Visual - A world of high technology and optimal human achievement rolls before our eyes. Powered by... ROBOTS! Robots in every shape and size.
Voice Over - We were programmed to protect and aid mankind.
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Visual - A gigantic disc in space, closer, it is being constructed by robots, a stunning piece of giga technology that could dwarf nations.
Voice Over - The solar collector was mans last chance for cheap energy and a clean world. We built it for them.
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Visual - In darkened rooms all over the world, ice-white fingers and predatory eyes.
Voice Over - But there was something even we couldn't predict, something we were never programmed to understand.
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Visual - In a blood-splattered boardroom, the drained body ofa girl slumps to the ground. In the pentagon a naked child runs screaming, in the Vatican a Cardinal places an exsanguinated head upon a plate.
Voice Over - Ancient, immortal, the perfect predators of mankind. The Vampires
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Visual - Blacked-out shuttles launch from the dark side of the earth, and converge on the gigantic disk, now nearly complete.
Voice Over - They took the solar collector
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Visual - Earth seen from space, an eclipse-disc of darkness covers the United States, except for a thin sliver of gold on the west coast.
Voice Over - And with it, they blotted out the sun from the American sky.
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Visual - Crowds flee from burning cities as Vampire armies march
Voice Over - In the unending dark, they took America.
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Visual - A pale president and a pale senate in a dark and lightless capitol.
Voice Over - Now in these Unlighted States, the President is immortal, he has always been the president and always will be.
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Visual - World-leaders pay homage to the Vampire President in a sephurchal United Nations.
Voice Over - as the Vampires control worlds most defensible major nation, they also control the power from the solar collector. They are the lords of world-energy and there is little anyone can do.
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Visual - Seen from space, the western seaboard looks like the golden flames that rim a burning leaf
Voice Over - Except, here. The shadow of the collector couldn't cover everything at once.
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Visual - The californian mega-conurbation. A densely-populated city state. On one side the pacific, on the other, a wall of darkness.
Voice Over - This is the Unset Strip a city of eternal light.
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Visual - The sun sets in the west of the Unset Strip, falling into the pacific. But as it does, the camera turns up. The rim of the solar collector burns in the night sky like a river of fire.
Voice Over - Thanks to a freak of engineering and orbital dynamics, the sun never really sets.
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Visual - Montage of wild Unset Strip. Gangs and Robots battle. The Castles of Los Angeles. Byzantine markets. Cop gangs, mutants, sea-people, fusion-engine hotrods, cyborg MMA, skyscraper sniper clans, the remains of the Pacific Fleet at anchor.
Voice Over - The Unlighted States surrenders no sovereignty over this sunlit city, so government will intervene there. But They can't control it either. An ungoverned zone. A realm for the free and the damned. Full of refugee cultures from all over america and the world, banished Vampires, broken or abandoned AI's and technological experiments, genetic engineering, utopian communities, crime gangs, ethnarchies, free thinkers and...
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Visual - In the wreck of the USS Nimitz, the last president preys to an icon of Washington, surrounded by acolyte senators.
Voice Over - the final remnants of the defeated U.S. government-in-exile. Now, after 35 exiled presidents little more than a semi-religious cult, still dreaming of one day liberating a homeland none of them have ever seen.
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Visual - In the ruins of vampire-Patrolled New York, a simple maintenance robot goes about its duties, blindly cleaning blood from the streets.
Voice Over - But what about us? The ROBOTS?
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Visual - The Robot follows the trail of blood to a crevice in which hides a naked child.
Voice Over - We haven't all forgotten.
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Visual - Behind the Robot, hunting vampires loom.
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Visual - The maintenance-bot SWINGS for the Vampires. Its metal fist CRUSHES and immortal skull. Its metal leg SMASHES a vampiric spine. The Vampires scrabble at its metal hide.
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Visual - The Robot is finally dragged away by Vampires, but as the camera turns the child has fled.
Voice Over - The punishment for rebellion is severe.
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Visual - At the top of the midnight wall, a Vampire military group seizes robots and flings them over the wall.
Voice Over - Death.
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Visual - The Robot falls down the Midnight wall, it bounces and smashes against the walls surface, parts fly off, limbs are crushed.
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Visual - The Robot SMASHES into the scrap field at the bottom of the wall.
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Visual - The scrap pile glimmers in the eternal sun. In the distance scavenge-tribes gather and advance.
Voice Over - But
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Visual - A smashed robotic hand reaches forth from the enfolding scrap.
Voice Over - Not all of us die.
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Visual - A montage of whirring bolts, attaching limbs, hasty repairs.
Voice Over - Some of us survive, adapt..
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Visual - The scrap-tribe approaches clambering forth over the rubbish pile, tase-lances at the ready.
Voice Over - create and build..
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Visual - The Robot Burst Forth. Its new hacked togther form of semi-random parts looking glitchy, kind of monstrous yet somehow cool. The Scrap Tribe falls back in awe.
Voice Over - New Bootleg Bodies to survive the Unset Strip
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Visual - Montage of various exciting things happening, really its nearly eleven here and I've been doing this for far too long
Voice Over - Here, in out new home, we fight to stay alive in the relics of a forgotten word and the madness of the new.
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Visual - A Robot faces off against some goons who are threatening some kids.
Voice Over - To protect the weak.
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Visual - Robots heist a blood for money deal leaving a screaming vampire shaking its fist as they escape into the sun.
Voice Over - Steal from the rich
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Visual - The camera turns towards he midnight wall, and begins to float over it, looking deep into the darkness beyond.
Voice Over - and perhaps, one day
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Visual - We close in on the Capitol of Bone, and slowly zoom until we are looking through the white house window, where the president stands.
Voice Over - Even find a way to challenge the immortal President himself, and return the sun to these Unlighted States.
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