Structural Analysis

1. Protocol Fiction Mapping (Summer of Protocols)

• Render a Rule: War is not an accident; it is a highly structured, legally binding protocol entered into by sovereign entities.
• Rehearse a Failure Mode: The leaders try to protocol-ize the apocalypse, believing they can control the chaos of mass death through sheer intellectual rigor.
• Reveal a Human Insight: The belief that violence can be civilized through legislation is the ultimate hubris of the ruling class.

2. Actantial Model (A.J. Greimas)

• Mapping pending standard analysis.

3. Todorov's Equilibrium Model

• Mapping pending standard analysis.

4. The Freytag Pyramid

• Exposition: Pre-war planning. Climax: First strikes.

5. Propp's Morphology of the Folktale

• Narratemes: Hero debates.

6. Genette’s Narrative Discourse

• Order: Protracted, intellectual.

7. The Monomyth / Hero's Journey

• Subversions: Journey is purely legislative.

8. Dan Harmon's Story Circle

• The Take: Moral high ground.

9. Save the Cat! Beat Sheet

• Pacing: Catalyst: Planning the violence.

10. Kishōtenketsu (Four-Act Structure)

• Applicability: High.

11. The Three-Act Structure

• Plot Points: PP1: J.E.D.D. accepts role. PP2: Violence starts.

12. The Corporate Vampire Arc (Stakeholders Custom)

• The Metric: The predicted casualty rates of the coming war.
• The Audit: Analyzing historical precedents (Homer, the World Wars) to find the 'best' way to fight.
• The Negotiation: The entire book is a massive, philosophical negotiation about the rules of the violence before the violence occurs.
• The Autonomy Strip: The leaders realize that once the war begins, they will lose control of the populations they rule.