In this thrilling episode of "Alien Worlds," we journey to the Arthur C. Clarke Astronomical Observatory, STARLab, and beyond to the moon, where a startling discovery is made. Omega General Industries uncovers an ancient spacecraft buried beneath the lunar surface, containing the mummified remains of 50 extraterrestrial humanoids and a mysterious black crystal statue resembling a gargoyle. As Professor Victor Conrad and his team from Lunar Base 12 investigate, they find that the statue emits an ultraviolet glow causing hallucinations, and they must keep it cold to prevent further activity. However, during its transport to STARLab, a meteorite punctures the shuttle, releasing the statue's dark energy, leading to a terrifying encounter.
(00:06) Discovery on the Moon
(01:08) The Mysterious Black Crystal
(02:56) Transporting the Statue
(05:00) Aboard Lunar Shuttle 19
(08:12) The Shuttle Incident
(13:42) Experiments and Anomalies
(17:49) The Explosion at Lunar Base 12
(21:22) Confrontation with the Drell
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High above the windy blue skies of Earth, slowly rotating at the edge of deep space, is the Arthur C. Clarke Astronomical Observatory, STARLab. On Earth's moon, a quarter of a million miles beyond STARLab, Omega General Industries have uncovered the corroded hull of an ancient spacecraft during a lunar mining operation. Excavating further, they discover the mummified bodies of 50 extraterrestrial humanoids and a strange statue made of jet black crystal. Mining operations director Ray Ferrell contacts the science complex at Lunar Base 12.
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Roger, Omega General, line eight fifteen, nine kilometers due north of Clavius. A research team is on the way. Don't touch anything until they get there. Lunar Base 12 standing by.
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Two hours later, Professor Victor Conrad and his research team arrive at the excavation. They finish their preliminary investigation at zero 08:30 the next morning.
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Hey. How's it going, professor? Well, the spacecraft's been under the lunar surface for close to a thousand years, and the aliens were killed by something that turned their eyes and nervous systems into black crystal. Black crystal? Like the statue? The body samples and the statue samples are identical. Well, what do you make of that damn statue anyway? That thing gives me the creeps. I've seen that image a hundred times, mister Ferrell, carved in stone on most of the Gothic cathedrals of Europe. It's a gargoyle, a supposedly mythical creature that symbolizes ultimate spiritual evil.
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A thousand year old alien spacecraft buried beneath the lunar surface. And with it, a four foot tall gargoyle made of black crystal. Mysteries from a forgotten time, waiting for a solution. As part one of the ISA conspiracy, the dark bringers, takes us from the bright side of the moon into the unearthly light and shadow of alien worlds.
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Lettermanage 12 to
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This is StarLab. Go ahead.
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Professor Conrad is standing by for doctor Cassidy. She's right here, professor.
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Mora has the statue arrived here. It'll be here in about a half an hour. We heard from the shuttle a few minutes ago. How is it being transported to,
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We've got an SCT cruiser standing by. It will tell them to be careful with Mora. When they ran the thermal tests, it started to emit an ultraviolet glow that had all of us hallucinating.
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Hallucinating? What do you mean?
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For a few minutes there, we thought this statue was coming to life.
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He had the pants off of us.
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Coming to life? How did you get it to stop radiating?
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Well, Arthur had the Pysos' mind to shut down the thermal generators, but the statue was still about 10% active at room temperature. We finally sealed it in a small liquid oxygen bath. As long as it's kept cold, it's completely inert.
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We'll be careful with it, Victor. Anything else?
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Yes. We're going to continue experimenting with the statue samples we've kept here. I'm setting up a photon saturation test now, and I'd like to interface our data terminals with your Microsoft computer so you can monitor the test from there. Good. No problem, Victor. What will you need? A couple of standard mode multiplexer channels should do it. Alright. I'll see to it right away.
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And, Mora, would you mind setting up a visual link just in case?
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Just in case of what?
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I am not sure,
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but this whole business with the statue has everyone on edge around here. Even though it is gone,
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something about is still here. Something quiet and dark.
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Something invisible that waits in silent shadow watching. Something the pilot and copilot of the lunar shuttle carrying the statue are unaware
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of.
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Lou, you'd better go ahead and start the pre ignition cycle for the retros. It looks like they picked up about three minutes when I cleared the booster nozzles.
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Three minutes, eighteen seconds to be exact. It just came up on the ETA monitor. I'll let StarLab know we're gonna be Oh, hell.
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Meteorite puncture. Spiked through number four cargo bay.
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That was just as an Arday, Lou.
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Oh, boy. How big is the hole?
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A little over three centimeters according to the hole sensor, about the size of a marble. Marble, Steely, cat's eye, or shooter? What? Technical talk, Frank. I guess you didn't shoot marbles when you were a kid. No. I lost mine by the time I was 13. Give me my helmet. I'll go back and seal up that hole. Yeah. Yeah. Well, the closest I ever got to Marvels after that was Chinese checkers. Do you still play? Once in a while. Well, let's have a game or two when we get to Starlast. Alright. $5 a game. Make it ten and you're on. Sold. Lunar shuttle 19 to StarLab.
StarLab. Go ahead. We're making better time than I thought. Our revised ETA is ten minutes, ten seconds.
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Roger, you do not come according to star zero eight alpha approach vector two niner two.
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Thanks, StarLab. How's it going back there, Lou? The meteorite sheared the top off the pod with a statue in it. The liquid oxygen's leaking out. Well, I told you it wasn't our day. Have you sealed the hole? In the hole, yeah. There's not much I can do about the pod.
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Well, they said to keep the statue on ice. Tell you what, flood the hole with chill vapor from the fire control system.
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That should keep it cold enough until we duck. Frank, there's something moving What is it? I don't know. It's hard to see anything through the chill vapor.
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No.
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An ancient shadow creature is loose aboard Lunar Shuttle 19. The sound of its unearthly fury merges with a terrified scream of co pilot Lou Stratton. Then, silence. Pilot Frank Hollister activates the visual scanner in Cargo Bay 4.
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Oh, my God. Lou.
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Firing the shuttle's booster rockets, he accelerates toward the safety of StarLab, bringing with him the demon spirit of
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an ailing world.
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Alien Worlds continues. A decaying alien spacecraft, the mummified bodies of 50 extraterrestrial humanoids, and a black crystal gargoyle have been found buried beneath the surface of the moon. The gargoyle is taken to the Science Complex at Lunar Base 12, where during a routine thermal experiment, it begins to radiate an ultraviolet glow that causes terrifying hallucinations. Discovering that the statue is inert when cold, Professor Victor Conrad seals it into a liquid oxygen pod and sends it to StarLab aboard Lunar Shuttle 19. 10 minutes away from the giant space station, the hull of the shuttle is penetrated by a tiny meteorite that splits open the statue's pod.
The shuttle's co pilot goes to Cargo Bay 4 to repair the meteorite puncture, and is suddenly attacked by something dark and unearthly.
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It's all there in the flight recorder, Doctor. Cassidy. How many times do I have to go through this? This is the last time, lieutenant. I promise. It won't work. What do you mean? What won't work? All this interrogation, you're not going to trap me into saying anything I haven't said before. Look. No one's trying to trap
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you. Come on.
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Who do you think you're kidding? Yesterday, it was the security officer, Major Wheeler. Last night, it was doctor Ross. Today, it's you.
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You're working up a psychological profile on me. Right?
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You're wrong Lieutenant. None of us had any intention of Lee Stratton was my best friend Doctor. Cassidy. But there just wasn't anything I could do.
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When did you realize it was too late?
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When I when I switched on the visual scanner and saw him hanging upside down from the storage rafter His face The look on his face
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What else did you see?
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The statue sitting there in the corner
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looking up at him.
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Professor Conrad? Yes. I am right here. I've got StarLab on scrambler channel f. It's doctor Cassidy.
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Good. Good. Patch her through.
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Victor, Lieutenant Stratton's autopsy report just came off the computer. I have the grid out here in front of me. Anything definite on the cause of death? No. There were too many variables. But the projections range all the way from six kinds of heart failure to terminal neuroinduction.
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Terminal neuro you don't mean death by psychic
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suggestion? God. That's what it says here.
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What about the black crystals in his eyes and nervous system?
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They're identical extraterrestrial. But Mycroft couldn't compute either the source or the structure.
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What else?
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His brain. It was 364
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grams lighter than the average for a man of age. What about the size? Well, that was a man his age.
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What about the size?
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Well, that's what's so strange, Victor. The size wasn't changed at all, just the weight. What do you think?
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I think I'll go ahead with the experiments on the statue samples we've kept here.
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I don't know, Victor. The statue arrived at the ISA lab an hour ago. But couldn't you at least wait till they've had a chance to look it over?
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We can't afford to postpone the experiments any longer. Whatever happened on the shuttle might happen again. Besides, we've got a forty eight hour head start on ISA. We may as well take advantage of it.
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Alright. Victor, have you come up with anything to explain how the statue got out of the pod?
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Not unless you're willing to accept the possibility that the statue really isn't a statue at all, but some kind of transmorphic creature that feeds off the psychic energy of intelligent beings.
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Well, I'm going to have to think about that. Good luck with the tent. And please, Victor, be careful.
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We will. You got a minute, Victor? Of course, Rachel. Come on in. We just finished the comparative analysis of the scanner tapes we made of the statue when it was here. And the
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analysis of the scanner tapes we made of the statue when it was here and the scanner data of the statue transmitted from STAR Lab. I don't know if you're ready for this. We weren't, but the statue has changed. Changed? In what way? Well, the scan made after the shuttle incident shows that it's 60 millimeters taller than it was when it left here.
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Are you sure?
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We cross checked everything.
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What
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else? Oh, the face. It's not looking straight ahead anymore. It's looking up at an angle of 57 degrees.
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Go on.
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The statue's heavier by 364 grams.
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As the mystery of the black crystal gargoyle deepens, so does the urgency to discover and resolve its supernatural secrets. At Lunar Base twelve Science Complex, Professor Conrad and his research team prepare a photon saturation test on two small crystal samples removed from the statue during an earlier experiment.
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Rachel, will you please ask Arthur and Misha to meet me in Conference Room 4? I'd like to have a word with them before we start. And you had better join us too. Right away, Victor.
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Back aboard star lab. Preparation of a visual link between star lab control and the interior of professor Conrad's moon laboratory is supervised by Mara Cassidy.
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Sally, I think the visual feed from lunar base should be cross linked with Mycroft. That way if something goes wrong with the VTR, we can always retrieve the pictures from the computer. Okay. I'll have it programmed in about fifteen minutes.
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On Earth, the statue arrives at the ISA Research Center and is locked in a refrigerated laboratory vault where ISA technicians begin their own experiments.
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Alright. Let's shave off a couple of two micron specimens and get them under the electron microscope.
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Hideous damn creature, isn't it? Wonder what it's looking up at.
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Meanwhile, captains John Braden and Buddy Griff bank the SCT interceptor Solaris away from the freighter convoy they've been escorting through the Tinian three shipping lanes and jet towards Star Lab.
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Did they ever figure out what it was? Not really.
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Scientific opinion was divided about seventy thirty. In favor of an alien spacecraft? No. In favor of a meteor.
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How many people saw the explosion?
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Well, there were quite a few villages about 500 miles away, and everyone living in them saw it. At that distance? Skipper, when that thing exploded, it lit up the sky as far away as London, and the sky stayed that way for three days and nights.
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When did all this happen? Nineteen o eight.
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Amazing.
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Where do you get these books anyway?
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The librarian on Starlink. No. She came across this one while she was looking for an Oscar Wilde novel that Mara wanted to read. And what made her think that you'd be interested? The title. It's called The Fire Came By. Starlab control to Solaris. This is Solaris. Go ahead, Jerry.
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Mara would like to speak with you. Put her on.
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John, do you live in a fuel to take a side trip to the moon? Buddy?
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Yeah. We're okay. What do you want us to do, Mara? I've scheduled a conference with professor Conrad.
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Pick him up at Lunar Base 12 and bring him here. He's starting an experiment now, but,
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he should be finished by the time you get there. Okay. We'll take care of it, Mara. Hello, buddy. Goodbye, buddy. Cute, Mora. Cute.
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In the Science complex at Lunar Base 12, Professor Conrad places a sample of the statue into a stellarron systems PC 80 photon chamber. On StarLab, Mara watches by remote visual link, as Professor Conrad seals the chamber, sits down at a control console, and presses a button. Radiant white light illuminates the chamber's observation ports, as the needle thin beams of six neothane xellium lasers penetrate the statue's specimen. A fragment of night, chipped from the lightless atmospheres of an alien world. Alien Worlds continues.
As John and Buddy jet toward the moon aboard the Solaris, Professor Conrad and his research team move into the second stage of their photon saturation test with a black crystal gargoyle specimen. On STAR Lab, Mora monitors the experiment by remote visual link. On one screen, a wide angle interior view of Professor Conrad's moon laboratory. On a second screen, the bright metal pyramid shaped photon chamber.
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Rachel, the spectroscope is starting to shift out of phase. Will you please check it? Right away, Magdine. Arthur, what was your last refractive index reading? It didn't even register. The crystals are absorbing all coherent light up to 8,000 angstroms. Alright. Let's switch over to the neon borazine lasers. Program them for a one milliradian beam and we'll work our way up from there. Alright.
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How are you doing, Mora? I'm not quite sure. I don't think I should have had whatever that was I had for lunch. I get some pretty weird food around here sometimes. Well, chew a couple of papaya enzyme tablets. They'll fix you up in no
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time. And if you wish to stretch your legs or anything, you'd better do it now.
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This next part of the experiment is going to take a while. No. I think I'll just sit here and plan my revenge on the STAR Labs ship.
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We're ready, Vega. And it looks like intermission's over, Mora. Alright, Rachel. Turn them loose.
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Oh my god. Victor. Victor. I'm in class city. What's going on? I just lost all telemetry from lunar base. Look. There's been an explosion. Jerry, contact the Solaris and tell them to get to Lunar Base 12 as fast as they can. Starlight control to Solaris. Starlight control to Solaris. Sally, get hold of the ISA lab and tell them to stop their experiments with the statue until they hear from me. This is Solaris. Go ahead, Jerry. I'm on my way. I've got the Solaris,
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Mara.
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We're coming up on it now, Mara. Have you had any radio contact with No. Not a word. Even the microwave safety beacon has stopped transmitting. Skipper. Screen five.
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My god. What happened? John, buddy. What is it? What do you see? Mara,
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lunar base twelve no longer exists. What do you mean? It's been blown to pieces, completely leveled, the entire base.
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Skipper, screen six.
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Buddy, what is it? What's happening?
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A ship just above the horizon. It's moving away from us. Magnify it, buddy. Looks something like an old tarantula class gunship, except it's about five times bigger. Jerry, record this. We're rolling. It's black. Stacked wings angled down about 60 degrees. Yellow markings that look like Cyrillic script, only upside down. Jeez, Skipper. What do you make of
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that? Keep talking, buddy.
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These short black spikes are starting to bristle out all over the hull. Skipper. It's turning around. Mara, stand by. We're going in for a closer look at that ship.
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Open a close proximity channel, buddy. Let's see if they'll talk to us.
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You're on, Skipper. This is Earthship Solaris. Please identify yourself. Skipper, let's get some altitude before their aim improves. This is Earthship Solaris. Our intentions are not hostile. Please? Alright. I'll try one more time, but that is it. You better let me do it, Skipper. Every time you talk to them, they shoot at us. Solaris,
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there is still time. Time for what? Escape. From what? Ask your dead brothers and sisters on the wasteland below us. Damn you. You did that?
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You murdered all those people? But why? They were committing sacrilege. Just who the who are you?
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Disciples. Of what? Lightlessness.
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I've had about all of this I can take. Hold on, buddy. Skipper, lightning is pouring out of those spikes and crawling all over the hull of their ship. Activate the rest of the laser turrets, buddy. We're going around again. I didn't I didn't even phase him, Skipper. That lightning soaked up our lasers like a sponge. We're hit. Flame out of number four thruster. There goes number two. The starboard fuel pods are split open. Skipper, if we don't get out of here now, we'll have to set her down on the moon. I don't wanna leave that ship to StarLab. Solas,
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we are aware of the thing you name. Don't concern yourself with its safety. It is one of our destinations.
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Come on, Skipper. It's now or never. Use Docking Bay 4, John. The crash barriers are up and the fire control crew is standing by. John, where's that ship? Right behind us. Turn your seat around, buddy. Here we go.
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John? Buddy, are you alright? We're okay.
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Come on, buddy. Let's get out
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of here. Mara, the alien ship. Screen 10.
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Listen to me, StarLab.
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Who are you? I am Starcaus,
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high priest of the Drell. You have stolen the symbol of our redemption.
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The symbol? The statue?
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Narl is his rightful name. We have traced him to your moon. We know his presence has graced the machine you live in. Where is he? I don't know. Then take your last look at the stars.
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The trail, a race of bloodless shadow beings searching for their symbol of redemption. An icon of lightless crystal representing the dark god, Nal. An ancient demon creature creeping through the starless dimensions of alien worlds. Part one of the ISA conspiracy, The Dark Bringers, was written by Ron Thompson. Our cast included Linda Gary, Chuck Olsen, Bruce Miller, and Corey Burton. With special guest stars, Byron Cain, Charles McGraw, Molly Dodd, and Ernie Anderson. Associate producer, Jeff Allen. Music director, Tom Rounds.
Engineer, Stu Jacobs. Assistant to the producer, Roger Brosi. Alien Worlds was created, produced, and directed by Lee Hansen, and is distributed by Watermark Incorporated. And so until next week, this is Roger Dressler inviting you to join us for part two of the ISA conspiracy on Alien Worlds.
High above the windy blue skies of Earth, slowly rotating at the edge of deep space, is the Arthur C. Clarke Astronomical Observatory, STARLab. On Earth's moon, a quarter of a million miles beyond STARLab, Omega General Industries have uncovered the corroded hull of an ancient spacecraft during a lunar mining operation. Excavating further, they discover the mummified bodies of 50 extraterrestrial humanoids and a strange statue made of jet black crystal. Mining operations director Ray Ferrell contacts the science complex at Lunar Base 12.
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Roger, Omega General, line eight fifteen, nine kilometers due north of Clavius. A research team is on the way. Don't touch anything until they get there. Lunar Base 12 standing by.
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Two hours later, Professor Victor Conrad and his research team arrive at the excavation. They finish their preliminary investigation at zero 08:30 the next morning.
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Hey. How's it going, professor? Well, the spacecraft's been under the lunar surface for close to a thousand years, and the aliens were killed by something that turned their eyes and nervous systems into black crystal. Black crystal? Like the statue? The body samples and the statue samples are identical. Well, what do you make of that damn statue anyway? That thing gives me the creeps. I've seen that image a hundred times, mister Ferrell, carved in stone on most of the Gothic cathedrals of Europe. It's a gargoyle, a supposedly mythical creature that symbolizes ultimate spiritual evil.
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A thousand year old alien spacecraft buried beneath the lunar surface. And with it, a four foot tall gargoyle made of black crystal. Mysteries from a forgotten time, waiting for a solution. As part one of the ISA conspiracy, the dark bringers, takes us from the bright side of the moon into the unearthly light and shadow of alien worlds.
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Lettermanage 12 to
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This is StarLab. Go ahead.
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Professor Conrad is standing by for doctor Cassidy. She's right here, professor.
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Mora has the statue arrived here. It'll be here in about a half an hour. We heard from the shuttle a few minutes ago. How is it being transported to,
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We've got an SCT cruiser standing by. It will tell them to be careful with Mora. When they ran the thermal tests, it started to emit an ultraviolet glow that had all of us hallucinating.
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Hallucinating? What do you mean?
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For a few minutes there, we thought this statue was coming to life.
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He had the pants off of us.
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Coming to life? How did you get it to stop radiating?
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Well, Arthur had the Pysos' mind to shut down the thermal generators, but the statue was still about 10% active at room temperature. We finally sealed it in a small liquid oxygen bath. As long as it's kept cold, it's completely inert.
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We'll be careful with it, Victor. Anything else?
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Yes. We're going to continue experimenting with the statue samples we've kept here. I'm setting up a photon saturation test now, and I'd like to interface our data terminals with your Microsoft computer so you can monitor the test from there. Good. No problem, Victor. What will you need? A couple of standard mode multiplexer channels should do it. Alright. I'll see to it right away.
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And, Mora, would you mind setting up a visual link just in case?
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Just in case of what?
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I am not sure,
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but this whole business with the statue has everyone on edge around here. Even though it is gone,
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something about is still here. Something quiet and dark.
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Something invisible that waits in silent shadow watching. Something the pilot and copilot of the lunar shuttle carrying the statue are unaware
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of.
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Lou, you'd better go ahead and start the pre ignition cycle for the retros. It looks like they picked up about three minutes when I cleared the booster nozzles.
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Three minutes, eighteen seconds to be exact. It just came up on the ETA monitor. I'll let StarLab know we're gonna be Oh, hell.
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Meteorite puncture. Spiked through number four cargo bay.
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That was just as an Arday, Lou.
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Oh, boy. How big is the hole?
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A little over three centimeters according to the hole sensor, about the size of a marble. Marble, Steely, cat's eye, or shooter? What? Technical talk, Frank. I guess you didn't shoot marbles when you were a kid. No. I lost mine by the time I was 13. Give me my helmet. I'll go back and seal up that hole. Yeah. Yeah. Well, the closest I ever got to Marvels after that was Chinese checkers. Do you still play? Once in a while. Well, let's have a game or two when we get to Starlast. Alright. $5 a game. Make it ten and you're on. Sold. Lunar shuttle 19 to StarLab.
StarLab. Go ahead. We're making better time than I thought. Our revised ETA is ten minutes, ten seconds.
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Roger, you do not come according to star zero eight alpha approach vector two niner two.
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Thanks, StarLab. How's it going back there, Lou? The meteorite sheared the top off the pod with a statue in it. The liquid oxygen's leaking out. Well, I told you it wasn't our day. Have you sealed the hole? In the hole, yeah. There's not much I can do about the pod.
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Well, they said to keep the statue on ice. Tell you what, flood the hole with chill vapor from the fire control system.
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That should keep it cold enough until we duck. Frank, there's something moving What is it? I don't know. It's hard to see anything through the chill vapor.
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No.
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An ancient shadow creature is loose aboard Lunar Shuttle 19. The sound of its unearthly fury merges with a terrified scream of co pilot Lou Stratton. Then, silence. Pilot Frank Hollister activates the visual scanner in Cargo Bay 4.
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Oh, my God. Lou.
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Firing the shuttle's booster rockets, he accelerates toward the safety of StarLab, bringing with him the demon spirit of
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an ailing world.
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Alien Worlds continues. A decaying alien spacecraft, the mummified bodies of 50 extraterrestrial humanoids, and a black crystal gargoyle have been found buried beneath the surface of the moon. The gargoyle is taken to the Science Complex at Lunar Base 12, where during a routine thermal experiment, it begins to radiate an ultraviolet glow that causes terrifying hallucinations. Discovering that the statue is inert when cold, Professor Victor Conrad seals it into a liquid oxygen pod and sends it to StarLab aboard Lunar Shuttle 19. 10 minutes away from the giant space station, the hull of the shuttle is penetrated by a tiny meteorite that splits open the statue's pod.
The shuttle's co pilot goes to Cargo Bay 4 to repair the meteorite puncture, and is suddenly attacked by something dark and unearthly.
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It's all there in the flight recorder, Doctor. Cassidy. How many times do I have to go through this? This is the last time, lieutenant. I promise. It won't work. What do you mean? What won't work? All this interrogation, you're not going to trap me into saying anything I haven't said before. Look. No one's trying to trap
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you. Come on.
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Who do you think you're kidding? Yesterday, it was the security officer, Major Wheeler. Last night, it was doctor Ross. Today, it's you.
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You're working up a psychological profile on me. Right?
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You're wrong Lieutenant. None of us had any intention of Lee Stratton was my best friend Doctor. Cassidy. But there just wasn't anything I could do.
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When did you realize it was too late?
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When I when I switched on the visual scanner and saw him hanging upside down from the storage rafter His face The look on his face
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What else did you see?
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The statue sitting there in the corner
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looking up at him.
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Professor Conrad? Yes. I am right here. I've got StarLab on scrambler channel f. It's doctor Cassidy.
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Good. Good. Patch her through.
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Victor, Lieutenant Stratton's autopsy report just came off the computer. I have the grid out here in front of me. Anything definite on the cause of death? No. There were too many variables. But the projections range all the way from six kinds of heart failure to terminal neuroinduction.
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Terminal neuro you don't mean death by psychic
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suggestion? God. That's what it says here.
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What about the black crystals in his eyes and nervous system?
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They're identical extraterrestrial. But Mycroft couldn't compute either the source or the structure.
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What else?
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His brain. It was 364
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grams lighter than the average for a man of age. What about the size? Well, that was a man his age.
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What about the size?
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Well, that's what's so strange, Victor. The size wasn't changed at all, just the weight. What do you think?
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I think I'll go ahead with the experiments on the statue samples we've kept here.
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I don't know, Victor. The statue arrived at the ISA lab an hour ago. But couldn't you at least wait till they've had a chance to look it over?
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We can't afford to postpone the experiments any longer. Whatever happened on the shuttle might happen again. Besides, we've got a forty eight hour head start on ISA. We may as well take advantage of it.
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Alright. Victor, have you come up with anything to explain how the statue got out of the pod?
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Not unless you're willing to accept the possibility that the statue really isn't a statue at all, but some kind of transmorphic creature that feeds off the psychic energy of intelligent beings.
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Well, I'm going to have to think about that. Good luck with the tent. And please, Victor, be careful.
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We will. You got a minute, Victor? Of course, Rachel. Come on in. We just finished the comparative analysis of the scanner tapes we made of the statue when it was here. And the
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analysis of the scanner tapes we made of the statue when it was here and the scanner data of the statue transmitted from STAR Lab. I don't know if you're ready for this. We weren't, but the statue has changed. Changed? In what way? Well, the scan made after the shuttle incident shows that it's 60 millimeters taller than it was when it left here.
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Are you sure?
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We cross checked everything.
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What
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else? Oh, the face. It's not looking straight ahead anymore. It's looking up at an angle of 57 degrees.
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Go on.
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The statue's heavier by 364 grams.
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As the mystery of the black crystal gargoyle deepens, so does the urgency to discover and resolve its supernatural secrets. At Lunar Base twelve Science Complex, Professor Conrad and his research team prepare a photon saturation test on two small crystal samples removed from the statue during an earlier experiment.
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Rachel, will you please ask Arthur and Misha to meet me in Conference Room 4? I'd like to have a word with them before we start. And you had better join us too. Right away, Victor.
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Back aboard star lab. Preparation of a visual link between star lab control and the interior of professor Conrad's moon laboratory is supervised by Mara Cassidy.
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Sally, I think the visual feed from lunar base should be cross linked with Mycroft. That way if something goes wrong with the VTR, we can always retrieve the pictures from the computer. Okay. I'll have it programmed in about fifteen minutes.
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On Earth, the statue arrives at the ISA Research Center and is locked in a refrigerated laboratory vault where ISA technicians begin their own experiments.
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Alright. Let's shave off a couple of two micron specimens and get them under the electron microscope.
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Hideous damn creature, isn't it? Wonder what it's looking up at.
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Meanwhile, captains John Braden and Buddy Griff bank the SCT interceptor Solaris away from the freighter convoy they've been escorting through the Tinian three shipping lanes and jet towards Star Lab.
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Did they ever figure out what it was? Not really.
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Scientific opinion was divided about seventy thirty. In favor of an alien spacecraft? No. In favor of a meteor.
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How many people saw the explosion?
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Well, there were quite a few villages about 500 miles away, and everyone living in them saw it. At that distance? Skipper, when that thing exploded, it lit up the sky as far away as London, and the sky stayed that way for three days and nights.
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When did all this happen? Nineteen o eight.
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Amazing.
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Where do you get these books anyway?
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The librarian on Starlink. No. She came across this one while she was looking for an Oscar Wilde novel that Mara wanted to read. And what made her think that you'd be interested? The title. It's called The Fire Came By. Starlab control to Solaris. This is Solaris. Go ahead, Jerry.
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Mara would like to speak with you. Put her on.
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John, do you live in a fuel to take a side trip to the moon? Buddy?
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Yeah. We're okay. What do you want us to do, Mara? I've scheduled a conference with professor Conrad.
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Pick him up at Lunar Base 12 and bring him here. He's starting an experiment now, but,
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he should be finished by the time you get there. Okay. We'll take care of it, Mara. Hello, buddy. Goodbye, buddy. Cute, Mora. Cute.
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In the Science complex at Lunar Base 12, Professor Conrad places a sample of the statue into a stellarron systems PC 80 photon chamber. On StarLab, Mara watches by remote visual link, as Professor Conrad seals the chamber, sits down at a control console, and presses a button. Radiant white light illuminates the chamber's observation ports, as the needle thin beams of six neothane xellium lasers penetrate the statue's specimen. A fragment of night, chipped from the lightless atmospheres of an alien world. Alien Worlds continues.
As John and Buddy jet toward the moon aboard the Solaris, Professor Conrad and his research team move into the second stage of their photon saturation test with a black crystal gargoyle specimen. On STAR Lab, Mora monitors the experiment by remote visual link. On one screen, a wide angle interior view of Professor Conrad's moon laboratory. On a second screen, the bright metal pyramid shaped photon chamber.
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Rachel, the spectroscope is starting to shift out of phase. Will you please check it? Right away, Magdine. Arthur, what was your last refractive index reading? It didn't even register. The crystals are absorbing all coherent light up to 8,000 angstroms. Alright. Let's switch over to the neon borazine lasers. Program them for a one milliradian beam and we'll work our way up from there. Alright.
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How are you doing, Mora? I'm not quite sure. I don't think I should have had whatever that was I had for lunch. I get some pretty weird food around here sometimes. Well, chew a couple of papaya enzyme tablets. They'll fix you up in no
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time. And if you wish to stretch your legs or anything, you'd better do it now.
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This next part of the experiment is going to take a while. No. I think I'll just sit here and plan my revenge on the STAR Labs ship.
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We're ready, Vega. And it looks like intermission's over, Mora. Alright, Rachel. Turn them loose.
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Oh my god. Victor. Victor. I'm in class city. What's going on? I just lost all telemetry from lunar base. Look. There's been an explosion. Jerry, contact the Solaris and tell them to get to Lunar Base 12 as fast as they can. Starlight control to Solaris. Starlight control to Solaris. Sally, get hold of the ISA lab and tell them to stop their experiments with the statue until they hear from me. This is Solaris. Go ahead, Jerry. I'm on my way. I've got the Solaris,
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Mara.
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We're coming up on it now, Mara. Have you had any radio contact with No. Not a word. Even the microwave safety beacon has stopped transmitting. Skipper. Screen five.
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My god. What happened? John, buddy. What is it? What do you see? Mara,
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lunar base twelve no longer exists. What do you mean? It's been blown to pieces, completely leveled, the entire base.
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Skipper, screen six.
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Buddy, what is it? What's happening?
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A ship just above the horizon. It's moving away from us. Magnify it, buddy. Looks something like an old tarantula class gunship, except it's about five times bigger. Jerry, record this. We're rolling. It's black. Stacked wings angled down about 60 degrees. Yellow markings that look like Cyrillic script, only upside down. Jeez, Skipper. What do you make of
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that? Keep talking, buddy.
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These short black spikes are starting to bristle out all over the hull. Skipper. It's turning around. Mara, stand by. We're going in for a closer look at that ship.
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Open a close proximity channel, buddy. Let's see if they'll talk to us.
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You're on, Skipper. This is Earthship Solaris. Please identify yourself. Skipper, let's get some altitude before their aim improves. This is Earthship Solaris. Our intentions are not hostile. Please? Alright. I'll try one more time, but that is it. You better let me do it, Skipper. Every time you talk to them, they shoot at us. Solaris,
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there is still time. Time for what? Escape. From what? Ask your dead brothers and sisters on the wasteland below us. Damn you. You did that?
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You murdered all those people? But why? They were committing sacrilege. Just who the who are you?
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Disciples. Of what? Lightlessness.
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I've had about all of this I can take. Hold on, buddy. Skipper, lightning is pouring out of those spikes and crawling all over the hull of their ship. Activate the rest of the laser turrets, buddy. We're going around again. I didn't I didn't even phase him, Skipper. That lightning soaked up our lasers like a sponge. We're hit. Flame out of number four thruster. There goes number two. The starboard fuel pods are split open. Skipper, if we don't get out of here now, we'll have to set her down on the moon. I don't wanna leave that ship to StarLab. Solas,
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we are aware of the thing you name. Don't concern yourself with its safety. It is one of our destinations.
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Come on, Skipper. It's now or never. Use Docking Bay 4, John. The crash barriers are up and the fire control crew is standing by. John, where's that ship? Right behind us. Turn your seat around, buddy. Here we go.
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John? Buddy, are you alright? We're okay.
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Come on, buddy. Let's get out
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of here. Mara, the alien ship. Screen 10.
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Listen to me, StarLab.
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Who are you? I am Starcaus,
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high priest of the Drell. You have stolen the symbol of our redemption.
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The symbol? The statue?
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Narl is his rightful name. We have traced him to your moon. We know his presence has graced the machine you live in. Where is he? I don't know. Then take your last look at the stars.
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The trail, a race of bloodless shadow beings searching for their symbol of redemption. An icon of lightless crystal representing the dark god, Nal. An ancient demon creature creeping through the starless dimensions of alien worlds. Part one of the ISA conspiracy, The Dark Bringers, was written by Ron Thompson. Our cast included Linda Gary, Chuck Olsen, Bruce Miller, and Corey Burton. With special guest stars, Byron Cain, Charles McGraw, Molly Dodd, and Ernie Anderson. Associate producer, Jeff Allen. Music director, Tom Rounds.
Engineer, Stu Jacobs. Assistant to the producer, Roger Brosi. Alien Worlds was created, produced, and directed by Lee Hansen, and is distributed by Watermark Incorporated. And so until next week, this is Roger Dressler inviting you to join us for part two of the ISA conspiracy on Alien Worlds.
