Yes and no, because the story is still up for change and at this point not very fleshed out, but I can give some pointers on where I intent on going with it!
The elevator pitch would be: Top Gun: Maverick - but make it jet kaijus
Another elevator pitch could be: Arcade game turns people into (sometimes vengeful) plane spirits
The concept of the story is based on the Polybius urban myth, where a mysterious arcade game caused people headaches and suicides - except in UnfOp, people turn into plane monsters post-death if they have played the game somewhat excessively.
How, you may ask? Well, it's a big mystery! (read as: I'm still working on this, but also I don't think every mystery needs to be uncovered, some things work better when they remain mysterious so it might just stay forever unexplained. Something something bilinguar beats and vibrations changing the underlying nature of your soul, or such)
There are different fractions fighting against one another; some people have truly and honestly lost their minds post-death and just want to cause havoc, others enjoy their new existence and want to just be left alone in a world that won't let them, and then there is there are also those looking to control and utilize them to gain power and domination.
And then there is the foundation looking to just secure them for various reasons.
Overall, it's a story rooted in the 80s/90s with somewhat noticeable anti-war sentiments. Also nostalgia.
A very first pitch/draft I wrote goes as follows:
Man and machine. A mysterious bond between warm flesh and cold metal. An unexplainable infatuation. Man and war. A dangerous combination; a deadly pull towards destruction.
Men who suffer, men who lose their path, their priorities, their flesh, themselves. Men who give up everything they are, to become something else entirely. Those are the Unfortunate Operators.
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