Planetary Romance Book 01

Book 1: [Title goes here]

Logline

Stranded on a foreign planet, Captain Jonathan Perish, a veteran of the Revolutionary War, must lead his team in a perilous fight against deadly automatons and a mysterious sorcerer who poses a threat to their survival.

Chapters

Summary

Jonathan and his men go on patrol because Jonathan is upset by the politics and intrigue he has to deal with when it comes to army command and Congress. One of his men actively objects about him going on Patrols, they insist that someone less-qualified should be out doing routine patrols. Jonathan insists that he needs the time away from social complexities in order to function better and as they're out patrolling they come across a man running with a child in his arms. The man is sickly, the child is terrified. The man is bowled over by a bear. The man shields the child from the bear with his own body, and is ravaged. The child is screaming and the soldiers attack the bear. The man quickly dies from his wounds but not before drawing the bear further from the child. Jonathan and his soldiers retrieve the child and take her to their camp. Soon the child falls ill and despite Jonathan taking measures to quarantine the child the sickness spreads through the camp

While Jonathan is trying to arrange for the health and care of his men (with little to no support from the congressional budget) Uncle William shows up with supplies and bandages. Jonathan is told by his superiors to acquire resources from citizens in the area but Jonathan refuses to make himself a bigger burden on the people that he is supposed to be protecting out here so his men are forced to eat bear meat and to attempt to quarantine the most sick among them in order to stymie the spread of the disease. Mary’s (the little girl who lost her father) brother sneaks into camp and is heartbroken to find that his father is dead but overjoyed to find that his sister is still alive. Bartholomew insists that the soldiers allow him to take his sister back to his village where there is a woman who seems to be able to stabilize infected persons

Jonathan asks for volunteers to take the children back to their Village. Most of his men express their fear of being exposed to a higher concentration of the disease. Jonathan decides to go himself in the hopes that he would be able to find some way of treating the disease.

Upon reaching the village Jonathan discovers the plague is not just affecting humans but it is also affecting animals and that some of the animals either become more sedentary or more active and a few become enraged. Jonathan also discovers that while there is a very high recovery rate for the disease is very high—recoveries only being scarred on their faces with sunburst shaped pocks—a number of the bigger patients fall into a deep coma. Remarkably the comatose respond to directions to eat, drink and to perform hygiene but are otherwise unresponsive. Jonathan witnesses Jayana tending to the sick and notices that while her use of local plants seems to be counterintuitive, when she's done tending to them they either experience a reduction of symptoms or they fall into a coma. Jonathan confronts Jayana about the peculiarity, and discovers it's not a medicinal technique that allows her to treat the sick but that her equipment has some kind of effect on the disease. Eventually Jayana admits her part in the spreading of the disease but insists that it's a necessary evil in order to power the devices that she is using to hide herself from her pursuers.

Characters

Story Development

Current Outline

Outline 2020-08-31

The story went through a number of revisions in the plotting phase.

Michael's plot was the first one proposed during the collaboration phase of the project

External Links

The Frontier in 1790 [https://www.shorturl.at/hBHK2]