shenzhou: C 20
━━ 𝒏𝒂𝒏𝒐 2020 .
[ 27/09/2089 , “HOME SWEET HOME!” . start recording: ] test, test, hey is this thing on? okay yes, hello! this is [ REDACTED ] from team alpha, we’ve just landed on xiphos and i’m sure you’re pleased to hear that we’re setting up well. you uh, you guys weren’t kidding when you said this place was … vacant. feels kinda weird knowing we’re only people here. i- i don’t know i’m sure i’ll get over it sooner or later, haha. but uh, all jokes aside i- i have pretty good feeling about this. i feel like we were meant to be here, y’know? *distant yelling* oh, duty calls, i gotta run. don’t miss me too much over there … talk soon. [ end recording. ]
𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐞 : shenzhou: c20.
𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐞 : na sci - fi space horror.
𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐬 : plotting &&. outlining.
𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 : xiphos , an uncharted arctic planet.
𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐬 &&. 𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐬 : all poc &&. lgbt main cast , atom punk &&. ray punk aesthetic , major &&. minor character death , questioning morals , found family , manipulation , corruption , murderous alien creatures , space lesbians , the dangers of human nature , desperately seeking the truth no matter the consequences , deadly ambition , mental spiraling &&. unraveling , the absence of the concept of time.
𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 : body horror , murder , gore , cannibalism , alcoholism , drug use , suicide , derealization &&. depersonalization , vulgarity , sexual scenes.
they said the future was limitless. and they weren’t wrong: humanity took to the cosmos, with space exploration becoming a daily occurrence, mars was colonized in ‘46, robots became cherished members of every household and essential workers in shops and factories. everyday we learned something new, something that brought us power and fame and fortune.
and those same three things became our downfall, our collective quest for power doomed us. we became our own true enemies.
it’s been thirty years since the beginning of what has come to be known as “ the great war ”, and we’re desperate. the world as we know it is dying a slow, brutal and excruciating death and we’re powerless to do anything but sit and watch as it all comes crashing down.
we knew it’d end like this but we didn’t know it’d come this soon.
the CNSA have been working diligently for years to find an answer as to how we can survive this, and after decades of desperate research they think they’ve finally found a possible answer. xiphos, an uncharted arctic dwarf planet, the perfect place to start anew.
and so, SHENZHOU: C20 was breathed into reality: the purpose, the answer. the very thing the survival of humanity hinges on.
on september 2nd, 2089, the CNSA held their breaths as SHENZHOU: C20 was a go. fifty-five taikonauts were planned to go to xiphos, to scope it out, to see if xiphos truly was the answer. they were told that they were alone on xiphos. they were lied to.
it’s been two weeks since earth has last heard from alpha team. the select few people who knew about SHENZHOU: C20 presume the taikonauts dead. while the CNSA insists SHENZHOU: C20 never existed in the first place, successfully sweeping the whole mission under the rug and forcing others to do the same. SHENZHOU: C20 and alpha team became a myth, and the elite of the CNSA intend to keep it that way
but some refuse to forget alpha team, desperately craving the answers they so deserve. liu yongxing, one of the top donators of the CNSA is one of these people, a father who’s daughter was one of the fifty-five taikonauts apart of mission SHENZHOU: C20. with both the CNSA and the chinese government refusing to give answers, he hires yao mengzhi, an investigator for hire who was the only one crazy enough to accept the mission. mengzhi, along with her merry crew of space investigators and rescuers set out ( motivated by the promise of large sums of cash ) to uncover the truth behind the mysterious disappearance of alpha team.
fifty-five taikonauts went to xiphos and fifty-five taikonauts never returned, and the black swans intend to find out why.
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