Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-5542146-20190425055453

I have been trying out different scenarios in my head of sci-fi horror involving time travel and particle experiments gone wrong involving a Very Large Hadron Collider on the Moon. To be honest... this is an additional plot-line I am adding to a preexisting story, to make it more personal. It is about the team of scientists who first discover the fifth fundamental force of physics, and a man on this team who first discovers how to travel at the speed of light utilizing artificial singularities and dark antimatter. It is tied loosely to Totality (although I'll probably have that deleted here shortly and replaced with something better, may use part of it in the final draft, might use none, but I personally dislike it as a piece of writing). Although being able to observe the string theory landscape (the Calibi-Yau manifold physics of the fifth-through-eleventh dimensions) and observe the universe from an artificially-induced black hole while surviving an ordeal not meant to be survived and carrying information not meant to be carried by a living human can have some catastrophic effects on an individual and everyone in some form of a personal relationship with him.

Long story short: inside a black hole, space and time switch places, and Dr. Schwartz was able to see past, present and future - simultaneously, as well as being the first human being able to fully comprehend a singularity and utilize it to generate an FTL drive (not fully developed on the science yet, focusing more on the story and literary aspects first), and he is able to see the effects that this 'singularity' has on the future of humanity in the following centuries, involving the rise of a species of transhumans and machines, discovery of intelligent life on Europa, a crisis involving transhuman revolution against Earth, and an entire system of moons numbering in the millions under siege by a nigh-endless army of malfunctioning, murderous war machines intent on destroying any and all potential threats to their Creator God - the Titan Corporation. The very same corporation that had funded the project. Notwithstanding the at-that-point practically inevitable encounter with a hostile extraterrestrial organism, which is the primary thing that makes him completely fucking snap - because his realization of the reality and sheer implication of it - the Fermi paradox, the Great Filter, the warnings of Einstein and Hawking - everything - he realized it was going to suck for us. Like, literally googolplex magnitudes and degrees of how unbelievably F*CKED we are. So the build-up and driving plot point is how the characters in both story arcs - and how they relate to humanity's (and transhumanity's) first encounter with a hostile extraterrestrial organism.

Very strong ALIEN inspiration but I'm working on it as a kind of "hats-off" to that film, and its many, many, many other siblings, inspirations, knock-offs, knock-ons, sequels, requels, etc. that spawned from that era of 70's and 80's Sci-Fi Horror, while also drawn from my research into human history and the story of our species itself - all of the countless wars, crises, and exchanges in general between changing and evolving territories and the ideologies and political-socioeconomic systems that shape them, the people and how they interact with it, how they change it and how it changes them. I tried to envision a "realistic" take on a 23rd Century "political crisis" except on an interplanetary scale instead of international/global, so it has some thriller and military action aspects in it. The rise of nationalist movements in, and thereafter collapse of, the United Republics of Saturn. The influence of Jovian supremacists on Pallas and Mars. Etc etc. Its called "The Speed of Light", and if anyone has any ideas/suggestions or would like to collaborate, hey - the more the merrier. 