Megalomania!
by Joseph on Oct.04, 2004, under NaNoWriMo
That’s the title of my NaNoWriMo novel. Now, I know that the word “megalomania” is not defined as “a desire to take over the world,” but one who desires to take over the world could be called a “megalomaniac.” Also, it’s a really cool word. If it turns out that I don’t like it, then I shall strike it from existance. Until then, here’s the synopsis of my novel in easy to use back-of-the-book format!
Megalomania is sweeping the galaxy!
After the advent of superluminal travel, the quest to colonize the stars was quickly followed by the quest to dominate them with an iron fist. Those so taken realized that with infinite worlds came the prospect of infinite world domination! The rich, smart and generally evil found that little resistance awaited their attempts to take over the world- any world! From tropical planets to terraformed moons, nothing was safe from the complex machinations of the evil geniuses that desired them.
To combat this problem, the first spaceside military force was hastily thrown together by the countries of Earth to help protect newly colonized planets from being usurped. With limited resources, the fleet did its best, but many planetary takeovers went by unnoticed.
Enter Roger Plotnik, a scientist with delusions of granduer and a few planets already under his belt. Sadly, the planets ranged from unihabited to unihabitable. Undeterred in his quest for world domination that someone would actually notice, he set his sights on Centaurus, the most inhabited and heavily gaurded planet besides Earth. His peers thought him mad… and he appreciated the compliment.
Plotnik was not alone, however, since the equally mad yet far more evil and successful Victor Segue had also decided that Centaurus was to be the next stop in his domination tour. With two mad scientists vying for control of a planet, what else could go wrong? It just so happens, plenty!
Okay, I just realized that the synopsis was heading into short-story territory. Man that was long. It’s still a work in progress (a WIP if you will) and will be for at least the next two months, at which point it will be the first draft of a much larger WIP that is my novel.
