Headquarters Briefing

**Headquarters Briefing** is the fourth episode in a series of short films on Starcop.com promoting the Starcop animated series.

## Synopsis

Headquarters Briefing starts with a Starcop riding his speeder bike patrolling the region outside of Universe City. As the Starcop enters on his way to an urgent announcement at the Starcop Headquarters, he sees a wrecked space cab sitting, with what looks like a corpse lying next to it. Seeing the accident, the Starcop declares that "the briefing is going to have to wait" and removes his helmet. Seeing that the corpse is a doll and a trap, the Starcop turns around to see Greeny Phantom taking his helmet and his speeder bike. Greeny creeps into the briefing with the other Starcops and a Starcop Droid announcing what is going on in Universe City like Orange Man Bad getting arrested in *Buccellato Bistro* and the blueprint for the secret weapons for the Maximum Security Transport. Abruptly, the real Starcop barges in to stop Greeny and the episode ends with the others pursuing him inside the police station.

## Transcript

* *[A scratched, dirtied Starcop logo with a badge at the center appears as light flashes on it and a synthesizer plays. Title is typed out on screen: "Starcop Log 4: Headquarters Briefing." The screen fades to footage of a Starcop riding a Speeder Bike across a rocky, bumpy asteroid with bits of rock and craters all over the place. The screen starts off with red and green lines around it but these fade out after a second; the camera is unsteady and bounces up and down.]*
* Announcer: All non-patrol units in Sector 1, please be advised of essential precinct briefing in 999 solar hours.
* *[Cut to the Starcop riding past a hackney carriage with hover-wheels, next to broken metal objects and in front of an alleyway; a holographic sign on the cab reads "\*CAB\* Off Duty" and there is a corpse to the left of it with severed arms and blood pooling under it.]*
* Announcer: Repeat, all non-patrol units...
* *[The Starcop backs up as screeching is heard, turning his head to look at the crash.]*
* Starcop: The situation must have gotten terrible if they're calling ALL of us into headquarters.]
* *[The Starcop takes off his helmet, leaves it on the lights of his speeder bike, and jumps off of it. Cut to the Starcop landing in front of the speeder, in front of a stone brick wall and other metal structures, including a wall made of exhausts.]*
* Starcop: Oh crap, looks like the briefing is going to have to wait.
* *[The Starcop walks forward, nearing the camera, before stopping, frowning. Cut to the helmeted corpse, which has the words "YOU IDIOT #ACAB" written in black on its red shirt; the body is seemingly a dummy.]*
* Starcop: What the hell?
* *[Cut to Greeny Phantom on the Starcop's speeder bike, evilly laughing and waving as he wears the Starcop's helmet. The Starcop turns around and looks at Phantom.]*
* Starcop: It's a trap!
* *[Phantom speeds off-screen as the Starcop angrily looks on. Cut to Phantom zooming through a gigantic metal doorway with caution tape on it and a sign that says "MAX HEADROOM: 13.12 FT. There is a futuristic* Shell *station to the right of him with two tubes connected to it and and many metal structures alongside a black tube and glowing orange light to the left. Past the doorway is a gray, cratered stone surface; the unpaved parts of the Universe City asteroid. Fade to the Starcop Sector 1 Precinct; holograms of posters line the walls, one is a "most wanted" hologram that displays Green Phantom. The other poster is a "crime doesn't pay"! one with a Starcop holding handcuffs, looking enraged. There is a metal railing around the police station and cratered, uneven asteroids fly behind it. Cut to the auditorium of the police station, where beeping is heard; a Starcop walks in as many Starcops sit in seats, including a robot, one with a black cap, one with a gray helmet, one with a brown fedora, and at least four in the standard-issue uniform. Robots and machines stand at the right of auditorium, along with a gray table that has a can and a magazine depicting a spaceship with trailing fire from the exhausts on it. Two spacesuits stand behind glass at either side of the stage; one with a white uniform, red visor, and black highlights including a black section across the torso, the other with a green head and highlights, black helmet and gloves, and white hips and lines across the body. A stage with blue lights on it stands in the center, right in front of a wall, with a "STARCOP" podium to the right and a holographic screen behind it. The hologram depicts a Starcop badge and reads "STARCOP BRIEFING: Topics: Wormhole Gangsters, Confidential Weaponry, Clean Uniforms, What's for lunch?" Light shines on the screen's Starcop badge and the screen flashes a few times. Cut to Greeny Phantom looking away as the Starcop walks in, before sitting down in front of a woman and grumbling to her unintelligibly, looking around. Cut to a Starcop Droid at the podium, moving his arms while looking around and speaking gibberish; the robot wears a translucent helmet and the white Starcop uniform on display, bearing a black face with silver machinery on it and a robotic smiley face. Cut to a wider shot, before the camera zooms in on the screen, which flashes out to display a most wanted list; "WANTED! WORMHOLE GANG" is at the top, while six pictures of the members are depicted alongside their names; CBT, ORANGE MAN BAD, HELTER AND SKELTER, ONE-EYED WILLY, GREENY PHANTOM, FOUR ARMS." Zoom in and pan across the pictures as a whitish circle swirls around in the background of the screen; the words "ARRESTED!" written in red land on Orange Man Bad but none of the other criminals. The Starcops go "Aw" in disappointment, before we cut to a group of them; the one at the bottom left has glasses and a scared expression, the one at the center-left frowns and cries, and the one at the bottom right wears sunglasses and snarls. The one at the middle-left looks like a Madam Hooch from* Harry Potter *but with a black ponytail, wearing a black outfit and blue gloves, the one in the true center screams, an eyepatch and ginger beard distinguishing him; the black-haired one at the middle-right wears a gray jacket with a red collar, two badges, and blue pants; he wears a blue-and-silver mask with a breathing apparatus and resembles Aldar Beedo* *from* Star Wars*. The figures at the back are blurred but a scared woman with red lipstick sits at the left, a black-headed person in a gray shirt with blue gloves sits in the middle, and a man with a fedora, glasses, and a gray jacket with what appears to be a black ties sits at the right. All of them freak out, booing and waving their arms around. Orange Man Bad seems to be sitting at the center-back seat in the seating area to the left of them. The Starcop Droid tries to calm the officers, slowly moving his arms up and down. Cut to a wide shot of the auditorium, before zooming in on the screen as the Starcop Droid continues his gibberish. The screen flashes out to one reading "CONFIDENTIAL WEAPONRY: 6996 Maximum Security Transport, Technical Specs: \*Heavily Armored, \*Flight Mode, \*Escape Pod, \*Top Speed- 250 Star MPH, \*Fully Mobile," as the droid points at the screen. The display as depicts a colored blueprint displaying the vehicle's ability to split between a cockpit, main body, and rocket exhausts, along with the ship's ability to fuse the cockpit and the exhausts. Very quickly spin 180 degrees to the metal doors of the station with police lights on them and vents at either side. The doors burst open as beeping sounds and the main Starcop walks in, shrouded by yellow light as he walks close enough for his chest-badge to fill the screen. Cut to the Starcop in front of the stage, bending over before pointing and grunting furiously. Cut to Greeny Phantom sitting among the Starcops, to the right of a machine with blue-and-green monitors and red-and-blue lights/buttons; the three Starcops Greeny include a redhead to the left, one with a gray helmet and goggles in a blue shirt in the middle, and a generic smiling one to the right, before zooming in on Greeny as the Starcops gasp and the woman to the right of him falls over. Greeny Phantom waves his arms and grunts in surprise and fear, leaping up a short distance.]*
* Greeny Phantom: Oh shit!
* *[Cut right in front of the stage, as Greeny runs from the right of the screen before going off-screen, as the Starcops chase after him from the same direction, the Starcop Droid looking at them as they do so.]*
* Starcop: Now that the gangsters know about our confidential weaponry.
* *[Cut to a small, squarish white robot with claws running after them, a red siren on top blaring and flashing; the droid looks at this robot, as well.]*
* Announcer: All units, assistance
* *[Fade and zoom out to the exterior of the Starcop police station, as light shines across the badge on the top holographic screen reading "STARCOP: Sector 1 Precinct." The "Most Wanted" poster for Greeny Phantom flashes into the one for Four Arms. Fade to black as the screen shakes and red-and-green highlights appear again. Text is typed on the screen, reading: "Starcop Log 04: End transmission/:go to iwfc.fandom.com/wiki/Starcop."]*

## Trivia

* The "confidential weaponry" is the Starcop Maximum Security Transport.
* One of the conference topics is "what's for lunch".
* In the Starcop Headquarters, you can see the earlier Starcop uniforms.