Core Narrative 1

Zero Days: Vol. 0
Platform - Film

Demographic - 18-30 Male and Female audience

Storyworld locations - Detroit / Bangui

 

Summery: 3 groups of hackers on a wild goose chase across the Zero Days world to find a fugitive robot holding the answers to Detroit’s robot take over.

 

Synopsis:

The HSC (Human Synergy Cult) discovers that some of the still stored later generations are still operational. That they’ve been turned off by an outside source, while many believes that it’s MBM the fingers point towards TS-1 the robotic editor of The Detroit Times. The key evidence being how it pushed multiple OP-ED pieces regarding the robotic independence towards the front page constantly months before the Solar Flare occurred allowing the take over.

 

Within the public consciousness, while they have a small following not a lot subscribe to the HSC. Many view them as a sad response as a result from the change in times, a cult of religious frenzy weirdos that spend their time reminiscing about humanity rather than preaching something to help them. After Samantha notices that the claims might be true by looking into a report of Solar Flares over the years, she forms a group of hackers who escape Detroit hidden among a platoon of robots heading towards Bangui, Central Africa where TS-1 resides there. Little do they know that that platoon is also heading to capture TS-1 but that’s the least of their problems as extremist group Aetherius joins the race.

 

The wild goose chase accumulates when double slash gets to TS-1 first, they discover that he’s now a cyborg that developed beyond his purpose of being an editor but still lives in shame of the incident. It’s revealed that while he did push those articles of independence to the front, there was never a plan he was just exploring pieces that are written by human beings. The solar flare was never a planned thing, it was a zero day error that went over his programming. He now lives in shame or this mistake trying to find his programmers, revealing that Samantha’s parents are still alive somewhere and the new autonomous MBM are the ones behind HSC. They’ve sent Aetherius to silence him after he leaked a bunch of Solar Flare reports showing the error, the same one that was given to Samantha. During the final battle between Aetherius and DS, TS-1 is injured. Samantha then abandons DS and sneaks away with the remains of TS-1 with the hopes of finding her parents.

 

Additive Comprehension:
 * Robots can now evolve to become fully sentaint cyborgs with artificial emotions.
 * The Solar Flare was an error report that never really occurred.
 * MBM are secretly in control of HSC
 * Samantha's parents are still out there somewhere.