I meant that the fan fiction is R-rated. My story should be about as violent as
Darwin's Soldiers.
As for the "talking" idea, I like your idea of dinosaur sign language better than my idea but I'll toss mine out there:
My idea was to have Deimos be the only dinosaur who can somehow speak English. This Deimos is almost the exact same Deimos from
Twilight Valley (only his species is different). The artificial aid would be something like a speech synthesizer or muscle stimulator to mimic speech. I borrowed this from a furry story that involved
Utahraptors but that story was more like
Jurassic Park meets
Counterstrike. Again, that's all I took.
The protagonists are Deimos and the scientist. Or should I limit myself to 1 protagonist?
The dinosaurs are pseudo-anthropormorphic; they have Human level intelligence and can understand English but are otherwise normal dinosaurs.
I'll think of some more possibilities for the antagonist. I'm leaning towards the antagonist going after the scientist but I can't quite think of a motive. I thought about revenge or profit until I realized this: "Could the antagonist hate the protagonist (lust after money) so much that he is willing to jepardize the lives of other scientists and moon tourists?" As for the antagonist being the space station administrator I like that idea but that opens a new question: "Why did the admin wait until now to try and kill them?" Of course, the antagonist could go after the dinosaurs and target the scientist as an obstacle to his objective but now the reader is asking, "why would he go after the dinosaurs."
Since this is a civilian space station, I doubt firearms are going to be accessable to our heroes. The scientist may have a firearm for protection against attacking dinosaurs when he travels back in time but other than that, no. I might have the scientist depend on his dino allies for combat. So I guess improvised weapons, stolen firearms, claws and fangs are the way to go here.
The last question is REALLY dumb, should I allow Deimos or the Troodon to manipulate technology? Nothing too substantial, things like pushing buttons, plugging in wires or possibly even using firearms. Inspired by rumored plotline of Jurassic Park IV (genetically modified
Deinonychus mercenaries)
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& also best to flesh out the characters as much as you can. Try to look for ramifications forward and backward. Meaning if this is so, then this had to happen before to make sure this can be here, and this here would mean that this would happen in the future.
Take notes and be sure your story stays consistent. You also have to decide if you are going to only have dinos from a certain time period, or will ignore then and do research for the different dinos that will be in your fiction. If you have some military characters look up and research some military phrases and standard protocol, ways they'd talk on the radio, and things like that.
I'm wedging this into fantasy because I WILLFULLY ignored time periods. And there are no military characters (except the mercenaries who attack the protagonists). Research isn't a problem.
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Uhh, should this be in AM, because it could be potentially sensitive stuff if I wanted to publish it?