HUMMA'S INTRO

Act I:

A: Exile

1. Humma Kavula meets his sire, only to have him killed by his second mother

2. Humma and mother pack, only to be apprehended by authorities before fleeing the scene

3. Mother and son sent from city to a refugee-style, outcast fringe society.

a. Humma’s intelligence and quest for knowledge in harsh, primitive surroundings

b. Troubles with his upbringing

c. Moving up the totem pole

d. Final choice; flee from war and abandon family (now stepfather and stepchildren) or stay and support his growing extended family

1. Humma despises all other siblings and new stepfather, perceiving the re-attachment of his mother to be tantamount to blood betrayal.

4. Humma escapes and jumps onto a platform that takes him to another galaxy

Act II:

A: The time sufficient

1. Humma finds work at a clone-training facility toiling in the kitchen.

2. Humma manages to explore the complex and picks up writing and reading, survival skills, deductive thinking, supply and logistics, as well as machinery and technology, all by spying, sneaking, and bribery.

3. The kitchen is managed by a being known as ‘The Kitchen-Wife,’ who attempts to draw out the shy and seemingly slow young man. When she sees what he’s up to, she offers to teach him the secrets of her species, which Humma gladly accepts.

4. Once Humma’s training under the kitchen-wife and his knowledge of what is taught to the war-clones is complete, he decides to leave his job.

5. Humma discovers the dark side to his teaching; before he leaves her domain, he must surrender both eyes in a horrific and scarring ceremony.

B. Homecoming

1. Returns to kill mother and her new man in an altered state of mind as he is reeling from the surgery.

2. Humma wakes up over their bodies and he realizes that something is very wrong with him; he has discovered the seeds of madness that has come from his newfound knowledge.

a. In his old tent along with the bodies, he begins seeing things that he’d collected as a youth. They are gone, but in him is an insane desire to possess the treasures of the universe and obtain whatever he wants, despite the consequences, be they death to the guardians or stealing from the destitute.

C. Slave Ship

1. Humma stumbles about, slightly impaired. He is drawn to a cyborg named LG who is hiring for guards on a slave ship. He then realizes that he has not buried his stepfather and one of his stepsisters.

2. He realizes that the slaves are his old tormentors and is filled with an insane glee. He remembers the kids who threw rocks at him, the elders who had scorned him, the thugs who beat him, and so on. They are all slaves on the ship, and Humma uses his tactical skills to control them, which intrigues LG and she asks him to hire on for a permanent position once the slaves are sold.

D. Humma rises in the ranks of the ship and is trained by the captain to take over on his death. Humma profits greatly from the apprenticeship. When he had all the training he needed, Humma kills the captain and takes over the vessel. In the fight with the first mate, who witnesses the murder, Humma loses first one let and the other to disease. He manages to salvage metal from the ship and make himself a crude wheelchair which he poles along with his arms.

1. Afterward, Humma quits the slave trade after amassing a small fortune. He uses the money to upgrade the ship, outfitting it with a rudimentary GPP system.

a. The GPP UI turns out to be a split personality with a daughter and a father who were constantly arguing. Humma becomes paranoid that they are his stepsister and stepfather, because he did not bury them appropriately.

2. Humma goes to ground and discovers the persuasive powers of the Church and religion in general. He formulates his own plan for dominion and spends the rest of his voyages deep in thought. His crew, highly suspicious, fears him and his bouts of rage.

HUMMA'S VISION

Act III: The Reformation

A. Humma sells the ship, and joins the Clergy on a planet considered The Holy See by many. He had tortured the location out of a bishop while he was stealing a monstrance from a monestary

1. Humma studies the teachings of masters and scholars in the church and begins to write his own doctrine while studying the effects and statutes that organized religion has.

2. Humma leaves the city and commissions a ship to fly to largely untouched planets as well as planets with vast suburban sprawls. The natives to the jungle planet think that he is an oracle and follow his advice. The young adults he pitches a sell to them that they will be rich and famous. They believe him and follow him with zest. He uses them to find important and rare documents and expensive artifacts as well as relics, scientific tools, weapons, curiosities and antiques.

3. Humma stashes his hoard and produces spiritual and doctrinal readings in private.

EPILOUGE.

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