ATLANTIS STORY MAP & OPERATION HOMEPAGE

RESCUE NEGOTIATIONS - CH.13

Atlantis has been the subject of countless films, as has Nazi gold and oil polluting our oceans, but never have all these elements come together under one roof as a submarine movie. Aiming for a screenplay 90-110 pages max.

<<<< CHAPTER 12 - REACTOR LEAK

JOHN EXPLAINS THERE IS AN MOD/MI6 KILL/SINK ORDER ON HMS NEPTUNE

Hal intercepts messages to and from MI6 and the MOD, including to and from Nick Johnson and Sir Rodney Dunbar. The Terramentals are taking their time, reluctant to leave HMS Neptune, even considering scuttling the nuclear submarine. Time is wasting. It seems like a good idea and then Hal decodes top secret encrypted messages ...

Under the moon-glossed surface of the Atlantic, the HMS Neptune idled in strained silence. Her power reduced, reactor shielding humming faintly, the submarine was no longer merely a hijacked vessel—it was a floating crime scene, radioactive and politically inconvenient.

Topsides, the Terramentals stood under the open stars. Five of them in breathing masks and damp suits, the air tasted metallic even through the filters. Salt, steel, and something else: fear.

On the horizon, the Elizabeth Swann hovered like a sentinel, lights low. A soft ping echoed from the comms unit clipped to Redan Simdo’s harness.

“Ahoy there, Neptune,” came John Storm’s voice, calm but clipped. “We’ve intercepted some chatter. You’ll want to hear this.”

Redan stepped toward the rail. “Go ahead, John.”

“Hal’s picked up classified transmissions—encrypted, routed through MI6 and the MOD. Confirmed senders: Sir Rodney Dunbar and Nick Johnson.” A pause. “They’ve issued a black directive. Codename Black Veil. You’re to be destroyed.”

There was silence. Then Bo Dallas let out a disbelieving laugh, low and bitter. “So we’re terrorists now?”

“Convenient label,” Zinzi Diana muttered, pulling her mask down just enough to speak. “It’s easier to bury the truth when the people holding it are already condemned.”

John’s voice crackled back in, slightly lower. “They’re framing this as a national security threat. Claimed you’re planning to deliver the vessel to a foreign power. Hal traced the real motive: reactor faults, sealed inspection reports, procurement fraud buried in black ink.”

Zera Masken exhaled. “BAE and the Ministry.”

“Bullseye,” Dan chimed in over the channel. “Turns out your stolen sub isn’t just a thorn in their side—it’s proof of institutional rot.”

“We considered scuttling her,” said Redan after a long beat. “Sink the sub, erase the trail. But now...”

“That would make their job easier,” John cut in. “And leak uranium into the water column. You’d do their dirty work for them—make you the villain and them the cleanup crew. It’s what Russia did in the Arctic. What the UK tried hiding at Dounreay. The cover-up becomes the containment plan.”

“Except no one ever contains it,” Zera said bitterly. “It just... spreads.”

Another long pause.

“Come aboard,” John said gently. “We’ll decon you in the aft bay. Rinse off any radioactive particles before you shed them into open water.”

Redan hesitated, eyes glancing to Zinzi and Zera.

“You're sure it's safe?”

“Well,” Dan’s voice smirked, “we saved the radiological soap for VIPs.”

Zera chuckled. “Ladies first?”

Zinzi bowed theatrically. “As long as the water’s warm.”

Minutes later, scrubbed and seated in the Swann’s galley with mugs of steaming chai and skin still tingling from the washdown, the five protestors listened as John spread a digital map across the projection screen.

“This is their kill zone,” he said, gesturing to a gridded sector off Madeira. “They expected to intercept Neptune here. They won’t. Hal sent them ghost coordinates. They’re hunting a mirage.”

“So what now?” asked Bo. “What’s Plan B?”

John’s jaw tightened.

“We expose them. But first—we preserve the wreckage. Neptune isn’t a weapon anymore. She’s a witness.”

<<<< CHAPTER 12 - LISBON PORT

John offers the extremists a rescue. Warning the Terramentals that MI6 has ordered the sinking of the Neptune. It turns out the MOD knew the reactor was potentially dangerous, The Ministry and BAE Systems, want that evidence disappeared.

PROPOSED STORY MAP BY CHAPTER (90-110 pages) - ORDER CAN BE CHANGED: DRAFT SCREENPLAY

ACT 1.

CHAPTER 1.   PROTESTS - Peaceful North Sea oil pollution protestors are framed and imprisoned, by a corrupt judicial system. 

CHAPTER 2.   PREDATOR - On release the Terramentals & smuggler Jorges Dicaprio, complete a mini-sub capable of sinking submarines.

CHAPTER 3.   PHOENIX - Terramentals locate & hijack HMS Neptune in Irish Sea, Cumbria, using the Predator mini-sub - knocking out the crew.

CHAPTER 4.   BRITISH PETROLEUM - Terramentals warn North Sea rig operators to stop. Claymore rig is torpedoed, Royal Navy respond.

CHAPTER 5.   BBC WORLD SERVICE - Jill Bird reports Terramentals rig attacks, world shocked at pollution cover up. Charley Temple investigates.

CHAPTER 6.   UNEP SOS - The UNEP ask John Storm to survey North Sea for oil pollution. Elizabeth Swann detects HMS Neptune radiation leaks.

CHAPTER 7.   RADIATION ALERT - John & Dan twig radiation from HMS Neptune possible serious reactor damage. Must warn Terramentals.

ACT 2.

CHAPTER 8.   STEALTH MODE - Storm spots Astute sub, Swann in stealth mode, detected as John warns extremists of sub radiation leakage.

CHAPTER 9.   CHANGE OF COURSE - Terramentals change course, heading for the Straits of Gibraltar. Not believing radiation warning.

CHAPTER 10. U-BOAT 986 - Evading Swann, HMS Neptune navigates off transport lanes. Swann picks up magnetic signature of U-Boat 986.

CHAPTER 11. SENATE, UK & EU DEBATE - Sub hijacking & rig destruction, alarm bells around world. Deepwater Horizon shivers down spines.

CHAPTER 12. REACTOR LEAK - Terramentals realise John telling truth, as radiation rector damage detection system HMS Neptune triggers.

CHAPTER 13. RESCUE TOW - John rescues Terramentals. MI6 order Neptune sinking. MOD knew reactor dangerous, want evidence gone.

CHAPTER 14. LISBON PORT - Terramentals & Storm, shut Neptune's reactor. Tow, stricken submarine to Lisbon, prevent MI6 sinking evidence.

ACT 3.

CHAPTER 15. ROV ATLANTIS - Swann returns U-Boat stealth mode at night, to avoid tracking. Surveys site, discovers Atlantis & Nazi gold.

CHAPTER 16. TREASURE TROVE - John reveals gold find & threatened. US Linc Truman support. PM, Ed Thomas, & Sealord, royal support.

CHAPTER 17. BLUE SHIELD - Cleopatra alerts Blue Shield, Newcastle University, potential Atlantis find, suggests UNESCO world heritage site.

CHAPTER 18. GOLDEN OFFER - Claimants reward John U-Boat gold find. Agrees 1% cover costs 9% to Blue Shield surveys. UNESCO grateful.

CHAPTER 19. GREEN MOBILITY - Galvanized to action UK hit green H2 button, John gets grants low income families, Jill Bird, news item.

CHAPTER 20. IMO IS GO - The International Maritime Org green H2 & methanol, certification. USA in. China India stay with coal, gas & oil.

CHAPTER 21. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL - John & George amnesty, pirate caselaw & video proof set up. Harry & Johnson charged treason.

Disillusioned eco activists are imprisoned by the British, for peacefully protesting in London about unrealistically low fines for oil spills in the North Sea, demonstrating strictly in accordance with their Article 9 and 10 Human Rights. They are targeted by fossil fuel industry fraudsters, who bribe police officials and court judges to secure a conviction, with the backing of corrupt ministers of state who have undeclared personal investments in oil drilling companies: Amoco, BP, Shell, Total. That sets in motion a train of events, where, having been framed, the ever more determined environmentalists build a mini-sub, fast enough and especially equipped, to sink or capture Astute, Aukus and US Seawolf class submarines. Having captured HMS Neptune, the Terramentals torpedo a BP owned rig, also destroying two others (Shell), with the looming threat to target all 150 plus, operating in the North Sea. The oil producers are temporarily forced to shut down production, as a result of the significant media coverage and public outrage on realization of the pollution. The UN asks John Storm to provide a geodata survey on the environmental damage. 

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