The Knight of Cydonia Season 1

The Knight of Cydonia Season 1 consists of ten episodes originally filmed in XXXX - XXXX. tKoC season 1 had a budget of XX million. The season premiered on XXXX.

Plot
Season 1 of the Knight of Cydonia introduces several key characters through three plot lines.

Elias Turner, a young man living in poverty under New York City, is selected in a image-boosting effort by The Maxeme Administration to be an engineering intern on The Maxeme III, a mission which is set to display the power of the Empire's newest technological breakthrough, a space-warping engine. The mission sets off well, however turns sour and ends in the ship crash-landing into a planet inhabited by human-like beings stuck in a medieval age.

At the Imperial Naval Academy, protegee Theon Dravden enters the hands-on portion of his officer education. After breaking thousand-year standing records on admittance tests, his peers envy him and the instructors despise him. Keeping a level head, Dravden begins to experience what it really means to be a leader, and learns the limits of his natural talent.

The ruler of The American Empire, Maxeme III, is entering into the later stage of her life. The older she grows the more paranoid she becomes of a fact that is glaringly obvious: she hasn't accomplished anything. Since she took over emperor-ship from her father, the state of the empire has only deteriorated, and she has done nothing of historical note. With relations quickly deteriorating on Mars, the middle class of the empire, it seems that the empire is in a worse place than it was before her rule. And with the empire's 10,000th anniversary approaching, Maxeme III is desperate to restore order and accomplish something worth of a legacy.