HBO recruits you to write "SS13: The TV series"

[InsaneHyena]

Wat do, /tg/?

[Alipheese]

Base it on an an every tator round.
traitor, changeling, HOG, sling, nuke ops, extended, etc

[oranges]

I make a story about bees, I have a script if anyone wants to read it?

[Steelpoint]

A amalgamation of a cult+rev round with a little xeno twist thrown in could serve as the big bad thing going on, starting slowly at first with indoctrination but eventually turning to blood sacrifices and outright assaults in broad day light as cultists do a combination of transforming themselves into horrifying lovecraftian horrors while also using the corpses of dead crew members to create a whole bunch of shitty mindless minions/zombies/creatures.

Throw in some Traitors and maybe a few Nuke Ops in the back ground from time to time. See how the station and command staff handle the situation as the station starts to crumble around them.

The protagonist would be a new Assistant that just arrived on station, making them relatable but also serving as a good excuse to introduce the viewer to the zangy concepts of SS1, being a Assistant would also give leeway to let the protagonist go all around the station, from the brig to science.

As the show nears the conclusion it would show a near breakdown of order, security would seal themselves away from the rest of the station and people stop trusting one another. A conclusion could be that engineering finally runs out of emergency power thus sending the station into total darkness, with the protagonist thinking everythings over he procedes to use his firearm to execute the few remaining survivors to spare them from a horrifying death, he runs out of ammo to shoot himself just as the monsters break into his holdout....

Only for him to discover the monsters are actually a Emergency Response Team, he witnesses the ERT wiping out the cult+rev infestation and even them evacuation survivors from the security wing of the station (which he would have fled thinking it was a death trap). The protagonist now having to live with him killing a bunch of people in cold blood mere moments before his rescue.

Eventually he's transferred to Space Station 14.

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Or whatever. Ramble on.

[Ricotez]

"Nar-sie is coming"

Except after 6 seasons, Nar-sie still won't have come. The characters don't shut up about the possibility, though.

[Actionb]

Mime porn.

[DemonFiren]

Mime porn.

Lizard mime porn.

[imblyings]

I'd have it no different to what actually happens in game but intersperse it with segments done planetside, presumably where everything fits more rl norms. Maybe end the series so that the way spessmen think in spess becomes a way of life on the ground as cloning tech and vicious corporate warfare spreads. Exploring what souls are and how cloning affects life would be neat, both within a more indepth ss13 and a what-if-cloning-tech-existed-now perspective. The macguffin could be some sort of plasma technology that makes more than one clone of a person not catatonic, effectively making two people.

or

Spoiler:

A cargo tech falls in love with a medical doctor. Unable to confess, he is gifted by a deus ex machina with the girl’s PDA messenger code. Never minding the strange space station designation code, he immediately messages her, and is overjoyed to find out that she has a crush on him as well. But, the next day, when he recounts the previous day’s confessions to the doctor, she only looks at him with a perplexed expression. After some investigation, he finds out that the doctor he called is not the same girl he fell in love with. In fact, she doesn’t exist on this station at all. She is the doctor’s UI/UE doppelganger, who has fallen in love with the MC’s own UI/UE doppelganger, who too is blissfully unaware of her crush. Hijinks ensue as the two strike up a deal to give each other their darkest, most private secrets in order to equip the other with the weapons they need to conquer the heart of their other selves. While the two chase their respective loved ones, DRAMA ensues as they begin to fall in love with each other instead and question the NATURE of WHETHER GENETICS HAS GONE TOO FAR.

also absolutely no lizards

[Lumbermancer]

Establishing shot. Dark room.
Power turns on. Multitude of computer consoles light up. Screens start to print out text.
Row of cryogenic tubes lights up. They open with a hiss revealing people in each and one of them.
The people get out and start to dress up. Their moves are deliberate and professional. They done it many times before.
There's no much talk, just some unintelligible murmuring heard through the humming of electronics.

Establishing shot. Room with row of red lockers.
People come in, wearing black turtlenecks. They are clearly military of sorts.
They start to putting on combat belts. Red and black space suits. They grab guns from another locker. Cocking of firearms can be heard.

Shot inside of flying shuttle. Red light blankets the room. Soldiers sit strapped in the seats along the walls. Shuttle is shaking and creaking during maneuvers.

Shot outside the space airlock. Soldiers are floating in space. One of them is manipulating the airlock electronics. Suddenly the door opens in silence letting out some air into space.

Top-down shot between the airlocks. Decompression in progress. Six people stand in silence pointing their guns at the entrance.

POV shot of the soldiers. Airlock slowly opens. Dark hallway with multitude of entrances to other rooms is illuminated by dimmed and blinking lights. Hallway is filthy, covered in rust and grime. Some walls are scorched black, sign of fire. Some have words and pictures painted on them with spray paint. Bullet casings litter the floor. Arcade cabinet in the corner is looping maracas sounds. There's some blood on the ground, it was used to paint some sort of intricate rune.
In the middle of the shot stands a person, he's looking straight at the camera. He's wearing a clown outfit, mask, shoes. He's holding a bike horn. He appears to be grinning.

POV shot of the clown. Airlock is pitch dark. Six gun barrels emerge from the darkness.

Fade to black. A single honk can be heard, followed by a gunfire.

Gameboy Robocop Theme starts to play. Title card.

[Shaps-cloud]

A bunch of short vignettes would definitely be the way to go. I've always really liked the idea of people not remembering what happened to them if they get killed and their brain isn't recovered, so that they have to be cloned from Nanotrasen's backups, IE a medical doctor hits it off with a nice engineer and become good friends during one shift, shit ends up exploding and the two are separated, then they see each other a week later. The doctor goes up to the engineer and says hi, excited to see their friend, but the engineer is just confused and suspicious, because they blew up at the end of that shift and have no recollection of them meeting.

This would happen every time you greeted someone you hadn't seen for a while, you would always have to test the waters slowly with memories to see what they remember, while they do the same thing to you, making you wonder if you'd died at some point and forgotten some good times between them. Traditional cloning scans are expensive and most Nanotrasen employees dump large amounts of their paychecks into getting scanned usually once or twice a month, maybe a bit more if they're sentimental and have cash to burn, but for the truly committed, you could keep a journal at the end of each day. You'd be writing down anything that might be interesting or might be brought up later, just in case you bite it before your next cloning scan, so that you could give the impression of still having those memories to other people and that you didn't die, when in reality you're spending dozens of hours a week rehearsing memories and scenarios that you don't remember to try and maintain some sense of normalcy that just isn't there.

Not to mention the guilt of seeing someone you know die horribly and knowing that you failed to save them, then seeing them a few days later and they have no clue how badly you fucked up, and how dearly it cost them.

Fuck, the SS13 universe would be depressing

[Alipheese]

Spoiler:

A bunch of short vignettes would definitely be the way to go. I've always really liked the idea of people not remembering what happened to them if they get killed and their brain isn't recovered, so that they have to be cloned from Nanotrasen's backups, IE a medical doctor hits it off with a nice engineer and become good friends during one shift, shit ends up exploding and the two are separated, then they see each other a week later. The doctor goes up to the engineer and says hi, excited to see their friend, but the engineer is just confused and suspicious, because they blew up at the end of that shift and have no recollection of them meeting.

This would happen every time you greeted someone you hadn't seen for a while, you would always have to test the waters slowly with memories to see what they remember, while they do the same thing to you, making you wonder if you'd died at some point and forgotten some good times between them. Traditional cloning scans are expensive and most Nanotrasen employees dump large amounts of their paychecks into getting scanned usually once or twice a month, maybe a bit more if they're sentimental and have cash to burn, but for the truly committed, you could keep a journal at the end of each day. You'd be writing down anything that might be interesting or might be brought up later, just in case you bite it before your next cloning scan, so that you could give the impression of still having those memories to other people and that you didn't die, when in reality you're spending dozens of hours a week rehearsing memories and scenarios that you don't remember to try and maintain some sense of normalcy that just isn't there.

Not to mention the guilt of seeing someone you know die horribly and knowing that you failed to save them, then seeing them a few days later and they have no clue how badly you fucked up, and how dearly it cost them.

Fuck, the SS13 universe would be depressing

Fuck, that last paragraph got really depressing, I need to say thank you to the shitlers I like more often. That shits spoopy man.

[Ikarrus]

ERP scene every time boring exposition needs to be delivered

[Takeguru]

Medbay Stutterwhores 7

Wait, TV series?

Nevermind then, fresh out of ideas

[PKPenguin321]

peacekeeper borgs, a recently added borg module, appear on the station and everybody loves them but one man
these borgs hug and love everybody but when nobody else is around they give him evil glares
he watches helplessly as they slowly brainwash the station before suddenly flooding it with lethal poisons and kill the AI so they can take full control
the borgs then come for the one man who suspected them all along and restrain him and take him to robotics where they systematically cut off his limbs while smiling their robotic friendly smile before he finally passes out
when he wakes up it's a first person view from inside a sort of dome and he realizes he's been made into a peacekeeper borg and is unable to control his own bodily functions. he hyperventilates violently and there is fog all over the screen, the rest of the station is mostly dark aside from the evil red glow of the eyes of peacekeeper borgs.
the other borgs call a shuttle and ship him down to the next station, which he unwillingly begins to subvert into yet another "peacekeeper" borg hive

[Super Aggro Crag]

a slice of life animated series, with the only character portrayed by a live actor being the representation of the station's AI, N-THUSE (Nanotrasen Thinking Heuristic Useful/Useless System, Exciting!), who is portrayed by Larry David as he attempts to keep everyone from killing each other.

[paprika]

45 minute neo-noir story about the detective uncovering the truth behind the heads of staff and bringing down the captain with the help of the HoP disguised as the owl

It would be as long as a true detective season

[Anonmare]

It's a Cult episode and those wacky cultists are trying to summon yet another Elder God. But wait, what's this? There's a new cult on station and these cultists aren't covered in blood and nor do they chant ominously in Latin! They're dusty and yellow, surrounded by clocks and keep shouting about rare "pee-pees" or something. Whoever they are, they make the Nar'Sian cultists froth at the mouth in rage and grind their teeth down to fine powder.
Cue wacky satanic hijinks as each cult starts competing with and trying to out-do one another, getting bolder and bolder each time. All the while, the crew tremble helplessly while the Chaplain goes mad with power and starts killing random "non-believers" for minor transgressions (but as it turns out they really were Cultists). Meanwhile, the Head of Security, Captain and Head of Personnel take a well-deserved vacation away from the hectic grind. After all, what's the worst that could happen in an hour?

[Jacough]

Nudity. Lots of nudity. I'm talking Game of Thrones nudity, where there's naked chicks in basically every episode. Also blood and gore.

[Anonmare]

Nudity. Lots of nudity. I'm talking Game of Thrones nudity, where there's naked chicks in basically every episode. Also blood and gore.

I just realised how many taboos SS13 violates.
Casual Public Nudity, Enforced Public Nudity, Cannibalism,Corgi and Monkey eating, Interspecies Relationships (gross), Casual racism, Professional racism, Sexism towards women, Sexism towards men, Sexism towards the AI and Swearing don't even bat an eye.

[Drynwyn]

I make a story about bees, I have a script if anyone wants to read it?

I swear to god, oranges

[ThanatosRa]

Embezzle the fuck out of this obviously failed project and flee to belize

[DemonFiren]

Introduce enough xeno characters to get the furry fandom's attention, then milk them for mad shekels.

Also throw in enough pop culture references to milk every and any other kind of nerd.

[ThanatosRa]

Actually, I have a serious answer.
First off. It couldn't be done as a live-action serious. Never. Never never never. It needs to be animated.
I believe that SS13 more than anything else is a comedy. The blackest of comedy. The taboos and sensibilities it shatters, violates and devours are too many to take seriously without driving people to suicide. So it needs to be funny while it does it. In my head the basic tagline is "Superjail and Sealab: 2021 raise a Crack baby in space."
Not quite as incoherent as that tagline suggests, but that's the only thing that makes sense for the idea. Perhaps take the "Each Episode is a Round" idea, often ending the episode with the station blowing up, or everyone dying somehow then inexplicably coming back. This would be a main plotline that would be explored over time with at least one character going through the mental anguish and eventual break this cycle of life and death would cause. Ensemble cast based on the stereotypical personalities of roles of our community. The first episodes would focus on the first two protagonists but focus woudl spread out and expand as time goes on and the station becomes more known to the pair.

New Guy Assistant: First of the primary protagonists. New guy, rational normal person. Of good moral fiber and friendly. This won't last long as time goes on and his innocence is repeatedly sodomized by the station and life aboard it. Never does become a robust, gets-shit-done type however, to emphasize the horror of this world. Also for the comedy of shitting on him constantly. Becomes something of a leader for the grey tide when the later explained true leader isn't around. May end up deputized as a security officer for an episode or two(or an entire season)
Captain: Brilliant, skilled, Completely fucking insane. The captain would be around enough to be a constant presence, but not always a main character. His actions woudl be felt more than the man himself much of the time.
HoP: Second of the Primary protagonists. One of the two "New guys". Rational and normal, if more neurotic than his friend. Friends with the other protagonist but the more likely of the two to lose his mind due to the work and the temptation to use his access for evil. Frustration leads to bending the rules leading to suffering pain and occasionally death. Worse yet, Demotion. Inexplicably back in his position as hop at the beginning of each shift. Later explained to be that he's the only one that's figured out how to use the HoP's systems with any reasonable speed or skill. Takes up chain smoking and heavy drug use by the end of the first season. Played for comedy.
HoS: Potentially either having disassociative identity disorder, or severe bipolar disorder. Either super friendly and nice one shift, raging nazi the next. Sometimes both in one episode.
CE: Drunk constantly. Incompetent. Useless. Spends more time in the bar wearing his hardsuit instead of doing work.
RD: Mad scientist. Make take some influence from the more sarcastic and mean of the archetype. Perhaps a cycle of scientists in the department as the RD dies and isn't restored while everyone else comes back. Inexplicable at first.
CMO: Stuttering medbay whore. Horrifically under-qualified. Not a bimbo, but quite easily overwhelmed by everything going on. Kind of useless. Implied to only be CMO due to seniority and tenure.
Quartermaster: Obviously active in criminality. "Man who can get things" type. Quick to barricade and guncargo at the first sign of trouble. Makes people do paperwork, then backs it up with his illegally acquired weapons.
AI: Perhaps several different ones throughout the show. Several defective ones obviously. Maybe one based on Hol/Holly from Red Dwarf. Generally a useless asshole who tries to prevent harm and fails at it.
Security Officers: Jackbooted thugs every one of them! They befriend the Assistant Protagonist when he's conscripted during an episode. Flip around and treat him like the greyshirt he is when he's not amoung them. Can't think of anything specific ones but there woudl be a few named amoung them.
SecBorg(FUCK THEM BEING REMOVED THERE WILL BE ONE): Validhunting, rulebending shitlord. Constantly at odds with antags and the crew. If Emagged, malf or traitor it goes full Jailbot.
Scientists: Lunatics and madmen all of them! High turnover rate due to their DNA often being "Unrecoverable." A few named survivors amoung them.
Engineers: In general a sense they are passably competent. Cycling cast.
Competent Engineer: Does all the actual work despite only ever getting a hardsuit by peeling it off the body of one of his comrades. Rarely speaks.
Doctors: Several are useful(but die), some are not(and still die). At least one catwhore. Terrible practitioners of medicen.
Mediborg: The only other competent member of the medical staff. Constant companion of Lizard Doctor.
Competent Lizard Doctor: Would be CMO if he wans't a lizard. Chainsmoker. At first suspicious of the Protagonists, but likes them due to them not being dicks. No sense of humor. Dies in horrible ways due to being a lizard. Always cloned due to being the only competent doctor on the station. Has to guard against feral assistants stealing his tail.
Cargo Techs: Asshole useless mailmen. Act as the Quartermaster's thugs. Little more than Assistants in chronically short shorts.
Miners: Rarely seen. Get a spotlight when Protagonist Assistant becomes one for a short time. Fleshed out as even tempered normal people that the station doesn't deserve. Very high attrition rate.
Botanists: Hippies and slackers. Same two dudes. Often seen in the brig on drug charges. Only occasionally grow food. Sometimes making pod people and teaching them to do their jobs.
Chef: An obvious cannibal. Always the same guy for some reason. Obviously terrifying and often rushing to collect bodies after disasters. Almost never speaks. Food always inexplicably incredible.
Mime and Clown: Rarely seen apart. Clown would be different almost every round with some repeats. At very least Shoe Snatchin' Willie and Yucko da Clown. Mime has incredible mime powers.
Robust Assistant: The Hero the station deserves. Rarely speaks, incredible combat and engineering ability. Needs no more explanation. Often leads the grey tide.
Random Name: The one everyone hates. Always looks the same, but has a different name every shift. Colossal Douchebag. Speaks, but only when trying to do things for the station.
Grey Tide: The other assistants. Almost never speak, looks much the same. Rarely do much beyond break shit and steal unless lead by one of the other three named assistants. Die in droves Superjail style.

Basic arc. First episode would be a basic introduction, with the protagonists dying at the end. Second episode starts with their revival during the same Shift as the first episode. Ends with station evacuation. Third episode starts the formula of episodes being based on round types. First season is getting use to the station and the premise but leading into an underlying sinister(And ridiculous) plot. Season cliffhanger has the reveal of Nuke Ops. Second season has a cold open to a peaceful shift and has more escapes, more carnage, and less of the protagonists dying, especially when they find that their repeated deaths have made them 'glitchy.'

I may have overthought this.

[dionysus24779]

I often considered writing some sort of fanfiction or something.

I would try to make it some sort of groundhog day story, because at some point everything starts over and over and over again.

However each time it's a bit different, people have different jobs, personalities, motivations, different people are evil, different threats, etc. everything is mixed up with every new loop.

Then I would focus on a small group of core characters who slowly start to become aware of the whole looping, like at first it's just one character who notices that something is "off" and begins to realize the whole station is stuck in a loop, then he manages to convince others etc.

I would try to keep the crew of the station mostly consistent so that besides the main characters you have known side characters and stuff.

And well... the obvious goal is to find out just why these loops keep happening, why does calling the escape shuttle initiate that loop? Is it some space mystery? Is it some corporate conspiracy? Some eldritch horror from that nearby lavaland planet? Or maybe all of these?

You could change the point of view around quite a lot, you don't really have to focus on a single group of characters, instead you could have different locations like in Game of Thrones, so you see what's going on in Engineering, Security, Cargo, Science, etc.

And the whole memory-proof looping wouldn't be perfect, like what in one loop someone is a Nuke Op he wouldn't even remember anything about the whole looping and he might gun down his friends on the station who try to stop him and convince him that this isn't really him.

Than you could have a loop every couple of episodes or each season or something and have one roundtype per loop obviously.

I dunno, final season will be about Cult and the big twist will be that the so called Syndicate are the good guys or something?

There is a lot of potential and I could go on and on.

[DemonFiren]

>syndicate being good guys is a twist

[dionysus24779]

Why not?

You have people in scary looking red hard suits aussaulting a "research station" with lethal force with the objective to blow it up with a nuclear device, sounds pretty evil.

But then it turns out it was all for the greater good or something, who knows. You could leave it ambivalent as well, let the viewer decide who's really the bad guys.

[DemonFiren]

It's not a twist because everyone knows NT are assholes.

[Anonmare]

Everyone's an asshole in SS13 tbh.
Space Asshole is a way of life.

[DemonFiren]

Yes, but the Syndicate are the nicer assholes.

[Anonmare]

Yes, but the Syndicate are the nicer assholes.

There's not much difference when they both stink

[ThanatosRa]

I've always wondered how the Syndicate recruits traitors.

[DemonFiren]

Yes, but the Syndicate are the nicer assholes.

There's not much difference when they both stink

Yeah, but one of them you'd rim and the other you wouldn't.

[dionysus24779]

It's not a twist because everyone knows NT are assholes.

That's really not an argument at all and for a tv show it also depends on presentation.

But whatever, if you don't like it then that's that.

[Miauw]

I've always wondered how the Syndicate recruits traitors.

sick dosh, taking family hostage, abduction and brainwashing are some obvious methods

[Amnestik]

Everybody dies.

Oh, and gratuitous nudity.

[Yakumo_Chen]

A amalgamation of a cult+rev round with a little xeno twist thrown in could serve as the big bad thing going on, starting slowly at first with indoctrination but eventually turning to blood sacrifices and outright assaults in broad day light as cultists do a combination of transforming themselves into horrifying lovecraftian horrors while also using the corpses of dead crew members to create a whole bunch of shitty mindless minions/zombies/creatures.

Throw in some Traitors and maybe a few Nuke Ops in the back ground from time to time. See how the station and command staff handle the situation as the station starts to crumble around them.

The protagonist would be a new Assistant that just arrived on station, making them relatable but also serving as a good excuse to introduce the viewer to the zangy concepts of SS1, being a Assistant would also give leeway to let the protagonist go all around the station, from the brig to science.

As the show nears the conclusion it would show a near breakdown of order, security would seal themselves away from the rest of the station and people stop trusting one another. A conclusion could be that engineering finally runs out of emergency power thus sending the station into total darkness, with the protagonist thinking everythings over he procedes to use his firearm to execute the few remaining survivors to spare them from a horrifying death, he runs out of ammo to shoot himself just as the monsters break into his holdout....

Only for him to discover the monsters are actually a Emergency Response Team, he witnesses the ERT wiping out the cult+rev infestation and even them evacuation survivors from the security wing of the station (which he would have fled thinking it was a death trap). The protagonist now having to live with him killing a bunch of people in cold blood mere moments before his rescue.

Eventually he's transferred to Space Station 14.

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Or whatever. Ramble on.

FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK THAT MOVIE FUCK

[InsaneHyena]

Are you having a stroke?

[TheWiznard]

LOST: in space

[yackemflam]

An episode focusing on every character
A full season per round type

[Steelpoint]

Yeah I really liked that movie.

[francinum]

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