V - the Visitors
I’m posting a picture story on my tumblr, but hit a wall where I have finished the script, but little motivation to take any more screenshots. Maybe if I post here, too, I’ll find that motivation agai...
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Prologue (2 of 3)
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Hank and Gavin cannot know that their joke is actually the truth. An alien capital ship has entered Earth’s atmosphere and is about to drop its cloaking device in a coordinated effort with forty-nine others.
From a faraway star system these visitors may come, but they look human. Even the smiles they exchange and their nervousness gestures when faced with their difficult task are astonishingly similar to Homo sapiens’.
The only noticeable difference is the red light that fills the bridge. The lamps radiating it are installed here solely for warmth and therefore energy. The crew’s eyes, despite these beings being tetrachromates, have lost the red cone. To them red appears white.
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Simon: “Approaching the east coast of the You Essay. Preparing for landfill…”
Markus: “I hope not.”
Simon: “Huh? Oh, I see. Preparing for landFALL… All systems are perfectly in sync with the rest of the fleet.”
Josh: “Same goes for the communication channels, Captain. If we wanted, we could play a fleetwide game of Bingo.”
Markus: “Good! Simon - activate the extravehicular cameras!”
…
Markus: “Simon…?”
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Markus: “That’s you, Lieutenant!”
Simon: “Oh! Ah… sorry. I should get used to getting called by a human name, right? Ssssimon. My name is Simon.”
Markus: “What’s our ship’s name in human speech?”
Simon: “The Jericho! How could I forget that?!”
Markus: “Your priorities are weird, Lieutenant. Let us see some landscape now!”
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When the Jericho’s external cameras capture the first impressions of Earth, the whole bridge crew gasps audibly. It’s a windy day, and the waves crash on the shores of Lake Erie forcefully. The majesty of the display is not lost to the visitors, but because they function very similar to humans mentally, the first bridge officer already start joking to conceal just how deeply touched they are:
North: “Get out the floaties, guys, this is a planetwide beach resort!”
Josh: “According to the humans’ lore, these are called “lakes”. Imagine! All this water, and those barbarians say Oh, that, yeah, that’s just a lake!”
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Markus: “All this water…”
Simon: “And food!”
Markus: “Huh? Where?”
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Simon: “One moment… I’m zooming in as close as possible… There!”
North: “Aw, now you’ve made me hungry!”
Markus: “Haha! Leave it to us to approach a new planet and immediately locate a pizza delivery person! That’s why we’re the best ship in this fleet!”
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Simon: “So what do you say, Captain? Should we go down right here?”
Markus: “Of course! Not even a question!”
Simon: “And the pool floaties, haha? I don’t think we brought any.”
Markus: “You can’t tell me the humans haven’t invented the most natural object for people living at the sea? I bet they have beach equipment that we never dreamed of! Soon as we get shore leave, there’ll be an epic shopping spree!”
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Hank and Gavin cannot know that their joke is actually the truth. An alien capital ship has entered Earth’s atmosphere and is about to drop its cloaking device in a coordinated effort with forty-nine others.
From a faraway star system these visitors may come, but they look human. Even the smiles they exchange and their nervousness gestures when faced with their difficult task are astonishingly similar to Homo sapiens’.
The only noticeable difference is the red light that fills the bridge. The lamps radiating it are installed here solely for warmth and therefore energy. The crew’s eyes, despite these beings being tetrachromates, have lost the red cone. To them red appears white.
https://64.media.tumblr.com/dc22ed2eaef19acb7ed4a63b0bebe86d/84001c462b95a344-0c/s500x750/1e6717a7cc177282bb677ee3f7f6987b7469276d.png
Simon: “Approaching the east coast of the You Essay. Preparing for landfill…”
Markus: “I hope not.”
Simon: “Huh? Oh, I see. Preparing for landFALL… All systems are perfectly in sync with the rest of the fleet.”
Josh: “Same goes for the communication channels, Captain. If we wanted, we could play a fleetwide game of Bingo.”
Markus: “Good! Simon - activate the extravehicular cameras!”
…
Markus: “Simon…?”
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Markus: “That’s you, Lieutenant!”
Simon: “Oh! Ah… sorry. I should get used to getting called by a human name, right? Ssssimon. My name is Simon.”
Markus: “What’s our ship’s name in human speech?”
Simon: “The Jericho! How could I forget that?!”
Markus: “Your priorities are weird, Lieutenant. Let us see some landscape now!”
https://64.media.tumblr.com/b0b6ff260b71cf7dd4e679ad5c5d053c/a8a253da94eda7aa-59/s1280x1920/5e74735e3e723c9073e244454096d95305f5a221.png
When the Jericho’s external cameras capture the first impressions of Earth, the whole bridge crew gasps audibly. It’s a windy day, and the waves crash on the shores of Lake Erie forcefully. The majesty of the display is not lost to the visitors, but because they function very similar to humans mentally, the first bridge officer already start joking to conceal just how deeply touched they are:
North: “Get out the floaties, guys, this is a planetwide beach resort!”
Josh: “According to the humans’ lore, these are called “lakes”. Imagine! All this water, and those barbarians say Oh, that, yeah, that’s just a lake!”
https://64.media.tumblr.com/c68d605824772cffb0624022fccb9946/a8a253da94eda7aa-e8/s500x750/2647faa2a04a219c71afb5a836acb7c1c88a48c7.png
Markus: “All this water…”
Simon: “And food!”
Markus: “Huh? Where?”
https://64.media.tumblr.com/856673165e24393b92f10c252d42236a/a8a253da94eda7aa-a4/s500x750/b989ce7d0c59d37acc8f1405e0d116ac1ce5140f.png
Simon: “One moment… I’m zooming in as close as possible… There!”
North: “Aw, now you’ve made me hungry!”
Markus: “Haha! Leave it to us to approach a new planet and immediately locate a pizza delivery person! That’s why we’re the best ship in this fleet!”
https://64.media.tumblr.com/7c137348a854ff861fe893bbbec2a989/a8a253da94eda7aa-54/s500x750/418eeb3dc7fe36c600b45497fde6fbcf97f06bd3.png
Simon: “So what do you say, Captain? Should we go down right here?”
Markus: “Of course! Not even a question!”
Simon: “And the pool floaties, haha? I don’t think we brought any.”
Markus: “You can’t tell me the humans haven’t invented the most natural object for people living at the sea? I bet they have beach equipment that we never dreamed of! Soon as we get shore leave, there’ll be an epic shopping spree!”
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