Power Rangers Cyber Corps

Power Rangers Cyber Corps was Amit Bhaumik's original plan for the 21st season of Power Rangers after Power Rangers Super Megaforce, the adaptation of the Super Sentai series Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger, which would become Power Rangers Dino Charge.

Story
The year is 2015. The place is ETERNITY CITY.

Eternity City is a thriving metropolis of the Power Rangers universe not unlike the cities of past seasons. There are parks, schools, malls, gyms and juice bars just like the sort of cities previous Power Rangers seasons took place in. One big exception is the several towering ENERGRID TOWERS scattered across the metropolis. The Energrid Towers are essentially power plants, providing virtually limitless, clean energy to the people of Eternity City and powering the city’s defenses.

The Energrid Towers are run by the military, aka the M.D.F. or Mirinoi Defense Force –

That’s right. Eternity City is not on Earth.

An often forgotten fact in the Power Rangers universe is the human civilization is actually spread across two planets: Earth, and the distant planet Mirinoi. Settled during Power Rangers Lost Galaxy by humans aboard the colonial spaceship Terra Venture, the show has returned to Mirinoi twice, once in Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue and once again in Power Rangers Wild Force. From those depictions it has been established that the jungle-heavy planet is home to an indigenous low-tech tribal society of villagers and a very American-looking city, henceforth called Eternity City.

From all appearances, life on Mirinoi could be just like on Earth. Any season of Power Rangers since Lost Galaxy could have easily been set on Mirinoi with the same locations and same sort of characters.

Eternity City was founded by the surviving pioneers aboard Terra Venture at the end of Power Rangers Lost Galaxy in 1999. Perhaps there are other human settlements elsewhere on Mirinoi, but for our season we need only concern ourselves with Eternity City and occasionally its surrounding wilderness.

The leadership of Eternity City consists of the MAYOR (Guest character. Maybe Kendrix Morgan?) and the Commanding General, or COMMANDANT, of the MDF (Recurring character.)

The Energrid Towers also known as Energrid Nodes represent a miraculous breakthrough in scientific research. Invented by the husband and wife team of scientists Dr. Alphonse King and Dr. Josephine King, pioneers in robotics technology and teleportation research, while trying to develop a way to contact Earth, they accidentally discovered a vast parallel universe of pure energy. Designing these massive towers to tap into this other dimension, consisting of nothing but pure and unlimited power, their scientific breakthrough solved virtually all of Eternity City’s power needs overnight. This dimension was known in previous seasons as the MORPHING GRID – the source of power discovered by Zordon that he used to power the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

The commercial application of harnessing the Morphing Grid has been universal cheap access to energy for everyone. If only communication with Earth had never been severed! Energrid Towers would solve most of Earth’s energy problems.

But during the course of their research into trying to find a way to reach Earth again through teleportation technologies a tragic accident occurred. 13 years ago (2002), the entire Energrid Research Institute vanished in a mysterious occurrence called THE VENJIX INCIDENT. The exact details of what happened have been classified by the MDF. All that is known to the general public is the entire facility, along with the majority of its personnel including Josephine and Alphonse King, disappeared into a portal. The researchers are believed dead and no successful attempts to contact Earth have been made since.

Control of the Energrid Towers is handled by the military as mysterious monstrous saboteurs have recently emerged to siphon off energy from the towers and/or destroy them. To combat this threat, the MDF has activated a special team of highly trained and specially equipped experts called the CYBER CORPS (aka this season’s Power Rangers). These Power Rangers or Cyber Rangers draw upon the unlimited power from the Morphing Grid through their Cyber Morphers.

The Cyber Corps is led by COMMANDER MARCOS MILLER and operates out of CYBER CENTRAL – a heavily-fortified bunker deep underneath Eternity City. Commander Miller is assisted by his right-hand LIEUTENANT KELLY O’HARE as well as dozens of other support personnel.

Sowing the seeds
In the original script for Forever Red, the idea was that Tommy was in retirement from being a Ranger and Andros pulled him back for one more battle. But as the episode evolved and Jason David Frank brought "his usual vitality to the role as well as this time an unexpected aura of gravitas", the line about Tommy being in retirement, while filmed, was ultimately cut from the episode leaving his status in Forever Red, to the viewer, more mysterious and ambiguous. Central to the Hexagon plan was the idea of a veteran hero turned commander in charge of a super union of superheroes. The idea of the season had its genesis in Reinforcements from the Future, Part 1 when Wes tells Cole “There are other Rangers out there, all fighting for a common goal,” matured in Forever Red when linkages not seen in the show were hinted at (Carter knowing TJ, Andros knowing about Jason, etc.), and really began to become clearer watching Tommy again.

The Team
Michelle North – Yellow Ranger. 18-years-old. Holds the rank of 2nd Lieutenant in the MDF. Michelle is the only child of Commandant Sinclair North, the supreme head of the MDF. Raised on Mirinoi by a strict military upbringing, Michelle has been groomed since birth for the military life. Resented by many in the MDF who feel she holds her rank due to nepotism. A workaholic determined to prove herself. Michelle has a strained relationship with her father and considers her Buddy-roid Bugsy her closest friend. Her mother died during the final assault by Trakeena’s forces on Terra Venture in Power Rangers Lost Galaxy. Benjamin Miles – Silver Ranger. 26-years-old. A veteran of the MDF with the rank of 1st Lieutenant. Best friend and former partner of Arjuna. Was sent into Dimension X on a top secret mission by Commandant North two years ago in an attempt to rescue Dr. King but all contact with him was lost. Spent the past two years in Dimension X battling Venjix’s forces alongside other human survivors. Fiercely loyal to Commandant North, he secretly reports all of Cyber Corps’ activity back to him. Kaya – Gold Ranger. 23-years-old. Diva. Kaya is a superstar singer as well as the most popular celebrity on Mirinoi. Her concerts are among the biggest events in Eternity City. Born and raised in Daekani Village, Kaya was one of many native Mirinoians who sought a new life among the settlers from Earth in Eternity City. Running away to the big city as a teenager, Kaya first came on to the public scene as a pop singer, combining the ancient tribal folk music of her people with modern instruments and production. Kaya has a strained relationship with her family and her village, having turned her back on them to adapt to her celebrity status and city life. Discovering the Gold Ranger morpher, she takes it upon herself to use its powers to help protect Eternity City from the forces of Omni and Venjix. Kaya is brought into Cyber Corps by Commandant North, seeking to reform the team’s image with the public. Commander Marcos Miller – 45-years-old. Born and raised on Earth, Miller was one of the colonial settlers aboard Terra Venture. Served in the GSA under Commander Stanton. A veteran of several battles against Scorpius/Trakeena’s forces before arriving on Mirinoi. Close friend and colleague of Dr. Alphonse King and Dr. Josephine King. Witnessed the Venjix Incident firsthand. Sole survivor of the Energrid Research Institute’s disappearance. A mid-level commander in the MDF, Miller is the founder of Cyber Corps. Kelly O’Hare – 22-years-old. Support personnel for Cyber Corps. Holds the rank of 2nd Lieutenant in the MDF. Kelly works closely with Commander Miller, assisting him in Cyber Central and keeping in communication with the Rangers while they are on missions. Develops close relationship with Johnny. Ducati – Motorcycle Buddy-roid. Ducati is one of the prototypes of the Buddy-roid series of personal robot companions designed by Dr. Josephine King. Able to transform from a robot to a motorcycle. Johnny has grown up with him. Buddy-roids are rare in Eternity City but are known to the general public. Ducati is one of the more sophisticated ones. Cocoa – Gorilla Buddy-roid. Cocoa is one of the few Buddy-roids not to be lost in the Venjix Incident. Partnered up with Arjuna. Bugsy – Rabbit Buddy-roid. Bugsy is a highly intelligent robot who has been partnered up with Michelle since she was a child, acting as her mentor and nanny.
 * Johnny King – Red Ranger. 18-years-old. After his parents disappeared 13 years ago during the Venjix Incident, Johnny was raised by his older sister Jackie. Best friend of Lyle. The rookie of Cyber Corps, he bears the rank of Private in the MDF. Ill-suited for the military life, he often runs afoul of his fellow Cyber Corps members, particularly Commander Miller. Grows to become a capable leader.
 * Arjuna Patel – Blue Ranger. 26-years-old. Consummate soldier. A veteran of the MDF with the rank of 1st Lieutenant. Born on Earth, Arjuna traveled on Terra Venture as a child with his parents, eventually settling on Mirinoi. Arjuna is a highly-respected member of the MDF and holds numerous records in marksmanship and physical competition. The only other member of the MDF considered in his league is his best friend and former partner Benjamin Miles. The two have a fierce rivalry in all things and eventually both become smitten by the same woman: Johnny’s older sister Jackie. Despite his prodigious talents, Arjuna has run afoul of Commandant North and has found his career promotion in the MDF stunted as a result. Has been partnered with the gorilla Buddy-roid Cocoa for the past two years.

The Villains
Venjix – (Messiah) Dimension-hopping genocidal artificial intelligence. While there may be multiple Power Rangers universes, there is but one Venjix. Believed destroyed in Forever Red, Venjix survived by transmitting himself into bodiless data. Banished from this dimension, he has spent the past 13 years since Forever Red hopping dimensions, spreading his virus to destroy entire universes. The last surviving member of the Machine Empire, General Venjix attempted to destroy Earth with the Zord Serpenterra before being destroyed by a union of ten Red Rangers in Forever Red. Or so we thought. Upon the destruction of Serpenterra, General Venjix was able to transmit his data into a nearby satellite in search of a new body or computer to store his consciousness. This satellite was built to maintain communication with the spaceship Terra Venture but had been dormant since Terra Venture’s destruction in 1999. In 2002 communication was restored between the Terra Venture colonists, now on Mirinoi, and the satellite, proving to be disastrous. The satellite beamed the Venjix data stream to the Energrid Research Institute on the planet Mirinoi. Venjix quickly spread across all available computer systems in the Institute and took control of it and its Buddy-roids. The researchers and staff realized the malevolent Venjix was intent on destroying all of Eternity City. Taking drastic actions to stop Venjix, Dr. Alphonse King teleported the entire Institute out of this dimension, hoping to teleport into the Morphing Grid dimension destroying Venjix along with the Institute. The teleportation failed to reach its intended destination, instead arriving in a parallel universe on its version of Earth, also called Dimension X. Venjix spread across every computer system on this planet the night that Dr. K thought she had unleashed a world-ending computer virus. Building an army of robots, Venjix quickly conquered most of the entire planet and wiped out most life on it. Defeated temporarily by the Power Rangers RPM, Venjix managed to survive yet again by uploading himself into the RPM Rangers’ morphers before reemerging to continue his war against humanity, destroying the domed city of Corinth and driving the RPM Rangers into hiding. Venjix has successfully crossed into other dimensions, infecting computer systems and eradicating all he finds like an inter-dimensional Galactus. After contacting the hacker Omni, Venjix has set his sights on returning to the dimension of his creation to destroy it. It is the hope to combine the character of General Venjix from Forever Red and the coincidentally-named Venjix computer virus from Power Rangers RPM and elevate this character to a major villain in the Power Rangers franchise along the likes of Rita Repulsa and Lord Zedd. Venjix should be given a new, US original, body drawing upon elements of him seen in his Power Rangers Wild Force and Power Rangers RPM incarnations, yet updating his look.
 * Lyle ‘Omni’ Taylor – 19-years-old. Lyle is the best friend of Johnny and a computer hacking prodigy. An antisocial misanthrope. Unbeknownst to Johnny and the rest of the world, Lyle is the secret identity of the criminal hacker known as ‘Omni.’ Omni has tapped into Dimension X and established contact with the powerful computer virus Venjix. Venjix has promised Omni access to technology beyond his wildest dreams in exchange for helping him cross dimensions into this one. Wears a mask in public, hiding his identity. Fights the Rangers from time to time, using a variety of weaponry and armor he develops himself using Venjix’s technology.
 * Eva-6 – Female android. Eva-6 is a human-like female robot built by Omni in his garage to be his second-in-command. Utilizing technology from Venjix, Eva-6 can convincingly pass for a human. Eva-6 is a sophisticated artificial intelligence fanatically loyal to Venjix and Omni, even eventually falling in love with Omni. Eventually realizing Venjix’s plans for Omni, her loyalties are ultimately tested, forcing her to choose one over the other. Eva-6 is also physically capable of battling the Rangers. Unlike Omni, she can teleport back and forth between Dimension X and this dimension.

Allies
Mayor Kendrix Morgan – The elected head of the government in Eternity City. Former Pink Galaxy Ranger. A popular politician and hero for her battles against Trakeena during Power Rangers Lost Galaxy. Appears late in season as Commandant North takes more control over Eternity City. (Or possibly Kai or Damon or Mike or Leo or Commander Stanton?) Maya – Chieftain of Daekani Village. Former Yellow Galaxy Ranger. After the events of Power Rangers Lost Galaxy, Maya returned to live with her village, eventually becoming its leader while her former teammates went on to live in Eternity City. In recent years, relations have deteriorated between Eternity City and Daekani Village under pressure from the MDF to assert its control over the planet. Over the years, Maya has become more dedicated to preserving her tribe’s traditions as many villagers have left to live in Eternity City. Maya resents Kaya for appropriating and modifying their tribal traditions and rituals as part of her pop music career. Maya had hoped Kaya would one day become chieftain of the tribe. (Depending on actor availability. Can be a new character) Dr. K – The mentor of the Power Rangers RPM. Born and raised on the Earth of Dimension X. Dr. K was a brilliant scientist who mistakenly believed she was the one who had created the Venjix virus. In fact, Venjix had been teleported to her world by Dr. Alphonse King where he began spreading across the computer systems of her world, even merging with the computer systems of the think tank Alphabet Soup where she was raised. Dr. K escapes from Dimension X to this dimension along with her surviving RPM Rangers. Dr. K refines the teleportation technology of Dr. Alphonse King and assists the Rangers by opening a wormhole to Dimension X allowing the Rangers to rescue the Kings and the surviving personnel from the Energrid Research Institute. The sole survivor of her dimension, she works tirelessly to come up with a permanent solution to stop Venjix and avenge her friends. She later works with Alphonse and Josephine King to create the Venjix Antivirus. Alphonse King – 50-ish. Father of Johnny and Jackie King. One of Mirinoi’s most brilliant scientists. Creator of the Energrid Towers. Discoverer of the Morphing Grid. Inventor of the Cyber Corps teleportation technology. 13 years ago while attempting to restore contact with Earth, accidentally infected Energrid Research Institute with the Venjix computer virus. Along with his wife, bravely chose to sacrifice his own life to destroy Venjix by attempting to teleport him into the Morphing Grid. Instead, wound up in a parallel universe and watched in horror as Venjix spread across the world’s computer systems, destroying most life on the planet. Spent 13 years with his wife and fellow surviving researchers in hiding from Venjix’s robot armies, trying to find a way to fight back and help other survivors. Josephine King – 50-ish. Mother of Johnny and Jackie King. Creator of the Buddy-roid, personal robot companions. Spent 13 years living in hiding in Dimension X with her husband. Eventually rescued from Dimension X by the Rangers and returns to Mirinoi where she helps develop the Venjix Antivirus. Oliver Stanton – 26-years-old. Temporary Red Cyber Ranger in second half of season. A career militarist and Commandant North’s right hand man. His most trusted soldier. The son of Commander Stanton from Power Rangers Lost Galaxy. Widely considered the most “eligible bachelor” on Mirinoi. Commandant North not-so-secretly hopes his daughter will marry him. Has a very abrasive personality and does not get along with Johnny, Arjuna, and Michelle. Christina Velasco – 26-years-old. Temporary Yellow Cyber Ranger in second half of season. A career MDF officer. Completely loyal to Commandant North. Expert in weapons and hand to hand combat. Over-confident. A bully. Dislikes Michelle, Johnny, and Arjuna. Knux – 26-years-old. Temporary Blue Cyber Ranger in second half of season. Born and raised on Mirinoi, Knux left Daekani Village at a young age for life in the big city. Joining the MDF, his high aptitude marks soon gained him the attention of Commandant North. Fiercely loyal to North. Unclear if “Knux” is his real name or a nickname. Most personable of the three temporary Rangers. Leo Corbett – Former Red Galaxy Ranger. Partook in the battle of Forever Red that destroyed General Venjix. Since then, Leo has lived as a hermit in the Mirinoi wilderness. (Guest appearance late in the season depending on actor availability?)
 * Jackie King – 25-years-old. Older sister of Johnny. Raised him since their parents vanished in The Venjix Incident. Still lives with him. Gives us a glimpse into civilian life on Eternity City. Later becomes romantic interest of both Arjuna and Benjamin to Johnny’s disapproval.
 * Commandant Sinclair North – 50-something-years-old. The most powerful man on Mirinoi. The supreme commander of the Mirinoi Defense Force. Father of Michelle. Responsible for covering up The Venjix Incident from the public, worried that the truth would destroy the public’s trust in the MDF and the will to pursue teleportation technology to reestablish contact with Earth. One of the highest ranking officers aboard Terra Venture, Commandant North led the colony’s ground troops against Scorpius and Trakeena’s forces. Dislikes Commander Miller and the Cyber Corps Rangers.