Superluminary, Episode 18, The Deadly Light of a Living Star
Superluminary, Episode 18, THE DEADLY LIGHT OF A LIVING STAR, is posted on Patreon:
Episode 18 The Deadly Light of a Living Star
In this exciting episode, Aeneas Tell must battle the undead neutron star called the Great Eye of Rutilicus that he has foolishly teleported into plutonian orbit. The monstrous dark star is an ancient and animate weapon designed to destroy all organic life, and possesses an interstellar strength death-energy beam prepared to obliterate whole worlds.
Our Story so Far:
Episode 01 Assassin in Everest
In which Aeneas Tell, the youngest member of the Imperial family of mad scientists who rule the solar system with an iron fist, is decapitated by a high-tech vampire.
In which Aeneas Tell is flung in his pajamas onto the surface of planet Pluto.
In which Aeneas breaks into the forbidding and forbidden tower looming above the ices of Pluto, and finds it void of living things, but not uninhabited nor unguarded.
Episode 04 The Technology of Tyranny
In which Aeneas, paralyzed, falls facefirst into the plutonian secret it is death to glimpse: a raging singularity at the engine core of the very antique superspaceship his grandfather once used to conquer to Earth!
Episode 05 The Many Murders of the Mad Emperor
In which the helpless Aeneas delays his death sentence to sate his lonely captor’s curiosity, and his own. Lord Pluto reveals the startling truth of their family’s bloody past. Was the Emperor a savior? Or a maniac?
In which Aeneas, paralyzed and on fire, plunge down and down toward the death-energy powered warp singularity at the base of the dark tower of unseen Lord Pluto, while all the undead vampires unleash a ghastly barrage of negative life energy no ordinary organic life can withstand!
In which Aeneas is blasted by an interplanetary strength particle beam weapon issuing from the Sea of Tranquility on the Moon to his position hiding behind a rapidly melting satellite in rapidly degenerating orbit.
Episode 08 Mistress of Dreams and Delirium
In which Aeneas spars with his cousin Lady Luna, his savior or captor, trying to discover her motive and role in recent events, while she discovers his. He declines to speak the truth, and is betrayed.
Episode 09 The Battle in the Garden of Worlds
In which Aeneas and the Lords of Creation do battle.
Episode 10 The Madness of Tellus
In which Aeneas Tell is on trial for his life by his cruel and crooked relatives.
Episode 11 The Abomination of Desolation
In which the discovery is made that the Sun is primed to ignite into a nova-explosion.
Episode 12 Defusing the Supernova
In which Aeneas, whose very own mother imposed on him the neuropsionic process that robs a brain of its ability to disobey orders, is commanded to destroy himself.
Episode 13 Ripping the Fabric of Reality
In which Aeneas flings experimental warpcore lab in which he is imprisoned across timespace, far beyond the range of any earthly rescue, with frees himself from the control of his three evil uncles.
Episode 14 Strange Fires of Strange Suns
In which Aeneas finds a hideous and ultra-powerful undead civilization occupying megascale structures orbiting Alpha Centauri. It is an empire of vampires. And he is not alone.
Episode 15 Blind Jump
In which,Aeneas Tell and his two stowaways, in order to flee the undead monstrosities at Alpha Centauri, are forced to engage the warpcore without any navigation or destination, and fling themselves at random through timespace. The planet where they find themselves seems a garden spot at first.
Episode 16 The Great Eye of Zeta Herculis
In which Aeneas Tell accidentally wakes one of the of neutron star weapons that long ago obliterated all biological life in the galaxy.
In which the vampire planet must be conquered by three Tellurians before they are detected and obliterated by the Great Eye of Rutilicus.