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    Virtue's Ploy
    Virtue's Ploy
    Virtue's Ploy
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    Virtue's Ploy

    By Daniel Slack

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    An astronaut with a background in biology and virology attempts to negotiate his way to presidentship by unleashing deadly viruses on a space station full people whilst threatening to do the same to the world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDaniel Slack
    Release dateJun 17, 2016
    ISBN9781311281043
    Virtue's Ploy
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    Daniel Slack

    I'm Daniel Slack, author of The DSU (Daniel Slack Universe). This is a collection of stories written in the form of screenplays - movies. These stories are all encompassed in science fiction, but incorporate a multitude of genres such as romance, horror, action, adventure, crime, drama, war and western. What brings this universe together is both spatial and thematic. Whilst the stories are connected, they are all individuals - at times, they may even seem like non-sequiturs. So, it is not likely you will be seeing many reoccurring plot-lines or characters. However, all of these stories interweave and support each other as to build a universe of my design, one that if you want to explore further, you'll have to investigate yourself.

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      Virtue's Ploy - Daniel Slack

      Introduction

      This is apart of The DSU. A network of stories that support, expand and deepen each other across a complex and expanding universe.

      So, to explore further...

      Join the DSU

      Titles include:

      1. Inaffection: The Absence

      Contacts:

      @DanielSlackDSU

      DSUenquiries@gmail.com

      facebook.com/DanielSlack

      Before we start...

      This is a story told in the rough form of a screenplay - a movie.

      This format works best with lower font sizes, especially on smaller devices.

      If you've never read a screenplay, you'll need to know the following:

      EXT - Exterior. Found in scene headers to indicate we are outside.

      INT - Interior. Also found in scene headers, but to indicate we are inside.

      (O.S) - Off screen. Found next to character names.

      (V.O) - Voice over. Also found next to character names.

      (CONT'D) - Continued. Used to indicate continued speech next to character names.

      SUPER: - Superimpose. To indicate text is seen over images.

      The rest should be self-explanatory.

      Enjoy...

      Chapters:

      1. Meet Brian

      2. Autopilot

      3. Pick Up & Drop Off

      4. And So It Begins

      5. A Killer Is Born

      6. Negotiations Continue

      7. A Nasty Run-In

      8. Keeping Things Flowing

      9. Passing Conflict

      10. Zombie Walking

      11. New Plans

      12. A Meeting Cut Short

      13. Meeting The Maker

      14. The Big Action Sequence

      15. Problem Solving

      16. Talking To The Boys At NASA

      17. Happy Endings

      FADE IN:

      INT. BRIAN'S BATHROOM - MORNING

      BRIAN (V.O)

      Hey, I'm Brian.

      Brian looks in the mirror, nods, then continues inspecting his face having just woken up.

      BRIAN (V.O)

      I'm an astronaut, not a particularly good one, but, what do you know? That means you think I can't say my life is boring or mundane.

      Brian walks away from the mirror leaving us with the reflection of an empty bathroom.

      BRIAN (V.O)

      Well... you at least don't want to hear me complaining that when I wipe my ass the shit is brown. Every single time. Really, the whole astronaut business for me is a step inside of a bigger plan, but more on that later.

      A roll of toilet paper sits on top of the toilet tank.

      EXT. CORRIDOR

      Brian walks through his house, down the stairs, to the kitchen.

      The walls are bare save a biological science degree from Oxford University. The rest of the house is unremarkable, modern, seemingly expensive, nothing exciting.

      BRIAN (V.O)

      To be an astronaut, you used to have to have degrees from universities, thousands of hours of flight time, a blood pressure of one-hundred and forty over ninety and all that other shit anyone could find on the NASA astronaut requirements page. I guess it's still like that for the most part, but, times change.

      INT. KITCHEN

      Brian walks in, pours himself a cup of orange juice then sits down to drink it.

      INT. EMPTY ROOM - WHITE BACKDROP - DAY

      Brian stands, arms crossed, with 7 red plates spinning on 7 sticks about as tall as him.

      BRIAN (V.O)

      I do have a degree in biological science, but I also know how to spin plates. So what does that say?

      INT. BRIAN'S KITCHEN - MORNING

      Brian finishes his orange juice.

      BRIAN

      (to us)

      Now, I don't work for NASA, at least not directly.

      INT. COCKPIT OF A SMALL PLANE - DAY

      Brian is wearing a red baseball cap and chewing gum.

      BRIAN

      I just fly planes...

      INT. COCKPIT OF A FIGHTER JET - DAY

      Wearing a flight helmet and speaking into a noise attenuation microphone.

      BRIAN

      ... some jets...

      INT. TRUCK CABIN - DAY

      A blue worn out baseball cap.

      BRIAN

      ... trucks, like the big eighteen wheelers, and other less impressive automobiles, you know, cars, bikes and so on.

      INT. A TRAIN CAB - DAY

      A YOUNGER BRIAN, sits excitedly in the front of a train.

      YOUNGER BRIAN

      I even drove a train one time when I was sixteen...

      INT. COCKPIT OF A SPACE SHUTTLE - DAY

      Brian sits in front of a massive control panel wearing casual clothes.

      BRIAN

      ... but, what I'm really interested in is piloting spacecrafts.

      Brian steps out of what is now clearly a model spacecraft cockpit in an empty museum. He walks past the plane and jet he was also sat in as he talks:

      BRIAN

      Despite being able to pilot any machine you throw at me, there's no place to drive one like space.

      Brian stops, leans against a tank and smiles.

      INT. BRIAN'S KITCHEN - MORNING

      He takes his cup to the sink and starts washing up all the dishes.

      BRIAN

      To get into space is easy. I think the going rate for tickets to the orbit tour thing is only something like a couple of hundred. But, the only way you fly into space nowadays is to become an astronaut. For a while about thirty years ago, if you had the money, you could get your own space rocket, you know, a small one, and blast off. But, then some political bullshit lead to the united global government, U-G-G for future reference, saying no to that and locking down the skies so that only companies such as PNL, I don't know what that one stands for, could turn space into a tourist attraction. PNL also deals with a lot of satellite construction. Not the ones used for T.V and such, but structures like the hundreds of United Globe space stations. I'm a contracted pilot that works between NASA and PNL, basically for the government. What I do is fly workers and cargo between Earth and the space stations. Occasionally, I might get some real astronaut work.

      EXT. FLIGHT DECK - DAY

      Brian stands in front of a spacecraft on a busy flight deck of a colossal aircraft carrier.

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