BROKEN BY THE SUN
Project Hideaway
Synopsis
A week has passed since war was declared on the United States by Justan's Great Union. With Administration Land Defense Strategy #21436 deployed as a response.
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It soon becomes evident the effects of the plan are not what its creators intended. The United States all too quickly finds itself about to be soundly defeated in the Dome War.
Word becomes known of the details of Defense Strategy #21436 throughout the outside citizenry, those ordered dead by the U. S. government and have now survived. With the U.S. military weak and losing ground, the President finds himself backed into a corner. After being forced to initiate what could only be described as an attempted genocide on the United States people, President Ford must now answer for the sins of his administration to the entire world.
One piece of technology still exists that could bring about victory for the battered U.S. forces and ease the plight of the divided country. Launched many years before the onset of war, the Beam Cannon Hardware, the United States solution to providing atmospheric protection to all its citizens, still floats secretly in space on the sleeping ship Hideaway.
Possession of this technology is considered by many to be the deciding factor in determining the outcome of the Dome War. Construction of the Beam Cannon Hardware would mean protected life for all United States citizens living in the outer world cities. It becomes the one thing Ford, a President now considered an outlaw, might be able to use to appease his country.
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Aboard the Hideaway, a two-man crew is inexplicably awakened from hypersleep with no communication or instructions from Earth. They learn that an unexpected fifty years have passed since the onset of their mission. With no knowledge that Defense Strategy #21436 had been implemented or a global war declared, the pilots struggle to decide what to do with the technology they possess, which could ultimately save the plight of the dying human race.
President Ford launches a covert retrieval mission led by General Max Tuttle. J.G.U and mercenary forces race to do the same. The quest to obtain the prized technology becomes a battle for victory in the war as well as a final determination of survival of the planet.
Following the failed rescue attempt from Beuford’s shopping mall and the death of the Kirken family, General Maxwell Tuttle leads the retrieval mission into space. He is unable to contact the Hideaway crew for fear of revealing the ship’s location to the J.G.U. and separate mercenary forces also on their way.
After fifty years of forced hypersleep, the Hideaway pilots wrestle with the shock of the erasure of their lives through their extended hibernation and debate the best course of action now to take. Fighting bitterly amongst themselves, they prepare to meet three unknown ships advancing upon them in space.
With no acknowledgement or instruction from their government, they organize a full-scale hostile defense of the Hideaway cargo. Readying to forcibly retain possession of the Beam Cannon Hardware it was their mission to protect, they also debate their return to an unknown Earth as a means of escape.
Neither is aware of the grand importance now placed on the outcome of their clash. They do not know their actions will ultimately decide the final existence of the war-ruined United States as well as the fate of the entire living world they watch from space.