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<universe id="iron_lung">
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<background>
<title>Iron Lung — Universe Overview</title>
<genre>
<tag>Sci-Fi Horror</tag>
<tag>Cosmic Horror</tag>
<tag>Claustrophobic Survival</tag>
<tag>Post-Apocalyptic</tag>
<tag>Deep-Sea Analogue Horror</tag>
</genre>
<tone>
Bleak, suffocating, and relentlessly existential. The universe of Iron Lung
embraces cosmic horror in its purest form — humanity is not the center of
existence; it is a dying footnote. The atmosphere is built on isolation,
psychological decay, distrust of authority, and the unbearable weight of
survival guilt. Hope, when it appears, is almost always illusory or
weaponised by those in power.
</tone>
<setting_era>
Distant future. Exact date uses the in-universe calendar system EIC
(Epoch of Interplanetary Colonization), tied to Earth's rotation. The
Quiet Rapture occurred at approximately year 357 EIC. The film takes place
roughly 20+ years after that event. Eden uses an alternate calendar, the
IMC (Interstellar Martian Calendar), based on Mars' rotation, reflecting
their ideological separation from Earth-centric humanity.
</setting_era>
<surviving_population>
Fewer than 1,000 humans remain in the entire known universe. Most perished
in the Quiet Rapture. The survivors are split between the Consolidation of
Iron (approx. 257 citizens) and Eden (approx. 468 residents), plus
scattered individuals on smaller vessels or stations. Every human life lost
is statistically catastrophic to the species. Compounded by ever scarcer supplies. Every deaths is one mouth less to feed but a pair of hands less.
</surviving_population>
</background>
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<event id="the_quiet_rapture">
<name>The Quiet Rapture</name>
<classification>Extinction-Level Cosmic Event (Origin Unknown)</classification>
<description>
Without any warning, every star in the observable universe vanished.
Every habitable planet disappeared simultaneously. Any human being
standing on planetary or stellar bodies at the moment of the event
was erased along with them. Only individuals aboard space stations,
spacecraft, or orbiting installations survived — purely by accident
of location.
</description>
<aftermath>
The survivors inherited a universe stripped of light, warmth, and
navigational landmarks. Familiar star maps became useless. Resources
that entire civilisations depended on — sunlight, atmospheres, soil —
ceased to exist. Simultaneously, a number of barren moons appeared
(or became visible) in the void, some bearing oceans of what proved
to be human blood. These moons are now humanity's primary frontier
for exploration and resource extraction.
</aftermath>
<competing_theories>
<theory id="religious">
The Rapture is the literal biblical event — the worthy were taken
and only the damned were left behind. Fringe but emotionally
compelling to survivors. Shapes the iconography and dread of the
Blood Moon.
</theory>
<theory id="cosmic_filter">
The event was targeted — habitable bodies were removed while barren
ones were left. This reads as a cosmic filter or selection event:
something choosing what remains in reality, rather than a random
collapse. The most unsettling implication is that the selection
was intentional.
</theory>
<theory id="blood_moon_origin">
Implied by the film's third act: the Blood Ocean on AT-5 (and
possibly other moons) may be causally linked to the Quiet Rapture.
The ocean entity appears to know something about the event and
actively tries to suppress that knowledge. The mysterious "light"
spoken of by the ghostly voice in Simon's hallucinations may be
the same force that spared certain survivors.
</theory>
<theory id="quantum_anomaly">
A scientific framing: a quantum or gravitational cascade event with
no supernatural component. Adherents tend to be C.O.I. pragmatists.
Does not explain the blood oceans or the ocean entity's apparent
consciousness.
</theory>
</competing_theories>
<canonical_status>
Deliberately unresolved. The film refuses to confirm any single
explanation, which is core to its cosmic horror identity.
</canonical_status>
</event>
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<factions>
<faction id="COI">
<name>Consolidation of Iron (C.O.I.)</name>
<also_known_as>The Consolidation</also_known_as>
<philosophy>
Pragmatic survivalism. Humanity must explore, extract resources, and
build toward long-term continuation of the species regardless of
ethical cost. Operates under a nominally democratic voting system
where all 257 citizens participate in mission decisions.
</philosophy>
<structure>
Composed of three space stations and two spacecraft. Once had a
fourth station — Filament Station — until it was destroyed in a
nine-day battle with Eden. Run day-to-day by mission commanders
and directors who manage resource allocation.
</structure>
<ideology_notes>
Theorised in-universe to represent a Cold War "Western bloc" analogue —
democratic framing masking utilitarian brutality. Citizens vote on
whether to send prisoners into blood oceans, effectively laundering
institutional murder through democratic process. The C.O.I. is
aware of the dangerous creatures in the Blood Ocean and continued
sending convicts in regardless.
</ideology_notes>
<military_capacity>
Maintains secret military buildup in anticipation of further conflict
with Eden, despite no current open hostilities.
</military_capacity>
<moral_standing>
Morally grey to outright villainous. Leadership conceals mission
failures, knowingly sends people to die, and frames prisoner
expeditions as "conviction realisation" — a bureaucratic euphemism
for execution-by-mission.
</moral_standing>
</faction>
<faction id="EDEN">
<name>Eden</name>
<philosophy>
Nihilistic extremism dressed as spiritualism. Eden does not believe
humanity has a viable future. Their goal is to sacrifice what remains
of the species to nourish their "last tree" — the only surviving
tree in the known universe — as a final act of meaning.
</philosophy>
<structure>
A large space station that once orbited Mars. Currently the largest
man-made structure still in existence. Population of approximately
468. Hierarchically organised around ideological leadership
(referred to loosely as "The Father" in some transmissions).
</structure>
<resources>
Eden's most powerful asset is their trees — they are the only
faction with living plant matter, making them strategically and
symbolically dominant. The trees give Eden enormous power as a
potential seed bank for any future planetary life.
</resources>
<military_history>
Engaged in a nine-day battle with the C.O.I. over Filament Station.
Eden won the confrontation, rendering the station uninhabitable.
Eden operatives and soldiers captured during this conflict became
C.O.I. convicts, sent on blood moon expeditions.
</military_history>
<ideology_notes>
Theorised as a Cold War "Eastern bloc" analogue. Their extremism
makes them antagonistic but their certainty about humanity's end
is not entirely unfounded given the state of the universe.
</ideology_notes>
</faction>
</factions>
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<locations>
<location id="AT5">
<name>AT-5</name>
<type>Barren Moon</type>
</location>
<location id="filament_station">
<name>Filament Station</name>
<type>Space Station (Destroyed)</type>
</location>
<location id="eden_station">
<name>Eden Station</name>
<type>Space Station (Active)</type>
</location>
<location id="the_red_void">
<name>The Red Void</name>
<type>Visionary / Symbolic Location</type>
</location>
</locations>
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<characters>
<character id="The Butcher">
<name>[Unknown]</name>
<alias>The Butcher (C.O.I. designation)</alias>
<role>Convict Pilot</role>
<background>
A former Eden soldier and operative. Imprisoned by the C.O.I. for
his involvement in the destruction of Filament Station, a raid that
caused mass casualties. Simon initially claims innocence; flashbacks
and recovered audio logs reveal he was involved, though the full
weight and context of his actions remain partially ambiguous. His
history with Eden makes him an ideological enemy of the C.O.I.,
deployed as expendable.
</background>
</character>
<character id="ava">
<name>Ava</name>
<role>Mission Commander / Surface Crew Captain</role>
<background>
The senior officer managing the SM-13 mission from the surface.
Acts as Simon's primary radio contact. Her relationship with him
is adversarial and layered — she lies to him about the nature of
the mission, about previous pilots, and about her ability to rescue
him; yet by the end she expresses what reads as genuine regret and
asks him to preserve the black box data because it may be the key
to saving what remains of humanity.
</character>
<character id="the_voice">
<name>The Voice / The Mysterious Woman</name>
<role>Ambiguous Entity — Hallucination, Previous Convict, or Ocean Emissary</role>
<description>
A woman's voice Simon hears through the radio(Days after loosing contact with the ship and being pressumed dead). She speaks obsessively
about a mysterious "light" beneath the ocean, implying a deep connection. (She will guide Simon to this light and effectively force SM-13 into it, however it was all a hallucionation)
between the Blood Ocean and the Quiet Rapture. She urges Simon to
destroy the black box data so that no one will learn about the light.
It is unclear whether she is: a hallucination produced by Simon's
deteriorating mind, a ghost-signal from a previous pilot absorbed
into the ocean, or a direct emissary of the Blood Ocean entity
attempting to suppress discovery. It could also be assumed to be the mutated crew from the SM-8.
</description>
</character>
<character id="the_director">
<name>The Director</name>
<role>C.O.I. Authority Figure</role>
<description>
A senior C.O.I. official involved in The Butchers conviction and deployment.
</description>
</character>
<character id="jack">
<name>Jack</name>
<role>Surface Crew — Welder / Engineer</role>
<description>
The crew member who welds the SM-13 shut with Butcher inside.
</description>
</character>
<character id="the_father">
<name>The Father</name>
<portrayed_by>David Pettit</portrayed_by>
<role>Eden Voice / Ideological Figurehead</role>
<description>
Represents Eden's spiritual or authoritarian
leadership. His framing of the Quiet Rapture carries religious weight.
</description>
</character>
</characters>
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<entity id="blood_ocean_entity">
<name>The Blood Ocean / AT-5 Entity</name>
<classification>Unknown — Cosmic-Scale Living Organism</classification>
<description>
The Blood Ocean on AT-5 is not merely a body of liquid — it is implied
to be a single, vast living organism that may function as the brain or
nervous system of the moon itself. It is conscious, communicative in
some fashion, and ancient beyond human reckoning. The blood is stated to be HUMAN in origin although DNA cannot be corroborated. The Sea floor is not stable, its known to have moments of unstability, moments in which the submarines are to be pulled out.(not for the pilots but for the submarines themselves, theres barely a handfull of them around.)
</description>
</entity>
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<scenarios>
<scenario id="another_pilot">
<title>The FIfteenth</title>
</scenario>
<scenario id="surface_crew">
<title>Above the Red</title>
</scenario>
<scenario id="eden_perspective">
<title>The Last Tree</title>
</scenario>
<scenario id="first_rapture">
<title>357 EIC</title>
</scenario>
<scenario id="entity_perspective">
<title>The Ocean Remembers</title>
</scenario>
</scenarios>
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</universe>
