Superluminary, Episode 21, The Black Ship
Superluminary, Episode 21, THE BLACK SHIP, is posted on Patreon:
In this exciting episode, a dark and swift spy ship is detected, seen feeding the plutonian world-vampire. The ancient terror rears and wakes, and focuses primordial weapons toward the sun, in a bid to obliterate the solar system. Who in the Imperial Family is the betrayer?
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 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, plunges toward the death-energy powered warp singularity at the base of the dark tower of Lord Pluto, while all the undead unleash a ghastly barrage of negative life energy no earthly life can withstand!
An 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 a 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 motives 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 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 saves mankind and is commanded to destroy himself.
Episode 13 Ripping the Fabric of Reality
In which Aeneas warps experimental asteroid lab in which he is imprisoned across timespace, in a desperate bid to free 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.
In which Aeneas is forced to engage the warpcore without any navigation or destination, flinging himself and his two stowaways at random through timespace.
Episode 16 The Great Eye of Zeta Herculis
In which Aeneas 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.
Episode 18 The Deadly Light of a Living Star
In which Aeneas battles the undead neutron star called the Great Eye of Rutilicus.
Episode 19 The Surrender of Saturn
In which are revealed the primordial origins of earthly life and cosmic war that the mad Emperor, Lord Tellus, kept hidden from mankind and his family.
Episode 20 The Feast of Vampires
In which Aeneas discovers the meaning of human evolution, and stirs the ancient plutonian foe of all life to rise again.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
