MISSION BACKUP EARTH

a space web series created
by Alexander Pfander

Synopsis

In the near future, a cosmic catastrophe hits us without warning. Unforeseen by any scientist, the Sun transits rapidly into a red giant. Having no choice, Mankind desperately tries to escape the solar system. The survivors become space nomads, seeking a viable replacement for Earth.

The series follow the struggle of the survivors of mankind in their efforts to colonize a habitable exoplanet, where they need to install the so called “human backup”.

Storyline

In 2213, suddenly and far sooner than ever predicted, the Sun uses up all it's hydrogen and devastatingly quickly turns into Red Giant.
Life on Earth is extinct. Humanity is Doomed.

Exobiologist Jenna Brennagan is working on Triton as the catastrophe takes it's course. Together with other survivors, she has to face the threat of the huge Cosmic Rays, spreading tsunami-like through our Solar System, contaminating and killing everything in their path.

Jenna and her companions desperately try to escape the deadly Cosmic rays by fleeing deep into the Kuiper Belt. The objective of the fugitives is Sedna, a Trans-Neptunian dwarf planet in the outer regions of the Kuiper Belt.

Orbiting Sedna is a remote Spacedock. There, the SpaceTec Corporation has built the spacecraft “Backup“. With this Interstellar Spacecraft it may be possible to reach the nearest habitable planet in the Gliese 581 system.
By and by more survivors arrive at Sedna, hoping to leave our solar system in this 'Noah's Ark'

To their horror, SpaceTec CEO Carpenter claims there is no place for refugees aboard the “Backup“. He prevents anyone boarding, because it is a fully automated robotic ship storing frozen embryos that will ensure the survival of Mankind. There is no room for the refugees, the “Backup“ has no facilities or resources for living Humans.

The conflict continues to ferment until the big showdown between the survivors and the SpaceTec Corporation, which sees itself as morally right, because their embryo carrying ship will ensure the survival of Humanity.

Together with Giyome, the leader of the Albino slave's uprising, Jenna struggles for the salvation of all survivors.

But this then raises the question of whether their fight is just. Can the survival of individuals take precedence over the assured survival of Humanity?

Existential questions. The balance between morality and reason will be decisive. A new Beginning for some or the possible end of Humanity?