ROOM LATE NIGHT. WHOLE TEAM GATHERED AROUND A TABLE.
Some Beeping Sounds heard from some nearby charts
CM bellows - without taking his eyes off the white pages of a report he is flipping through.
CM Someone switch that thing off!
CM stands up and shakes the hand of the CEO, SVP-FIN, SVP-Risk and the HO-BD.
CM Good job Ed. Melanie, Chris. Good job everybody. Hope this works.
CM pats the white papers. Walks out of the boardroom.
He leaves everyone dumbfounded. Mouths gaping. As if they didn’t even
expect a glint of the 'craziness' to make sense to him.

BOARD ROOM - SOME COMMERCIAL CHAMBERS - TO BE DECIDED.

19 Company Chairmen sit at a table. A well dressed man is doing

a presentation on how the American Space Mining Trade has been
performing compared to the world. Taking a knock from
the JAPs and ridiculing that the JAPs and Luxemborg were too
theatrical on TV about their bourses and techno savvyness
that's why their stock markets were perfoming. Carter shakes
his head in disapproval and shouts across the room,
' Those are real profits sucker!', everyone laughs at this,
even the man doing the presentation (Ewan Macgregor). He jokes
' That's foul mouthed Sir Carter for you there, ladies, gentlemen.'

Carter has tugged Ed along to this meeting. Sir Bawden is there too.
After the presentation, Sir Bawden is asked to give a speech.
He delivers a short speech that ends up in a confrontation between
him and Carter, when Carter interjects to say even though
his brokering business is expected to stick to just raising the
capital and have no say on how operations are done, is
Sir Bawden aware that the way American Space mining is
being conducted is shrinking the American economy.

Sir Bawden openly invites ideas. Carter mentions that his THIS MEETING HAS BEEN CALLED FOR BY CA
team at Omni Space Brokering, has an idea that can finally
turn markets around. Sir Bawden asks Carter to explain.

Carter says since all around are Presiding Officers of concerned firms,
there is no better place and time than this. He stands up
and mentions that the plan involves going far out into
the asteroid belt and mining 241 Germania using advanced
miner robotics just like the Japanese.

Everyone looks stunned. Some of the CEOs ask him if he

is aware that 241 Germania even at the fastest possible space craft speed
is still dozens of years of flight away and going there and returning to take samples alone, would cripple any fi
very huge cost with zero returns.

Carter points out that not if all firms pool their resources
together. And there will be no need to go take samples.
One trip only was enough, bring the rock home and mine it when it arrives in the langrange orbit.
GASPs of horror. He does the capital requirements maths.
Works out perfectly.

He is then asked, how will they all get to the rock in good time.
For it is against business principle to expect to invest and wait 25 years for the
miner ship to arrive on 241 Germania as likely it is that
in that number of years the JAPs could possibly have developed
technology that can outpace the miner team and even get to the rock
years before the Americans, which means the initial investment
loses big time and all the American Space firms sink to
oblivion.

Carter then says, now we have come to the classified part,

that he can only disclose to a smaller group of the largest
firms and to Sir Bawden.

The Chairman of this Commercial Chamber, then forms a

Committee that is tasked to sit with Carter and his team and hear
more of this plan. Word goes out that a plan has been hatched
and nothing else, and the American Space stock market
IMMEDITALY THAWs! Stock prices take a bullish rise.

The meeting is held in a Yatch, belonging to Sir Bawden.

The top Astronauts attend (Benny etc)
Need to discuss how the meeting is held and a celebratory party that flares into the night.
The Proffessor who introduced the theory of WARP drive attends.
He comes in tow with two more Proffessors from the States.
Five Proffessors for Miner Robotics attend.
It is discussed that real humans will only stand in as back up to the robots who shall make the first trip to 241

2 years later, the WARP Drive ship is finished.

The robots leave for the rock.
We watch the space crafts blast off into space.

The Amercians send out a message that they are now conducting robotics tests by sending out robots.
Not particulalry on a mining mission but on a round space trip to test if they work.
The JAPs are unfazed, they joke that America has never been good with robotics - and the JAPs share prices ri
Much to the bewilderment of Carter.
 NAME CHARACTER CLICHÉ
HENRY DOLES

EDDIE Demure, educated, smart tie and jacket. Careful speaker.

BAIN CARTER Italian, aged street wise. Smart but largely informal. Everyone calls him sir
for a formality, or Carter when they are annoyed by his pushiness.

CHRIS
Melanie Wright.

ce Mining Broking business.

n. Mostly deals with high net worth funders.

NAME CHARACTER CLICHÉ

ect the markets to thaw.
INVESTMENT CHARTS

BD] Have your dealers hurry, before we lose any more margins.
ady gone, we were $8 a share two days ago, now we are down to $4.50.

ace excavation, didn’t I Henry?

ney for that crap.

rs like you asked.

low on the American side.

UND A TABLE.

flipping through.

ETING HAS BEEN CALLED FOR BY CARTER HIMSELF.

samples alone, would cripple any firm in terms of

in the langrange orbit.

s into the night.

who shall make the first trip to 241 Germania.

tests by sending out robots.

botics - and the JAPs share prices rise.

Everyone calls him sir
his pushiness.
Action/Titles
Dialogue
Character Names
Parenthiticals
FADE IN:

EXT: OUTER SPACE

A vast expanse of stars lies before us. On the backdrop of dark space. No
sound or life here. Yet we detect a small speckle looping into view.
Begining to grow. As a wearied male voice narrates.

LIAM (V.O.)
To mine an asteroid, you just had to
find that special rock. Reason was,
anything launched into space, be it man,
robot, probes… even food, water.
[beat]
Was all priceless.

THE SPECKLE LOOMS.

Into a large space craft. Three hundred meters long. A woman in a space su
hovers in low gravity in the glass dorm observatory, the coopler section.
hand on the glass, peeking out into space. Her pretty face looking doleful
homesick.
LIAM (V.O.)
Back on earth, we were worth our weight
on the stock market. Every gram as dear
as any precious metal.
[beat]
It cost a damn 4,600 geez a pound to get
things into space. More to keep us here
for months. Much more to land us back.

A male astrounaut in full space gear, floats towards the woman. Eases his
legs to stand next to her. He gently squeezes her shoulders. She looks up,
forces a smile. He nods reassuringly. This is Astronaut LIAM THORNTON
(46) and the woman is SANDY WARTON (30).

LIAM (V.O.)
Platinum, gold, water, anything. More
like hunting for blue fin tuna in a
very barren ocean. You burn fuel, you
get buterflies in the tummy if nothing
nibbles your line.

Liam tugs Sandy away from the windows. They float off. Sliding through an
airlock hatch into a decompressor cabin. Liam turns the handle of a valve,
shutting the hatch. He hits a button on the walls. The cabin is filled wit
hissing gases as it re-pressurizes.

LIAM (V.O.)
Asteroids don’t glitter like stars
They are small, dark and easily
obscured by the atmospheres of the
planets in our solar system.

SANDY IS ALREADY
halfway through pealing her space suit off. Liam unscrews his helmet.
Begins down dressing.

LIAM (V.O.)
It was especially difficult to tell
how much money you would get from
each rock.

Sandy heaves open another hatch, then using the blue handles on the walls
for buoyancy, she squirms into a galley full of jabbering astronauts.
Everyone is curiously clad in shorts, t-shirt, socks.

LIAM (V.O.)
Chances were, by the time you got
to earth, if you got too big a rock,
the markets would flood and prices
plummet. Too small a rock, you would
not recover your costs.

The galley quitens as Liam and Sandy take their floating-seat postures.
No food is being eaten here, instead the cabin is littered with drifting
pens, paper, tethered laptops, calculators. With the astronauts looking
bleary-eyed.

LIAM
[sighs]
Ladies, gentlemen, shall we resume.

HICKER
[speaks through a yawn]
Let's come up with something more solid
here. My last medical shows my fuckin'
bones disintergrating.

LIAM
 Cut the crap Hicker, we all lose bone
mass…

HICKER
[hurtful]
My condition is worse than anyone
else Liam.

LIAM.
Glares at Sandy.

SANDY
Yap, 2.7 percent of his bone mass, gone.
[beat]
Every thirty days now - poof. Like a
70 year old granny with osteoporosis.
Only he is losing his bone density
15 times faster.

HICKER
This micro gravity is killing me.
We can't spend eternity here. What
has it been now, 14 fuckin months?

LIAM
[to Hicker]
Are you doing a thousand bench presses
every 24 hours?

HICKER
Lords, spare me the yoga bullshit
Liam…

LIAM
And the bike pedalling, are you riding
it for two hours each 24 hour circle…

HICKER
Liam, Jesus. I am sick! My hip bones are
terribly sore.

FARREL
Okay, okay, guys. Steam off okay. Geez.
Let's get this straight, one thing
is clear, we have definitely missed our
rendevous with Didymos-349C. If our comms
had not been damaged, by now I bet… what's
the CEO's name again?

MIRANDY
Daltre…

BRENO
Nah. Evans Daltry.

FARREL
Yeah, Daltry. Even he would have us just
bundle back to earth. I mean what's the
point, get the billion or what dollars
back, or lose your best tug team?

MIRANDY
I agree. Not on the Daltry part, but on
going downside. Alright, let's gear up
and head home. This game is done.

DAVE
Oh come'on Mirandy, you know we can't
leave with no payload. This is my last
mission. After this, I am retiring. I am
done.

MIRANDY
Dave, that's your fuckin' problem. I got
my kids to take care of back home, what
do you have. A dog and some bar mates.
I didn’t sign up for your shit.

DAVE
Calm down honey, all right. Let's find
out if there are any more rocks other
than Didymos-349C. Kick some ass and get the
money. You know gigs like this can't be
for life. There must be another asteroid
out there. Full of gold, iridium, rhodium
anything.

BRENO
Dave, I disgaree, excuse me. We spent nine
fuckin' months downside being trained on
how to approach and handle Didymos. Not
any other rock…
 SANDY
Our data is for 349C, you know. All the
simulations we have done on how to de-spin
it, land safely in dispersed dust, it's
gravity, taxonomy, apellion, features… all
sorts.

LIAM
Our backs are against the fuckin'
walls everybody, you gotta understand….

HICKER
That's solid bullshit Liam, trying and
miracles, are you fuckin nuts prophetic.
We are trained astronauts for Christsake.
I am ill man. Very ill.

LIAM
Well if no one loves the idea, then
better find another ride home.

HICKER
You do realise I have 2 liters of leg
fluid shifted to my brain?

MIRANDY
Feigning disgust. Pauses from taking a sip of water from a straw in a plas
pouch.

MIRANDY
Oh yeah - I have drunk nine hundred
and fifty liters of recycled urine,
can't taste shit in my mouth.

HICKER
This is fuckin' hopeless. Mirandy, damn!
You are the doc here, I would prefer…

DAVE
[to Mirandy]
Alleluah, most of that is my piss.

MIRANDY
Oh yeah?
 DAVE
Yeah.

HICKER
Jesus guys. I am ill. You're all going
to get ill too…

LIAM
Okay, let's just do this. Breno, on
your asterank charts, find us the correct
combination of asteroids with similar
minimum orbit intersection distances
The closest, to where we are right now.

BRENO
I will give you the bullshit. Just gimme
a sec.

BRENO
Heaves himself towards a 3-D touchscreen laptop.

LIAM
Mirandy, increase Hicker's dosage of
biphosphonate. 140 milligrams, Fish oil…
all sorts, increase his exercise plan,
I need results of his urine samples.

MIRANDY
Won't work…

LIAM
I know, just try it. Buy us some time.

Breno clicks away on the 3-D laptop. The screen instantly displays circula
orbital plots of several asteroids.

BRENO
[tapping the screen]
We got Nereus and Bennu here.
Almost identical semi-major axis.
1.489 and 1.126. That's a beauty
there.

LIAM
Sandy, what's their value?
Sandy clicks away on her own touch screen.

SANDY
Nereus, 4.71 billion. Bennu 9.05 billion.
That's if we can keep our extraction
at 95 points.

LIAM
You know we never hit 95. That’s for
robotic extraction processes. Give me
our possibles.

SANDY
Cut down by 15%. Avoid the rock fall.
They both have a combined value of
11.7 billion.

HICKER
Considering that we don't know
anything about these rocks, cut
another 20%.

LIAM
[annoyed]
Okay Hicker, we hear you. Sandy, up space
margins?

SANDY
Profits will be down by 20%. Give or take
a combined 4.62 billion.

LIAM
Fuckin too low?

SANDY
Yap, we need 9.4 billion for a home run.
If we spread cost by distance travelled,
4 billion to chew on our way home.
[beat]
We have already sunk 4.3 fuckin billion
dollars getting Dave's piss this far
out to space.

Timid laughter fills the galley.

LIAM
 Okay, okay. Breno, do we have a third
nearby?

BRENO
Nereus and Bennu have the closest
pairwise minimum orbit intersection
distance. 0.003207 versus 0.003223.
Potential third rock is not such a
beauty.

LIAM
Give it to me.

BRENOR
[tapping his charts]
Da la la. Darum.
[beat]
Here. 1995 BC2. Semi-major axis 1.918,
minimal orbit intersection distance
0.137510.

LIAM
Sandy. Value. Up space margins

Sandy clicks away on her machine. She freezes. Doesn’t seem to like
what she sees.

SANDY
Up space margins are good. 13.18 billion
or 11.2 billion at possible extraction.
Good for the home run, too bad for our
bones.

LIAM
Meaning what?

SANDY
Issue is with the rock's value, it's a
class X rock worth USD78.87 billion.

They are all stunned to stone cold silence. Hicker gives a nervous cough.

LIAM
Breno. Anymore nearbys?

Breno quickly flips through his charts. Shakes his head solemnly.
 BRENO
None feasible.

HICKER
Fuck. Fuck. That last rock is just too
big. It would take us a year to drill.
I don't have the stamina to stay it.
I don’t know 'bout you lot? Fuck.

LIAM
Calm down Hicker.

HICKER
How can I? Besides losing bone density
by simply overstaying here, what else
do we risk? Muscular atropy,
cardiovascular deconditioning…

LIAM
You are not the team doctor. That's not
your call.

HICKER
Severe muscle injuries, dying from
hypoxia, confused immune systems…

LIAM
You are not the team doctor.
That's Mirandy's job, not yours!

HICKER
Hearing loss, over exposure to radiation,
cardiac arrest…

LIAM
Hicker, shut the fuck up!

HICKER
Well I AM the team body. As well as
all of you here. Do you want our
corpses to deliver the payload?
[beat]
When we were downside, I read the
manuals too. I know what this means.
Say it Mirandy. Say it.
 MIRANDY
Hicker is right Liam.

BRENO
Yeah, he is right. Regulations say
we can only stay upside, a year at most.
We are already past that. We can't do
two more years. It would kill us.

MIRANDY
We would need a gravity simulating
cabin to be able to stay that long
in space. Our current technology is
out. Way out. Puck the JAPS and their
gravity no-need-robots. Puck them.

DAVE
Mirandy, don't be too polite. Just say
fuck.

AS THE ASTRONAUTS ARGUE ON…

We seep through the walls, exploring the vast ship. Passing through cabins
berths of different size, a cargo hold stacked with extraction rovers,
drillers, spiders, probes and all sorts of gear. Emerging out the hull on
Watching as the large ship thunders away, leaving a trail of blue haze
from its central thruster engine.

DISSOLVE TO:

INT: SPARTAN V SPACE SHIP - LATER.

HICKER is the comms specialist. He is the only one awake now. He works fev
on a large panel that has thousands of electric circuits. Burning in new c
threads with a bbb.

He listens to some Bob Barner music, earphones plugged over his ears. He n
takes a long moment carefully inspecting the circuit board. Satisfied, he
it into its socket. Presses a red swicth on.

He turns a nob to catch the comms frequency. The music dies in his earphon
replaced by some series of scrambled screeches.
Sir Bawden gets hold of the team at last. After communications with earth
Notifies them that they did not miss rendevous with Didymos-349C at all.
The rock had a delayed orbit. Give plausible reason WHY? Something to do w
It will be coming close to them in three days.

The astronauts are relieved.

They gear up, rush in to mine Didymos-349C
Start getting the payload in, watching for the break even point.

They hit it.

They now start making positive margins.
Rushing to maximise on it.
When errand JAPs robots move in
And start ravaging the same rock
A tussle breaks out. Someone screams at the robots, ' Stop fuckin our bitc

Mirandy is lost for good in the tussle - due to the robots.

The robots don't stop to grab her as she gets lost in space.
They continue ravaging the rock.
Dave screams, he is very very pissed at the JAPs robots. He cries for Mira

Hicker was??? a bit selfish, he is the only one who could have saved Miran
He saves himself instead. Liam is so angry with Hicker.
He lays him flat with a fist, before other astronauts hold him back.
He screams at Hicker, 'Hicker, you are one hell of a selfish bitch of a ma
Hicker does the maths and tries to prove that only he could be saved, Mira
was just going to slip off into space anyway, that it was in no way possib
her to be saved. The team is nonetheless not convinced.

Ensure when Liam is asked to choose a team that will go to 241 Germania, h
must refuse to go with Hicker. However, Hicker is the only specialist in h
So he goes anyhow by default. Knowing fully well that the team feels he is

In the end Hicker goes through an excruciating process and saves the whole
As they land 241 Germania into the lagragian range. Liam gets to be the la
to speak to injured Hicker, before he let's his lifeless body float away i

INT: SPARTAN V - LATER

Galley still packed, even though its occupants are wearied to death. An
intense meeting is still being held.

LIAM
Now we clear on what needs to
be done?

ASTROUNAUTS
Yeah.
 dark space. No
into view.

an in a space suit,
oopler section. Her
looking dolefully

oman. Eases his

s. She looks up,
AM THORNTON

ding through an
ndle of a valve, COMMENT, WHY SHOULD IT NEED REPRESSURIZING, IF PARTS
in is filled with HAD BREATHABLE AIR? QUESTION IS, WHEN THEY WERE IN T
WHERE THEY WWEARING SPACE SUITS, HOW WERE THEY BREAT

his helmet.

es on the walls
astronauts.

eat postures.
with drifting
nauts looking
straw in a plastic
displays circular
m to like

COMMENT
Ag, please Liam is so boring. Why does he only ask q
Make him a guy who also makes sensible deductions of
the data. Make him make decisions and strategies
instead of just saying next.

nervous cough.
g through cabins,
tion rovers,
out the hull on the other side.
of blue haze

DISSOLVE TO:

ow. He works feverishly

Burning in new circuit

r his ears. He now

d. Satisfied, he slugs

s in his earphones -
ions with earth have been restored. He has some good news.
s-349C at all.
omething to do with a JAPs gravity tractor that could only hold the rock back, but c

fuckin our bitch'

e cries for Mirandy.

have saved Mirandy.

him back.
sh bitch of a man."
d be saved, Mirandy
in no way possible for

241 Germania, he
specialist in his field
team feels he is selfish.

saves the whole team

ets to be the last person
ody float away into space.

to death. An
SURIZING, IF PARTS OF IT ALREADY
HEN THEY WERE IN THE OTHER COMPARTMENT,
OW WERE THEY BREATHING? CORRECT THIS
does he only ask questions.
ible deductions of
and strategies
e rock back, but could not do tha actual mining as it waited for minor team. This t
or minor team. This tractor is then smashed into asteroid, when Spartan V arrives, t
Spartan V arrives, they see its debris on the rock surface.
LIVING IN SPACE.
On board the ISS, females hair does not fall down, no gravity, it stands out fluffy etc.
They have a gym where they can do bench presses.
its called the advanced resistance excersice device.
astronauts must walk around in their socks.
there are blue handles in the passageways for grabbing when squirming.
someone must fly around with one arm extended like super man.
the passageways must be very narrow, can barely fit two people.
people must speak as if they have a flue/sinus blockage.
necklesses float even when they are worn.
there must be tins and buckets buckled down by thin ropes in the passageways.
the ship must have a constant humming sound, never quite at all.
This must be the air circulation unit making this noise.
Tiny spaces all over, you just have to squeeze thru almost always.
Cramped.
In the re-entry pod, the bundled up bags contain the parachutes and survival kits like food.
There is a sleep station, which is like a hole.
In it the astronauts sleep in sleeping bags, they only get into the sleeping bags so that they don’t float around.
You don’t have a sensation of up or down, upside or downside.
The sleeping bag is tethered to the floor.
The sleeping stations are located all round like up, down, left, right, in a circle, because there is no up or down.
There is no sensation for up or down, it doesn’t matter.
Hair stands up straight while in space, for those who have long hair.
Toothpaste sticks to the toothbrush.
Water forms bubbles,
When you brush your teeth, you can either swallow it all or spit it out on a paper towel.
That’s what you do with the toothpaste after you brush your teeth.
They have small blue bags on the walls next to their sleeper compartment for keeping toothpaste and water pou
The first thing to do at waking up is to brush your teeth and take a sponge bath.
The bathroom serves both as seater, very small seater, and urinary.
The seater smells, its closed by winding it down, most probably smells as its difficult to take aim in such a small h
The urinary or number 1, is more like a hosepipe with a funneled out end.
Any stuff you don’t aim correctly in the toilets can float around the space ship.
You really have to take good aim and be hygenic.
The toilet has a sliding hatch for privacy.
The spacecraft must hum like a train in motion, like you re inside a train.
Constant hum.
The closer you are to the air feeders, the louder the hum, the further you are the lower the hum.
Astronauts must complain, "I havent sat down in the last 14 months."
You just can't sit down.
There must be bikes for exercise, that you peddle standing up.
To regain muscle as you lose muscle in low gravity.
Those who exercise on treadmills actually have to be strapped down.
So that they can be able to exact some weight on the treadmill.
They will be belts clutching them over the shoulders and pulling them down.
The harness holds you down on the treadmill.
They store spacesuits plumped up like there is a real human inside them.
They look plumped up and mummy like.
The space suit has a computer at the chest that tells if you have too much carbon dioxed or if anything is wrong
That head gear is a helmet.
It stays still when you turn your head around.
The visor is two layered, you lower the outer visor layer, then you have your sunglasses to protect agaisnt too mu
The Coopler is a glass dome that shows you the outside.
Astronauts wear shots, T-shirts and socks.
people eat out of the depressurized food bags or satchets.
Putting on a space suit requires the assistance of at least two more people wiggling you in.

The pressurized mating adapter is where the smaller crafts dock to the main craft.
Laptops must hang from the walls, they are attached to the walls.
Research on what gets strapped to the walls of the ISS.
Inside the module to say float with me is done as 'Fly with me'
The face becomes lip lop sided for some astraunouts as they gradually lose control of their facial muscles.
They must be large white bags stuck to the walls, or clattering the walls.

Working involves talking to Houston on the ground for almost every move.
The water bag, that’s what they call those water pouches with straws hanging out.
You squeeze water out, it forms a bubble, and you drink it by sucking up the bubble.

Inisde Houston Control room, one of the large computer screens must be blank, with the words Houston TV SD
Families at home have an application at home, they can use to see the current location of the ISS.
A kid can tap in and actually think, 'Mum you're going over Australia right now.'
Speaking back to earth on live TV causes the 'echo back' that bounces several times.

Research on osteoporosis - that's bone mass loss in space.

They lose bone mass at the speed of ten times the rate of an osteoporasis woman (70 year old) on earth.
Astraunouts actually take medication to help with the bone mass loss.

Never say hail columbia, columbia was an actual spaceship that exploded at re-entry. That’s very crude to relate
Astranauts take sponge baths.
There isnt that much water.
They miss a bath so much.

They also miss, ''Smelling flowers, the noise of cars, instead of the usual hum of the ISS'
"Walking around on their feet, feeling the wind, being on the beach and feeling the wind.'
at they don’t float around.

use there is no up or down.

ng toothpaste and water pouches.

to take aim in such a small hole.

wer the hum.

oxed or if anything is wrong with the suit.

ses to protect agaisnt too much sun light.

of their facial muscles.

h the words Houston TV SD

tion of the ISS.

70 year old) on earth.

y. That’s very crude to relate lightly to it, I didn’t know.

The asterank charts show a cluster of asteroids around the sun and its solar planets.
This cluster has a thousand and more asteroids.
The asteroids are in constant motion, obirting the sun each one with its unique orbit.
But there is no mistaking the power of the gravitational pull of the sun.

As there is a denser concetration of asteroids close to the sun on one side, where most of the orbits converge.
From this dense concetration the asteroids tend to fan out or spread out. Correction there is no particular dense concetrati
it just depends on the plane of vision and how you're viewing the asteroids. If you look vertically down or vertically up the
disk of these orbits, you would notice that they are fairly distributed.
If you look horizontally forwards, or horizontally backwards, they tend to appear like they are concetrated densely on one s
it all has to do with the distance from point of observation, the closer the asteroids, the less densely packed, the further th
point of view, the more densely packed.

Some of the asteroids are slow.

Some of them are extremely fast. This is true yes, but most of that has to do with distance, the further they are,
the slower they tend to move. The closer they are. The faster they appear to move. It's dillussional.

The faster asteroids seem to shoot out as if they are gone totally, like they are never to return.
Yet they do return at some point.
At this point they appear like they are showing up for the first time.
They return at a much slower speed and may actually converge closer to the spacecraft in question.
The asteroids that shoot off fast, actually are initially slow moving and close to the sun.
The sun draws them in, then swings them out to space at very fast speeds.
When that momentum dies out they return.
The asterank charts can be rotated on its axis to give views from different angles on the touch screen, and the view enhanc
When you do so, you can either view from a lateral perspective or from a horizontal perspective.
You can look at them as if you gaze down an accretion disk or as if you gaze up.

In the back ground of the asteroid belt, the Milky Way's accretion disk is clearly visible.
orbits converge.
o particular dense concetration,
ly down or vertically up the accretion

oncetrated densely on one side, because

ensely packed, the further they are from

further they are,

screen, and the view enhances.

What are the main steps in the lead-up to a rocket launch?

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For instance, loading of propellants happens at a certain time, why then? I can only find two run-downs of pre-launc

T-0:02:00 Align Flight Computers to Self Alignment

T-0:02:00 Range Verification
T-0:02:00 Flight Control to Self Alignment
T-0:01:35 Helium Loading Termination
T-0:01:30 Final Engine Chilldown, Pre-Valves/Bleeders Open
T-0:01:20 Engine Purge
T-0:01:00 Flight Computer to start-up
T-0:01:00 Pad Deck Water Deluge System Activation
T-0:00:50 First Stage Thrust Vector Actuator Test
T-0:00:40 Propellant Tank Pressurization
T-0:00:25 All Tanks at Flight Pressure
T-0:00:15 Arm Pyrotechnics
T-0:00:10 Latest VC Abort
T-0:00:03 Merlin Engine Ignition
T-0:00:00 LIFTOFF
Shuttle:

T-9 minutes and counting

Start automatic ground launch sequencer
Retract orbiter access arm (T-7 minutes, 30 seconds)
Start auxiliary power units (T-5 minutes, 0 seconds)
Arm solid rocket booster range safety safe and arm devices (T-5 minutes, 0 seconds)
Start orbiter aerosurface profile test, followed by main engine gimbal
profile test (T-3 minutes, 55 seconds)
Retract gaseous oxygen vent arm, or "beanie cap" (T-2 minutes, 55 seconds)
Crew members close and lock their visors (T-2 minutes, 0 seconds)
Orbiter transfers from ground to internal power (T-50 seconds)
Ground launch sequencer is go for auto sequence start (T-31 seconds)
Activate launch pad sound suppression system (T-16 seconds)
Activate main engine hydrogen burnoff system (T-10 seconds)
Main engine start (T-6.6 seconds)
These imply a raft of questions but it's a bit overwhelming. Isn't there a general scheme to things to make it easier to
Edit: The pre-launch checklists included are mostly as examples, a general explanation from maybe once a rocket is o

launch rockets launchpad launch-sequence

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From the difficulty i had finding information online, i fear the matter is considered too intricate to properly summari

Try using the search terms "launch sequence". – Jerard Puckett Feb 1 '15 at 0:28

PearsonArtPhoto gave a Dragon/Falcon launch sequence here. – Jerard Puckett Feb 1 '15 at 0:32
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@briligg Google knows nothing! Try searching here :) Actually, the best source I can think of would be Spaceflight10
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AmericaSpace also details pre- and post-launch timelines pretty well. – Jerard Puckett Feb 1 '15 at 1:59
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I can explain the STS entries. I'm gonna go off my own knowledge here but if I get ambitious I'll come back with cites

Start automatic ground launch sequencer The GLS was the software that automatically commanded the final phase

Retract orbiter access arm (T-7 minutes, 30 seconds) The orbiter access arm was the swing arm that reached from th

Start auxiliary power units (T-5 minutes, 0 seconds) The pilot starts the 3 hydrazine fueled APUs that provide hydrau

Arm solid rocket booster range safety safe and arm devices (T-5 minutes, 0 seconds) Mechanical devices that break t

Start orbiter aerosurface profile test, followed by main engine gimbal profile test (T-3 minutes, 55 seconds) Now tha

Retract gaseous oxygen vent arm, or "beanie cap" (T-2 minutes, 55 seconds) This is another arm from the launch tow

Crew members close and lock their visors (T-2 minutes, 0 seconds) This seals the launch and entry suits in case of a b

Orbiter transfers from ground to internal power (T-50 seconds) The voltage on the power feeds from the mobile laun

Ground launch sequencer is go for auto sequence start (T-31 seconds) If all is well, the onboard launch sequencer in
Activate launch pad sound suppression system (T-16 seconds) The 'rain birds' start gushing water onto the pad to pre

Activate main engine hydrogen burnoff system (T-10 seconds) The sparklers (ROFIs) ignite to burn up excess Gh2 ven

Main engine start (T-6.6 seconds) Those big old water vapor generators start going.

The good old Space Shuttle News Reference is a great starting point to read about this. My link points to the countdo

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Bird strikes - i never thought of that. I got most of the acronyms, but what is the RCS? And am i wrong, or is this list a
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RCS = Reaction Control System, the small thrusters that provide attitude control. The STS-1 acoustic damage was to a

If you click on the link in the reference I provided where it says LAUNCH COUNTDOWN it will take you to an official c

I noticed that in the countdown checklist, there are hotlinks out to explanations of a lot of the terms. – Organic Mar
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Generally speaking, a rocket launch has these steps:

Integration: stacking the rocket stages and the payload together.

Rollout: moving the rocket to the launch pad.
Fueling.
Pre-launch checks.
Starting up the rocket: switching on its internal power sources, starting the rocket's control systems etc.
Starting the engines and checking if they work properly.
Launch.
You want to do as much of the work as possible while the rocket is still in a hangar and easy to work on, but some st

Fueling for instance: you want to pump fuel and oxidizer into the rocket as late as possible, to reduce the risk. So for
When fueling has finished, you have to disconnect the fuel lines (umbilicals) from the rocket and stow them so they

Then you want to make sure all the internal systems work properly. Some checks can't be done beforehand (e.g. bec

Until now, the rocket has been receiving power from the launch pad. This must be switched to an internal power sou

The last step is to start the engines, holding down the rocket for a few seconds so you can make sure the engines wo
This is only a general overview: each step is split into hundreds of checkpoints and actions, depending on the rocket
06:14:46 AM 02 02 09 32 Sunset
06:40:00 AM 02 02 34 46 Russian to US attitude control handover
ense that there are some things that happen in a standard way in all rocket launches, maybe depending on propellants, booster combinati

find two run-downs of pre-launch sequences, one for Falcon and one for the Space Shuttle. Falcon:

eme to things to make it easier to grapple with? An overview, and from there more specific questions can be asked? For an uncrewed launc
on from maybe once a rocket is on the pad would be great.

oo intricate to properly summarize in a useful way. I hope not. – kim holder ♦ Jan 31 '15 at 22:11

1 '15 at 0:32

think of would be Spaceflight101 with fantastically detailed write-ups. Here's e.g. the latest one for Delta II/SMAP (also check the links und

tt Feb 1 '15 at 1:59

mbitious I'll come back with cites. 'll try to make it past tense because no more STS but I'll probably slip up on that.

ally commanded the final phase of the countdown.

e swing arm that reached from the launch tower to the crew hatch. It's where the 'white room' was. If there was an emergency after this po

ueled APUs that provide hydraulic power to the Orbiter. It's done as late as possible to save fuel. They must be up and running by T-4 minu

Mechanical devices that break the firing chain in the SRB destruct devices are rotated to the non-safe position.

3 minutes, 55 seconds) Now that hydraulic power is available, the elevons and body flap are exercised, and then the SSME gimbals.

another arm from the launch tower to the tip of the ET. It carries a duct that lets any GOX vented from the ET LOX tank be released away fro

nch and entry suits in case of a bird strike during first stage busting the windows. It is done as late as possible in the count because the suit

ower feeds from the mobile launcher to the orbiter is dropped so the orbiter fuel cells pick up all the power loads.

he onboard launch sequencer in the orbiter is started to control the last few seconds of the count.
 ushing water onto the pad to prevent damage from the acoustic power blasted out by the SRBs (changed after STS-1 when a strut was ben

ignite to burn up excess Gh2 vented from the engines.

his. My link points to the countdown sections. It's old (dated before we started flying again after the 1st accident) but still has lots of great i

S? And am i wrong, or is this list abbreviated? Didn't a lot of things mentioned in the Falcon list also need to happen? And didn't they check

e STS-1 acoustic damage was to a support strut for the oxidizer tank for the RCS. jsc.nasa.gov/news/columbia/anomaly/STS1.pdf – Russell B

WN it will take you to an official countdown checklist (as it was in 1986). It starts at T-6 hours and it's all in acronym ease so hard to understa

lot of the terms. – Organic Marble Feb 2 '15 at 1:53

control systems etc.

nd easy to work on, but some steps are unavoidable on the launch pad.

ossible, to reduce the risk. So for liquid-fuel rockets this is done on the launch pad. For solid boosters you can't do that, so you have to fuel
e rocket and stow them so they won't be burned by the rocket. There may be other steps to secure the launch tower at this stage.

n't be done beforehand (e.g. because this is the first time the rocket's been fueled). Other checks are on general principle: better to test 10

witched to an internal power source (batteries, generator, fuel cell). Then you have to confirm again that everything works on internal pow

ou can make sure the engines work properly. Then release the clamps and launch.
ctions, depending on the rocket type. The Shuttle had a much more complicated launch procedure than the Falcon, for instance.
n propellants, booster combinations, and payloads they are more variable than I think. I feel like if I understood what those steps are about

be asked? For an uncrewed launch vehicle, what is the basic outline of the things that need to be done before launch, and the basic reason
I/SMAP (also check the links under the article's title). But

e was an emergency after this point that required the crew to evacuate the Orbiter, it could swing back very quickly.

t be up and running by T-4 minutes when hydraulic pressure is needed to move a valve in the shuttle main engines, when they enter Purge

d then the SSME gimbals.

ET LOX tank be released away from the vehicle.

ble in the count because the suits vent O2 into the cabin in this configuration and you don't want the O2 concentration getting too high.
after STS-1 when a strut was bent in the fwd RCS because of this)

cident) but still has lots of great info. Hit the links in the document for background on a lot of the stuff I talk about.

o happen? And didn't they check the internal power systems once they took over? The GLS sounds like a complicated thing that must have

bia/anomaly/STS1.pdf – Russell Borogove Feb 2 '15 at 0:46

cronym ease so hard to understand. And yes, there is a tremendous amount of stuff left out from the above. Just filling a room temperatur

an't do that, so you have to fuel those at an earlier stage.

unch tower at this stage.

eneral principle: better to test 10 times than to lose a payload.

verything works on internal power.

he Falcon, for instance.
tood what those steps are about, at least a little, it would give me a sense of how the rocket works.

ore launch, and the basic reasons?

engines, when they enter Purge Sequence 4.

oncentration getting too high.

omplicated thing that must have done a bunch of checks. I'll check out the link, but of course. – kim holder ♦Feb 2 '15 at 0:18

e. Just filling a room temperature tank with liquid hydrogen at 30 deg R is a very involved multiple step process. The LOX is also but the tem
♦Feb 2 '15 at 0:18

cess. The LOX is also but the temperatures involved are not quite so dramatic. – Organic Marble Feb 2 '15 at 1:41
on mining
Spartan V 29 must explode into a flurry of activity.
They should rush all steam all engines thrusting, for Didymos 349C.
When they get to the rock, from their point of vision, they must see
two gravity tractors slammed into didymos 349 c
the rock is slow at moving away, yes,
but its spinning around too fast.

when they turn around they must see,

there are five more tractors,
not destroyed by the rock, that are struggling to hold it back.
its because the balance has been disturbed, I mean the control of the rock's weighting.

that's when spartan v29 consults with sir bawden,

this rock is in no man's space, should we mine it.
they are given the go ahead.

they decide to send probes to take samples

but are told to get straight to mining.
only after one probe returns with a very rich ore.
told to get straight to mining because the presence of the Mother Bourg ship
has been detected, two weeks away.

they get into a craze of extracting ores, starting with the richer belts first.
the bourg mother ship arrives.
does not hesitate at all.
swallows the rock and everything on it, including the miner small vessels released by spartan v29.
Mirandy as well.

this is the part where hicker becomes selfish and saves himself.
liam saves the day by moving spartan v29 into the way.
stopping the artificial intelligence bourg ship fromcontinuing with swalowing the rock.
because space law says, you cannot swallow other mother miner ships.
tho it does not stop you from swallowing probes, spiders etc.

on sir bawden's offices

a pa gets out of the glass lift and dashes into the boardroom,
where sir bawden sits with 20 of his most senior executives.
to announce that spartan v29 has restored communications with earth.
and that they are rushing for didymos 349c

sir bawden clicks his hand, and the boardroom is swung around.
some walls clear off, and suddenly its translated into
a space command center.
they look down into space command halls below.
impressive stuff.

sir bawden starts talking to Liam.

he learns that they are chasing after 349c that has slowed down
no one is aware how the heck it slowed down.
they are just three days behind it and the rock is gradually beginning to pick up speed again.
so spartan v29 is on full throttle.

on space law
sirawden must call NASA and the white house.
asking for them to beg the bourgs to step down and stop swallowing his spiders and probes.
NASA will ask the secretary of state responsible to intervene.

court sessions are held, its ruled that the bourgs are on the right side of law,
they can swallow what they see as long as its not the mother ship.

the state of luxembourg indicates that their engineers

are busy trying to overide their AI driven robots to make them stop.
but in the background we see them not trying at all.

they state deceptively that their robots can only be comunicated with at a 40 minute delayed lag.
y spartan v29.
e delayed lag.
Asteroid Mining: The Next Grand Venture Of Tiny Luxembourg

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It's a funny thing about this country, the world's only grand duchy where I moved 14 years ago. It's full of surprises,

None are weirder or more intriguing than its latest aspiration to become the global center of asteroid mining.

How it discovered space rocks is interesting in itself. Some 30 years ago, the country wandered into satellites, and no

But it proved to be a smart move as that company grew into a global operator - now the world's second-largest sate

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Luxembourg didn't jump into space rock exploration from nowhere, joining the European Space Agency in 2005 and

Georges Schmit, currently a member of Luxembourg's Advisory Board on Space Resources and until recently head o

In 2012, Schmit drove from San Francisco to the NASA-Ames Research Center in Mountain View, a visit that triggered

There, they began discussing the potential to develop ties in this area, which led to zooming in on the nascent indus

The first time I heard the term 'space mining' I was incredulous, Schmit says. "I didn't understand it well. But I was c

What followed was a private dinner with two young NASA engineers - one of them coincidentally a Luxembourger -

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Luxembourg scrambled various key players domestically - among them the young but fast-evolving University of Lux

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The government then earmarked €200 million to help found companies in the sector over five years, offering suppor

The hope is that the country can leverage its standing and expertise as a global financial center boasting political, ec

The reaction domestically was and still is mixed.

The international echo to these announcements was most unexpected, recalling somewhat that of the announceme

Schmit found himself in an interesting shift. "My job to promote the Grand Duchy in the United States vastly change

The "spillover" effect is clearly at play for Luxembourg, constantly seeking to diversify its economy beyond financial s

The government adopted a draft law last November expected to be passed in the first half of this year, guaranteeing

The country plans in coming months to draw more governments into the discussion. "We will have to establish a glo

The U.N., for its part, is showing interest in the issue, announcing last month its official recognition of Asteroid Day, d

That asteroid strike, the largest in recorded history, devastated more than 2,000 square kilometers. Asteroid Day was

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Another agreement has been inked with Deep Space Industries (DSI) of Mountain View, California. In this public-priv

“We applaud Luxembourg for taking this bold and visionary step to create the needed framework for private citizens

“This is exactly the sort of legal reality we need to begin doing business on the frontier,” Daniel Faber, DSI's CEO said

The country has organized its effort swithin a "Space Cluster" that integrates interested companies and public resear

The government passed a draft law last November and expects it to come into play in the first half of this year, guara
ndeed can strike twice in the same place, investing in research and development, creating and testing future-oriented technologies and esta
Minister Xavier Bettel emphasized during a panel discussion Luxembourg’s intention to develop as a European hub for research and the use

e is hardly a logical launchpad for mining valuable commodities in outer space. So why not throw logic to the solar winds and jump in wher

S/DLR/IDA/NASA/dapd

4 years ago. It's full of surprises, tending to punch above its land mass in unexpected ways.

center of asteroid mining.

wandered into satellites, and not without controversy, as the home of Europe's first private satellite operator, SES. At the time, a number o

the world's second-largest satellite company generating some $2 billion in annual revenues.

ndeed can strike twice in the same place, investing in research and development, creating and testing future-oriented technologies and esta

than 15,000 Near Earth Objects (NEOs) - meteoroids, asteroids or comets - pass "close" to the Earth - within 150 million kilometers. They r

sample return mission on September 8, 2016. NASA launched its first mission to collect dust from an asteroid, the kind of cosmic body that
 life. Eventually, they could be mined for nickel, iron, tungsten, cobalt, ammonia, nitrogen and hydrogen, and water - all of which could sus

opean Space Agency in 2005 and served for a time as its co-president.

ources and until recently head of Luxembourg's San Francisco Trade and Investment Office and the former San Francisco consul, notes that

untain View, a visit that triggered the idea of linking Luxembourg and space resources. During a meeting with the center's leaders, Schmit f

zooming in on the nascent industry as a rich vein to explore.

n't understand it well. But I was curious. I started to read, to get informed, to research the subject, to consult academic papers."

coincidentally a Luxembourger - to author a short, high-level paper summarizing the legal, scientific and technological landscapes.

eper, and Luxembourg was invited to join a small workshop in September, 2014. From there, the opportunity developed to fill a void by cre

ut fast-evolving University of Luxembourg - to develop the vision, strategy and action plan for creating and growing the sector.

elaborate a legal framework to permit the appropriation of space resources harvested on celestial bodies" - and compatible with the Outer

and therein lay Luxembourg's opportunity. (Disclaimer: The digital media company I lead is working with the Economy Ministry to develop

r over five years, offering support for them to establish presence in-country - in turn, helping some find private financing.

ncial center boasting political, economic and social stability to fill a hole in the existing global landscape.

mewhat that of the announcement of the SES project more than 30 years ago, Schmit recalled. "Ironic disbelief in the face of risks and unce

the United States vastly changed from one day to the next," he says. "Rather than having to search for companies to attract to the assets o

y its economy beyond financial services, among other sectors. Technologies developed for space application may well have earthbound us

st half of this year, guaranteeing players legal certainty for harvesting resources from outer space, and intends to start granting company lic

. "We will have to establish a global legal framework, cemented by an international agreement and laying out the rules for exploiting and o

cial recognition of Asteroid Day, declaring "30 June International Asteroid Day to observe each year at the international level the anniversar

are kilometers. Asteroid Day was started in 2014 and has been gaining steam since, with hundreds of asteroid-related educational events h

are discussing close collaboration with its government for future events. "We are delighted to see the United Nations join in promoting aw
le technology to detect and track Near-Earth Asteroids that threaten human populations...(and) a rapid hundred-fold (100x) acceleration o

Minister Xavier Bettel emphasized during a panel discussion Luxembourg’s intention to develop as a European hub for research and the use

to Planetary Resources, based in Redmond, Washington, which is setting up Luxembourg operations in advance of its first asteroid prospec

full-size prototype model of a low-orbit spacecraft at a news conference announcing a plan to mine nearby asteroids Photo: Elaine Thom

iew, California. In this public-private partnership, advanced products, systems and services linked to space mining will be co-fiananced, incl

ed framework for private citizens and companies to operate in space,” Rick Tumlinson, DSI's chairman, said in November.

tier,” Daniel Faber, DSI's CEO said. “Space should be like any other area of commerce, with clear guidelines, and the knowledge that comme

ted companies and public research institutions to develop projects and R&D. It tries to bring together relevant companies in space telecom

n the first half of this year, guaranteeing players legal ownership of the resources they harvest from outer space and intends to start granti
e-oriented technologies and establishing financial partnerships with space-related companies willing to locate in the grand duchy.
ean hub for research and the use of space resources.

he solar winds and jump in where others fear to tread?

tor, SES. At the time, a number of Luxembourg natives questioned the government's financial involvement - it was and remains a major sha

e-oriented technologies and establishing financial partnerships with space-related companies willing to locate in the grand duchy.

hin 150 million kilometers. They range in size from a grain of sand to small planets, mainly in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter an

oid, the kind of cosmic body that may have delivered life-giving materials to Earth billions of years ago Photo: Gregg Newton/AFP/Getty Im
nd water - all of which could sustain human life in space, power on-site construction for further space travel and eventually even make eco

San Francisco consul, notes that as a young Economy Ministry official in the 1980s he had a seat at the table when the country ventured in

ith the center's leaders, Schmit found them to be "great admirers of Luxembourg's history in space and especially its political aspects."

lt academic papers."

chnological landscapes.

ty developed to fill a void by creating the legal framework for regulating ownership of resources exploited from asteroids and other bodies

growing the sector.

and compatible with the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 that had been ratified by 105 countries, including Luxembourg.

he Economy Ministry to develop its information sources on the sector).

vate financing.

elief in the face of risks and uncertainties, coupled with the smallness of the country, mingled with admiration for the political vision."

mpanies to attract to the assets of our country as a base to develop a European presence, companies began to contact me to discuss their p

on may well have earthbound uses in communications, sensors, robotics, manufacturing, analysis, 3d printing, and Artificial Intelligence. "W

nds to start granting company licenses this year as well.

out the rules for exploiting and owning space resources," says Schmit. "In the months and years ahead, we hope to convince enough countr

nternational level the anniversary of the Tunguska impact over Siberia, Russia, on 30 June 1908 and to raise public awareness about the ast

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in November.

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space and intends to start granting licenses this year as well.

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pecially its political aspects."

from asteroids and other bodies, as well as providing political and financial support for long-term commercial projects in the sector.

tion for the political vision."

n to contact me to discuss their projects with a view to locating in Luxembourg."

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hope to convince enough countries to engage with us in this within the U.N.”

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ithin the next 10 years."

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Stock Trading Terminology
Stock Trading Terminology is a unique technical language of stock market. Each stock trading terms have definite meaning. A do
medical terms and a photographer uses his own language, so also a politician. (In political language, 'I assure you' means 'I will

Like wise all professional stock traders use stock market terminology. In our language 'go long' means 'buy shares to sell later' a
'sell shares to buy later'.
Be familiar with them. Always use them in your conversation. Become a progressively evolving professional stock trader.

What are the different stock trading terminology used in stock market?
Most of the stock trading terminology, used in this site are explained below.
Click on the following letters to go to the stock trading definitions starting from that letter.

Stock Trading Terminology - A

Abandoned Baby:
Abandoned Baby is a reversal chart pattern, formed by price action in a single time period, which is separated from rest of the
It is very reliable with 80% probability.

ADX Indicator:
The ADX Indicator or The Average Directional Movement Index Indicator is used to analyze the strength of the trend of a stock
The Directional Movement System, developed by J.Welles Wilder. It was developed in 1978. Since then it is widely used in stock

All or None Order:

AON or All or None Order is an attribute attached to a buy or sell order, so that the order is either completely filled or not at all

American Depository Receipt (ADR):

A stock representing a specified number of shares in a foreign corporation. ADR's are bought and sold in the American markets
consisting of a bundle of shares of a foreign corporation that are being held in custody overseas. The foreign entity must provi
ADR's are listed on either the NYSE, AMEX, or NASDAQ.

American Depository Share (ADS):

A share issued under deposit agreement that represents an underlying security in the issuer's home country. ADS is the actual

Arbitrage:
The business of taking advantage of difference in price of a security traded on two or more stock exchanges, by buying in one a

Ascending Triangle:
Ascending Triangle is a chart pattern, characterized by horizontal top and rising bottom. This is created when a bullish market p

Averaging:
The process of gradually buying more and more securities in a declining market (or selling in a rising market) in order to level o

Stock Trading Terminology - B

Bar charts:
Bar charts also called as OHLC charts or open-high-low-close charts, are stock charts used in charting and study of chart pattern
connecting a series of price points, typically used to illustrate movements in the price of a financial instrument for a time perio
most commonly used chart.

Bearish Engulfing Pattern:

Bearish Engulfing Pattern is a major bearish reversal candlestick pattern. They occur at the top of an up trend.

Bears:
Bears are traders, who expects the price of a financial security to fall, they sell and short sell more and more, which in turn fue

Bear Market:
A bear market is any financial market, in which prices of a security or a group of securities keep falling.

Best ask:
The lowest price quoted for a particular stock to be sold.

Best bid:
The highest price quoted for a particular stock to be bought.

Bid and offer:

Bid is the price at which the market maker buys from the investor and offer is the price at which he offers to sell the stock to th

Bid/Ask spread:
The difference between the ask price and bid price.

Black Candles:
Black Candles or black candlesticks are bearish lines in candlestick and candlevolume charts. They signify that the closing is low

Blue Chips:
Blue Chips are shares of large, well established and financially sound companies with an impressive records of earnings and div
low to moderate current yield and moderate to high capital gains yield. The price volatility of such shares is moderate.

Bond:
A debt security, or an IOU, issued by a company or government agency is called a bond. A bond investor lends money to the iss
repay the loan amount on a specified maturity date; the issuer usually pays the bondholder periodic interest payments over th

Bonus:
It is a free allotment of shares made in proportion to existing shares out of accumulated reserves. A bonus share does not cons
recapitalization of reserves into equity capital. However, the expectation of bonus shares has a bullish impact on market sentim

Book Closure:
Dates between which a company keeps its register of members closed for updating prior to payment of dividends or issue of n
Bourse:
The floor of a Stock Exchange.

Breakout:
When the price of a stock surpasses its resistance level or falls below the support level, it is termed as break out in technical an

Brokerage:
Brokerage is the commission charged by the broker. The maximum brokerage chargeable is determined by stock exchange cont

Bullish Engulfing Pattern:

Bullish Engulfing Pattern is a major bullish reversal candlestick pattern. They occur at the bottom of a down trend.

Bull Market:
A bull market is any financial market, in which prices of a security or a group of securities keeps rising. The more it rises, higher

Bulls:
Bulls are traders, who expects the price of a financial security to rise, they buy more and more, which in turn fuels the momen

Buy and Hold:

Buy and hold is a technique of investing and profiting in stock market. A stock is bought and held almost indefinitely, assuming
and bad times, give a good rate of return on investment, in the long run. It is a long term investment strategy.

Buyer:
A trading member who has placed the order for the purchase of the securities.

Stock Trading Terminology - C

Call:
The demand by a company or any other issuer of shares for payment, like demand for full payment on the due date. A call by a

Call Option:
This is the right, but not the obligation, to purchase shares at a specified price at a specified date in the future.

Candlestick Hammer:
A Candlestick Hammer is a reversal candlestick pattern with long lower shadow and no upper wick. They are bullish in nature.

Candlestick Patterns:
Candlestick Patterns are formed by variations and combinations of candle lines. They not only depict the price movements, but

Candlevolume Chart:
Candlevolume Chart is a stock charts used in charting and study of chart patterns in technical analysis. They combine the featu

Candle Wicks:
Candle wicks along with the body are the story tellers of the simple candlestick patterns. They are the graphs which represent

Capital Gain:
The amount by which an investment's selling price exceeds its purchase price.

Capitalization:
The total value of the company in the stock market.

Capital loss:
The negative difference between the selling price of the stock and purchase price of the stock.

Capital Market:
A market where debt or equity securities are traded.

Carry forward trading:

Trading where the settlement of trades is postponed on the stock exchange until a future settlement period involving payment

Cash markets:
The markets where securities have to be delivered by the seller and cash to be paid by the buyer immediately.

Chart-patterns:
As the stock prices move up and down, they tend to form recognizable recurring designs or figurative diagrams, called chart pa

Circuit breaker:
When a stock price increases or decreases by a certain percentage in a single day it hits the circuit breaker. Once the stock hits
below) that price is not allowed for that particular day.

Clearing House:
Each Exchange maintains a clearing house to act as the central agency for effecting delivery and settlement of contracts betwe
pay or receive the amounts due to them are called pay-in or pay-out days respectively.

Closing Price:
The last traded price of a security at the end of a trading day.

Commission:
A fee charged by a broker or distributor for his/her service in facilitating a transaction.

Consideration:
Consideration is the total purchase or sale amount associated with a transaction.

Continuation Patterns:
Continuation patterns are chart patterns, which are formed due to temporary profit booking, in an ongoing trend.

Contract:
This is the agreement between a buyer and a seller of a security, on any securities market.

Contrarian Investing:
Contrarian investing attempts to invest in a falling market and sell stock in a bullish market. Contrarian investor is one who take
majority and profits from it. Her opinion is contrary to the conventional wisdom.

Correction:
Correction is the temporary reversal of trend in share prices. This could be a reaction, that is a fall in an up trend or a rally, that

Cum-bonus:
The share is described as cum-bonus when a potential purchaser is entitled to receive the current bonus.

Cum-rights:
The share is described as cum-rights when a potential purchaser is entitled to receive the current rights.

Custodial fees:
The fees charged by the custodian for keeping the securities.

Stock Trading Terminology - D

Dark Cloud Cover:
Dark cloud cover is a bearish reversal candlestick pattern. They occur at the top of an up trend.

Day Trading:
Day trading is a method of stock trading, where a trade is opened and closed on the same day. At the end of the day, stock pos

Day Trading Psychology:

Day Trading Psychology is the mind set required to become successful in day trading.

Debenture:
Debenture is a certificate, issued against a loan raised by a company, paying a fixed rate of interest and is secured on the assets

Demat trading:
Demat trading is trading of shares that are in the electronic form or dematerialised shares. Dematerialisation is the process by
and credited in the form of electronic balances and are maintained on highly secure systems at the depository.

Directional Index:
Directional Index or DI is used to analyze the trend of a stock or a commodity. It is part of The Directional Movement System, d

Derivatives:
Instruments derived from securities or physical markets. The most common types of derivatives that ordinary investors are like

Descending Triangle:
Descending Triangle is a chart pattern, characterized by horizontal bottom and sloping top. This is created when a bearish mark

Diversification:
Investing in a basket of shares with different risk-reward profile and correlation so as to minimize unsystematic risk.

Dividend:
This is the income you receive as a shareholder from a company.
Dividend yield:
Annual dividend paid on a share of a company divided by current share price of that company.

Doji:
Doji candlestick is a candlestick pattern with out a real body. They represent the areas of uncertainty.

Double Bottom:
Double Bottom is a reversal chart patterns, where a stock in a down trend, hits a support level twice and reverses to continue i

Double Top:
Double Top is a reversal chart patterns, where a stock in an up trend, hits a resistance level twice and reverses to continue in a

Dragonfly Doji:
Dragonfly Doji candlestick is a candlestick pattern with out a real body. They represent the areas of uncertainty.

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Stock Trading Terminology - E

Earnings Per Share (EPS):
This measure expresses how much the company is earning for every share held. It is calculated by dividing pre tax profit by the

Evening Doji Star:

Evening Doji Star is a bearish reversal candlestick pattern. They occur at the top of an up trend.

Evening Star:
Evening Star is a bearish reversal candlestick pattern. They occur at the top of an up trend.

Equivolume:
Equivolume Charts are stock charts used in charting and study of chart patterns in technical analysis. They display the relations

Ex Bonus:
The share is described as ex-bonus when a potential purchaser is not entitled to receive the current bonus, the right to which r

Ex Dividend:
This is a share sold without the right to receive the declared dividend payment which is marked as due to those shareholders w

Ex Rights:
The share is described as ex-rights when a potential purchaser is not entitled to receive the current rights, the right of which re

Eurex Exchange
Eurex Exchange is one of the world's leading derivatives exchanges in Europe. It is jointly operated by German Derivative Excha

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Stock Trading Terminology - F

Falling Wedge:
Falling Wedge is a continuation chart pattern, formed by price action, which is contained with in a converging and descending t

FOK or Fill or Kill order:

FOK or Fill or Kill order allows the order to completely fill immediately or it will be canceled.

Flag Patterns:
Flag Patterns are continuation chart patterns, formed by a minor consolidation, which is contained with in a small rectangle or

Fundamental analysis:
Fundamental analysis is a method to determine the health of the financial statements and focuses on the strengths and weakn

Futures:
A contract for the purchase and sale of a commodity, financial instrument or index at a fixed price at a fixed date in the future.

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Stock Trading Terminology - G

Gaps:
Gaps are continuation chart pattern, formed by an unfilled space between trading session. Gaps are referred as Tasuki, meanin

Good Till Cancellation:

GTC or Good Till Cancellation is an attribute attached to a buy or sell order, to keep the order in system until it gets executed or

Good Till Day:

GTD or Good Till Day is an attribute attached to a buy or sell order, to keep the order in system, until a date if not canceled or e

Gravestone Doji:
Gravestone Doji candlestick is a candlestick pattern with out a real body. They represent the areas of uncertainty.
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Stock Trading Terminology - H

Hanging Man:
A Hanging Man candlestick is a reversal candlestick pattern with long lower shadow and no upper wick. They are bearish in nat

Harami:
Harami is a candlestick pattern, which shows the indecision of the market. In Japanese language, it means, pregnant. It is made

Head and Shoulder:

Head and Shoulder is one of the very common and profitable chart patterns. It is very reliable with 95% probability. Its similarit

Hedging:
Offsetting or guarding against investment risk. A perfect hedge is a no-risk-no gain precaution. A conservative strategy for redu

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Stock Trading Terminology - I

Iceberg Order:
Iceberg order is a large order which has been divided into smaller orders, usually by the use of an automated program, for the

IOC or Immediate Or Cancel:

IOC or Immediate Or Cancel is an attribute attached to a buy or sell order, to execute the transactions immediately or to cancel

Inverted Hammer:
Inverted Hammer is a bullish reversal candlestick pattern. They occur at the bottom of a down trend.

Island Formation:
Island Formation is a reversal chart pattern, formed by price action in a multiple time period, which is separated from rest of th

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Stock Trading Terminology - J

Japanese Candle Charts:
Japanese Candle chart or simply candlesticks are stock charts used in charting and study of chart patterns in technical analysis.
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Stock Trading Terminology - K

Kagi Charts:
Kagi Charts are stock charts used in charting and study of chart patterns in technical analysis. It differs from traditional stock ch

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Stock Trading Terminology - L

Lagging Indicators:
Lagging Indicators are stock trading technical indicators, which indicate the change in the trend or momentum after the actual

Leading Indicators:
Leading Indicators are stock trading technical indicators, which indicate the change in the trend and momentum in advance.

LOC or Limit On Close Order:

LOC or Limit On Close Order allows the trader to buy or sell in the post market auction at a limit price.

LOO or Limit On Open Order:

LOO or Limit On Open Order allows the trader to buy or sell in the market open auction at a limit price.

Limit Order:
Limit order is an attribute attached to a buy or sell order, which will allow you to trade at your price or a better price.

Line Charts:
Line charts are stock charts used in charting and study of chart patterns in technical analysis. These charts are created by conn

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Stock Trading Terminology - M

MACD:
MACD indicator is an abbreviation of Moving Average Convergence Divergence indicator. It is a technical indicator created by G
MIT or Market if touched order:
MIT or Market if touched order allows the trader to buy at a lower and sell at a higher than the prevailing price.

Market Maker:
A brokerage firm or a bank, who creates or felicitates stock trading, by providing quotations both for buy and sell prices.

MOC or Market On Close Order:

MOC or Market On Close Order allows the trader to buy or sell in the post market auction at a market close price.

MOO or Market on open order:

MOO or Market on open order allows the trader to buy or sell in the market open auction at a market price.

Market Order:
Market order is an attribute attached to a buy or sell order, which will allow you to buy or sell at the best available price.

Market Trends:
Market trends signifies the movement of the stock prices, in any one direction compared to its historical prices. Understanding

Marubozu:
Marubozu candlestick is a candlestick pattern with out shadows. They represent strong trends in the market.

MF or Minimum Fill Order:

MF or Minimum Fill Order is an attribute attached to an order, so that a minimum number of shares has to be available, for the

Momentum Day Trading:

Momentum Day Trading is a method of stock trading, where in a trade is made, when the stock is making a trending movemen

Momentum Trading:
Momentum Trading is a method of stock trading, where in a trade is made, when the stock is making a trending movement.

Money Management:
It is a process of managing capital, to reduce the risk and increase the reward.

Morning Doji Star:

Morning Doji Star is a bullish reversal candlestick pattern. They occur at the bottom of a down trend.

Morning Star:
Morning Star is a bullish reversal candlestick pattern. They occur at the bottom of a down trend.

Multiple Top:
Multiple Tops is a reversal chart patterns, where a stock in an up trend, hits a resistance level several times and reverses to con
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Stock Trading Terminology - O

Oco or One cancels other order:
Oco or One cancels other order allows a trader to execute only one of the possible two trades.

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Stock Trading Terminology - P

Patterns Formations:
Pattern formations or chart formations are resting areas in a trending market, where the prices consolidate to form figurative c

Pennants:
Pennants are continuation chart patterns, formed by a minor consolidation, which is contained with in a small symmetrical tria

Piercing Pattern:
Piercing Pattern is a bullish reversal candlestick pattern. They occur at the bottom of a down trend.

Pivot Points:
In technical analysis the significant price levels, which might act as support and resistance for the future price movement, are c

Point and Figure charts:

Point and Figure charts are stock charts used in charting and study of chart patterns in technical analysis. Like in Kagi charts, th

Price Action Trading:

Price Action Trading is a technique of day trading and profiting in stock market. This is a simplistic and minimalistic approach to

Price Channel:
Price Channel can be both continuation and reversal chart patterns. The stock prices tend to move between two horizontal sup

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Stock Trading Terminology - R

Range Trading:
Range Trading is a technique of stock trading, where a stock is bought and sold, when the prices move up and down with in a d
Rebate Trading:
Rebate Trading is a technique of day trading and profiting in stock market. Here instead of trader paying the commission for bu

Rectangle Formation:
Rectangle Formation can be both continuation and reversal chart patterns. The stock prices tend to move between two horizon

Renko Charts:
Renko charts are stock charts used in charting and study of chart patterns in technical analysis. They disregard the time factor i

Resistance:
Resistance in a stock chart are the pressure areas which tries to block a rising price.

Reversal Patterns:
Reversal patterns are chart patterns, which are formed due to reversal of demand and supply, seen at the end of a trend.

Rising Wedge:
Rising Wedge is a continuation chart pattern, formed by price action, which is contained with in a converging and ascending tre

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Stock Trading Terminology - S

Scalping:
Scalping is a technique of investing and profiting in stock market. It is a day trading strategy. It involves taking quick and small p

Share:
A unit ownership proportional to the investment made in a company.

Share certificate:
This is a legal document which can be used as proof of ownership of a shareholding.

Shooting Star:
Shooting Star is a bearish reversal candlestick pattern. They occur at the top of an up trend.

Security:
A Security is a valid and unique combination of Symbol and Series. Securities are traded in the Capital Market. Shares and Debe

Spinning Top:
Spinning Top candlestick is a candlestick pattern with small real body. They represent the areas of uncertainty.

Stock:
A financial instrument that signifies an ownership of a company, and represents a claim on its proportional share in the compa

Stock Chart:
A stock chart is a visual representation of data, in which the data is represented by symbols such as lines in a line chart, bars in

Stock Exchange:
Stock Market are the places, where exactly you do your business. Your transactions are executed at the stock exchanges throug

Stock Trading:
Buying and selling of securities and commodities.

Stock Trading Orders:

Stock Trading Orders are a set of instructions, given to the stock broker, regarding buying or selling a stock.

Stock Trading plan:

Stock Trading plan is a set of instructions to yourself, to take action, right from first order placing to enter a trade, to the last or

Stop Limit Order:

Stop Limit order is an attribute attached to a buy or sell order, so that the order gets executed as a limit order, only after the pr

Stop Loss Order:

Stop Loss order is an attribute attached to a buy or sell order, so that the order gets executed as a market order, only after the p

Support:
Support in a stock chart are the pressure areas which tries to hold a falling price.

Swing Charts:
Swing charts are stock charts used in charting and study of chart patterns in technical analysis. They plot the price swings of a s

Symmetrical Triangle:
Symmetrical Triangle is a chart pattern, characterized by converging top and bottoms. This is created when there is indecision i

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Stock Trading Terminology - T

Technical Analysis:
Technical analysis is a security analysis based on stock's market data like, price and volume, and open interest in case of future

Technical Indicators:
Technical Indicators in stock trading shows you the direction of the market, when probably to buy or sell, when probably to boo
Three Black Crows:
Three Black Crows is a candlestick pattern, which shows the strength of the declining market.

Three Line Break Charts:

Three Line Break Charts are stock charts used in charting and study of chart patterns in technical analysis. They use three block

Three White Soldiers:

Three White Soldiers is a candlestick pattern, which shows the strength of the advancing market.

Trend Lines:
Trend lines are formed by joining two or more support or resistance pressure points. This when extended offers support and re

Trend Line Break:

Trend Line Break is a reversal chart patterns, where a stock in an up trend, breaks out of a support trend line and a stock in a do

Trend Trading:
Trend Trading is a technique of stock trading, where a trade is entered after confirmation of a trend and is carried on to the end

Triple Top:
Triple Top is a reversal chart patterns, where a stock in an up trend, hits a resistance level thrice and reverses to continue in a d

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Stock Trading Terminology - V

Value Investing:
Value Investing is a method of stock trading, where in investment is made in undervalued companies which have high intrinsic

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Stock Trading Terminology - W

White Candles:
White Candles or white candlesticks are bullish lines in candlestick and candlevolume charts. They signify that the closing is hig

Good ‘Til Canceled-this is a stock order to either buy or sell that stays in effectuntil you cancel it.

Growth Stock-this is a company that has shown the ability to increaseprofits, generally over at least a five year period of time.
Hype-I deal with this a lot. It is when those scummy stock promoters mislead investors by throwing around misleading and inac

Leverage-this is when a trader uses borrowed funds to increase the rate of return on an investment.

Limit Order-this is a type of order where an individual instructs their broker to buy or sell asecurity at a clearly stated price, or b

Margin-this is when a trader borrows money from a brokerage firm in order to buy securities.

Net Income-this is a company’s profits from operations.

Net Worth-this is a company’s assets minus liabilities.

Open Order-this is an order that a trader has given to buy or sell stock, but has not yet been completed or filled. So if you have

Portfolio-this is all the specific securities you currently hold.

Public Offering-this is the sale of securities to the general public.

Rally-a sudden increase in the market value of a company.

Reverse Split-this is when a company reduces the total number of outstanding shares.

Shares Outstanding-this is the number of shares owned by thepublic and not held by the company.

Stock Split-this is dividing existing stock into more shares. It reduces the price per share.

Stop Order-this is an order buy or sell a security when its price surpasses a particular point in order to increase profitability. Th

Volume-this is the number of shares of stock traded.

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Averaging Down: This is when an investor buys more of a stock as the price goes down. This makes it so your average purchase

Bear Market: This is trading talk for the stock market being in a down trend, or a period of falling stock prices. This is the oppos

Beta: A measurement of the relationship between the price of a stock and the movement of the whole market. If stock XYZ has

Blue Chip Stocks: These are the large, industry leading companies. They offer a stable record of significant dividend payments a

Bull Market: This is when the stock market as a whole is in a prolonged period of increasing stock prices. Opposite of a bear ma

Broker: A person who buys or sells an investment for you in exchange for a fee (a commission). Here is Tim’s favorite broker. (LI

Day Trading: The practice of buying and selling within the same trading day, before the close of the markets on that day. This is

Dividend: this is a portion of a company’s earnings that is paid to shareholders, or people that own hat company’s stock, on a q

Exchange: An exchange is a place in which different investments are traded. The most well-known in the United States are the

Execution: When an order to buy or sell has been completed. If you put in an order to sell 100 shares, this means that all 100 s

Hedge: This is used to limit your losses. You can do this by taking an offsetting position. For example, if you hold 100 shares of X

Index: An index is a benchmark which is used as a reference marker for traders and portfolio managers. A 10% may sound good

Initial Public Offering (IPO): The first sale or offering of a stock by a company to the public, rather than just being owned by pri

Margin: A margin account lets a person borrow money (take out a loan essentially) from a broker to purchase an investment. T

Moving Average: A stock’s average price-per-share during a specific period of time. Some time frames are 50 and 200 day movi

Order: An investor’s bid to buy or sell a certain amount of stock or option contracts. You have to put an order in to buy or sell 1

Portfolio: A collection of investments owned by an investor. You can have as little as one stock in a portfolio to an infinite amou

Quote: Information on a stock’s latest trading price. This is sometimes delayed by 20 minutes unless you are using an actual br

Rally: A rapid increase in the general price level of the market or of the price of a stock.

Sector: A group of stocks that are in the same business. An example would be the “Technology” sector including companies lik

Spread: This is the difference between the bid and the ask prices of a stock, or the amount someone is willing to buy it and som
Stock Symbol: A one-character to three-character, alphabetic root symbol, which represents a publically traded company on a s

Volatility: This refers to the price movements of a stock or the stock market as a whole. Highly volatile stocks are ones with extr

Volume: The number of shares of stock traded during a particular time period, normally measured in average daily trading volu

Yield: This usually refers to the measure of the return on an investment that is received from the payment of a dividend. This is
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sued. Earnings per share is more important than the overall reported profit figure, because the EPS provides a better measure of profitabil

volume in a bar.

gister at a pre-announced date.

g company and is unconcerned about daily price movements and volume variations.

created to allow producers or consumers to hedge the risk of the possible price change in the future.

known as GTT orders, meaning Good Till Time.

ontaining the other.

der of a man gives it its name. It can be a bullish pattern or a bearish pattern.

tures, options or some other derivative, by opening an opposite position to that already held in the underlying market. Taking positions in

actual order quantity.

It is very reliable with 80% probability.

ally illustrate supply and demand concepts defined by classical technical analysis theories.
estick chart by being independent of time and volume.

points together to form a line. This is the basic type of chart common in many fields.
the first step in technical analysis.

d at the end of the day.

rd the passage of time and the chart changes only when the price changes. Rather than having price on the y-axis and time on the x-axis, th

are referred as Price action Traders.

being paid by the service provider. ECN rebate is the primary source of profit.

d bid differences. When there is bigger differences, as happens during increased volatility, such situations are used to chip off small profits.

ples of securities.
in a candlestick chart.

ou have a membership with that exchange.

fit or loss, as case may be.

fic trigger price.

ecific trigger price.

factor. They are also called as Gann charts because their construction is based on W.D.Gann's method of trading.

ly when not to do anything. They are derived from the price and volume values.
down block (line) and a reversal block (line), for charting. These charts disregards the time factor, which is usually plotted on the X axis, in c

future. These are the basic technical analysis tools.

of a resistance trend line.

hat time period.

ed to increase a stock’s price.

this, NEVER market orders.

XYZ at $50 but the order is still open, you still do not own stock XYZ.

0% guarantee since the stock must trade at the price that you entered your order to get filled.

n the basics first and then continue to expand on that knowledge throughout the program. Here are some terms that you need to know if y
ans that for every 1 point move in the market, stock XYZ moves 1.5 points and vice versa.

of sound fiscal management. The expression is thought to have been derived from blue gambling chips, which is the highest denomination

es, although he does have a long-term portfolio as well. Traders that participate in day trading are often called “active traders” or “day trade

s. Not all company’s do this.

ge and the Nasdaq.

e stock or futures positions on the stock.

ex returned 12%, then you didn’t do very well since you could have just invested in an index fund and saved time by not trading frequently.

the amount of the loan, and the price of the securities, is called the margin.
s stock symbol is AAPL.

n movements and wide intraday trading ranges. This is often common with stocks that are thinly traded, or have low trading volumes. This

g the annual dividend amount by the price paid for the stock. If you bought stock XYZ for $40-a-share and it pays a $1.00-per-year dividend
es a better measure of profitability.
ying market. Taking positions in securities so that each offsets the other.
e y-axis and time on the x-axis, these charts display price changes on both axis.
are used to chip off small profits.
usually plotted on the X axis, in commonly used stock charts.
terms that you need to know if you want to be a profitable trader.
ch is the highest denomination of chips used in casinos.

ed “active traders” or “day traders.”

d time by not trading frequently. Examples are the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Standard & Poor’s 500.
 have low trading volumes. This is also common with the stocks that Tim trades.

it pays a $1.00-per-year dividend, you have a “yield” of 2.5%

There is an old saying in business: "Fail to plan and you plan to fail." It may sound glib, but those who are serious ab

If you have a written trading or investment plan, congratulations! You are in the minority. While it is still no absolute

Whether or not you have a plan now, here are some ideas to help with the process.

Disaster Avoidance 101

Trading is a business, so you have to treat it as such if you want to succeed. Reading some books, buying a charting

Once a trader knows where the market has the potential to pause or reverse, they must then determine which one

Building the Perfect Master Plan

What are the components of a good trading plan? Here are 10 essentials that every plan should include:

1. Skill Assessment
Are you ready to trade? Have you tested your system by paper trading it and do you have confidence that it works?

2. Mental Preparation
How do you feel? Did you get a good night's sleep? Do you feel up to the challenge ahead? If you are not emotional

3. Set Risk Level

How much of your portfolio should you risk on any one trade? It can range anywhere from around 1% to as much as

4. Set Goals
Before you enter a trade, set realistic profit targets and risk/reward ratios. What is the minimum risk/reward you wi

5. Do Your Homework
Before the market opens, what is going on around the world? Are overseas markets up or down? Are index futures

6. Trade Preparation
Whatever trading system and program you use, label major and minor support and resistance levels, set alerts for e

7. Set Exit Rules

Most traders make the mistake of concentrating 90% or more of their efforts in looking for buy signals, but pay very

Before you enter a trade, you should know where your exits are. There are at least two for every trade. First, what is

8. Set Entry Rules

This comes after the tips for exit rules for a reason: exits are far more important than entries. A typical entry rule co

9. Keep Excellent Records

All good traders are also good record keepers. If they win a trade, they want to know exactly why and how. More im

10. Perform a Post-Mortem

After each trading day, adding up the profit or loss is secondary to knowing the why and how. Write down your conc
The Bottom Line
Successful paper trading does not guarantee that you will have success when you begin trading real money and em

There is no way to guarantee that a trade will make money. The trader's chances are based on their skill and system

Traders who win consistently treat trading as a business. While it's not a guarantee that you will make money, havin
 b, but those who are serious about being successful, including traders, should follow these eight words as if they were written in stone

ority. While it is still no absolute guarantee of success, you have eliminated one major roadblock. If your plan uses flawed techniques o

some books, buying a charting program, opening a brokerage account and starting to trade are not a business plan - it is a recipe for di

must then determine which one it will be and act accordingly. A plan should be written in stone while you are trading, but subject to re-

plan should include:

have confidence that it works? Can you follow your signals without hesitation? Trading in the markets is a battle of give and take. The r

ahead? If you are not emotionally and psychologically ready to do battle in the markets, it is better to take the day off - otherwise, you

e from around 1% to as much as 5% of your portfolio on a given trading day. That means if you lose that amount at any point in the day

he minimum risk/reward you will accept? Many traders will not take a trade unless the potential profit is at least three times greater th

up or down? Are index futures such as the S&P 500 or Nasdaq 100 exchange-traded funds up or down in pre-market? Index futures ar

resistance levels, set alerts for entry and exit signals and make sure all signals can be easily seen or detected with a clear visual or audit

ing for buy signals, but pay very little attention to when and where to exit. Many traders cannot sell if they are down because they don

wo for every trade. First, what is your stop loss if the trade goes against you? It must be written down. Mental stops don't count. Secon

n entries. A typical entry rule could be worded like this: "If signal A fires and there is a minimum target at least three times as great as m

w exactly why and how. More importantly, they want to know the same when they lose, so they don't repeat unnecessary mistakes. Wr

and how. Write down your conclusions in your trading journal so that you can reference them again later.
egin trading real money and emotions come into play. But successful paper trading does give the trader confidence that the system the

e based on their skill and system of winning and losing. There is no such thing as winning without losing. Professional traders know befo

hat you will make money, having a plan is crucial if you want to become consistently successful and survive in the trading game.
 if they were written in stone. Ask any trader who makes money on a consistent basis and they will tell you, "You have two choices: you

an uses flawed techniques or lacks preparation, your success won't come immediately, but at least you are in a position to chart and m

ness plan - it is a recipe for disaster. (See also: Investing 101)

re trading, but subject to re-evaluation once the market has closed. It changes with market conditions and adjusts as the trader's skill l

battle of give and take. The real pros are prepared and they take their profits from the rest of the crowd who, lacking a plan, give their

the day off - otherwise, you risk losing your shirt. This is guaranteed to happen if you are angry, preoccupied or otherwise distracted fro

mount at any point in the day, you get out and stay out. This will depend on your trading style and risk tolerance. Better to keep powder

least three times greater than the risk. For example, if your stop loss is a dollar loss per share, your goal should be a $3 profit. Set wee

pre-market? Index futures are a good way of gauging market mood before the market opens. What economic or earnings data is due ou

d with a clear visual or auditory signal. Your trading area should not offer distractions. Remember, this is a business, and distractions ca

are down because they don't want to take a loss. Get over it or you will not make it as a trader. If your stop gets hit, it means you were

ntal stops don't count. Second, each trade should have a profit target. Once you get there, sell a portion of your position and you can m

east three times as great as my stop loss and we are at support, then buy X contracts or shares here." Your system should be complicate

at unnecessary mistakes. Write down details such as targets, the entry and exit of each trade, the time, support and resistance levels, d
nfidence that the system they are going to use actually works. Deciding on a system is less important than gaining enough skill so that y

ofessional traders know before they enter a trade that the odds are in their favor or they wouldn't be there. By letting their profits ride

e in the trading game.

, "You have two choices: you can either methodically follow a written plan, or fail."

in a position to chart and modify your course. By documenting the process, you learn what works and how to avoid repeating costly m

adjusts as the trader's skill level improves. Each trader should write their own plan, taking into account personal trading styles and goa

ho, lacking a plan, give their money away through costly mistakes.

d or otherwise distracted from the task at hand. Many traders have a market mantra they repeat before the day begins to get them rea

ance. Better to keep powder dry to fight another day if things aren't going your way. (See also: What is your risk tolerance?)

hould be a $3 profit. Set weekly, monthly and annual profit goals in dollars or as a percentage of your portfolio, and re-assess them regu

mic or earnings data is due out and when? Post a list on the wall in front of you and decide whether you want to trade ahead of an impo

business, and distractions can be costly.

p gets hit, it means you were wrong. Don't take it personally. Professional traders lose more trades than they win, but by managing mon

your position and you can move your stop loss on the rest of your position to break even if you wish. As discussed above, never risk mo

system should be complicated enough to be effective, but simple enough to facilitate snap decisions. If you have 20 conditions that mu

pport and resistance levels, daily opening range, market open and close for the day and record comments about why you made the trad
gaining enough skill so that you are able to make trades without second guessing or doubting the decision.

e. By letting their profits ride and cutting losses short, a trader may lose some battles, but they will win the war. Most traders and inves
w to avoid repeating costly mistakes.

rsonal trading styles and goals. Using someone else's plan does not reflect your trading characteristics. (See also: Fibonacci And The Go

he day begins to get them ready. Create one that puts you in the trading zone.

r risk tolerance?)

olio, and re-assess them regularly. (See also: Calculating Risk And Reward)

nt to trade ahead of an important economic report. For most traders, it is better to wait until the report is released than take unnecess

ey win, but by managing money and limiting losses, they still end up making profits.

scussed above, never risk more than a set percentage of your portfolio on any trade.

u have 20 conditions that must be met and many are subjective, you will find it difficult if not impossible to actually make trades. Comp

about why you made the trade and lessons learned. Also, you should save your trading records so that you can go back and analyze the
war. Most traders and investors do the opposite, which is why they never make money.
e also: Fibonacci And The Golden Ratio)

released than take unnecessary risk. Pros trade based on probabilities. They don't gamble.

actually make trades. Computers often make better traders than people, which may explain why nearly 50% of all trades that now occ

can go back and analyze the profit or loss for a particular system, draw-downs (which are amounts lost per trade using a trading system
% of all trades that now occur on the New York Stock Exchange are computer-program generated. Computers don't have to think or fe

trade using a trading system), average time per trade (which is necessary to calculate trade efficiency) and other important factors, an
 ers don't have to think or feel good to make a trade. If conditions are met, they enter. When the trade goes the wrong way or hits a pro

d other important factors, and also compare them to a buy-and-hold strategy. Remember, this is a business and you are the accountant.
s the wrong way or hits a profit target, they exit. They don't get angry at the market or feel invincible after making a few good trades. E

and you are the accountant.

making a few good trades. Each decision is based on probabilities. (See also: The NYSE And Nasdaq: How They Work)
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The Structure of the Moby Jones Stock Trade Floor (Space Cloud Investment Funders)

Hand signal" is the sign language used by traders to transmit basic information on the trading floor.

Speed
In an environment where the difference between potential profits or losses could be one second, fast communication betw
is very important. It is much faster for traders and brokers to communicate by hand signals across the trading floor, as opp
between the trading pit and the order desks above it.

Noise Level
The noise level in trading pit is very high and makes it near impossible to clearly hear, which makes it sensible to communic

Common Signals (Also refered to as Open Outcry Signals)

The 'Sell' signal is represented by putting up the hands with the palms facing away from the face.
The 'Stop' or stop order signal is represented by putting a fist into a palm.

The 'Out' or cancel order signal is represented by slashing hand across throat.

The nine common trading signals cover "buy," "sell," "stop an order," "cancel an order," the number of orders, "put" and "c

Although the use of electronic devices and the Internet has made buying and selling stock on the stock floor seem like a fo
and on smaller exchanges. No matter the size of the trading floor, the process of trading stock can be noisy, making commu
to help traders communicate with those not in the "pit" where the trades take place, and so trading floor runners can know

Holding two hands up with the palms facing inward means buy. If you want to own something, you want it to pull it toward
To indicate you want to sell, your palms should be facing outward, or away from you, as if you were pushing something from
There are several trading signals to cover the quantity of orders that need to be placed. For multiples between one and nin
finger on your forehead. For multiples of 100, make a fist and place it on your forehead. The number of times you tap, indic

If you want to stop an order, place your palm against your fist. This means to stop placing orders until told to do otherwise.
to completely cancel an order, rest your hand palm facing down against your chin and rest it against your throat.
Options also have trading signals. A put, which means the owner can sell a stock at a specific price for a specific amount of
and index finger. A call means the owner can buy a stock at a specific price for a specific price. This hand signal is made by

Knowing the trading signals of the open-outcry system is a must for trading floor runners as well as those who give out the