Core Narrative 4

TITLE: Subordinate

CORRESPONDING MACRO STORY-BEAT: All-In

LOGLINE: In a world controlled by a higher organization, one lowly engineer devises a plan to uproot the very people that oppress her.

SHORT STORY SYNOPSIS: Va'ali Trevalo is a lowly engineer who has been forced to work and maintain the Coliseum grounds. She has a grim history with the Ascendants as theirs was the hand that struck down her late husband, Kreil. Over time, her grief and sense of revenge drives her to sabotage an outgoing refuge transmission which shifts the course of Exordium's fate forever. By the end of this climactic arc, audiences don't necessarily know if Va'ali survived her subordination against the Ascendants.

PROTAGONIST: Va'ali Trevalo

ANTAGONIST: The Ascendants

MAIN SUPPORTING CHARACTER W/ DESCRIPTIONS: Meit, Va'ali's small-statured, pesty little acquaintance on Meusiloc. Mrocc, the strong, silent type, one of the champions of Meusiloc, wants only to see peace and order and continues to fight for that purpose.

PRIMARY LOCATIONS WITH DESCRIPTIONS: Exordium - an enormous mass of a planet and last refuge in the universe from the apocalyptic Kloudus event, Meusiloc - a battlegrounds for those competing for survival on Exordium.

ADDITIVE COMPREHENSION: The transmission sent out from Exordium that eventually reached Earth (for whom it was never meant) was actually manipulated to reach them so by Va'ali. Without this story, the audience only knows that the transmission was an accident.

MEDIUM: Netflix

WHY IT WORKS IN THIS MEDIUM: By portraying this story in a multi-part, high-budget series, we can truly flesh out the diverse aspects of this character's story: Va'ali's initial romance with her husband and their life on Exordium, the dramatic arc that leads to the Ascendants manipulating the system to kill Kreil, Va'ali's husband, and make circumstances impossible for Va'ali - pushing her to have to work for the Ascendants, Va'ali's struggle with her new, forced life in Meusiloc, and finally her climactic final act of rebellion that changes the fate of Exordium.

PLATFORM: Streaming Devices

WHY IT WORKS IN THIS PLATFORM: As this will be a Netflix series, audiences will have the option to watch this show whenever and wherever they want as they please. This allows audiences to experience the story at their own pace, and, ultimately, gives them a more contextual placement in the overall Macro-Story.