Kling 1.6 (pro)
Logline: A lone asteroid miner, on the cusp of a life-changing discovery, must choose between his mission and answering a mysterious, repeating distress call from a derelict generation ship that holds a haunting connection to his past. The Premise: The story follows Kaelen, a man in his late 40s who mines asteroids in the lonely belt between Mars and Jupiter. His work is solitary, mechanical, and driven by one goal: earning enough to buy a place on a thriving orbital habitat, leaving his gritty past behind. The Inciting Incident: While surveying a large, mineral-rich asteroid (his "ticket out"), Kaelen's sensors pick up a faint, looping signal. It's a pre-FTL, century-old distress beacon—the "Songs of Earth" protocol, used by the first generation ships. The signal is coming from the Odyssey, a ship declared lost with all hands over 80 years ago. Against protocol and his own better judgment, he alters course to investigate. The Conflict: External: His company, via a glitchy AI companion in his ship, pressu