MY WAY
PREFACE:
Four score and a few years from today in the 2150s on a moon called "Pandora" lay the vibrant, rich lands belonging to the Omatikaya clan. This particular quiet morning marked the passage of only a few days since a brutal war between the Na'vi natives of Pandora and the Resource Development Administration (RDA) from Earth.
It all had started in the 2130s, when the RDA had discovered the thriving land of the Omatikaya clan, named the "Blue Flute" clan in homage to the people's large and blue ceremonial instrument, for their precious metal deposits beneath their territory, the galactic superconductor called "Unobtanium".
Unobtanium powers all life on Earth. For the RDA to mine the superconductor from Pandora and secure it for themselves, they had to discover a true method to survive the impenetrable conditions of the moon Pandora and complete a considerable amount of labor in a way that was efficient. A solution was found. Years of careful, scientific research and development were then funded by the RDA to create a limited number of multi-million-dollar clones of Na'vi bodies. They were called "Avatars".
Avatars were as close to the perfect recreation of Pandora's natives as one could get. They accumulated the near exact DNA of Na'vi, resembling them marvellously close in appearance. The Avatars managed to recreate the Na'vis' eight to ten-foot height that towered a human's abilities, and they simulated the Na'vis' brilliant, cerulean skin with magnificent stripes along their limbs, body, and their long tails, which lengthened from the root of their spine to their shins.
The Avatars' skin even captured the Na'vis' bioluminescent dots. The dermal spots, which twinkled like tiny fireflies on the Na'vi when night fell on Pandora, made patterns of snowy-white streaks or swirls over the Na'vi's faces and bodies.
Unlike the various shades of colours of Human hair, the hair of the Na'vi shone black as midnight. Their eyes glowed gold with expressive pupils. Separate from the roundness of human ears, the Avatars' Na'vi-inspired anatomy included animated, high-peaked ears with a triangular shape. Their ears had keen sensitivity to sounds for hunting and gathering on Pandora. However, not all traces of human evolution could be erased from these phony Avatars, for there was one small mistake of the avatars that wouldn't disappear: a pinkie finger.
Errors aside, the RDA hoped their Avatars would be welcomed into the Omatikaya clan as a display of peace and trust-a link they could exploit to find their way into the Omatikayan's lands and harvest all the Unobtanium they desired.
It had taken a while, but, through understanding, the Omatikaya people began to build amity with the new entrants that looked like them; the Avatars. To further those blossoming relations, the RDA began the development of a school in their clan, a school that taught the language and culture of Earth to the Na'vi. This school was headed by the strong-hearted anthropologist and head of the Avatar Program, Dr. Grace Augustine.
Grace and other colleagues, such as a language expert named Dr. Rene Harper, devoted their studies to teaching the Na'vi race a myriad of knowledge, including how to speak and read English and the astronomic basics of the many planets in Pandora's space system and the Solar system of Earth.
Grace Augustine became beloved among her young students, and eventually, the elders of the Omatikaya finally allowed humans to be accepted by their highly spiritual and secretive race. With the early Avatar's adoption into the Blue Flute clan, surrounding clans obliged the avatars to be welcomed with friendship. As time went on, humans, easily distinguishable between the Na'vi and from their Avatars, became known as the "Skypeople'', and were treated with friendly indifference as they worked on mining operations that were allowed by the Pandoran natives.
Still, it is human nature to conquer and take what they believe is theirs. A decade and some years later, the dream to access the larger and more profitable Unobtanium stores beneath the Omatikaya clan's sacred domain, called "Hometree'', became clear that it was to be very much only a dream.
Progress of relations and compromises with the Na'vi were too slow to guarantee the security of Earth's future. And, since that specific area of Unobtainium was left prohibited for exploitation by the Skypeople action had to be taken.
With mounting pressure from stakeholders, world leaders, and greedy consumers on Earth, the RDA felt it had no choice but to someday seize the Unobtanium by force.
Tensions mounted between the Skypeople's Avatars from Earth and the Omatikayans. Coups began to break out in both allegiances.
Finally, the Omatikayan school- a symbol of trust between the clan, its allies, and the Skypeople- was assaulted by the RDA military to ward off a band of Na'vi insurrectors. The action killed innocents and instilled further hatred in the Na'vi for the human race. Dr. Augstine was kindly excused by the Omatikayan matriarch, Mo'at, and its patriarchal clan leader, Eytukan, to end her operations in the clan. Rene Harper was since never seen again by the RDA, and his whereabouts to them remain a mystery.
The RDA military was led by Colonel Miles Quaritch, distinguishable by three distinct scars at his temple brazen on him by an Omatikayan creature when he first stepped foot into the clan's forests- if stories are to be believed.
He knew beyond a doubt that Pandora was not a place to be immediately trusted because of its beauty or for its seemingly benign was eager to be commissioned to lead a front that caused the destruction of Hometree Yet, the war he caused led to the unforeseen death of the Omatikayan clan leader, Eytukan, and, devastatingly, Grace Augustine.
Jake Sully, a severely injured former Marine on Earth, was a rogue avatar of the RDA. He was initiated into Grace's program by the passage of his twin brother, Tommy Sully. His twin brother was an intelligent recruit for Grace's Avatar program. Tom died tragically in a fatal robbery a short time before he was en-route to board a six-year long journey. His mission was to journey to Pandora in attempts to restore relations with the Na'vi and to cultivate more research for Earth's future plans of settlement.
Jake closely matched Tom's DNA and was remarkably able to connect to his brother's intended Avatar. Jake, who was once passive about filling in for Tommy's mission, changed his perspective on a routine research trip on Pandora with Grace and Dr. Norm Spellman, a studied xenobotanist. He was chased by a fearsome Omatikayan creature and found himself saved by Neytiri, the daughter of Eytukan.
The Omatikayans believed Jake was lost and they adopted him as one of their people. Jake became the RDA's private intel in a last-minute strategy of diplomacy to relocate the Omatikayans from the company's desired mining ground. But Jake, who discovered the priceless meaning of life as a Na'vi, abandoned the mission. When the war was about to strike Jake tried to warn the Na'vi clan; they listened but it nearly cost Jake his life. The Na'vi were enraged and Neytiri betrayed, scared and grieving for her father, fled, casting Jake from the tribe.
Through fate and sheer will, Jake tamed the most vicious predator in the Pandoran skies, named Toruk. He bonded with the beast and landed in the middle of the grieving and scared Na'vi and hope began blossoming in the hearts of Pandora. Grace, however, was not so glorious in her landing. She was dying, shot in the rebelling teams attempt to escape the RDA and barely holding onto life. The spiritual mother of Neytiri tried to revive Grace's injured human form into her Avatar but Grace was too weak, her body slipping too fast from the trauma of her injuries. She fell in Eywa's loving arms and left her mourning colleagues and Na'vi friends to wonder if they could ever make things right without her.
Enraged by Grace's unnecessary death in the assault of Hometree, Jake corralled an army of Na'vi clans. He became one with the Na'vi, claimed them as his own and riled them to fly with him, for if there was a war to come, then so be it, but Jake Sully would lead the people of Pandora to victory. He would unite the clans, bring them together in this time of sorrow and he would fly and fight alongside them. Together the Na'vi would take back their land because how dare the humans try to take it from them.
Some humans allied with Jake, men like Norm and Max Patel, a resident scientist of the stationed RDA, and Trudy Chacon, a trusted and brave pilot, against a final battle for control of Omatikayan mining territory.
Jake was championed by the Na'vi that fought by his side as the Omatikaya's "Toruk-makto": the flyer of Toruk who is 'The One Who Brings The People Together in Times of Great Sorrow'. In the end, Trudy sacrificed herself when her helicopter exploded in a searing fireball by Colonel Quaritch's calculated attack.
Ultimately, Jake betrayed his own race but earned a place until the end of time among the Omatikayans. When the war was finished and the Na'vi began rebuilding their own world, Jake forfeited his old life in one final goodbye. He completed the ritual to transfer his Human soul into the body of his Avatar.
Tsu'tey, Eytukan's appointed successor and the Omatikayan's former leading warrior, suffered horrible injuries from the war, and remains lost in the wreckage.
Norm Spellman and Max Patel became the only humans allowed to remain on Pandora while the rest of the RDA's military, employees, associates, and avatars were given a tight deadline by Jake to salvage what they could of their damage to his territory and leave Pandora.
Everyone-the exiled humans, once arrived with noble intentions for humankind, and the Na'vi, who sought peace with humans-feels heavily conflicted about their true destiny and the outlook of the future after the Great Battle.
For now, Pandora's wilderness moves ahead in its predictable cycles of the season as it had faithfully done since the dawn of its creation. Meanwhile, the Omatikaya continue their ancient ways of life as if they had never been disturbed by the arrival of other beings...