I've toyed with this one for a while. I tried putting it through the Novelist's Boot Camp techniques, but the way I wanted to format it didn't really work out with that, and I put it to the side in favour of Macbay Transportation Services. I've gone through more of the book's exercises with it, though I'm still doing some world-building before I try to jump into it. This one hasn't seen much action since.
Title: War (could be changed)
Genre: Sci-Fi/Action
Protagonists: Several, including people fighting and leading on both sides of the war. No particularly main characters have yet been developed/established.
Antagonists: See protagonists. Good guy/bad guy distinctions aren't really made most of the time.
Setting: Very far into the future, on Earth, mostly in the trenches of a dry and dusty battlefield. All soldiers have a series of nanobots in their bloodstreams for instant healing and brain chips for telepathic communication purposes.
Plot: Beyond the two sides fighting is an organization of pacifists. This organization has managed to hack the technology within the soldiers so that each soldier on one side is connected to one on another side; if one of the pair is killed, the other will die. The story follows the soldiers and those above them as they fight, discover what's going on, and try to figure out what to do about it.
Point of View: First person, switching between quite a few characters.
Just an idea to toy with at this point. We'll see if I ever try to flesh it out someday.
Sounds like a fascinating idea. I love how the pacifists' idea is technically better for mankind yet very sinister at the same time.
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