CECIL
The government's got their eye on you,
and they'll go through Tara, Steve, or
anyone else to learn the nature of your
association with me. I had to make all
three of you inaccessible.
JEREMY
That explains your insistence on sending
me to Mars.
CECIL
I also had to destroy all the Venus
Project data and the schematics for the
neutrino engine prototype.
JEREMY
So you did launch a neutrino engine.
CECIL
Yes. Professor Klein finally deciphered
the eighty pages of schematics. It was a
blueprint for building the engine. Since
I knew the government was trying to
obtain a search warrant for Microcore, I
thought I'd better test the prototype
while I still had the chance.
JEREMY
Everyone was pretty freaked out when it
started heading for Eridanus. They
thought you were working with the aliens.
CECIL
It seemed as good a destination as any. I
guess I didn't think it through. But
since you still have the crystal, we can
reassemble the data.
JEREMY
Oh my god! Captain Avery was right. That
Super Spider aboard The Purgatory was
after the crystal. I think they're more
intelligent than most people think.
CECIL
Actually, they're alien creatures called
Kek.
JEREMY
How do you know that?
CECIL
The signal of 2018 was actually a
warning. The transmission contained an
image of a Kek.
JEREMY
Actually, I'm not surprised they're
aliens, considering the whole Alec thing.
CECIL
I was pretty sure that you knew.
JEREMY
Did the signal offer any clues on how to
kill them? The one aboard The Purgatory
survived exposure to space outside the
station.
CECIL
I can't speak to that but I do know they
can't swim, and will drown if submerged
for more than a few minutes. In fact,
they're so terrified of water that they
won't even board boats.
JEREMY
That's certainly good to know but we need
a way to exterminate all of them at once.
CECIL
I've got a team at Underworld working on
a virus to infect them, but every
simulation so far has indicated that
humans will die right alongside the Kek.
I figured the moon was the safest place
to keep any pathogens contained.
JEREMY
I figured you had a good reason to
quarantine Underworld. Is the government
still hassling you?
CECIL
The federal government is in shambles.
They don't have the resources to hassle
me these days.
JEREMY
With the feds out of the way, we can
further develop the neutrino engine
technology.
CECIL
I suppose we can. You still manage to
surprise me, Jeremy.
JEREMY
I've got to keep you interested in me
somehow.
MONTAGE:
Cecil and Jeremy study the neutrino engine schematics.
They assemble neutrino driven interstellar probes.
They launch the probes to nearby stars.
A computerized star chart indicates the targeted stars.
HOUSE IN LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - DAY:
The letters "HOLLYW" rise from the foothills beyond.
A group of men herd a Kek into a backyard swimming pool with shovels and hoes.
The Kek thrashes helplessly as the men keep it from escaping. It drowns.
The men retrieve it. Cut it into sides and steaks.
A community barbeque feeds injured and displaced locals.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - DAY:
The Capitol building is being rebuilt.
The original Washington Monument is being raised into place.
Men in radiation suits spray the area with a white powder.
Potential politicians rant behind tables piled with flyers.
FADE OUT.
FADE IN to fully rebuilt Washington, D.C.
MANHATTAN ISLAND, NEW YORK - DAY:
The Island is modernized and partially submerged.
It is isolated from the mainland by water on all sides.
No bridges remain.
Hordes of Kek patrol the mainland.
MICROCORE - DAY:
The complex is fully modernized.
A hurricane rages.
Levees keep the rising coastline at bay.
INSIDE CECIL'S OFFICE - DAY:
CAPTION: EARTH YEAR 2065
Jeremy, now 65 years old, is sleeping before a bank of monitors.
One of the monitors shows Cecil, now 85 years old, boarding a small spacecraft.
The spacecraft is pulled into the sky by unseen forces
EXT. CIDEBA ORBIT
CAPTION: EARTH YEAR 2065 remains.
Alec's solo submarine enters the system.
It zips past several Kek ships lingering about.
INT. SCOUTSHIP - CIDEBA ORBIT
A cockpit display indicates that the scoutship is cloaked.
A green light begins flashing.
The main monitor switches to an image of Alec's sub approaching the planet.
Piren trades glances between the monitor and a nearby Kek ship visible through a portal.
EXT. CIDEBA ORBIT
Alec's sub circles Cideba and heads back out into space.
Two Kek ships follow the sub.
EXT. SOLO SUBMARINE
The sub heads straight for a distant yellow star.
The star rapidly grows larger and brighter.
Saturn becomes visible off in the distance.
A hazy moon approaches. It is TITAN.
A huge platform hovers just above it.
Dozens of large holding tanks are attached to various sections of the platform.
Several long hoses protrude from the platform's underside and extend down into Titan's hazy atmosphere.
Two sizeable spacecraft are docked on opposite sides of the platform.
The sub speeds past.
Jupiter moves into view.
Europa slips beneath the sub.
A massive octagonal structure sits on Europa’s ice covered surface.
The Himalia is in orbit directly above the structure.
Jupiter's Great Red Spot rounds the horizon as the sub scoots past the planet.
Random asteroids pass on all sides.
Several modernized Asteroid Crushers swarm a mountain-sized rock that spins end-over-end as it hurls past.
The sub passes just a few miles above Mars' surface.
Large processors billow thick smoke into Mars’ atmosphere.
A number of small settlements snake away from a variety of pilfered spacecraft.
Greenery borders the fringes of the south polar cap.
Earth approaches.
The moon passes beneath the sub.
A sprawling lunar spaceport is receiving a battered cargo vessel.
A large dome can be seen off in the distance. A gaping hole is broken through it.
The scoutship leaves the lunar realm as Earth grows larger.
A broad platform drifts by.
Its surface is littered with small spacecraft and cargo containers.
A large furnace at its center burns brightly.
Scorch patterns outline visible damage along its length.
The sub enters Earth's atmosphere above China.
Sections of The Great Wall are heavily damaged.
A barrage of tracer rounds fire upon the ship to no avail.
The Korean peninsula approaches. Its northern half bears many impact craters.
The sub passes above a large flotilla of barges and small boats on The Pacific Ocean.
The California coastline passes beneath.
Huge levees brace the coast against large, pounding waves.
The American desert passes.