In this thrilling episode of Alien Worlds, we continue the gripping saga of the ISA conspiracy. The story unfolds with the discovery of an ancient alien spacecraft on the moon, revealing mummified extraterrestrial bodies and a mysterious black crystal statue. Professor Victor Conrad and his team transport the statue to Lunar Base 12, but a series of catastrophic events ensue, including a shuttle accident and the destruction of the base. As tensions rise, the crew at StarLab faces a confrontation with the alien Trell ship, led by Stygos, who demands the return of the statue, known as Gnarl.
Amidst the chaos, a new player enters the scene—the Deontons, inhabitants of the star city Imbria, who offer aid to the beleaguered StarLab crew. As the episode progresses, the team must navigate complex interstellar politics, the threat of alien forces, and the ethical dilemmas posed by the powerful statue. With the fate of many hanging in the balance, the episode sets the stage for an epic conclusion in the next installment, "The Light Storm."
(00:19) Discovery on the Moon
(01:20) The Mysterious Statue
(02:07) Shuttle Incident and Investigation
(03:04) Lunar Base Explosion
(04:18) Confrontation with Stygos
(08:14) Mara's Blindness and the Alien Threat
(12:49) The Floating City of Imbria
(17:34) Journey to Imbria
(19:15) Debate Over the Statue
(22:57) Race to StarLab
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High above the windy blue skies of Earth, slowly rotating at the edge of deep space, is the Arthur c. Clark Astronomical Observatory STARLab. Last week's episode began on Earth's moon, a quarter of a million miles beyond STARLab, when Omega General Industries uncovered the corroded hull of an ancient alien spacecraft during a lunar mining operation. Carefully widening the excavation, the moon miners find the mummified bodies of 50 extraterrestrial humanoids, scattered in grotesque positions around a four foot high statue made of glittering black crystal.
Two hours later, Professor Victor Conrad and his research team arrive to investigate. Conrad takes the statue to the Science complex at Lunar Base 12. 20 4 Hours later, he contacts doctor Maura Cassidy on StarLab.
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Maura, has the schedule arrived yet?
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It'll be here in about a half an hour. We heard from the shuttle a few minutes ago.
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How is it being transported to
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Earth? We've got an SCT cruiser standing by.
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Well, tell them to be careful that, Laura. When we ran the thermal tests, it started to emit an ultraviolet glow that had all of us hallucinating. For a few minutes there, we thought this statue was coming alive. They finally sealed it in a small liquid oxygen belt. As long as it's tipped cold, it's completely inert.
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But ten minutes later, the shuttle carrying the statue is penetrated by a tiny meteorite that splits open the statue's pod. And when the shuttle copilot goes to Cargo Bay 4 when the shuttle arrives at StarLab, the shuttle arrives at StarLab, the copilot is found hanging upside down from a stolech rafter, dead. And the statue is found outside its shattered pod, staring up at the copilot's contorted body.
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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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The next morning, Conrad and his research team resume their experiments with the statue samples they've kept at Lunar Base 12. But as Mora sits in star lab control, monitoring the interior of Conrad's moon laboratory by remote visual link.
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Martin Cassidy, 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.
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John, buddy, what is what do you see?
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Mara, lunar base twelve no longer exists. What do you mean? It's been blown to pieces, completely leveled. Skipper, screen six.
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Buddy, what is it? What's happening?
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A ship just above the horizon.
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Where is it?
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Its starboard fuel part split open and two of its thrusters damaged by laser fire from the alien ship. The Solaris banks away from the moon and makes an emergency landing on StarLab. A few moments later
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Mara, the alien ship. Screen 10.
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Listen to me, StarLab. I am Stygos, high priest of the Trell. You have stolen the symbol of our redemption.
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The symbol?
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The statue?
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Gnarl is his rightful name. We have traced him to your moon. We know his presence
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Star Labs' confrontation with the trail ship continues as part two of the ISA conspiracy, the Diatons, takes us deeper into the mystery of the dark god, Mal, an ancient demon creature from the starless dimensions of the alien worlds.
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Spycos, wait. Please wait. I know where he is. But if you destroy us, you'll never find him because I'm the only one who does know. The secret of Nars whereoflows
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is not yours to keep.
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And the lives of the 200 men and women at Lunar Base 12 were not yours to take. They were violating the sanctity of Nar
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by subjecting the fragments of his being to the light.
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But they didn't know they were doing anything wrong.
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Narm is not a merciful divinity in the sense that you understand mercy. Neither is he killing in the sense that you understand forgiveness.
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But there's nothing about innocence to forgive.
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Where is he?
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I don't know.
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Suffer the darkness, Hunter, you do.
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Kill him. Mara.
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Mara.
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Mara, what the heck? Is that what happening to her?
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Don't touch her. Don't touch her.
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What? Which one? Which button? Sector 4, buddy.
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The yellow one. Monarch. Monarch. Don't drop off. Just lie still. This is medical force. Stay where you are. An emergency unit is on the way. Jury, your hands. Are you alright? I I guess so. What happened? Well, she was watching the screen, talking to the alien, and then the screen threw off a tremendous burst of color. Then the lightning was all over her. It was so cold, it burned my hands. John. John. I'm right here, Mara, and so is Buddy. Doctor Rossiter is on her way.
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John. John, I'm lying.
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Sightless, visionless, unseen, Mora's eyes eclipsed by a light hearing intruder from an alien world. Alien Worlds continues. A burst of color erupts from a visual scanner screen in star lab control. Filaments of subzero lightning lash out and curl around Mara, freezing her in a painful web of cold crawling electricity. A web Stygos has somehow spun from his ship, which lurks near StarLab like a huge dark spider. When the lashing ribbons of lightning finally release her, Mora falls blind.
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Your blindness is just a warning, Mora. How long it lasts depends upon how soon you tell me where Gnarl is. Shut down all the transmitter frequencies, Jerry.
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Now run a check on Screen Ten's receiver circuits. Whatever they use must have come in through the outside lens. Okay. What are you going to do, Mora?
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They find out where the statue is. God knows how many more people they'll kill. I can't tell them. I just can't. Are you sure? Yes.
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No.
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I don't know. Why does everything depend on me? Can't anyone else make a decision?
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John, the receiver circuits on Screen 10 are completely burned out. Okay. I shut the louvers and all the outside scanner lenses. They're closed. Oh, doctor Rossiter. Am I ever glad to see you? Oh, Diana. Mara, what happened?
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I've been blinded.
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Oh, my dear god. There's a hostile alien ship outside. It fired some kind of energy beam in through one of the scanner screen lenses. Alright, Mara.
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Now let's have a look. I'm shining the light directly into your eyes. Can you see it? No. But I think I can feel it. I'm taking the light away. Now I'm shining it into your eyes again.
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Yes.
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Yes. I can feel it. Let's get her on the stretcher and take her up to Sick Bay. Take her for a second. Okay. Jerry, you better have doctor Rossiter take a look at your hands. No. I'm okay now. What do we do now, Mora?
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Tell Stygos you know where the statue is, but explain that it's going to take time to get it back here. If that doesn't work, use our photon injectors on a ship. Maybe they'll be able to do with the laser cannons and the Solaris couldn't. I'll contact commissioner White and tell him what's going on. Oh, come on, Diana. Communications first and then sit back.
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Sound general quarter, Jerry. Okay. Open a close proximity frequency. Let's see how good we are at telling the big lie. Stygos, this is captain Graydon.
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Have you made a decision?
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Yes. We've decided to give you the statue.
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Our sensors indicate that Narl is no longer aboard your machine.
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No, he isn't, but we've contacted the laboratory where he was taken and our scientists are sending him back.
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You're lying, Captain Braden. We've monitored no transmissions.
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Close the channel, Jerry. Now open number eight scanner lens and project a target grid onto the screen. Alright. Interface the coordinates of their ship with our photon injectors. We have a target interlocked. Stand by. For God's sakes, keep away from the screen. Four, three, two, one. No good. No good. The force field is deflecting everything. The ship's coming around. Around. Jerry, shut down screen. Too late. There. Buddy, hit the deck. Claw away from the lightning. It stopped. What happened? Jerry, let's see what's going on. Skipper, the ship's moving away from us. Buddy, look.
What is it? Magnify it, Jerry. My God. It's a city. A floating city.
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As the black metal insect ship of the trail stalks away into the dark distances of deep space, a huge floating platform appears and slowly moves towards StarLab. On the platform, a dazzling architectural phantasm. A green city of white crystal towers, transparent steel minarets, gleaming arches, and pale metal domes. As John, Buddy, and Jerry stand silently in Starlab control, watching the approach of the shining, mirage like metropolis, Mora tries desperately to contact commissioner White at the ISA command center on Earth.
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I'm sorry, doctor Cassidy, but it's a top security conference. Commissioner White left strict orders that he wasn't to be disturbed. Listen, you. We've got an emergency situation up here. I'm only following orders. Yeah. Right. That's what they all said. Now, Mora, if you don't change a tune, I'm going to be forced to stick stick a tranquilizer syringe in your backside.
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ISA, please have him contact me as soon as possible.
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I will, doctor Gazzetti. ISA out.
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If I could only see.
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More, we haven't even examined you yet. And already you're acting like a poor little orphan child who's got herself lost in the woods. I am. Yes. You am. Don't start feeling sorry for yourself now.
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We have too much to do. Attention all Starlight personnel. The emergency alert is terminated. Stand down from general quarters and return to your stations. Doctor Cassidy, please contact captain Graden and Starlight control.
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John, it's Mara. What's happening?
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The troll ship has broken off its attack and left the area. What did you do to get him to back off? It wasn't anything we did. It was something else. What? A city.
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A what?
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A floating city.
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Are you serious?
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Mora is serious. It's holding a position two kilometers off StarLab. A huge space platform with a fantastic white city built on it. It looks like something out of of futuristic Arabian nights. I'll
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be right there. Come on, Diana. Take me back up to the bridge. John, is it still out there? Has moved an inch.
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Oh, Mara. You're so beautiful.
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Are you here, Jerry? I'm right here. Please open a close proximity frequency.
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Go ahead, Mara.
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This is doctor Mara Cassidy. Would you please identify yourself?
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Doctor Mara Cassidy which of those three names do you have the greatest affection for more we are the deontons Mora, and we inhabit the star city of Imbria. I am Phaedra, sky priestess of the before time. We know your machine has experienced an encounter with the trail. Did Stygos harm you? Yes. Yes, he did. I'm blind. Can you feel the light on your eyes? Why, yes. Yes. I can. Then it will be my pleasure to restore your sight. It will? Of course. We have no vehicles of our own, so transport yourself yes. Jerry,
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Jerry, call the short range vehicle hangar and tell them to get a shuttle ready. John, buddy, Diana, let's go to Embrya.
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Embrya, a fantasy of gleaming crystal and bright transparent metal, a construct of light and serenity and magic. A floating star city casting its radiance over all who grope their way along the blind corridors of alien worlds. Alien worlds continues. Inside the white crystal city of Embraer, which floats two kilometers beyond STARLab, Phaedra kneels in her meditation chamber listening to a sky mantra, the diyatan healing music she will use to restore Mara's sight. On StarLab, Mora, John, Buddy, and doctor Diana Rossiter enter the short range vehicle hangar and move toward the shuttle that will take them to Embraer.
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How's it going, Bobby? Might as well get aboard, John. We'll have her fueled in another ten minutes.
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Aboard the Black Trail insect ship, Stygos, alone in his quarters, receives a message from his tracking systems officer.
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Stygos, what do you want? As our ship withdrew from StarLab, we monitored laboratory is our new destination.
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Meanwhile, at the ISA laboratory, commissioner White and Julian Benedict, head of the World Council's experimental weapon section, are debating over which of the two organizations should have possession of the black crystal statue, Nahl.
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Matthew, if we can take the energy that statue puts out and incorporate it into some of our experimental thought weapon hardware, we'll be years ahead of everyone else in that area. Don't you see the advantage of that?
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No, Julian. I don't. This is a science complex and not an arsenal.
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Matthew, weapons development is as much a part of science as molecular biology or celestial mechanics.
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Is it? When was the last time you heard of someone being killed by a microscope or a mathematical equation?
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The bomb started out as a mathematical equation, didn't it? Yes. And so did triple yield agriculture
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and antibiotics and space flight. The bomb was created within the reality of a global war, Julian. That reality no longer exists. And I see no reason to encourage its return. The last thing we need is a repetition of the arms race of the sixties, seventies, and eighties. Didn't the petroleum war teach you anything? That had nothing to do with us. It had everything to do with us, Julian, and you know it. I want that statue. Julian, do you believe in the evolution of human consciousness? Of course, I do. What about immortality? Do you believe in that?
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Yes. I suppose so.
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Then would you mind telling me of what use weapons are to evolution and of what use war is to immortality?
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I didn't come here to discuss abstract philosophy.
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The statue stays here, Julian.
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Do you know what this is, Matthew?
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I haven't the slightest idea.
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It's a world council directive signed by the secretary, ordering you to release the statue to my section.
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Julian, we both know your section is being phased out. Why are you going through all this? It won't be phased out for another year.
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But if I can help it, it won't be phased out at all. After all, what if the statue should fall into the wrong hands? What would be our defense against it?
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Can I see that directive? Thanks. You'll have to excuse me now, Julian. I have things to do. And stay away from my people. I've already given them orders not to cooperate with you. As far as you're concerned, I'm the ISA, and this is between us.
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What is this, Matthew? Some kind of conspiracy? Yes. It is, Julian.
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A conspiracy of my values against yours.
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Everyone strapped in? Wait a minute, buddy. Laura, shouldn't that strap go over instead of under? What strap? The one you're sitting on. Oh, I was wondering what that was.
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That yes. Thanks, Diane.
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Okay, buddy. Let's run it down. Navigation and thrust vector systems. Check. Attitude gyros. Locked. Service propulsion and reaction control systems.
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Positive. Enter white
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Thanks, Jerry. Punch him in, buddy. Mara, I just got your message. What's going on up there? More than I ever thought possible. How soon can you get here?
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Well, it all depends. Does it have anything to do with the statue?
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It has everything to do with the statue.
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Alright. I'll leave right away.
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Now where were we?
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Ignition, Skipper. Don't mind if I do.
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As John, Buddy, Mora, and Doctor. Rossiter jet toward the Deaton Star City Embria, Commissioner White enters the short range vehicle dome near the ISA laboratory and boards a priority shuttle. Five minutes later, the shuttle is towed from the dome to Launch Pad 6. Then, as the setting sun slowly erases the day, the shuttle lifts off and disappears into the darkening sky, racing towards StarLab, untwamed streams of fire. Meanwhile, five fifty kilometers above and 400 kilometers south of the ISA laboratory, the black trail insect ship enters the Earth's ionosphere.
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We are approaching the laboratory,
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Stegos. Have precautions been taken? Our impulse deflectors will confuse
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me now. I sense that you are restless now, but be patient. The disciples are near. A deliverance is at hand.
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Part two of the ISA conspiracy, the Deutons, was written by Ron Thompson. Our cast included Linda Gary, Chuck Olsen, Bruce Miller, and Corey Burton. With special guest stars, Russi Taylor, Michael Rye, Francis Bay, Robert w Morgan, 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, inviting you to join us for the light storm, the conclusion of the ISA conspiracy on Alien Worlds.
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High above the windy blue skies of Earth, slowly rotating at the edge of deep space, is the Arthur c. Clark Astronomical Observatory STARLab. Last week's episode began on Earth's moon, a quarter of a million miles beyond STARLab, when Omega General Industries uncovered the corroded hull of an ancient alien spacecraft during a lunar mining operation. Carefully widening the excavation, the moon miners find the mummified bodies of 50 extraterrestrial humanoids, scattered in grotesque positions around a four foot high statue made of glittering black crystal.
Two hours later, Professor Victor Conrad and his research team arrive to investigate. Conrad takes the statue to the Science complex at Lunar Base 12. 20 4 Hours later, he contacts doctor Maura Cassidy on StarLab.
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Maura, has the schedule arrived yet?
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It'll be here in about a half an hour. We heard from the shuttle a few minutes ago.
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How is it being transported to
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Earth? We've got an SCT cruiser standing by.
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Well, tell them to be careful that, Laura. When we ran the thermal tests, it started to emit an ultraviolet glow that had all of us hallucinating. For a few minutes there, we thought this statue was coming alive. They finally sealed it in a small liquid oxygen belt. As long as it's tipped cold, it's completely inert.
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But ten minutes later, the shuttle carrying the statue is penetrated by a tiny meteorite that splits open the statue's pod. And when the shuttle copilot goes to Cargo Bay 4 when the shuttle arrives at StarLab, the shuttle arrives at StarLab, the copilot is found hanging upside down from a stolech rafter, dead. And the statue is found outside its shattered pod, staring up at the copilot's contorted body.
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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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The next morning, Conrad and his research team resume their experiments with the statue samples they've kept at Lunar Base 12. But as Mora sits in star lab control, monitoring the interior of Conrad's moon laboratory by remote visual link.
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Martin Cassidy, 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.
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John, buddy, what is what do you see?
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Mara, lunar base twelve no longer exists. What do you mean? It's been blown to pieces, completely leveled. Skipper, screen six.
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Buddy, what is it? What's happening?
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A ship just above the horizon.
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Where is it?
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Its starboard fuel part split open and two of its thrusters damaged by laser fire from the alien ship. The Solaris banks away from the moon and makes an emergency landing on StarLab. A few moments later
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Mara, the alien ship. Screen 10.
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Listen to me, StarLab. I am Stygos, high priest of the Trell. You have stolen the symbol of our redemption.
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The symbol?
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The statue?
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Gnarl is his rightful name. We have traced him to your moon. We know his presence
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Star Labs' confrontation with the trail ship continues as part two of the ISA conspiracy, the Diatons, takes us deeper into the mystery of the dark god, Mal, an ancient demon creature from the starless dimensions of the alien worlds.
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Spycos, wait. Please wait. I know where he is. But if you destroy us, you'll never find him because I'm the only one who does know. The secret of Nars whereoflows
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is not yours to keep.
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And the lives of the 200 men and women at Lunar Base 12 were not yours to take. They were violating the sanctity of Nar
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by subjecting the fragments of his being to the light.
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But they didn't know they were doing anything wrong.
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Narm is not a merciful divinity in the sense that you understand mercy. Neither is he killing in the sense that you understand forgiveness.
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But there's nothing about innocence to forgive.
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Where is he?
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I don't know.
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Suffer the darkness, Hunter, you do.
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Kill him. Mara.
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Mara.
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Mara, what the heck? Is that what happening to her?
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Don't touch her. Don't touch her.
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What? Which one? Which button? Sector 4, buddy.
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The yellow one. Monarch. Monarch. Don't drop off. Just lie still. This is medical force. Stay where you are. An emergency unit is on the way. Jury, your hands. Are you alright? I I guess so. What happened? Well, she was watching the screen, talking to the alien, and then the screen threw off a tremendous burst of color. Then the lightning was all over her. It was so cold, it burned my hands. John. John. I'm right here, Mara, and so is Buddy. Doctor Rossiter is on her way.
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John. John, I'm lying.
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Sightless, visionless, unseen, Mora's eyes eclipsed by a light hearing intruder from an alien world. Alien Worlds continues. A burst of color erupts from a visual scanner screen in star lab control. Filaments of subzero lightning lash out and curl around Mara, freezing her in a painful web of cold crawling electricity. A web Stygos has somehow spun from his ship, which lurks near StarLab like a huge dark spider. When the lashing ribbons of lightning finally release her, Mora falls blind.
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Your blindness is just a warning, Mora. How long it lasts depends upon how soon you tell me where Gnarl is. Shut down all the transmitter frequencies, Jerry.
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Now run a check on Screen Ten's receiver circuits. Whatever they use must have come in through the outside lens. Okay. What are you going to do, Mora?
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They find out where the statue is. God knows how many more people they'll kill. I can't tell them. I just can't. Are you sure? Yes.
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No.
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I don't know. Why does everything depend on me? Can't anyone else make a decision?
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John, the receiver circuits on Screen 10 are completely burned out. Okay. I shut the louvers and all the outside scanner lenses. They're closed. Oh, doctor Rossiter. Am I ever glad to see you? Oh, Diana. Mara, what happened?
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I've been blinded.
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Oh, my dear god. There's a hostile alien ship outside. It fired some kind of energy beam in through one of the scanner screen lenses. Alright, Mara.
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Now let's have a look. I'm shining the light directly into your eyes. Can you see it? No. But I think I can feel it. I'm taking the light away. Now I'm shining it into your eyes again.
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Yes.
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Yes. I can feel it. Let's get her on the stretcher and take her up to Sick Bay. Take her for a second. Okay. Jerry, you better have doctor Rossiter take a look at your hands. No. I'm okay now. What do we do now, Mora?
[00:10:33] Unknown:
Tell Stygos you know where the statue is, but explain that it's going to take time to get it back here. If that doesn't work, use our photon injectors on a ship. Maybe they'll be able to do with the laser cannons and the Solaris couldn't. I'll contact commissioner White and tell him what's going on. Oh, come on, Diana. Communications first and then sit back.
[00:10:56] Unknown:
Sound general quarter, Jerry. Okay. Open a close proximity frequency. Let's see how good we are at telling the big lie. Stygos, this is captain Graydon.
[00:11:11] Unknown:
Have you made a decision?
[00:11:14] Unknown:
Yes. We've decided to give you the statue.
[00:11:16] Unknown:
Our sensors indicate that Narl is no longer aboard your machine.
[00:11:22] Unknown:
No, he isn't, but we've contacted the laboratory where he was taken and our scientists are sending him back.
[00:11:28] Unknown:
You're lying, Captain Braden. We've monitored no transmissions.
[00:11:35] Unknown:
Close the channel, Jerry. Now open number eight scanner lens and project a target grid onto the screen. Alright. Interface the coordinates of their ship with our photon injectors. We have a target interlocked. Stand by. For God's sakes, keep away from the screen. Four, three, two, one. No good. No good. The force field is deflecting everything. The ship's coming around. Around. Jerry, shut down screen. Too late. There. Buddy, hit the deck. Claw away from the lightning. It stopped. What happened? Jerry, let's see what's going on. Skipper, the ship's moving away from us. Buddy, look.
What is it? Magnify it, Jerry. My God. It's a city. A floating city.
[00:12:49] Unknown:
As the black metal insect ship of the trail stalks away into the dark distances of deep space, a huge floating platform appears and slowly moves towards StarLab. On the platform, a dazzling architectural phantasm. A green city of white crystal towers, transparent steel minarets, gleaming arches, and pale metal domes. As John, Buddy, and Jerry stand silently in Starlab control, watching the approach of the shining, mirage like metropolis, Mora tries desperately to contact commissioner White at the ISA command center on Earth.
[00:13:35] Unknown:
I'm sorry, doctor Cassidy, but it's a top security conference. Commissioner White left strict orders that he wasn't to be disturbed. Listen, you. We've got an emergency situation up here. I'm only following orders. Yeah. Right. That's what they all said. Now, Mora, if you don't change a tune, I'm going to be forced to stick stick a tranquilizer syringe in your backside.
[00:13:53] Unknown:
ISA, please have him contact me as soon as possible.
[00:13:56] Unknown:
I will, doctor Gazzetti. ISA out.
[00:14:00] Unknown:
If I could only see.
[00:14:03] Unknown:
More, we haven't even examined you yet. And already you're acting like a poor little orphan child who's got herself lost in the woods. I am. Yes. You am. Don't start feeling sorry for yourself now.
[00:14:17] Unknown:
We have too much to do. Attention all Starlight personnel. The emergency alert is terminated. Stand down from general quarters and return to your stations. Doctor Cassidy, please contact captain Graden and Starlight control.
[00:14:30] Unknown:
John, it's Mara. What's happening?
[00:14:33] Unknown:
The troll ship has broken off its attack and left the area. What did you do to get him to back off? It wasn't anything we did. It was something else. What? A city.
[00:14:43] Unknown:
A what?
[00:14:44] Unknown:
A floating city.
[00:14:46] Unknown:
Are you serious?
[00:14:48] Unknown:
Mora is serious. It's holding a position two kilometers off StarLab. A huge space platform with a fantastic white city built on it. It looks like something out of of futuristic Arabian nights. I'll
[00:15:01] Unknown:
be right there. Come on, Diana. Take me back up to the bridge. John, is it still out there? Has moved an inch.
[00:15:17] Unknown:
Oh, Mara. You're so beautiful.
[00:15:22] Unknown:
Are you here, Jerry? I'm right here. Please open a close proximity frequency.
[00:15:28] Unknown:
Go ahead, Mara.
[00:15:30] Unknown:
This is doctor Mara Cassidy. Would you please identify yourself?
[00:15:37] Unknown:
Doctor Mara Cassidy which of those three names do you have the greatest affection for more we are the deontons Mora, and we inhabit the star city of Imbria. I am Phaedra, sky priestess of the before time. We know your machine has experienced an encounter with the trail. Did Stygos harm you? Yes. Yes, he did. I'm blind. Can you feel the light on your eyes? Why, yes. Yes. I can. Then it will be my pleasure to restore your sight. It will? Of course. We have no vehicles of our own, so transport yourself yes. Jerry,
[00:16:49] Unknown:
Jerry, call the short range vehicle hangar and tell them to get a shuttle ready. John, buddy, Diana, let's go to Embrya.
[00:17:02] Unknown:
Embrya, a fantasy of gleaming crystal and bright transparent metal, a construct of light and serenity and magic. A floating star city casting its radiance over all who grope their way along the blind corridors of alien worlds. Alien worlds continues. Inside the white crystal city of Embraer, which floats two kilometers beyond STARLab, Phaedra kneels in her meditation chamber listening to a sky mantra, the diyatan healing music she will use to restore Mara's sight. On StarLab, Mora, John, Buddy, and doctor Diana Rossiter enter the short range vehicle hangar and move toward the shuttle that will take them to Embraer.
[00:18:14] Unknown:
How's it going, Bobby? Might as well get aboard, John. We'll have her fueled in another ten minutes.
[00:18:22] Unknown:
Aboard the Black Trail insect ship, Stygos, alone in his quarters, receives a message from his tracking systems officer.
[00:18:32] Unknown:
Stygos, what do you want? As our ship withdrew from StarLab, we monitored laboratory is our new destination.
[00:18:57] Unknown:
Meanwhile, at the ISA laboratory, commissioner White and Julian Benedict, head of the World Council's experimental weapon section, are debating over which of the two organizations should have possession of the black crystal statue, Nahl.
[00:19:15] Unknown:
Matthew, if we can take the energy that statue puts out and incorporate it into some of our experimental thought weapon hardware, we'll be years ahead of everyone else in that area. Don't you see the advantage of that?
[00:19:28] Unknown:
No, Julian. I don't. This is a science complex and not an arsenal.
[00:19:33] Unknown:
Matthew, weapons development is as much a part of science as molecular biology or celestial mechanics.
[00:19:40] Unknown:
Is it? When was the last time you heard of someone being killed by a microscope or a mathematical equation?
[00:19:46] Unknown:
The bomb started out as a mathematical equation, didn't it? Yes. And so did triple yield agriculture
[00:19:52] Unknown:
and antibiotics and space flight. The bomb was created within the reality of a global war, Julian. That reality no longer exists. And I see no reason to encourage its return. The last thing we need is a repetition of the arms race of the sixties, seventies, and eighties. Didn't the petroleum war teach you anything? That had nothing to do with us. It had everything to do with us, Julian, and you know it. I want that statue. Julian, do you believe in the evolution of human consciousness? Of course, I do. What about immortality? Do you believe in that?
[00:20:29] Unknown:
Yes. I suppose so.
[00:20:32] Unknown:
Then would you mind telling me of what use weapons are to evolution and of what use war is to immortality?
[00:20:38] Unknown:
I didn't come here to discuss abstract philosophy.
[00:20:42] Unknown:
The statue stays here, Julian.
[00:20:49] Unknown:
Do you know what this is, Matthew?
[00:20:51] Unknown:
I haven't the slightest idea.
[00:20:53] Unknown:
It's a world council directive signed by the secretary, ordering you to release the statue to my section.
[00:21:00] Unknown:
Julian, we both know your section is being phased out. Why are you going through all this? It won't be phased out for another year.
[00:21:08] Unknown:
But if I can help it, it won't be phased out at all. After all, what if the statue should fall into the wrong hands? What would be our defense against it?
[00:21:17] Unknown:
Can I see that directive? Thanks. You'll have to excuse me now, Julian. I have things to do. And stay away from my people. I've already given them orders not to cooperate with you. As far as you're concerned, I'm the ISA, and this is between us.
[00:21:38] Unknown:
What is this, Matthew? Some kind of conspiracy? Yes. It is, Julian.
[00:21:45] Unknown:
A conspiracy of my values against yours.
[00:21:53] Unknown:
Everyone strapped in? Wait a minute, buddy. Laura, shouldn't that strap go over instead of under? What strap? The one you're sitting on. Oh, I was wondering what that was.
[00:22:05] Unknown:
That yes. Thanks, Diane.
[00:22:08] Unknown:
Okay, buddy. Let's run it down. Navigation and thrust vector systems. Check. Attitude gyros. Locked. Service propulsion and reaction control systems.
[00:22:22] Unknown:
Positive. Enter white
[00:22:26] Unknown:
Thanks, Jerry. Punch him in, buddy. Mara, I just got your message. What's going on up there? More than I ever thought possible. How soon can you get here?
[00:22:38] Unknown:
Well, it all depends. Does it have anything to do with the statue?
[00:22:42] Unknown:
It has everything to do with the statue.
[00:22:45] Unknown:
Alright. I'll leave right away.
[00:22:47] Unknown:
Now where were we?
[00:22:49] Unknown:
Ignition, Skipper. Don't mind if I do.
[00:22:58] Unknown:
As John, Buddy, Mora, and Doctor. Rossiter jet toward the Deaton Star City Embria, Commissioner White enters the short range vehicle dome near the ISA laboratory and boards a priority shuttle. Five minutes later, the shuttle is towed from the dome to Launch Pad 6. Then, as the setting sun slowly erases the day, the shuttle lifts off and disappears into the darkening sky, racing towards StarLab, untwamed streams of fire. Meanwhile, five fifty kilometers above and 400 kilometers south of the ISA laboratory, the black trail insect ship enters the Earth's ionosphere.
[00:23:51] Unknown:
We are approaching the laboratory,
[00:23:53] Unknown:
Stegos. Have precautions been taken? Our impulse deflectors will confuse
[00:24:08] Unknown:
me now. I sense that you are restless now, but be patient. The disciples are near. A deliverance is at hand.
[00:24:40] Unknown:
Part two of the ISA conspiracy, the Deutons, was written by Ron Thompson. Our cast included Linda Gary, Chuck Olsen, Bruce Miller, and Corey Burton. With special guest stars, Russi Taylor, Michael Rye, Francis Bay, Robert w Morgan, 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, inviting you to join us for the light storm, the conclusion of the ISA conspiracy on Alien Worlds.
Discovery on the Moon
The Mysterious Statue
Shuttle Incident and Investigation
Lunar Base Explosion
Confrontation with Stygos
Mara's Blindness and the Alien Threat
The Floating City of Imbria
Journey to Imbria
Debate Over the Statue
Race to StarLab
