L5 Release Trailer

Episode is now available on VODO http://vodo.net/l5

Official Release Trailer for L5!
L5 is a crowd-funded, independent miniseries project that began on Kickstarter.com.
Plot Synopsis:
Imagine returning from an exhausting adventure only to find that your home is abandoned, empty. Not just your home, but your neighborhood, your city, in fact, everyone, everywhere, seems to be missing. This is what happens to the crew of the first manned mission to Barnard's Star -- they return after awakening from suspended animation to find that their ship-board AI has sent them on a relativistic tour of the stellar neighborhood while they slumbered, dilating time so severely that nearly 200 years have passed on Earth. After coming to, they discover their vessel is adrift at LaGrange point 5, within visual range of a vast O'neill cylinder-colony. The night side of the Earth shows no lights, and no one answers their calls across all frequencies. They have no choice but to dock with the colony and explore its cavernous interior in the hopes of finding help. When they find the colony to be airless and devoid of life, the remains of human civilization baking in the Sun for decades, their predicament becomes even more dire. Following in the traditions of great legendary hard science fiction, their exploration of this relic of their own civilization will take them on a trans-humanistic and spiritual sojourn.

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[samysasy419]

Activating Troll Mode: Okay, if you truly claim to be a hard science fiction series, then why has no one attempted to terraform Mars, instead of spending literally hundreds of trillions of dollars building an interstellar spaceship? Terraforming Mars would be easier, and far cheaper, and it would be the most logical way to go.

[L5Series]

Hint...the Argo is DSV-02.

[samysasy419]

"The technology to push infrastructure to Mars is anything but defined"

-And you think the tech to push infastructure to another Star System, literally 10s of trillions of miles away would be easier?

"Self-replicating machines are a dream."

-When did I ever mention that?

"You're talking about something that will take generations-- as it did here"

-And you don't think interstellar travel will?

-It's more feasible to transport millions of cars to Mars than it is on another star system 6 lys away.

[samysasy419]

I swear to the Gods you people never stop.

"Tera-forming Mars cannot be proven yet to be practical."

As if interstellar travel has been proven practical either.

Interstellar travel requires a level of technological sophistication that we currently don't have, and won't have in 30-40 years time, when this ship is "supposedly" sent. Terraforming, and it is terraforming, not tera-forming, is easier, faster, and cheaper, it's on a scale of 1000 times more feasible than interstellar flight.

[Jason Damisch]

Reply. Tera-forming Mars cannot be proven yet to be practical. An interstellar spaceship to a star system close to the Earth is more plausible, in-spite of what the Mars folks, aka Zubrin, Musk, and such will tell you.

[psywiped]

seaQuest DSV -01

[Arenoth]

Argo is DSV - 02 Meaning Deep Space Vessel number 2, so where is number 1?

[EggTHiEST]

Brilliant subliminal message, a terrible end, a new beginning...

Traditional watered-down television drivel would never think to juxtapose such tiny, imperceptible details into the viewer's mind, only true genius is so clever.

[EggTHiEST]

Astonishing how something this intelligent, this entertaining, this brilliant gets outright ignored, while absolutely dumbed-down crap with muti-million dollar budgets gets shoved to our faces 24/7 by the idiots who control Hollywood.

This is why I no longer watch TV, why I dropped cable, and why I love the fact the internet is the only medium where WE, the viewers, control what we watch.

Broadcasting's future is in our hands, we demand hardcore sci-fi like "L5" not corny shitcoms about gay men.

[samysasy419]

It would take far less time and money to colonize and create an infrastucture on Mars than it would to do it on Barnard Star. It's even a plot point in the series, they went to the BS and it was unihabitable, so they had to return. They waisted decades and trillions of dollars, instead of doing the logical thing-colonizing Mars. If life on Earth was being threatened with extinction, say in the time frame of a century or two, going to Mars would make a lot more since than waisting time on BS.

[stevenpopkes]

I believe if you sent people and sufficient tools they'll build their own infrastructure. Of course the colony could fail-- colonies do that. But it works for Mars or Bernard. We should do both.

The time to terraform Mars according to the material I've read is at least an order of magnitude less than the time to send a ship to another star. Bernard D (the star in the trailer) is 6 light years distant. At 1% light speed that's 600 years. 10%=60 years. Mars would take longer.

[stevenpopkes]

A) the technology to push infrastructure to Mars is anything but defined. We barely know how to get to the moon. Self-replicating machines are a dream. Large projects need to manage failures, restarts, setbacks. All of that is expensive. B) Yes, Mars is closer. But you're not talking a one-off that leaves and is gone. You're talking about something that will take generations-- as it did here.. C) Ah, transport millions of cars to Mars. That's going to be cheap.