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What needs to be made prominent in scene 1 is that there is a great city (NYC 50ish years in the future) and a vast divide exists between the have’s and the have not’s. Two sides of the railroad tracks. On one side a sparkling and rising empire. On the other side, the dank streets of the Burg where the workers live.

But while we want to make this divided city panoroma evident, we will do it slowly in scene 1, hinting at it until the end of the scene where at a climactic moment for one of our key characters, Aaron, we will also feel it.

To begin the scene we will start with Aaron (yes, the brother of Moses) a young black man of 17 years old, arriving home where he shares an apartment with his grandma. There will be some short banter but the point is you know that Aaron is heading out on a Friday night to the races, and that makes his grandma nervous, as it always does. She knows she can’t stop him, but urges him to be cautious, because after the races the streets become dangerous. But virtually everyone in the Burg lines the streets to see the races.

Aaron then heads to the bike race, and in spite of them being in the Burg, the festival atmosphere and countless people lining the streets make the town come alive. It is the one event that draws both the serfs and the citizens of the empire. The serfs are devoted to cheering on their respective teams, while the citizens, from casinos or their homes gamble on the races from their excessive fortunes.

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