Drew Vaughn Jones

Story Arc - Synopsis : Submission Material for the 2018 and 2019 Creator For Creator's Grant    (registered copyrights -2014)

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                                       Submission Material for the 2020 Creative Capital Grant

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LOCUS – Archetype Implosion is a sci-fi fantasy battle quest that is set on the planet Ogdo which exists in a binary solar system having two moons, the toxic volcanic moon Burrdin and the ice covered oceanic moon Watos. After intergalactic giants landed on Ogdo and cut down all the mammoth ancient trees, the planet’s core crystal exploded destroying the surface forests of the moon Veridia, now known as Burrdin, while simultaneously creating Watos when the massive polar ocean was blown off the planet. This catastrophe results in 90 percent of Ogdo’s surface being covered in a greenish gray crystal ash, known as the Crystal Ash Dunes and Grand Plateaux. A great alignment of the two suns and both moons is to create a gravitational and magnetic field event that will seed a new core crystal into the planet reestablishing the oceans and bringing the planet back to flourishing life and ecological balance. (this story element was copywritten before the 2011 Dark Crystal graphic novel series published through Archaia Entertainment - the concept of a large crystal that was inside the planet was written about after I had written about it already in 2003) .

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A supernatural being, a celestial shape-shifter named Justitia (last name: Laniakea), is asked by the Source to partake in a mission to facilitate the natural orbital alignment that will heal the planet Ogdo by halting the sinister attempts to disrupt the alignment. Justitia, with the capability of manifesting wings of Light for long distance travel and the capability of manifesting a mer-tail of Light over her legs for deep water excursions is able to reabsorb both Light manifestations back into her semi-material human-looking body. She also possesses the ability to form a protective auric shield, an orb of Light around her form, needed when traveling in space. Justitia does not age nor does she feel pain; this does not mean that she cannot die. After reentering the universe from the Infinite Home, she rendezvous with some celestial allies at the edge of the universe in a Balance World who equip her with a high tech bow that is capable of harnessing Light for healing arrows and arrows of dark matter for eliminating rapacious creatures. Justitia is sent to the binary solar system of Ogdo by way of wormhole portal knowing the first part of her mission is to locate and retrieve a basket-ball sized seed that is lodged in a rock crevasse somewhere deep in the oceans on the ice covered water moon. Once arriving on the planet, Justitia makes friends with the Ramathar, a dragon species that are original inhabitants of Ogdo, and a subsequent meeting with their exalted shamans to contact the aquatic dragon species that live on Watos to inform them she will be coming and for their assistance in helping her locate the seed. This seed is later planted on Ogdo by Justitia in the crystal ash at the edge of an aquifer that then grows into the Mother Tree giving birth to the pod-born Zyphillians, a peaceful species of plant aliens. The Zyphillians give life to the next generation seed-born Denu-Zenns, or Zenns for short, which become the massive resistance against Gwogolian invasions. After ten thousand years of Zenn civilization and warring with the Gwogs awaiting the Great Alignment, close to the time of the alignment Justitia is made aware by the Oracle that the sorceress Devastatia has a terrible weapon: an enormous leviathan creature, which she plans to use as the means to disrupt the alignment. Justitia then goes on a journey to find something that will counteract such a force. This is when she teams up with an stalwart Zenn and her two loyal Ramathar companions, who together find an anomaly living on the planet, a lionoid being named Vahz that the Zyphillian Seers say is needed to join their team to go on the quest to find what’s necessary to counter the Leviathan. The story primarily revolves around the quest of these five, and their allies, as they battle antagonistic forces of nature and galactic assassins hired by Devastatia to stop them.

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The shadow sorceress Devastastia with her technological onslaught and Gwogolian army is planning to make the planet home for her corporate empire headquarters, which does not involve having the planet replenished with oceans. Devastastia has ravaged the galaxy’s planets that are home to lesser technologically advanced or more primitive civilizations of their precious resources.  She has accumulated all of her takings in gigantic storage vaults within her mother ship; many have come to call the Galactic Parasite. She has everything she needs now to build a global corporation to leave behind as her legacy as part of the Associated Shadow Casters (ASC), an intergalactic/interdimensional organization motivated by greed and sinister power dynamics.  For thousands of years she has kept herself young and powerful by use of spirit extracting sorcery by way of an ageless dark symbiont that has attached itself to her consciousness, that unbeknownst to her has only been using her. Devastatia’s reptilian and insectoid scientists have developed high technology and have been cloning a species of humanoid creatures called the Gwogolians that she uses as both slave harvesters and military might. Her clairvoyant warlocks have made her aware of Justitia‘s quest with her team of friends resulting in Devastatia calling upon galactic assassins to nullify the threat.

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At the end of the story, there is a final faceoff between Justitia’s forces, the Zenn eco-activist vanguard, and Devastatia’s forces at the rim of the Southern Abyss. The Galactic Parasite releases the Leviathan and Justitia uses the item (a type of poison), found at the end of the battle quest, against the Leviathan and destroys it. The Great Alignment takes place and the new core crystal is supplanted in the planet’s center and with it, the oceans of the planet are replenished. Justitia then heals Devastatia by taking off the symbiont. Justitia’s mission is complete and she says goodbye to her friends and makes a full ascension with the Mother Tree and elder Zyphillians back to Infinite Home.  Earlier in the story there is a single human survivor of an intergalactic surveying team sent out to locate habitable planets in the galaxy that has crash landed on Ogdo. In the very last scene in the story, this particular human sends a transmission to the ARK that then arrives with its human colonists to then meet all the rest of the inhabitant species of the planet. Can we trust the humans?

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The end.

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(If it seems there's plot holes, it's because this is a very condensed synopsis. I have pages of story notes that have also been registered that fill all the perceived plot holes ;)

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