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Sky Empire SONNAC (open to change)
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Full panel showing the Imperial District of the Kingdom. Huge angry crowd outside the palace gates. A couple of guards are being tortured (be creative XD). A vague figure of a huge man in white approaches the gate, pushing people out of his way.</i>
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Show interior of Imperial palace. Levia Guards stand guard along left and right walls. Show throne in centre with old King Renaud XI on it, rubbing his forehead, deep in thought.

Show red cross on white tunic of Templar.

The king looks up with hope.

Show Templar (from behind. Short cropped chestnut hair. Huge build. Unarmed. Hands tied behind back and head held high. King on throne in background.
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King (weary look): “Grandmaster Payens, you could not have chosen a more suitable time”

Payens the Templar Grandmaster (sneer): “I would have arrived sooner still if not for the fuming crowd at your doorstep. What ever did you do to make such enemies of your own people, King Renaud?”

King (disgusted look): “I will tolerate your tone for now, Grandmaster, for I cannot get through this without the help of you and your steamknights. The horde outside is singing a chorus for my head on a spike, even after all that I have done for their wellbeing. Give a dog a bone and he bites your hand in return.”

Payens (mocking): “You forgot the singing for your head part.”

King (defeated): “I beg you, please do something about this. Scare them off, go cause an explosion somewhere, make an example of two or three, I don’t care. Just get them off my back.”

Payens (serious): “You don’t care. Maybe that’s what’s having you here in the first place.”

King (furious): “You may be Grandmaster of the Order of the Templar but while you are still in Sonnac I am king, and as your king I demand you to go quell that rebellion by any means necessary!”

Payens (obsviously unshaken with stern look).

Payens walks out: “A king, certainly..but one soon to be without a kingdom” (King with shocked look in background).

Scene changes to the streets of Sonnac where peasants are burning high-class houses and doing all sorts of muderous stuff to people that are dressed comparatively well. Show a few soldiers being beaten up with pickaxes and other such farm tools.

After a few small shots on the scene, show a huge explosion in a nearbly mansion and then surprised faces looking towards it.

Show redcross on white mantle again, fluttering if possible.

Show a squad of Steam Knight Templars (3-4 in focus, the rest diluted into smoky background).

Show full panel of massacre of peasants by the knights – stabbed with sword, head cut off, mashed with maul, trampled on face, choked, torched with flamethrower, flung across, you name it.

Show a few more shots of the massacre and then fade to black.

Fade back from black showing ruins and remains of the scene with lots of dead people (no dead knights).

Show a knight bowing over a pile of dead bodies with blood all over his tunic and holding a sword weakly in one hand. He has light hair and skin with a sincere look on his face.
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Knight: “I may never sleep again.”

Another knight comes up behind him. The knight’s brother with the same complexion but longer curly hair and better built.

Knight2: “Relax, Everard, we were just following orders. These people never had it good to begin with. You knew you’d see such a day as this when you joined the Order.”

Everard looks up at the other knight, his eyes filled with tears: “Not this, brother Berard. Not this.”

Berard rests a humongous arm on Everard’s shoulder: “The guilt will pass. Duty is honor.”

Everard: “There is no such thing, brother. This was a job for monsters and demons; soldiers at worst. But we are knights! And not just knights, but those of the Order of the Templar, knights of the Living God! Whatever one may say, there is no honor in killing, but this... this is not even killing. This is murder. What were we thinking? What have we become? These souls will never find peace; they’ll be waiting to drag us to hell!”

Berard pauses and then looks down at the dead bodies: “Calm down. If ever that day comes, I shall gladly burn for every life that I took here on this day.”

Everard: “Promise me that we will pay for this someday.”

Berard raises an eyebrow with a hint of a smile but sees that Everard is serious: “You never fail to surprise me, little brother. But yes, I promise you. We shall suffer greatly for the shameful act that we have done here today. If not, I shall see to it myself.”
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It seems we have, after five or so blog comments, come to a decision regarding our course of action for our first comic- ie- Steampunk Fantasy.

SETTING
I'm making this up as I go, so...

Yeah.

The world where our story will be based obviously cannot be earth; its enough of a burden to do research on steampunk and filling up plot holes, I don't wanna have to worry about being historically accurate. Suggestions are always welcome though. Never take my word for anything except when I say the word 'word'.

For those of you who've seen the movie KINGDOM OF HEAVEN or have an acquired taste for the Crusades, you'll know right away when I use terms such as 'Steam Templar'. Its rather fun coming up with steampunk versions of medieval elements, such as, Saracen Steamers or Steam Teutons or Steam Hospitalers or Steam Knights...not at all implying that everything has to include the word 'steam'.

The environment will be mostly dry and arid mainly focusing on middle-eastern kingdoms; we could even include certain Asian elements like the Steam Samurai XD We can have certain fantastical creatures and maybe different races (but not to go too far with that)

PLOT
This is entirely open for discussion. I may have mentioned earlier that this would be an entirely different world but then I can't imagine another world where Templars would exist without the Crusades, and the Crusades without the Holy War and the Holy War without men that belief in different gods. May have to work on that.

We could follow the exploits of a certain knight like in the movie ARN, or we could go with a wider scale and start off with an entire army.

CHARACTERS
Since this is a purely global group we have here, I personally want the story to be universal. I'm thinking a small group of knights that's made up of, say, a central Knight Templar, an arrogantish Teutonic Knight, a brutish German Mercenary, a silentish Islamic Hashishin, a hot asian katana-flinging babe...etc...

CREW
Like I said, we now have enough manpower for the project. Here's how I see our team up till date:
Research, Resources and Concepts: :iconsavwolf1: :icongreentofu:
Script: :iconchhana: :iconrobrenson:
Inks: :iconjmcooper: :icondocolomansky:
Pencils: :iconchhana:
Colors: :iconnemowilson:

:iconinkb1rd: is apparently an entire team so their skills may be widespread.

Artists such as :iconsoar9: :iconmisterfish: already seem to have ongoing webcomics, with which we could all lend them a hand and see them rise to the top. We'll of course come up with a side project for a web comic that will be produced either weekly or daily. These two can look after that category.
Alright people, we need to get something up there soon. I've gotten a few affiliate groups where we can share our work as an initial. We'll start with short comic strips. We can either start from scratch creating simple characters and settings or we could go with parodies of certain things, especially Twilight and LOTR. Please reply to this thread with suggestions and ideas. I believe we already have a good amount of Mercs for a start.

~John
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:iconmetarex12:
Metarex12 Featured By Owner Feb 27, 2012  Student General Artist
Sorry I've been having problems. What do you need me to do?
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Soar9 Featured By Owner Feb 20, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Thanks for the invite! Let me know how I can best help or contribute!
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Chhana Featured By Owner Feb 21, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
You're welcome very much :)
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Docolomansky Featured By Owner Feb 20, 2012  Professional Traditional Artist
Thanks for the invite--- Lemme know if there is anything inked related!
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Chhana Featured By Owner Feb 21, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
You're welcome very much :)
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misterFISH Featured By Owner Feb 20, 2012  Student Digital Artist
Thanks for the invite !
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Chhana Featured By Owner Feb 21, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
You're welcome very much :)
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RoloGL Featured By Owner Feb 20, 2012  Professional General Artist
Thanks you for the invitation, but I'm too busy with my stuff to actually help you with anything.

A piece of advice: try to keep the team more tighter than larger, it will be too hard to get good results with too many different opinions.

Bye, and good luck =D
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Chhana Featured By Owner Feb 21, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Thank you. I was rather disappointed when I saw that you declined the invitation but was really comforted when I came to this comment.
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thepriceistreich Featured By Owner Feb 20, 2012
Thanks for the invite. I'm flattered!
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