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Believing the note could be true, Taylor ignores his orders and destroys the permission from the RCMP, forcing his team to stay on site. Not believing the note and wanting to announce a Department of Homeland Security success to the press, the American DHS orders Agent Taylor to bring the man back to the United States as a suspected terrorist, despite his severe condition. A note handwritten in Russian found at the crash site says that the man is the child of cosmonauts living at a base on Mars. The man is in an unstable condition and his initial blood work shows signs of severe cancer, with his doctors proclaiming him too badly injured to transport. Federal agents working for the American Department of Homeland Security get involved, receiving permission from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to operate in Canada.

Debris is found in Canada, where an investigation of the crash discovers a live human being in a Soviet space suit. Since the ship has spread radiation over hundreds of miles of rural Montana, officials are quick to bring up the possibility of a terrorist attack, specifically the detonation of a dirty bomb, however, that idea is discarded subtly by the leading investigator, asking the rhetorical question 'Who would launch an attack on Montana?'. Pilot plot ДЄ mysterious spaceship enters Earth's atmosphere, triggering a massive response from the American government.

Production of the rest of the season was funded through direct donations from the fanbase.

#PIONER ONE FOR FREE#

The series itself was released under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Creative Commons license and is distributed for free in collaboration with VODO, as with Bernhard's previous independent film The Lionshare, over the Internet including peer-to-peer networks. The pilot episode was filmed on a budget of $6,000, raised in advance using Kickstarter. Downloaded more than 3,730,000 times since May 2012 and winner for Best Drama Pilot at the 2010 New York Television Festival, the show was independently produced and financed by viewer donations. Pioneer One is a serialized drama produced and distributed online through VODO and the DISCO network.

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