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An Experience of a lifetime
Dr. Heywood Floyd is approached to join the Soviet and American mission on the spacecraft. This mission is under the direction of exploring what happened to the ship Discovery as well as the second monolith orbiting Jupiter on one of its moons. Floyd accepts and boards the ship goes into deep artificial sleep. -
The journey to Jupiter
The crew with a mix of Russians and Americans begin their voyage and when close to Jupiter they awake Floyd from his sleep. Later a Chinese spacecraft, trying to beat Leonov to Discovery, stops at one of Jupiter's moons to refuel but is attacked by an unknown creature living under the ice and the crew is all killed. -
Touchdown with Discovery
After a dangerous maneuver Leonov rendezvous with Discovery and discovers the ship to be in quite good shape. After a while of investigation, the ship is turned back on, and HAL 9000 is powered back on and is retaught how to work itself. -
Bowman and the Monolith Mysteries
Bowman is his advanced energy-like form escapes back into our dimension and hacks a TV on earth to talk with an old girlfriend and later appears on Leonov to Floyd telling him that the crew needs to leave orbit in no less than 15 days then fades away. Then the monolith disappears and the who crew is spooked wanting to leave as soon as possible. -
The Black Spot
Leonov flees the orbit of Jupiter as a black spot shows on Jupiter and continues to grow. This spot is a ton of monoliths covering Jupiter. Eventually, the density of Jupiter becomes so large the planet achieves nuclear fusion and turns into a star. -
Lucifer
With this creation of a new star in the sky, the people on earth name it Lucifer and with the creation it destroys Discovery. Although Bowman has the advanced life forms take HAL's AI from the core of the ship computer and transform him into the same state of being that Bowman is and he becomes the companion -
The return home
The Leonov crew return to Earth safely but are changed forever from the experiences from the mission. Humanity is eager to adapt and explore the many more mysteries that the mysterious life forms have imposed.