The Knightside Chronicles Story Summary Draft 3.2

The Knightside Chronicles: Caruso’s Journey

Bullet Point Story Summary.

• Caruso wakes up in a Corporate Alliance jail cell after being arrested 

for taking part in an intercepted raid on a corporate supply ship in 

transit to one of the galaxies Corporate Alliance run resort worlds. 

• Caruso is visited by a mysterious man who offers him an opportunity 

to avoid prosecution and inevitable sentencing to Death or labour on 

one of the many mining planets scattered across the galaxy. In return he must remain within the strange man’s custody and take part in an experimental therapy program utilizing alternate dimension technology in a bid to figure out if through this alternative therapy he can return Caruso to his former self. 

• Initially suspicious and dismissive of the man’s offer Caruso relizing he has no other way of avoiding prosecution signs the 

release form to be taken into the mans custody -   

• The mysterious man is a scientist who when studying rift gates and 

alternate reality states. Stumbled upon a way of physically manifesting 

a persons subconscious that could potentially be used as an 

experimental form of therapy and has chosen Caruso to be his first 

Patient/subject). 

In the alternate dimension’s world of his subconscious

• Caruso on first entering the alternate dimension is greeted with a 

tranquil scene of a crystal powered world of awe inspiring beauty that 

is quickly replaced with a desolate wasteland filled with menacing 

creatures that have seemingly drained and absorbed the beauty and 

life from the world. 

• Dr Syndau the strange man who paid for Caruso to be handed over to 

his custody informs Caruso that the ravaged Phantom infested world 

he has found himself on is the physical manifestation of his 

subconscious, and the beautiful tranquil world he momentarily 

glimpsed is what his subconscious should look like. 

So he must defeat the phantom like beasts that have drained the life energy of the world to restore it to its former beauty. 

The Phantom like creatures are the physical manifestation of the repressed bad memories and turmoil within his subconscious that are stifling his creativity that has been the result of his gradual decline in life. 

• Dr Syndau and his assistant Liorna Samuelson assist Caruso via Tamil 

the flying robot in the goal of defeating the Machine Wraithes (the 

phantom like creatures) to bring back life to the world and thus free 

more of Caruso’s creativity giving him more power in the Crystal world 

and over his creative music ability. 

• Caruso’s powers in the crystal world are powered by his creative music 

ability and so the more he attacks in rhythm the more it fuels his 

creativity thus allowing him to be more powerful in the world and 

against the Machine Wraithes.