pitch: 6,500,000 B.C.
Rising high over the jungles of the world are the pyramids of the God-Kings. They wage war for sport, sacrifice victorious heroes to glorify themselves, and rule over all the people of the earth. North of their cities, far across desert, mountain, and plain, are a satellite civilization of partially nomadic peoples. Among them is young Yami, a girl coming-of-age who is at home running with the herds of long-legs, scaling the bluffs of the high plains where her tribe summers, and avoiding the King Monsters during their winter treks south, towards the river city. When Yami strays away from her tribe, one of those King Monsters, which look suspiciously like a Tyrannosaurus Rex, corners her, and before anyone can come to her rescue, she manages to kill the Rex by luring it under a falling tree trunk. The tribe rejoices and sets to having a feast.
Far away from the lands of the Earth Dwellers, an alarm goes off. A petty officer checks the alarm, then fills out a report. The report makes it's way to an audience chamber, where a very well dressed man in flowing white robes reads the report. "Gather the council," he says. The Council of the White gather, each member seemingly from a different aboriginal section of the planet. They discuss matters pertaining to "The Kingdom," and then the man who called them there announces another candidate for the Ba'al project had been detected, in the high plains to the west of the Ocean. A member who looks distinctly Aztec scoffs, insisting no civilized people lived among those people.
A troop from the God-Kings world finds the Yami's tribe, harrasses them, and steals the symbol of their worship, the Skull of the Rex. Someone is slain, perhaps Yami's father, and Yami herself leads a guerrilla force south to track, and if possible steal back the skull.
She is captured by warriors, her friends mostly killed, and hauled off to meet the God-Kings themselves. One that seems just like Jabba the Hutt intends to marry her, which by tradition is closely followed by sacrifice.
Soon a dashing young man arrives who offers to rescue her from their sacrificial rites, and helps her, through amazing means, escape their captors. The two of them quibble and are attracted to one another, and when it comes time, the young man cannot turn her over to the White Council, to again be sacrificed for the Ba'al project. They run, avoiding dinosaurs, tribal warriors, anthropomorphs-people, angels from heaven, and perhaps at the very last, a flying ass dragon, and finally Yami has no choice, to save her young love she must unleash her power, becoming a beacon to bring an entire moon crashing down onto the kingdoms of the God-Kings, which is not exactly what Ba'al was supposed to do, but Yami at least dies in the arms of her true love.
A story of natural forces versus bureaucracy, simplicity against order, shirking off the dark hand that attempts to guide fate...and dinosaurs.
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