ATLANTIS STORY MAP & OPERATION HOMEPAGE

CHANGE OF COURSE - CH.9

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 8 - STEALTH MODE

HIGH SPEED NORTH ATLANTIC CHASE TO WARN EXTREMISTS OF DANGER

The Elizabeth Swann tore across the North Atlantic like a blade unsheathed, her foils humming at the edge of physics, sponsons retracted, deck plates groaning against the velocity. At 35 knots and rising, with tailwinds above 40 and a subtle assist from coastal currents, she was chasing shadows carved into sonar.

Far ahead, HMS Neptune maintained a deceptively modest 20 knots, her sleek Astute-class hull slipping deeper along the African shelf. Redan Simdo stared at the nav panel with a furrowed brow.

“Still no sign of warships?” he asked.

“Nothing on sonar,” Bo replied. “But the Swann’s still behind us. Holding course.”

Red nodded slowly. He didn’t quite buy the idea that Storm would lie about radiation. The man had a reputation carved in fossil and flame—he’d made his name protecting oceans, not manipulating them. But suspicion dies hard when you’ve been burned.

Zera Masken caught his eye.

“If Storm says we’re leaking, I believe him,” she said quietly. “Why else would he risk chasing a sub he can’t catch?”

Red didn’t answer. He didn’t have one.

MEANWHILE IN WHITEHALL

It was nearly 2 a.m. in London, but no one in the emergency COBRA suite was sleeping.

Prime Minister Edward Thomas paced the war room floor, tie loosened, brow slick. “Status of HMS Neptune?”

Admiral Laurence leaned forward. “Still in motion, sir. Closest vessel is the Elizabeth Swann. Commander Storm has full clearance to intercept. Quietly reinstated as Royal Navy liaison. Temporary, but… reliable.”

Thomas blew out a slow breath. “And Wallace?”

“Safe and secured,” said Laurence. “His evidence is logged. We believe it’s solid.”

The PM nodded, then turned to a dim corner of the room where two men sat in silence.

“Keep eyes on Everington. If he so much as coughs in Morse code, I want a transcript.”

One aide tapped his earpiece. “MI5 confirms he’s still in Belgravia. But agitated.”

Elsewhere: Belgravia Drawing Room

Lord Everington slammed a tumbler of whisky against the desk, sloshing amber across antique leather.

“This is slipping through our fingers!” he barked. “Sink the bloody Neptune! Wipe the logs, scuttle the tech—hell, torch the bloody seabed!”

Sir Rodney Dunbar, pale as parchment, exchanged a glance with Padgett Francis. “You want us to nuke our own vessel?”

“I want plausible deniability,” Everington snarled. “That sub surfaces with one data stick intact, and we’re not just out—we’re prosecuted.”

“Storm’s the problem,” hissed Harold Holland, his usually smug face drawn and grey. “If we take him out, the sub’s just noise.”

“That ‘noise’ is radioactive,” snapped Nick Johnson, arms folded, panicked behind bravado. “And funded by our own contracts.”

Everington’s voice dropped to a venomous murmur. “Then we drown them both. Sub and Storm. Any way we can.”

ABOARD THE SWANN

“Skip,” Dan called from the console, “they’re adjusting heading again—southwest dive angle. No doubt about it now—they’re aiming for the, Mediterranean, Strait of Gibraltar.”

John leaned in, jaw set. “That’ll funnel them into a bottle they won’t be able to back out of.”

“Think they believe the radiation warning’s a bluff?”

“They think we’re the enemy, not the cleanup crew.”

Hal’s voice crackled in. “Radiation levels are climbing again. Hotter tail than before. Whatever’s leaking—it's widening.”

“Damn it,” John muttered. “We’re running out of ocean.”

Cleopatra entered the bridge, coat swirling like storm clouds. “If they breach the Pillars, you lose open water. You lose angles.”

John met her gaze. “No. We lose lives.”

CHAPTER 10 - U-BOAT 986 >>>>

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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