The Embarkation Plan: A Rift

Dyson and Lucian once shared the same ideals and worked together on the Embarkation Plan. Its emblem represents both those shared ambitions and the relationship they once had. Over time, their ideas about the future came into conflict.

Lucian wants to destroy the elves through war. In the storyboard adaptation of this scene, he points a gun at a map to express that intention. Their opposing beliefs eventually drive them apart.

In the planned story of The Star of Embarkation, both believe that they alone truly represent the Embarkation Plan. Each holds to their own understanding of its original ideals. Even after they part ways, neither wants to surrender the emblem of the plan. Their conflicting claims to the same ideals are central to the dispute.

I adapted this story into a six-panel storyboard, reducing nine sketches to six and ending with Dyson leaving and discarding the emblem. That final gesture belongs only to the coursework adaptation; in the main story, neither Dyson nor Lucian gives up the emblem.