Space and Us

Main Characters

Boy: Caleb Hudson, 18 years old. Caucasian, with black hair and freckles. Brown eyes, big white smile. He's shy and reserved. Super smart, though feels like he's missing something. He's loving and kind, never selfish, but eager to know the truth

His mother lives with him on Mars. She gave birth to him there. Been In Mars his whole life with his mom and the other astronauts. He was experiment of the Space Station. Mother told him the truth of why he was there and her got mad at first, then realized the extremity of his life being there meant. He was facinated with earth and wanted to go so badly.

Supporting Characters

Sam Hills: Astronaut 1. African American. Dark brown eyes, and dark curly brown hair. Tall (6'1). Has a helping hand and Is very nice. Also hardworking and determined.

Jessie Quinn: Astronaut 2: White, with freckles. Short red hair and blue eyes. She serves beside Jenifer Hudson. Loyal, tough, and hardworking.

Mother of Caleb: Jenifer Hudson (mom). 42 years old. Caucasian with brown hair and green eyes. She is hardworking and loyal. Veery close with son.

She became pregnant with Caleb for a test trial on Mars. She was the head astronaut of the team. She conceived a child so that she can give birth on Mars, marking the first baby born on Mars. The main objective is to see if bringing life was possible on another plate.

Mother of Elizabeth: Lynn Harper 40 years old. Italian, with accent. Extremely hard working and very smart. Very loyal, never looses concentration and never distracted

She Is one of the head memebrs of the Space Station and especially works on the Mars Project. Her work In the number 1 priority. Often gets blinded by work and her studies. She specifically works with Jenifer Hudson, and communicates with her on Mars. She loves her husband and daughter, but when her husband died, she couldn't fill the gap. Therefore she replaced It with work. Often neglected her daughter.

Setting

Boy: On Mars. Section B-2456. The ground Is like hard sand. The sky was light but always musky Often was windy and would rain. When the sun Is out, It would get very hot. Lives In Marshas, which are 3D printed houses that were made. There are 3 and they all connect to one big marsha.

Girl: Base In Newfield, Sigton. She lives In a little unit two blocks from the space station. It's very modern, but small. The space sation was huge. Many stories. Used sattellites for some power. Always sunny, but when rain happens Iits a big storm.

Historical Background

History: In the years prior to 3029, rockets have been sent to Mars to habilitate the planet due to the shrinking earth. Although not all precautions and tests were finalized. In 3011, the Space Station sent up three astronauts to live on Mars for the rest of their lives. One was pregnant and was to give birth on Mars to see if producing life was possible. In 2073, the world experienced its 3rd World War and devastated the world Immensely. A new type of energy was founded In 2050 called Illuminant energy which was founded off of the core of the earth. Used that energy to better build rockets and space technology overall expanded the horizon of energy and production. It's more sustainable and reliable. Gas Law was placed In 2040, to prevent any usage of gas cars, only electric and/or solar. Due to global warming, Antarctica Is now completely gone and Europe Is slowly fading away. New birth laws emerged (only 2 children per household) to keep overpopulation to a minimum.

Boy: Caleb Hudson was born and raised on Mars. He Is taught by his mother and the other astronauts and he became very smart. He didn't really like It there though because there was nothing fun or Interesting to do, It was always the same things. very eager to visit earth.

Girl: Elizebeth Harper had a normal childhood until both her parents were offered a job at the Space Station, along with free living when she was 7 years old. The parents always worked and Elizabeth always felt lonely. She wanted to become an actor due to all the movies she's watched. She was able to have a tutor. She became very smart, and loved robotics. Reprogrammed a cleaning robot to act as her friend.

Girl: Elizabeth Harper, 17 years old. American with Italian decent. Blonde hair and big blue eyes. She Is outgoing, smart, kind, and caring for others. She Is short and skinny. Wears glasses. Not very social, like to be In her own world away from reality.

Has Mother that works at the Space station. She has been there for 10 years, and stays in the Space Sation complex with her mom. Her father died 3 years ago in a space launch accident. She's not very close with her mother. Shes always lonely. Programed cleaning robot to be her firend.

Earth: Earth Is now sized down. Antartica Is completely gone and Europe Is slowly going away. Populations were lost due to the third world war, but Is gaining their strength back.

Plot

There Is a boy who Is born and raised on Mars. There Is a girl, born and raised In Newfield, Signton (earth) where she lived in the Space Station with her mother. When the boy turns 18, he Is to be sent back to the Space Station for tests and studies. He can only go, his mother or the other astronauts cant come back. He Is set back In a high tec space shuttle and he succesfully returns back to earth near the Space Station. They do tetst and labs, and he's really confused because earth is so much different from Mars. That night the girl was wondering the Space Station and came upon the boy in his quarters. He was fainated by her, he had never seen a young girl and someone so beutiful, and was In awe of her. She was gennutinly Interested In him because he was the boy from mars, and her mothers life mission. They got to know each other really well. They served as each others companionship. They would sneek around so they wouldn't get caught, but they did. Her mother was mad but the scientists thought it was perfect to see if his emotion interact the same as theirs. He had some heart difficulties, but denfinty not crucial. It was easy to fix with a partial heart transplant. He was then In stable condition so sometimes she was allowed to take him outside of the space station. A month went on until the Space Station received a threat and warning from the outerreaches of Europe saying that they were going to get the boy and destroy their space sation. The boy was their most important project, and didnt wnat to risk anything so they had to sned him back to Mars. Boy and Girl say goodbye, and he promises that he'll see her again soon. When he goes back to mars he Is harbroken and feels as If theres a peice missing from him. She feels the same, and now feels even more lonely than before. Although due to their love, the mothers of them both created a program that was able to send videos to and from Mars, so they were able to comunicate. The Space Station was resolving the issude from Europe. 2 years later... They allowed the boy to colme back for more tests and trials because the situation was resolved. He was overjoy to be back on earth adn to see her again. She was exicted to to hear the news. He went into the space shuttle and proceeded his way towwards earth. Although one of the Illimuniant genrator engines went out and he stopped. Since the engine were fastm there were only few resources, enough to last him around four days. He was stuck In the out rim of the earth, and circled there for almost three and a half days until a metooer hit the shuttle. It knocked it enough to kick it back to the inner atmosphere of earth. His parashute was still viable and when he arrived at earth, he fell into a large field. Eveyone thought it was an alien. Quickly the Space Station tookcontrol over the Space Shuttle because they didn't know what it was. The boy didnt recognize anyone, and the space station people didn't recognzir him either. Until one scientist realised it was the boy who lived on Mars, and never showed up on earth. The boy was confused, why did they think he died? The scientists brought up his records and explained that 80 years ago he was supposed to land but he never came. He couldn't believe it, he refused to belve it. He then realised if he only aged 3 hours, and everyone on erth aged 80 years. He was heart broken and didnt knwo what t say. He knew that eveyone he ever new was now dead. The gril had died 8 years ago and his mother died 39 years ago on Mars. They ran tests on him and realized that his heart was shrinking from the amount of time in space without proper equipment, and they didnt have the techngology to fix that severity of the problem. They didnt tell him he was dying, insead they let him go out into the stars and thats where he thouogh about her, and how much he wanted to be with her. He closed his eyes and drifted to the stars.

66D1: Cleaning robot In the Space Station living quarters. Reprogrammed as a friend for Elizabeth

Art

Going to have color and semi-detailed pictures. The characters are going to be pretty realistic with a cartoon twist to It. I really want the art to be on point since the story is based on the future, Mars, and other new places therefore the art needs to portray cleary portray the scene.

Theme

There are going to be a lot of small themes In this story such as love, coming of age, Isolation, motherhood, loss, reality, futuristic and death. I would say the overall main theme Is hope. That It's represents throughout the whole story. Hope Is what brings him to earth, what makes him want to stay, and what overall pushes him towards her.