5.1.2 Mission opening skenarion
Let's not get fooled, this is a synopsis, too many details are missing for a real skenarion.
Image
sound Mission, from afar and above with close-in Anthem of League or other proper tune. When melodion gets recognizable, it fades; covered by background speaker
Access road, a procession of Ajthatans approaches Ajthat anthem, fades as the procession enters the solemn lineup of the mission from above; left and right the mission solemn lineup, the procession in middle. at times insert front faces from the procession and lineup, some from audience. one freelance camera.
Tune fades, capture from the Embassadors, live. At the bottom the Embassador waits at the main entrance - show driveway to door. The Embassador ushers the Leader of the procession, handshake, others mingle and make one long procession.
Axially symmetrical image driveway to door.
capture at the front of the procession, as they enter the main door, live. Solemn hall, long dining table, each party takes their side of it, leaders in the middle facing each other hook into the inhouse PA, background speaker when the officials are silent Manage the rest somehow until they sign and exchange the signed copies; camera leaves backwards, blend into the next segment, something about Ajthat in general.
This was, obviously, composed by someone who has never seen Ajthat, and knows the mission even less. There was no procession - at the appointed time they all gathered coming in twos and threes from various sides. As each of them arrived, they joined the hosts. They were standing around the lawn and chatted. Ajthat has no anthem, and some states have five or six songs for solemn occasions. None of them was proper for this sort of event, this is the first mission being open since Ajthat [is there]. There are state missions, but then they always existed, and nobody remembered a solemn opening ever being held. The music was picked to the mood of the present [people]. The mission building is far from symmetrical, and the entrance is not in the middle at all, and so is not the path; there are three paths, and they were treaded by themselves, as the trees and hills had their way. There is no solemn hall at all, and the dining table was set behind the house ("behind" to mean "on the opposite side from the main entrance"). No paper was ready to sign, eventually the one that M. Embassador brought with her, and both copies remained in the mission, because Ajthatans didn't know what to do with theirs. Also, there was no cameraperson (linguistic misunderstanding, or a prank by Mission and hosts together) which they were supposed to provide, so everything was recorded by one fixed and two bobbing cameras. In brief, instead of a celebration of an event of galactic importance, the neighbours have made a little party for themselves, sized as a smaller wedding. Because of all of this, there was no live broadcast, some twenty-damar footage was gathered, and the whole thing was generally covered up.
The reporters on the Worlds have inflated this later, so the third-hand reports could almost lead to a conclusion that the celebration was, in the least, magnificent and unseen. From which only the very last word is true.