I am not writing Sci Fi this year, but a similar thread in the Fantasy forum has been fun, so I thought I would start one for the poor newly deceased Sci Fi Characters.
You can leave a note of your NaNo death count, and give a brief memorial for those characters whose passings have become part of your 2008 NaNo word count!
(We shall all join you in mourning. )
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"To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it." - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007)
2006 - Famine: A Novel - failed
2007 - A Midsummer Night's Dream...IN SPACE! - on hold
12,113 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2008 - 17 48
Seagull in Front of the Port Jet Intake.
9 Mar 2316 - 16 Jan 2318
RIP
A good scavenger, and excellent sky-rat. He will be missed greatly.
61,176 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2008 - 20 03
Harl Lindstrom, Space/Time Agent
The era was growing time-locked and he had orders to evacuate. But he couldn't leave the girl to watch raiders destroy her village, so he sent her up, instead. He thought she'd just make a good agent; he didn't know she was the next Time Heir. Her discovery fulfilled the purpose of the era, leaving it not only time travel-locked, but history-locked. No time traveler can enter, and no one can change the events surrounding his action.
But he married a local woman and roamed the planet accumulating data that would keep until another agent could crack back in--long years after he died of an old age. And he got what every Space/Time Agent dreams of: an Event Horizon named after him.
16,909 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2008 - 20 53
...
My opening scene is in the middle of what later is described as a massacre ... 6 ships with a minimum of 1500 people to a ship ... well, the only important characters that died were the MC's parents, so:
In Loving Memory of Reech and Tola MauRom
----------Wise and Kind Leaders
Beloved Parents
"If I fall asleep with a pen in my hand, don't remove it - I might be writing in my dreams." ~Danzae Pace
50,175 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2008 - 21 08
To the valiant crew of the submarine Oceanus; four poor men, eaten by a kraken, along with their vessel.
12,751 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2008 - 21 10
Anna Franklin, glad to be out of the dank room of a one-night-stand, just after a near-death experience experiences a real-death experience.
----------RIP
Sam: Is that one of your triplets?
Jack: Yeah, probably.
111,163 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2008 - 01 31
Joseph, you were a great comrade for a chapter and a half. I'm sorry you got suckered in by the weird bat thingies and their soothing hand-wavey method of making you feel peaceful sleeping without shelter just so they can eat your face.
5,004 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2008 - 03 32
The boy (Zeba) and his dog (an unnamed Labrador), wiped out scene one along with mom (Leah) and village due to a miss-targeted air-strike. Policing marines detect the FUBAR by looking up the dog's license number.
Captain Elizabeth Blake (Mother of one of the MCs), blasted to vapor in fleet action.
I'm probably going to wipe out a star system with a VME around the top of the last quarter. Jedi headaches for days.
Derek.
51,763 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2008 - 03 42
I killed off the first character I introduced before he even got a name. He will be pretty important later, but not in a zombie kind of way - this is sci-fi, not fantasy or horror. Shot in his own bar, what a way to go.
20,040 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2008 - 07 39
You'll have to read my excerpt to understand this but here goes. The Deamor are insectoid bad guys. So basically all in all who's died is about 20 S.C.F. (The good guys) officers. An S.C.F. commander who went over to the Deamor side. And about 10,000 Deamor (They work best in swarms).
----------94,831 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2008 - 12 49
Umm, no-one yet. Probablty no one will die in this story.
But in the stories following this one, hundreds of billions will die in the culmination of a galaxy-wide jihad 40,000 yrs in the making.
----------Were I to remember but one thing
That I with joy, gazed up to see
That starry night, within the Firmament with glee
3,169 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2008 - 14 26
Poor Anna. She starts off dead, only breathing in memory. Then my MC tries to create a clone of her using a bunch of recordings and a huge computer. So she might be coming back, in one form or another.
And I think poor little street kid Arky isn't long for this world. I see her getting shot by the crazy cop, and that right soon.
----------It's not lying, it's a gift for fiction.
-David Mamet, "State and Main"
100,043 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2008 - 15 24
Nighty night, Cray.
You were only there to show folks how ugly the "winners" were.
You spilled your guts, alright. Despite promising not to. :D
----------Nano Winner: 2005-2008
Collective word count: 438k
Worst Typoed Sentence: Cannot it wait?" you are a profet of the people
53,461 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2008 - 18 26
Most of Planet Earth
----------Various - 26 October 1962
Nuclear war = epic fail
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2005 - The Tank Project - 33,550
2006 - Icuruzi Three - 50,402 - WIN!
2007 - The Rift Walkers - 51,851 - WIN!!
2008 - The Red Planet - 53,236 - WIN!
50,514 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2008 - 22 48
Poor Jonah Rierdon, space cop, died on duty in the opening chapter. This even took me be surprise.
----------"There's no such thing as the real world;
It's just a lie you got to rise above."
53,397 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2008 - 02 04
I am on the world war 3 side, though mine was seemingly not nuclear. I have depopulated a city, and, presumably, much of the planet. Cause and choice of weapon are hitherto unknown to our heroes. There is just a little bit of weirdness going on, and I am not sure how long it will take the protagonists to come across enough information to make a good guess.
Named characters: One, so far. "Steve", a redshirt. Missing, presumed dead.
----------http://www.enderra.com/blog/
86,209 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2008 - 03 13
Poor unnamed town near the mad scientist's castle. Sure I had a two headed genetic experiment slaughter you all, but you all held a special place in my heart. Especially you, Generic Non-Gender Specified General Store Owner. And you too, Unnamed Miner #36.
50,075 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2008 - 03 58
Dear Patriot
Crazy Half-Android
Slaughtered Publicly
Rest in Pieces
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~ Kai
----------Nano 2008: AWAKENING
http://thecityofdis.livejournal.com
~ Kai
Nano 2008: AWAKENING
http://thecityofdis.livejournal.com
50,040 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2008 - 08 23
Sage Roan
A noble person
I'll mention you later in the novel
Rest in Peace
P.S Ryn will revenge your death! Yes!
20,983 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2008 - 08 25
Goodbye, Mr. Fu. I'm sorry that you only existed to be a plot device to get a character from point A and lethargic to point B and pissed. You shall be referenced occasionally due to a guilty subconscious. Rest in Peace
Also bidding farewell is Paul, a jackass. I had no sympathy for you Paul since you were an asshole, but I'm still sorry that the aliens used you for medical testing while you were dying. Not that anyone else is going to know that. Burn in Hell.
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2007: Miss. Marin (Non-Winner!)
8,929 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2008 - 09 23
An unnamed terrorist attacking the Imperial City in Cantria City, Cantria. Had a knife shoved into his throat by Angel XB-4. But in a sense, he's not completely dead. Angel will be hearing from him again in her nightmares. No major characters have been knocked off yet. These things take time.
----------2008: Soldier X
14,836 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2008 - 10 05
Um, probably a couple million people died in the first two chapters of my novel. No biggie.
Some main characters have died. A man and his wife and a homeless guy named Andrew have all died by being smashed by walls in a terrifying building with a super-massive room with a foam pad and concrete cubes that people get trapped in. Pretty much the worst place you might want to be in. Not to mention long hallways with lots of rooms that have security systems that like to crush you. From my general storyline I've come up with, over 3 billion people will die by the end of the book.
20,595 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2008 - 10 31
Date: Around the year AD 2420
Individual(s) in Question: ~81 billion human beings on Earth, Luna, Mars, and Io.
Cause of Death: Coordinated activation of a nanite swarm which disassembled human nerve tissue within 30 seconds of activation.
Hooray for reducing humanity down to 103 individuals :)
51,276 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2008 - 17 13
RIP the Human Race. I killed a couple hundred billion people through nuclear war. I've also killed lots of mutated babies... O.o
----------2008- 'I am Human Jane' (won)
2009- ?
Check out some of my short story work @
http://queennsydney.deviantart.com
12,113 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2008 - 17 15
Samantha Harriet Novak
Born 22 Sep 2295
Died 16 Jan 2318
RIP
A recent political science graduate, working as an office assistant and receptionist to the Senator of Earth in the Orion Senate. Drugged the Senator's coffee when promised a ridiculously large amount of money from a pharmaceutical magnate. Exited the office with his abductors, managed to get drugged herself.
Both received genetic manipulations to turn them into an avian-like alien species. Senator Gearing's transformation went over fine. Samantha's? Not so much. Rejection is a b*tch ain't it?
75 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2008 - 17 16
Pre story
About 60% of the world's population.
Death count before the story's end, of actual characters (even just bit ones): 47.
----------Thought for the day: Powdered armour, just add water
11,485 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2008 - 03 22
Died: 5 top quality Drae fighter pilots, torn apart by the shrappnel of their ships exploding, hit by the Mez.
7 Mez ships with about 3-4 crew per ships. Blown apart by the Drae.
MC Kizzy D'heart, captain of the Ship Adamantium Apple, General of the Drae army, Niece of current ruler of the Drae: Missing, presumed drowned.
Death Toll: approx 30
RIP
50,820 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2008 - 05 29
Poor noble Cato. He'd just freed his much loved wife from jail when a gateway to an alternative universe opened up in his near vicinity and tore him apart. His wife mourns him and all who knew the noble man feel the loss. He leaves behind a devastated wife and a beautiful big-eyed child. He will be avenged!
12,636 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2008 - 09 46
In my story, i'd like to leave a memoriam to a few, mostly minor characters, so the main character deaths can be a little more dramatic: Captain Heero- If it looks like pig, smells like a pig, and eats like a pig, its a complete and total bastard.
The knife assassin- His name alone is reason to kill him, out of pity, poor Dwayne.
the other assassins, shooty and boom-boom- Weren't even important enough to have names, sucks to be them. Personality of James Bond bad guy goons #34637 and #838, at least they get to die like full villians, like Blofeld or the SMERSH leader from the 1960's Casino Royale
Agatona, the writer's convenience- he was here because i needed a reason to let a bad guy live.
Dez, a Martyr- created to die, a completely unlucky hero.
Professor Strepsipteran- self-shilling whore, like an inventor who sells his stuff on TV. a secondary villain Most of these guys deserve what they get, especially the Professor, who's crushed by a black hole.
50,175 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2008 - 13 33
Here's to the brave men of the GSFS Homesteader; eaten by a sea serpent while defending a colony. RIP, you shall be long remembered, although none of you had names.
76,288 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2008 - 20 31
RIP Damien with no surname, age not disclosed, suffering a terminal ilness, euthanised peacefully in the simulation of his choice, cut down by a horde of foes as specified in his will.
I will be killing more. Fair chance one or more major characters get a bullet.