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spacetime coordinates: September 1939 – January 1945 Poland / Russia
Katyń (Polish pronunciation: [ˈkatɨɲ]) is a 2007 Polish film about the 1940 Katyn massacre, directed by Andrzej Wajda. It is based on the book Post Mortem: The Story of Katyn by Andrzej Mularczyk.
The events of Katyn are relayed through the eyes of the women, the mothers, wives, and daughters of the victims executed on Stalin’s orders by the NKVD in 1940.
spacetime coordinates: year 1959B Americasia: The “United Prefectures of Japanada”
Jazzpunk is a comedy Environmental Narrative Game set in an alternate reality Cold War World, plagued with corporate espionage, CyberCrime, and sentient martinis. Gameplay is inspired by spoof comedy films and cartoons of yesteryear, with a focus on weird gadgets, exotic locales, and open-world style exploration.
Now, we want you to take on the task of describing this electronic first-person game by the name of Jazzpunk. (read)
tons of references * fourth wall breaks * easter eggs * mini games within mini games
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS (MINIMUM): OS: Windows XP SP2 or higher // Processor: 1.80GHz Processor // Memory: 2 GB RAM // Graphics: Video card with 512MB of VRAM // Storage: 2 GB available space
http://store.steampowered.com/app/250260/Jazzpunk_Directors_Cut/
spacetime coordinates: 2046 unknown planet
Lost in Space is an American science fiction web television series based on a re-imagining of the 1965 series of the same name, following the adventures of a family of pioneering space colonists whose spaceship veers off-course.
spacetime coordinates: 2058 Earth > Alpha Prime
Major West [Launching the Jupiter-1]: And the monkey flips the switch.
Lost in Space is a 1998 American science-fiction adventure / comedy film directed by Stephen Hopkins, and starring William Hurt, Matt LeBlanc, and Gary Oldman. The plot is adapted from the 1965–1968 CBS television series Lost in Space. The film focuses on the Robinson family, who undertake a voyage to a nearby star system to begin large-scale emigration from a soon-to-be uninhabitable Earth (due to the irreversible effects of pollution and Ozone depletion), but are thrown off course by a saboteur and must try to find their way home.
Several of the actors from the original TV series had cameos in the film. The television series Lost in Space (1965) was set in the future of 1997 – the year the film began production.
Major West: OK, last one to kill a bad guy buys the beer!
spacetime coordinates: 1845 – 1848 Victoria Strait – Beechey Island – King William Island in the Canadian Arctic.
The Terror is an American Adventure | Drama | History | Horror television series that premiered on AMC on March 25, 2018. The series is based on the 2007 best-selling novel of the same name by Dan Simmons.
The crews aboard the Royal Navy‘s polar explorer ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror venture into uncharted territory seeking the Northwest Passage. The ships are soon stuck, frozen and isolated, and those aboard must survive the harsh weather conditions and each other, while being stalked by an elusive menace.
spacetime coordinates: Bastøy prison for youths, Norway 1915
King of Devil’s Island (French: Les Révoltés de l’île du Diable), (Norwegian: Kongen av Bastøy) is a 2010 French-Norwegian film directed by Marius Holst. The story is based on true events that occurred at Bastøy Prison in Norway.
Although it is set in winter, the film is a fictionalized retelling of a rebellion among the youth at the Bastøy Reform School in May 1915. The reformatory was located on Bastøy Island in the Oslo fjord south of Horten municipality in the county of Vestfold in Norway. The Norwegian government purchased the island in 1898 for 95,000 kroner, and the reformatory opened in 1900.
See Bastøy Prison for the real events which the film fictionalizes.
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