Orbit Logs

500+ years in the future, an overpopulated Earth sends out its first interstellar vessel named Earth City. The story focuses on a small class of diverse students living isolated in a neglected "trailer park" of space-homes orbiting the city. Despite a curriculum that shows Earth City as a utopia that has long since corrected for the egregious mistakes humanity enacted during the fabled days of Planet Earth, students are encouraged to seek their own version of truth. Eventually each will confront a family secret that’s directly tied to how they ended up living in orbit in the first place. In the end, they’ll harness their combined knowledge and collaborate to not only make the Orbit District a better place, but eventually save all of Earth City from destruction.

Every season takes place during a different year of the orbit students’ schooling (which they attend virtually via Augmented Reality Projection Tubes) Most lessons are structured like cooperative video games. Though Earth City schools are post-race, post-gender, even post human-superiority, all their societal evolutions and technological advances can’t prevent the sting of being the only one not invited to a birthday party. Thus, the episodic plots are derived from the major the challenges of growing up, and so will be familiar to viewers no matter what millennium they were born into.

Adding additional depth, each episode is presented through the lens of one student’s assigned Orbit Log. Companion episodes that cover that same timeframe/topic from other characters’ perspectives offer peeks into how individual points of view shape individually realities. That being said, The Founders of knew the survival of Earth City would depends on cooperation between all neighbors aboard (be they human, animal, robot, or plant), so respect for the realities of others results in outcomes not possible back on the privative Planet Earth.