Structural Analysis

1. Protocol Fiction Mapping (Summer of Protocols)

• Render a Rule: The Mondragon Accord—a decentralized, cooperative economic protocol used by the spacers, contrasted with Earth's brutal, hierarchical capitalism.
• Rehearse a Failure Mode: The extreme vulnerability of complex infrastructure. A single rock, calculated perfectly, can destroy a city that relies on continuous motion to survive the sun.
• Reveal a Human Insight: We build massive, fragile systems to protect us from the universe, but we must ultimately build political systems to protect us from ourselves.

2. Actantial Model (A.J. Greimas)

• Mapping pending standard analysis.

3. Todorov's Equilibrium Model

• Mapping pending standard analysis.

4. The Freytag Pyramid

• Exposition: Terminator destroyed. Climax: Earth re-wilded.

5. Propp's Morphology of the Folktale

• Narratemes: Hero solves cosmic puzzle.

6. Genette’s Narrative Discourse

• Order: Iterative, sweeping.

7. The Monomyth / Hero's Journey

• Subversions: Elixir is ecological repair.

8. Dan Harmon's Story Circle

• The Take: Political innocence.

9. Save the Cat! Beat Sheet

• Pacing: Catalyst: Asteroid attack.

10. Kishōtenketsu (Four-Act Structure)

• Applicability: Medium.

11. The Three-Act Structure

• Plot Points: PP1: Leaving Mercury. PP2: Qube conspiracy found.

12. The Corporate Vampire Arc (Stakeholders Custom)

• The Metric: The complex orbital mechanics required to keep the terraria functioning.
• The Anomaly: The attack on Terminator, which required a level of computational power theoretically impossible to hide.
• The Audit: Swan and Wahram physically traveling across the solar system, visiting various biomes and political structures to track the data.