Cold Witness just got warmer
I'm a little more enthusiastic regarding Project Cold Witness now, after doing my characterisation sheets. I've got about 8 MCs fully outlined plus nine or ten secondary characters, and as always, nice little plot elements are starting to surface. I've got decent conflicts running between my MCs (the commanders of the Cold Witness base); Colonel Foyle, Lieutenant Brown, and Major Ford. There's also a neat subplot starting to emerge regarding the possibility of a Russian agent compromising the facility ... but seeing as the brother of Foyle's secretary, Christina Beckwood, is obsessed with finding the truth behind Cold Witness, there's scope for some major cock-ups and misunderstandings.
Oh yes, and the UFOs. I've designed an Electro-Magnetic Pulse gun (the DEMP-3) which I think could work in practice, and I'm going to be using it as part of a new protocol known as Moon Dust (after the infamous 'Project Moon Dust' in the USA). Basically, Harvey, the NSA guy, will demand that the new protocol be put into operation to guard against UFO attack. Foyle and his colleagues will scoff at this, but before the protocol has been properly set up, a UFO lands on Orfordness, and all hell breaks loose. Foyle and Brown will be relaxing in the Jolly Sailor onshore when it happens; they'll see bright lights over the Ness, and try to contact Major Ford, but the interference from the Cold Witness array itself will jam their radio. Muahahaha. This is going to be great!
By the way, everything I'm putting into this novel is based on true events. The places are all real, and in fact the remains of the Cold Witness array can be seen from the riverwall about a mile away from my house. Some of the information I've managed to retrieve from the US Freedom of Information Act have yielded astonishing results regarding the true nature of the whole Cobra Mist/Cold Witness project, but as always, I'm using artistic license to dramatise and modify the truth ... whatever that may be.
I'm a little more enthusiastic regarding Project Cold Witness now, after doing my characterisation sheets. I've got about 8 MCs fully outlined plus nine or ten secondary characters, and as always, nice little plot elements are starting to surface. I've got decent conflicts running between my MCs (the commanders of the Cold Witness base); Colonel Foyle, Lieutenant Brown, and Major Ford. There's also a neat subplot starting to emerge regarding the possibility of a Russian agent compromising the facility ... but seeing as the brother of Foyle's secretary, Christina Beckwood, is obsessed with finding the truth behind Cold Witness, there's scope for some major cock-ups and misunderstandings.
Oh yes, and the UFOs. I've designed an Electro-Magnetic Pulse gun (the DEMP-3) which I think could work in practice, and I'm going to be using it as part of a new protocol known as Moon Dust (after the infamous 'Project Moon Dust' in the USA). Basically, Harvey, the NSA guy, will demand that the new protocol be put into operation to guard against UFO attack. Foyle and his colleagues will scoff at this, but before the protocol has been properly set up, a UFO lands on Orfordness, and all hell breaks loose. Foyle and Brown will be relaxing in the Jolly Sailor onshore when it happens; they'll see bright lights over the Ness, and try to contact Major Ford, but the interference from the Cold Witness array itself will jam their radio. Muahahaha. This is going to be great!
By the way, everything I'm putting into this novel is based on true events. The places are all real, and in fact the remains of the Cold Witness array can be seen from the riverwall about a mile away from my house. Some of the information I've managed to retrieve from the US Freedom of Information Act have yielded astonishing results regarding the true nature of the whole Cobra Mist/Cold Witness project, but as always, I'm using artistic license to dramatise and modify the truth ... whatever that may be.
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