Structural Analysis

1. Protocol Fiction Mapping (Summer of Protocols)

• Render a Rule: The physics of relativity and the strict corporate hierarchies of deep-space mining.
• Rehearse a Failure Mode: The corporate hierarchy completely collapses when the objective shifts from "profit" to "cosmic survival," resulting in a decades-long civil war on the ship.
• Reveal a Human Insight: Even when confronted with the terrifying, absolute scale of the cosmos, humans will still prioritize petty political grudges and personal betrayals.

2. Actantial Model (A.J. Greimas)

• Mapping pending standard analysis.

3. Todorov's Equilibrium Model

• Mapping pending standard analysis.

4. The Freytag Pyramid

• Exposition: Ice mining. Climax: Entering the Spile.

5. Propp's Morphology of the Folktale

• Narratemes: Hero follows impossible path.

6. Genette’s Narrative Discourse

• Order: Time dilation, linear.

7. The Monomyth / Hero's Journey

• Subversions: Return is physically impossible.

8. Dan Harmon's Story Circle

• The Take: Earth itself.

9. Save the Cat! Beat Sheet

• Pacing: Catalyst: Janus moves.

10. Kishōtenketsu (Four-Act Structure)

• Applicability: Medium.

11. The Three-Act Structure

• Plot Points: PP1: Following Janus. PP2: Civil war.

12. The Corporate Vampire Arc (Stakeholders Custom)

• The Metric: Delta-v (velocity change capability) and fuel reserves.
• The Anomaly: The moon is a spaceship.
• The Trap Closes: The realization that Janus wasn't leaving for a specific destination; it was a cosmic Venus flytrap designed to drag any curious species into the Spile.
• The Compliance Pivot: The characters must eventually stop fighting each other and accept their status as exhibits in an alien menagerie.