The Ambassador is a highly respected older woman, not another Captain or Lost Renegade. She is not a broken relic looking for redemption. She’s good at what she does. Very good. She is slightly snarky, really likes coffee, is an adept in the martial arts, speaks multiple languages, and keeps lots of secrets. She’s still got game but she’s not a ‘young vixen’ any more. She’d like to retire. She can’t. The High Council has summoned her for a difficult new mission.
Concept art by Rick Lundeen
GENRE: Sci-fi/Adventure/Martial Arts/Hopepunk (PG)
NUTSHELL: Jacqueline Chan and the Little Rascals meet Andy Taylor in space
LOGLINE: An accomplished older woman leads a tight-knit team to protect the Local Neighborhood. Together, they must find a way to stop the invading Olmeri.
The Ambassador is low-concept, realistic and grounded. It combines the humanity of the original Star Trek with the expert teamwork of the original Mission: Impossible, magical swords and jewels from Tolkien and Stargate, mystical lore from Chinese martial arts, and characters who would be at home in Mayberry.
It’s a comfortable adventure in a world where excellence is expected, integrity and honor matter, trust is earned, wits matter more than firepower, friends are the best, everybody gets a seat at the table, and the good guys win most of the time. It crosses generations and cultures, East and West. It’s not the same and it is exactly the same. It will make you smile, cry a little, and smile again.
So many of us these days are running on empty. Tomorrow is so close and so far away. The world is on the brink of change and we don’t know what it is. We’d like a little less tension and anxiety. Crying is okay, but we’d like to smile maybe a little more. We want something familiar and comforting to hold on to. Something that we can relate to. Something that isn’t about everything and everyone being broken. We want heroes who could be us.
The Ambassador and her team don’t save the universe. They try to do good. Sometimes they succeed. Sometimes they fail. They are excellent at what they do. They are brilliant and humble, honest and kind. They are mostly regular, normal, outwardly average, incredibly interesting, quietly extraordinary people.
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