10-14-2002, 04:30 PM
Hi Rich!<br>
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I could do that since it's registered with the screenwriters guild. Just not sure how. What it is is a scenario with a cast of major and minor characters, and a plot outline for a pilot.<br>
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Here's a few paragraphs anyway...remember it's aimed at production executives, not aficionados like us...<br>
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'The Scenario<br>
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It is about 172 AD - midpoint in the Great Northern War. The scene is set in "the Fort", a nameless fortress about ten miles west of the Third Legion's base at Regensburg on the Danube. It is the linchpin between the fighting sectors and the (almost) quiet Military District of the Rhine. It is nameless because it is the base of the Black Legion.<br>
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The Black Legion officially does not exist. The Ninth Legion was destroyed on the Eastern Front six years ago. Three cohorts of the Ninth were left in garrison in Germany. When the Legion was destroyed and its Eagle burned in disgrace, the three cohorts should have been broken up and spread out among other units. But the survivors threatened mutiny, and while the Imperial High Command was making up its mind what to do about them, the Germans invaded in force, and suddenly the High Command had other problems. AND needed three veteran cohorts very badly. So the unit - effective strength about 1500 - was reorganized as the 35th Independent Cohort of Roman Citizen Volunteers, brigaded with the Third Legion Italica at Regensburg, and told to go hold the section of the frontier west of the town. They have been holding it ever since, through some heavy fighting in a sector that doesn't always get much attention from the Big Show farther east.<br>
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The 35th didn't take the reclassification kindly, it was an insult. To themselves, they were still the Ninth Hispana and ever more would be so. But the Ninth is disgraced, and its name may be not be mentioned aloud in public. So they call themselves the Black Legion. They have made another Eagle, and have painted it black instead of gold, and it goes into battle before them. Since last year (the pilot), it goes before the Emperor Marcus Aurelius himself.<br>
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The year before our series begins, the tribes across the frontier got active. In a surprise attack they surrounded and mauled a piece of the Third on a supply mission to The Fort. The Black Legion got wind of the attack and in a desperate counterattack rescued what they could of the convoy. The counterattack was made by a scratch team led by Staff Sergeant (Optio) Marcus Furius Valeria Victrix. Now he is a Centurion, promoted and decorated by the hand of the Emperor. What even the Emperor didn't know till just a bit too late isâ€â€Â
<br>
I could do that since it's registered with the screenwriters guild. Just not sure how. What it is is a scenario with a cast of major and minor characters, and a plot outline for a pilot.<br>
<br>
Here's a few paragraphs anyway...remember it's aimed at production executives, not aficionados like us...<br>
<br>
'The Scenario<br>
<br>
It is about 172 AD - midpoint in the Great Northern War. The scene is set in "the Fort", a nameless fortress about ten miles west of the Third Legion's base at Regensburg on the Danube. It is the linchpin between the fighting sectors and the (almost) quiet Military District of the Rhine. It is nameless because it is the base of the Black Legion.<br>
<br>
The Black Legion officially does not exist. The Ninth Legion was destroyed on the Eastern Front six years ago. Three cohorts of the Ninth were left in garrison in Germany. When the Legion was destroyed and its Eagle burned in disgrace, the three cohorts should have been broken up and spread out among other units. But the survivors threatened mutiny, and while the Imperial High Command was making up its mind what to do about them, the Germans invaded in force, and suddenly the High Command had other problems. AND needed three veteran cohorts very badly. So the unit - effective strength about 1500 - was reorganized as the 35th Independent Cohort of Roman Citizen Volunteers, brigaded with the Third Legion Italica at Regensburg, and told to go hold the section of the frontier west of the town. They have been holding it ever since, through some heavy fighting in a sector that doesn't always get much attention from the Big Show farther east.<br>
<br>
The 35th didn't take the reclassification kindly, it was an insult. To themselves, they were still the Ninth Hispana and ever more would be so. But the Ninth is disgraced, and its name may be not be mentioned aloud in public. So they call themselves the Black Legion. They have made another Eagle, and have painted it black instead of gold, and it goes into battle before them. Since last year (the pilot), it goes before the Emperor Marcus Aurelius himself.<br>
<br>
The year before our series begins, the tribes across the frontier got active. In a surprise attack they surrounded and mauled a piece of the Third on a supply mission to The Fort. The Black Legion got wind of the attack and in a desperate counterattack rescued what they could of the convoy. The counterattack was made by a scratch team led by Staff Sergeant (Optio) Marcus Furius Valeria Victrix. Now he is a Centurion, promoted and decorated by the hand of the Emperor. What even the Emperor didn't know till just a bit too late isâ€â€Â
