In this thrilling episode of Alien Worlds, we journey to the Arthur C. Clark Astronomical Observatory, STARLab, where a dangerous hydrogen plasma experiment leads to a catastrophic explosion, claiming the life of Dr. Paul Kramer. As the mysterious bat-winged alien vessel looms above, captains John Graden and Buddy Griff race to investigate the incident aboard the Solaris. The discovery of a life form within the plasma chamber sets off a chain of events that reveal a Draconian armada's plan to siphon Earth's hydrogen, threatening global catastrophe.
Guided by Echo, the enigmatic Keeper of Eight, our heroes undergo a metamorphic transformation to survive aboard the Draconian vampire ship. As they confront the Draconian leaders, Warp and Vina, they must navigate the complexities of intergalactic diplomacy to prevent a war and secure Earth's safety. With the fate of two worlds hanging in the balance, this episode explores themes of survival, cooperation, and the power of unity against the backdrop of cosmic intrigue.
(00:39) Introduction to STARLab and the Experiment
(01:47) The Anubis Tragedy and Alien Encounter
(03:39) Mora's Mysterious Rescue and Echo's Warning
(05:02) Investigating the Alien Vessel
(08:32) Echo's Transformation and Mission
(14:28) Negotiations with the Draconians
(19:01) The Battle and Diplomatic Resolution
(23:10) Echo's Wisdom and Conclusion
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High above Earth's windy skies slowly rotating through the silent voids of space, is the Arthur C. Clark Astronomical Observatory, STARLab. Fifteen hundred kilometers beyond STARLab, two drone laboratory pods float in a safety orbit. Aboard the Anubis, doctor Paul Kramer is conducting a dangerous hydrogen plasma experiment. Aboard the OSIRIS, STAR Lab research director Morat Cassidy, monitors the experiments data. As the experiment draws to a close, doctor Kramer contacts Mara.
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Mara, I'm reading a ship in the area zero five seven and closing. Yes. I see it.
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It's black. Shaved like a bat. Tremendous wingspan. It it's moving into a parking orbit directly above us. Something's coiling on one of those nose vents.
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The Anubis erupts in a fury of twisting light and shattered metal killing Doctor. Kramer instantly. News of the tragedy is flashed to captains John Graden and Buddy Griff at the nearby stargazer security station. The two pilots jet toward the area of the explosion aboard the new deep space interceptor Solaris. While the bat winged alien vessel moves into a parking orbit behind the moon.
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What quantity of hydrogen plasma was withdrawn from the Earth probe by our penetrator before the explosion. 2,000 fusion cubits?
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I wonder what the humanoid was doing with so vast a quantity of concentrated hydrogen.
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Meanwhile, John and Buddy have located the plasma chamber from the Anubis. And as John watches the life form scanner screen, Buddy takes the chamber into the ship's recovery bay with magnetic ground blows suddenly.
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Skipper get down here. The plasma chamber. There's a hole in it the size of my fist. And so help me God, I can hear someone breathing.
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John rushes to the Recovery Bay where he and Buddy frantically unsealed the huge plasma chamber with high speed pulse wrenches. Inside, they find Mora.
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Light on the round. Right. Blinding.
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Take it easy, Mora. You're safe now. Oh, safe.
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I'm safe
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inside. Buddy, we just took Mora out of a one ton plasma chamber, her medically sealed from the outside with no way in except through a six inch hole. Now how in the name of God did she get in there? John's question is answered two days later, when a shimmering pool of unearthly radiance appears to Mara, as she sits alone in her quarters. From within the pool, the timeless voice of Echo, the keeper of eight. The free energy beam from a lost parallel universe.
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The vampire ship that killed doctor Kramer is part of an armada for the braconian system to drive hundreds of hydrogen killed lasers. They need vast amounts of hydrogen to restabilize themselves, and they intend to take it from the Earth's oceans.
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Pure oxygen is one of the most explosive gases in the universe. The Earth would be saturated with it if they remove the hydrogen from our oceans. Echo, how can we stop them? Where's the armada? What are their weaknesses?
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I have to need your armada.
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As Mara discusses the strange appearance and disappearance of Echo with John and Buddy, An intercom message comes through from doctor Valerie Reed, head of STAR Labs plasma research unit.
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I don't think that Draconian ship is very far away. The element scanners are reading a first magnitude concentration of hydrogen somewhere behind the moon.
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That might be it. Well, there's only one way to find out.
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After boarding the Solaris, Mora, John, Buddy, and doctor Reed jet toward the moon to investigate the bat winged alien vessel. As part two of the Keeper of Eight takes us into the mysterious light and shadow of not one, but two alien
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worlds.
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Solaris to StarLab. StarLab. Go ahead, John. Our scanners have just locked onto the Draconian ship. It's hovering 50 kilometers above the Lucas Cooper Crater chain. THX coordinates 1138 at sub vector two zero zero one. We're locking in now. Thanks, Jerry. Solaris out.
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John, Valerie and I are getting a little edgy back here. Isn't there something we can do? How about a snack? Oh, buddy. How can you think of food at a time like this? It's easy. I'm hungry. Great. Great. Great. Great. Great. Great. Skipper,
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is there an echo in here? Mora? Incredible.
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What is it, buddy?
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Would you believe a mysterious pool of talking light? Echo? Hello, Mara.
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Hello, Valerie. We'll be there in a flash.
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You certainly will.
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Laura, Valerie.
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Echo, that was fantastic.
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Wow, what a rush. I'm glad you enjoyed.
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Echo, how do you get people from one place to another so fast? Laura does.
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She's been through the process before.
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Echo, Echo, I'm beginning to feel a little strange. So am I. Me too.
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What's going on? You're all about to enter a metamorphic coma. And when you return to consciousness, you'll discover that in addition to being oxygen breathers, you'll be right at home in a high altitude environment as well.
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Oh. But why?
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You'll see. Pleasant
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dreams. In The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Koloritz writes, Oh sleep, it is a gentle thing. Beloved from pole to pole. She sent the gentle sleep from heaven that slid into my soul. A poem from the distant past. Perfectly echoing the deep metamorphic future sleep that silently enfolds Mora, John, Buddy, and Valerie on the extraterrestrial frontier of an alien world. Alien Worlds continues. The Solaris rockets toward the dark side of the moon to investigate the draconian vampire ship. Eight minutes away from visual contact with the alien vessel, Echo, the keeper of eight, materializes and subjects Mara, John, Buddy, and doctor Valerie Reed to molecular transmutation.
A few moments later, they fall into a deep metamorphic coma that will radically alter their cellular pathology and body chemistry. A transcendental sleep from which they will awaken with the ability
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buddy. Buddy. How do you feel?
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Well, that's the best snooze I've ever had.
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Echo, why have you made it possible for us to breathe hydrogen? So you can survive aboard the draconian vampire ship. Oh, yeah?
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And me without my wooden stake.
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And me without my Christopher Lee outfit. Echo,
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what do you want us to do? The very thing you all want to do, go aboard their vessel and meet them face to face. Well, that sounds very dangerous. Had planned to withdraw all the hydrogen from the oceans of Earth. It's a final desperate attempt at survival. They're not an aggressive race. They only use their armada as a bluff toward hostile intruders. If their system were so divided by the reactionary pressures of civil war, Warp, Mosk, and Vina wouldn't be a Hypixel Sally.
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Warp, Mosk, and Vina?
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Who are they? Warp is head of the Draconian Coalition. Nosk is his subordinate preceptor. And Vina is magistrate of the Opposition Alliance. What can we do? Kill Morp and Mosk where they can find alternate sources of pure hydrogen. How How are we gonna do that? I know where the sources are, Mora. And I'll tell you where they are before you see war and loss. Well, wouldn't it be easier if you just told them yourself? Yes. It would. But if I did, Draconia and Earth would still be strangers to each other. You see, I arrange circumstances wherein strangers become twins.
Now how do you suppose they'll feel about Earthlings if you guarantee their survival for centuries to come? Are you sure we'll be safe? Buddy, you already are.
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Right. Right. We already are.
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I believe there's a call for you, John.
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Yeah.
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With your permission, my lord. My time is yours, Musk. The earth vessel is holding its position. Is it a fighting ship? Yes, my lord. Five binary laser turrets and an ancillary system of particle beam injectors. Then our destruction is a certainty. The Earthlings don't wish to engage us, my lord. They've asked permission to come aboard. For what reason? They claim to have information that will ensure the survival of Draconia. Without going to war? Yes, my Lord. Without going to war. What is your opinion, Musk? They know why we're here. They even know our names.
Those two facts alone lead me to believe they had a visitation from the Keeper. The Keeper wasn't always our enemy, Mosk. Yes, my Lord. Chaos. Desperation. Oh, this terrible civil war. We've gained more than we've forced, my Lord. Yes. But our methods. Why were we so blind and arrogant, Musk? We should have begun our search for alternate sources of hydrogen half a century ago. Yes. We should have listened to the keeper then. Perhaps the earthlings are giving us one final chance to listen now. Have them come aboard, Musk. Yes, my lord.
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They're certainly taking their time about it, aren't they? Take it easy, Valerie. Echo wouldn't have left us alone out here if it wasn't safe.
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Survive in your atmosphere.
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Firing the inertia rockets of the Solaris, John slowly guides the sleek white interceptor under the huge black draconian ship, and enters a docking bay illuminated with diffused violet light. As the shadow sentries stand silent, Mora, Buddy, John, and Valerie move into the airlock of the Solaris and prepare to enter the hydrogen strange atmosphere of an alien world. Alien Worlds continues. Mora, John, Buddy and Valerie have entered the draconian vampire ship. Their body chemistry temporarily altered by Echo, the keeper of eight. An alteration that allows them to breathe the hydrogen atmosphere of the huge batwing spacecraft.
During the two hours that have passed since they entered the alien vessel, Wark, head of the draconian coalition regime, has decided to reconsider his attack on Earth's hydrogen rich oceans. A decision based on a mysterious series of star charts Mora has given him.
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Forgive my skepticism, Mora. Are you absolutely certain these star charts are accurate? I'm positive,
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Warp.
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Well, we'll know soon enough. I didn't realize there were so many sources of hydrogen within our own galaxy. This planet here, it's uninhabited. Its atmosphere is hydrogen fewer, and it's only a fractional light year away from Laconia. With your permission, my lord. Yes, Blur. What is it? I've just received a report from our equatorial observatory. The three planets are there just as the star charts indicate. Thank you, Blur. Why didn't we notice them before?
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Well, to be perfectly honest, Warp, they weren't there before.
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You confuse me.
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The keeper of eight.
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So the creation of these planets
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is his work. He didn't create them, Warp. They already existed. He simply, borrowed them from the Turalyon system.
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With your permission, my lord. Contact the Armada. There will be no war with Terra or any other planet. We're going home. Oh, thank goodness. I'll tell you.
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Few moments later, Warp's message is flashed to the Draconian Armada as it enters Jupiter space. 200 multi atmosphere assault cruisers, 1,800 siege raiders, 600 defense penetrators, and 1,000 armed hydrogen tankers slowly break formation, turn 180 degrees, and regroup near Callisto, one of Jupiter's nine moons. The Armada's new course? Draconia, by way of the twilight meridian. Meanwhile, in the launch bay of Warp's command ship, Mara, John, Buddy, and Valerie prepare to board the Solaris for the return flight to StarLab.
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It's unfortunate that we're gonna have spent more time together, Mara. Now we'll have plenty of time together at the beginning of Terra's new solar year, Warp. I don't understand. Six months from now, an intergalactic congress will convene on StarLab. I'm going to arrange for Draconia to be represented.
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Thank you, Mara. I only hope Good luck. Mask. What's wrong? I communique from the Armada. As it was leaving Jupiter space, it passed a flight of opposition Alliance tankers and siege raiders. Fina is proceeding with the assault on Terra. Wasn't she told the Keeper has provided? She dismissed the information as a deceit tactic to prevent her from reaching Terra before we do.
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Then it looks like we're right back where we started.
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Buddy, where are you going? To use the radio in the Solaris. Somebody has to tell stargazer to scramble those interceptors. Oh, that's my boy.
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Timeless and crews, attention. This is a priority combat alert. Launch factor, red. Rendezvous with Solaris THX coordinates 1138
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sub vector 2001.
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As three squadrons of SET interceptors bank away from Stargazer and jet toward the dark side of the moon. John, body, and war aboard the Solaris. Blast out of the Draconian command ship's launch.
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The guidance thrusters on all our ships are located in outboard wing pods. By disabling any two pods on either wing, the ship will be unable to maneuver and will be forced to withdraw from combat.
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SED leader to Solaris, we have you inside over. Max, is that you?
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Inversed, John, what's happening? There's a flood of Draconian ships between Jupiter and Mars. Subvector coordinates zero four seven. Target grid, alpha nine or six. Attack pattern, omega blue. Now this is a non lethal engagement, Max. Direct your fire at their wing pods only.
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Roger, wing pods only. Okay.
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Let's go. Here they are, Skipper.
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No. Before you commence the attack, I'd like to try to reason with Vina. Open a close proximity channel, buddy.
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Okay, Warp. Go ahead.
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Vina, can you hear me? I hear you, Ward. The keeper has placed infinite sources of hydrogen in our galaxy. UPEK 84 warp.
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Veena, this is captain John Graydon, commander of Earth ship Solaris. Warp is telling you the truth.
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Have you formed an alliance with Warp, captain?
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Not just with Warp, with all Draconians.
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Warp doesn't represent all Draconians. I'm leading my ships to terror.
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Solaris to SCT leader, over. Go ahead, Solaris. Take Blue Squadron in over the tankers. Will do, John. Skip, we got a bogey at 02:00. Yellow Squadron, circle the perimeter of the tanker formation and watch for targets of opportunity. Roger, come. Red Squadron behind us two by two. Roger. Remember, wing pods only. Let's go.
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Alright, dive out of their blue four. I'll take the other pod. Bring it off, yellow niner. They're opening another gun forward to the tail. I'm ready to reach five. Let's go around again.
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Scope on it, Skip. How's it look, buddy? Hard to tell there's a lot of wing debris floating around out there.
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I hope Vina is now ready to listen to reason.
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Vox, have you a casualty report?
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There are no casualties, Veena. Neither death nor injury. It appears that the attack objective was to
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disable our ships, not take lives. I don't understand.
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You haven't understood for a long time, Vina. Echo. Vina. Vina. Vina. What ever am I going to do with you? You're such a fool. Am I? Yes. And the stubborn one at that. The Earth's slip attack wasn't counting on you to destroy you. Only you believe in armed force. And you're gonna say that you are right and war is wrong. War never determines who's right, Dana, only who's left. Now if you really care about the future of Viconia, you'll return to warp ship with Captain Rayton and stay here until you and Wark resolve your differences. I'll go echo butts. I'll echo butts about it, Tina.
Remember, those three items and planets are a gift. And once a keeper give us, the keeper can darn well
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and motive.
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You mean you've been trying to get these two together for fifty years? That's right, Mona.
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Half a century ago, I pulled to work that proconia's hydrogen will be totally depleted within thirty five solar years. He said that was more than enough time to find alternate hydrogen sources and went on to buy a business. Then I told Nina, who finally made it known to the entire planet, but she turned around and used it as a political dish to agitate against war. How many times over the past fifty years have you tried to bring them together? I lost Katra, which for me isn't easy. I finally left them alone to learn their lessons the hard way. But when they decided to extend their foolishness to terror, I came out of retirement.
I'm glad it's over, Echo. Yes. Thank you for returning us to ourselves.
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Echo, there's something I've been meaning to ask you. Why are you called the keeper of eight?
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What, buddy? Don't you know what you get when you lay the figure eight on its side?
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Infinity. The symbol for
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infinity. In it. In it. In it. In it. In it. I live inside eternal mist
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where children dream and lips are kissed And one your ancient starlet shows that lead through misty midnight doors. I tinker with time. I toy with space. I changed the shape of water and space. Now you know why the keeper of eight has a name that rhymes with fate.
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The Keeper of Eight was written by Ron Thompson and starred Linda Gary, Chuck Olsen, Bruce Miller and Corey Burton. With special guest stars Peter Leeds, Loreen Tuttle, Janet Waldo, Joe Mascolo, Pete Renaday, and Ellie Tompkins. Special voice parts by Renee Faryar, Barbara and Tom Rounds, Nikki Wine, and Scott Payton. Associate producer, Jeff Allen. Music director Tom Rounds. Our engineer was Stu Jacobs. Technical consultant Peter Sky. Vocoder by Kai Krause. Alien Worlds was created, produced and directed by Lee Hanson and is distributed by Watermark Incorporated.
And so until next week, this is Roger Dressler inviting you to join us for another adventure on Alien Worlds.
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High above Earth's windy skies slowly rotating through the silent voids of space, is the Arthur C. Clark Astronomical Observatory, STARLab. Fifteen hundred kilometers beyond STARLab, two drone laboratory pods float in a safety orbit. Aboard the Anubis, doctor Paul Kramer is conducting a dangerous hydrogen plasma experiment. Aboard the OSIRIS, STAR Lab research director Morat Cassidy, monitors the experiments data. As the experiment draws to a close, doctor Kramer contacts Mara.
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Mara, I'm reading a ship in the area zero five seven and closing. Yes. I see it.
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It's black. Shaved like a bat. Tremendous wingspan. It it's moving into a parking orbit directly above us. Something's coiling on one of those nose vents.
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The Anubis erupts in a fury of twisting light and shattered metal killing Doctor. Kramer instantly. News of the tragedy is flashed to captains John Graden and Buddy Griff at the nearby stargazer security station. The two pilots jet toward the area of the explosion aboard the new deep space interceptor Solaris. While the bat winged alien vessel moves into a parking orbit behind the moon.
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What quantity of hydrogen plasma was withdrawn from the Earth probe by our penetrator before the explosion. 2,000 fusion cubits?
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I wonder what the humanoid was doing with so vast a quantity of concentrated hydrogen.
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Meanwhile, John and Buddy have located the plasma chamber from the Anubis. And as John watches the life form scanner screen, Buddy takes the chamber into the ship's recovery bay with magnetic ground blows suddenly.
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Skipper get down here. The plasma chamber. There's a hole in it the size of my fist. And so help me God, I can hear someone breathing.
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John rushes to the Recovery Bay where he and Buddy frantically unsealed the huge plasma chamber with high speed pulse wrenches. Inside, they find Mora.
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Light on the round. Right. Blinding.
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Take it easy, Mora. You're safe now. Oh, safe.
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I'm safe
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inside. Buddy, we just took Mora out of a one ton plasma chamber, her medically sealed from the outside with no way in except through a six inch hole. Now how in the name of God did she get in there? John's question is answered two days later, when a shimmering pool of unearthly radiance appears to Mara, as she sits alone in her quarters. From within the pool, the timeless voice of Echo, the keeper of eight. The free energy beam from a lost parallel universe.
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The vampire ship that killed doctor Kramer is part of an armada for the braconian system to drive hundreds of hydrogen killed lasers. They need vast amounts of hydrogen to restabilize themselves, and they intend to take it from the Earth's oceans.
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Pure oxygen is one of the most explosive gases in the universe. The Earth would be saturated with it if they remove the hydrogen from our oceans. Echo, how can we stop them? Where's the armada? What are their weaknesses?
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I have to need your armada.
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As Mara discusses the strange appearance and disappearance of Echo with John and Buddy, An intercom message comes through from doctor Valerie Reed, head of STAR Labs plasma research unit.
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I don't think that Draconian ship is very far away. The element scanners are reading a first magnitude concentration of hydrogen somewhere behind the moon.
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That might be it. Well, there's only one way to find out.
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After boarding the Solaris, Mora, John, Buddy, and doctor Reed jet toward the moon to investigate the bat winged alien vessel. As part two of the Keeper of Eight takes us into the mysterious light and shadow of not one, but two alien
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worlds.
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Solaris to StarLab. StarLab. Go ahead, John. Our scanners have just locked onto the Draconian ship. It's hovering 50 kilometers above the Lucas Cooper Crater chain. THX coordinates 1138 at sub vector two zero zero one. We're locking in now. Thanks, Jerry. Solaris out.
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John, Valerie and I are getting a little edgy back here. Isn't there something we can do? How about a snack? Oh, buddy. How can you think of food at a time like this? It's easy. I'm hungry. Great. Great. Great. Great. Great. Great. Skipper,
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is there an echo in here? Mora? Incredible.
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What is it, buddy?
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Would you believe a mysterious pool of talking light? Echo? Hello, Mara.
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Hello, Valerie. We'll be there in a flash.
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You certainly will.
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Laura, Valerie.
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Echo, that was fantastic.
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Wow, what a rush. I'm glad you enjoyed.
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Echo, how do you get people from one place to another so fast? Laura does.
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She's been through the process before.
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Echo, Echo, I'm beginning to feel a little strange. So am I. Me too.
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What's going on? You're all about to enter a metamorphic coma. And when you return to consciousness, you'll discover that in addition to being oxygen breathers, you'll be right at home in a high altitude environment as well.
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Oh. But why?
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You'll see. Pleasant
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dreams. In The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Koloritz writes, Oh sleep, it is a gentle thing. Beloved from pole to pole. She sent the gentle sleep from heaven that slid into my soul. A poem from the distant past. Perfectly echoing the deep metamorphic future sleep that silently enfolds Mora, John, Buddy, and Valerie on the extraterrestrial frontier of an alien world. Alien Worlds continues. The Solaris rockets toward the dark side of the moon to investigate the draconian vampire ship. Eight minutes away from visual contact with the alien vessel, Echo, the keeper of eight, materializes and subjects Mara, John, Buddy, and doctor Valerie Reed to molecular transmutation.
A few moments later, they fall into a deep metamorphic coma that will radically alter their cellular pathology and body chemistry. A transcendental sleep from which they will awaken with the ability
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buddy. Buddy. How do you feel?
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Well, that's the best snooze I've ever had.
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Echo, why have you made it possible for us to breathe hydrogen? So you can survive aboard the draconian vampire ship. Oh, yeah?
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And me without my wooden stake.
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And me without my Christopher Lee outfit. Echo,
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what do you want us to do? The very thing you all want to do, go aboard their vessel and meet them face to face. Well, that sounds very dangerous. Had planned to withdraw all the hydrogen from the oceans of Earth. It's a final desperate attempt at survival. They're not an aggressive race. They only use their armada as a bluff toward hostile intruders. If their system were so divided by the reactionary pressures of civil war, Warp, Mosk, and Vina wouldn't be a Hypixel Sally.
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Warp, Mosk, and Vina?
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Who are they? Warp is head of the Draconian Coalition. Nosk is his subordinate preceptor. And Vina is magistrate of the Opposition Alliance. What can we do? Kill Morp and Mosk where they can find alternate sources of pure hydrogen. How How are we gonna do that? I know where the sources are, Mora. And I'll tell you where they are before you see war and loss. Well, wouldn't it be easier if you just told them yourself? Yes. It would. But if I did, Draconia and Earth would still be strangers to each other. You see, I arrange circumstances wherein strangers become twins.
Now how do you suppose they'll feel about Earthlings if you guarantee their survival for centuries to come? Are you sure we'll be safe? Buddy, you already are.
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Right. Right. We already are.
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I believe there's a call for you, John.
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Yeah.
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With your permission, my lord. My time is yours, Musk. The earth vessel is holding its position. Is it a fighting ship? Yes, my lord. Five binary laser turrets and an ancillary system of particle beam injectors. Then our destruction is a certainty. The Earthlings don't wish to engage us, my lord. They've asked permission to come aboard. For what reason? They claim to have information that will ensure the survival of Draconia. Without going to war? Yes, my Lord. Without going to war. What is your opinion, Musk? They know why we're here. They even know our names.
Those two facts alone lead me to believe they had a visitation from the Keeper. The Keeper wasn't always our enemy, Mosk. Yes, my Lord. Chaos. Desperation. Oh, this terrible civil war. We've gained more than we've forced, my Lord. Yes. But our methods. Why were we so blind and arrogant, Musk? We should have begun our search for alternate sources of hydrogen half a century ago. Yes. We should have listened to the keeper then. Perhaps the earthlings are giving us one final chance to listen now. Have them come aboard, Musk. Yes, my lord.
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They're certainly taking their time about it, aren't they? Take it easy, Valerie. Echo wouldn't have left us alone out here if it wasn't safe.
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Survive in your atmosphere.
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Firing the inertia rockets of the Solaris, John slowly guides the sleek white interceptor under the huge black draconian ship, and enters a docking bay illuminated with diffused violet light. As the shadow sentries stand silent, Mora, Buddy, John, and Valerie move into the airlock of the Solaris and prepare to enter the hydrogen strange atmosphere of an alien world. Alien Worlds continues. Mora, John, Buddy and Valerie have entered the draconian vampire ship. Their body chemistry temporarily altered by Echo, the keeper of eight. An alteration that allows them to breathe the hydrogen atmosphere of the huge batwing spacecraft.
During the two hours that have passed since they entered the alien vessel, Wark, head of the draconian coalition regime, has decided to reconsider his attack on Earth's hydrogen rich oceans. A decision based on a mysterious series of star charts Mora has given him.
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Forgive my skepticism, Mora. Are you absolutely certain these star charts are accurate? I'm positive,
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Warp.
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Well, we'll know soon enough. I didn't realize there were so many sources of hydrogen within our own galaxy. This planet here, it's uninhabited. Its atmosphere is hydrogen fewer, and it's only a fractional light year away from Laconia. With your permission, my lord. Yes, Blur. What is it? I've just received a report from our equatorial observatory. The three planets are there just as the star charts indicate. Thank you, Blur. Why didn't we notice them before?
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Well, to be perfectly honest, Warp, they weren't there before.
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You confuse me.
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The keeper of eight.
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So the creation of these planets
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is his work. He didn't create them, Warp. They already existed. He simply, borrowed them from the Turalyon system.
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With your permission, my lord. Contact the Armada. There will be no war with Terra or any other planet. We're going home. Oh, thank goodness. I'll tell you.
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Few moments later, Warp's message is flashed to the Draconian Armada as it enters Jupiter space. 200 multi atmosphere assault cruisers, 1,800 siege raiders, 600 defense penetrators, and 1,000 armed hydrogen tankers slowly break formation, turn 180 degrees, and regroup near Callisto, one of Jupiter's nine moons. The Armada's new course? Draconia, by way of the twilight meridian. Meanwhile, in the launch bay of Warp's command ship, Mara, John, Buddy, and Valerie prepare to board the Solaris for the return flight to StarLab.
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It's unfortunate that we're gonna have spent more time together, Mara. Now we'll have plenty of time together at the beginning of Terra's new solar year, Warp. I don't understand. Six months from now, an intergalactic congress will convene on StarLab. I'm going to arrange for Draconia to be represented.
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Thank you, Mara. I only hope Good luck. Mask. What's wrong? I communique from the Armada. As it was leaving Jupiter space, it passed a flight of opposition Alliance tankers and siege raiders. Fina is proceeding with the assault on Terra. Wasn't she told the Keeper has provided? She dismissed the information as a deceit tactic to prevent her from reaching Terra before we do.
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Then it looks like we're right back where we started.
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Buddy, where are you going? To use the radio in the Solaris. Somebody has to tell stargazer to scramble those interceptors. Oh, that's my boy.
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Timeless and crews, attention. This is a priority combat alert. Launch factor, red. Rendezvous with Solaris THX coordinates 1138
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sub vector 2001.
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As three squadrons of SET interceptors bank away from Stargazer and jet toward the dark side of the moon. John, body, and war aboard the Solaris. Blast out of the Draconian command ship's launch.
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The guidance thrusters on all our ships are located in outboard wing pods. By disabling any two pods on either wing, the ship will be unable to maneuver and will be forced to withdraw from combat.
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SED leader to Solaris, we have you inside over. Max, is that you?
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Inversed, John, what's happening? There's a flood of Draconian ships between Jupiter and Mars. Subvector coordinates zero four seven. Target grid, alpha nine or six. Attack pattern, omega blue. Now this is a non lethal engagement, Max. Direct your fire at their wing pods only.
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Roger, wing pods only. Okay.
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Let's go. Here they are, Skipper.
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No. Before you commence the attack, I'd like to try to reason with Vina. Open a close proximity channel, buddy.
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Okay, Warp. Go ahead.
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Vina, can you hear me? I hear you, Ward. The keeper has placed infinite sources of hydrogen in our galaxy. UPEK 84 warp.
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Veena, this is captain John Graydon, commander of Earth ship Solaris. Warp is telling you the truth.
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Have you formed an alliance with Warp, captain?
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Not just with Warp, with all Draconians.
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Warp doesn't represent all Draconians. I'm leading my ships to terror.
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Solaris to SCT leader, over. Go ahead, Solaris. Take Blue Squadron in over the tankers. Will do, John. Skip, we got a bogey at 02:00. Yellow Squadron, circle the perimeter of the tanker formation and watch for targets of opportunity. Roger, come. Red Squadron behind us two by two. Roger. Remember, wing pods only. Let's go.
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Alright, dive out of their blue four. I'll take the other pod. Bring it off, yellow niner. They're opening another gun forward to the tail. I'm ready to reach five. Let's go around again.
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Scope on it, Skip. How's it look, buddy? Hard to tell there's a lot of wing debris floating around out there.
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I hope Vina is now ready to listen to reason.
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Vox, have you a casualty report?
[00:21:55] Unknown:
There are no casualties, Veena. Neither death nor injury. It appears that the attack objective was to
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disable our ships, not take lives. I don't understand.
[00:22:07] Unknown:
You haven't understood for a long time, Vina. Echo. Vina. Vina. Vina. What ever am I going to do with you? You're such a fool. Am I? Yes. And the stubborn one at that. The Earth's slip attack wasn't counting on you to destroy you. Only you believe in armed force. And you're gonna say that you are right and war is wrong. War never determines who's right, Dana, only who's left. Now if you really care about the future of Viconia, you'll return to warp ship with Captain Rayton and stay here until you and Wark resolve your differences. I'll go echo butts. I'll echo butts about it, Tina.
Remember, those three items and planets are a gift. And once a keeper give us, the keeper can darn well
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and motive.
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You mean you've been trying to get these two together for fifty years? That's right, Mona.
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Half a century ago, I pulled to work that proconia's hydrogen will be totally depleted within thirty five solar years. He said that was more than enough time to find alternate hydrogen sources and went on to buy a business. Then I told Nina, who finally made it known to the entire planet, but she turned around and used it as a political dish to agitate against war. How many times over the past fifty years have you tried to bring them together? I lost Katra, which for me isn't easy. I finally left them alone to learn their lessons the hard way. But when they decided to extend their foolishness to terror, I came out of retirement.
I'm glad it's over, Echo. Yes. Thank you for returning us to ourselves.
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Echo, there's something I've been meaning to ask you. Why are you called the keeper of eight?
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What, buddy? Don't you know what you get when you lay the figure eight on its side?
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Infinity. The symbol for
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infinity. In it. In it. In it. In it. In it. I live inside eternal mist
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where children dream and lips are kissed And one your ancient starlet shows that lead through misty midnight doors. I tinker with time. I toy with space. I changed the shape of water and space. Now you know why the keeper of eight has a name that rhymes with fate.
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The Keeper of Eight was written by Ron Thompson and starred Linda Gary, Chuck Olsen, Bruce Miller and Corey Burton. With special guest stars Peter Leeds, Loreen Tuttle, Janet Waldo, Joe Mascolo, Pete Renaday, and Ellie Tompkins. Special voice parts by Renee Faryar, Barbara and Tom Rounds, Nikki Wine, and Scott Payton. Associate producer, Jeff Allen. Music director Tom Rounds. Our engineer was Stu Jacobs. Technical consultant Peter Sky. Vocoder by Kai Krause. Alien Worlds was created, produced and directed by Lee Hanson and is distributed by Watermark Incorporated.
And so until next week, this is Roger Dressler inviting you to join us for another adventure on Alien Worlds.
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Introduction to STARLab and the Experiment
The Anubis Tragedy and Alien Encounter
Mora's Mysterious Rescue and Echo's Warning
Investigating the Alien Vessel
Echo's Transformation and Mission
Negotiations with the Draconians
The Battle and Diplomatic Resolution
Echo's Wisdom and Conclusion
