So I rewatch the Avatar movies after watching Fire & Ash, and decided to make an AU that plug some of the gaps in the story from my perspective.

The pivot to Amrita was always weird to me because Amrita is supposed to be this magic potion that makes people live longer, yet in the same movie they introduced recoms. Basically manufactured bodies with uploaded memories, ala Arnold Schwarzenegger's "The 6th day".

So I would like to pivot that Ardmore is keeping the Avatar and Recom technology a secret so they can sell expensive and limited Amrita (whale brain juice) to the highest bidder.

And Quaritch isn't incompetent but fear being irrelevant and discarded that's why he hasn't completed his job in 15 years.