This is the future.
Place of action: space.
In the endless universe, where even light gets lost,
Travels a man in his spaceship Comet.
He is the greatest scientist and galaxy adventurer, Curtis Newton.
However, the people call him Captain Future.
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CAPTAIN FUTURE
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When I was just a little child
I flew about here and there
And lay me down in the grass
To spread the wings of my soul
Wherever I'd like to go, I could go there for sure!
In the time, when I loved you
Learned the wings, which I'd forgotten
Again, in the sky of dreams
How they could fly!
Wherever you look, there's always universe
Wherever you look, there's always future
Wherever you go, there is universe
Wherever you go, there is FUTURE!
- Episode 25 - "A Giant Dark Star Approaches!" part 1 of 4 Vortex Cemetery
Based on the book "Calling Captain Future"
This story begins on an interstellar ship, the Pallas,
that is flying between Tau Ceti and Earth.
After a long journey, the ship now enters the gravitation zone of the Sun.
Communication-room.
Please give us the arrival time of the Pallas at New York Centralport.
The ship will arrive as planned at 21:30 Earth Standard Time.
Understood.
The approach path is free. Visual control activated.
We will arrive as planned at 21:30 Earth Standard Time.
Understood. We give the Pallas a hearty welcome.
At this moment the problems began.
My name is Dr. Zarro.
Dr. Zarro?
My name is Dr. Zarro.
-Who the devil is that? -No idea.
I send a serious warning to all inhabitants of the Solar System.
-An assault? -I don't know.
A dark star approaches in a hight angle of 75 degrees.
This mysterious star will reach the Solar System in two weeks.
But have no fear.
Thanks to the scientific skills of yours truly, Dr. Zarro,
the danger of a collision can easily be averted.
A dark star? Where did that turn up then?
EARTH
Astonishingly the image of this mysterious Dr. Zarro
appeared on all TV-screens on Earth,
even on those of the Solar System Government.
I will summon those, who have faith in me,
to build the fighting forces of the Solar System
To the superiority of these fighting forces
the Earth as seat of the Solar System Government must subordinate.
I will allow you some time, to consider what has been said.
The dark star is there, where I already told you it was.
Mr. President, he only wants to gain control. He is a charlatan.
Gurney here. Did you see the transmission?
Yes. But I cannot believe it.
No astronomer has warned for the arrival of such a heavenly body.
That is also what I thought.
But a moment ago I got a message from the Pallas, that cruises
near the place that Zarro indicated. It is correct.
What?
-A gigantic dark star! -That is impossible!
If it collides with Earth, it will break into pieces!
I'm frightened!
I could not believe my eyes. But it is true.
Unbelievable. It cannot be true!
Shall we contact Dr. Robert?
Robert? From the astro-observatory of the space station?
Yes. He knows everything in the Solar System, even the movements of the extra-terrestrial.
-Good. Contact him immediately. -Yes Sir.
I don't get it. How can such a star escape the scientists attention?
Mr. President! Dr. Robert is missing!
What?
In the last two hours nobody has seen him. Also the spacecraft of the station is gone.
What does that mean?
Lets contact Mr. Gellimer again.
Nobody is answering!
To all people in the Solar System.
Did you consider my words?
Perhaps you have consulted your famous astronomers?
Or you were surprised to find out, that most of them disappeared?
But it is understandable, that they fled. One reason is
their inability, to foresee the approach of the dark star.
Another reason is of course, that they feared for their lives.
What an irresponsible behaviour!
And how careless of the Government,
to leave astronomical observations up to such incapable people.
In the case you doubt my words, just ask the Interstellar Government.
When the truth comes out at last, the fighting forces and I will demand,
that you will hand over all power to us.
I'm warning you not to cut down on my conditions.
Within two weeks Pluto and Uranus will be destroyed as first.
Tectonic shifts on Earth will lead to numerous catostrophes.
However that is only the preface to complete destruction.
It will be the end of your history.
It will be then, that you'll accept my proposal!
On Earth fear went round.
At many places there were meetings, where people voted to accept the demands.
They had to act quickly.
And for President Carthew Remained only one help:
Captain Future.
It looks crazy, don't you think, Oog?
But it is driven by an atomic energy source.
and speaks with a recorded voice.
Papa.
What...
Papa, don't you recognize me?
Don't you recognize me then?
I am Grag Junior, your son.
What is going on here?
Papa, now, that I have found you, I will stay with you forever.
You are just a pile of rusty scrap,
but my only relative.
Papa.
You disgusting Gummiball!
Papa. Papa.
-I am not your dad! -Papa?
How Grag went mad, when that thing called him papa.
I will never forget that.
What do you know about my feelings...
Stop it, you two.
There is no time to fight.
Grag, Otho, I just received a message from President Carthew.
-What? That means, there's another... -Problem?
I will explain later. If you keep fighting, I will leave you here.
When there is a problem, we are...
You're already starting again.
Of course we will get along and we will continue later, right?
I will pay you back for that.
-Eek. -Oog.
Hm. Very strange.
-What is it, Professor Simon? -The dark star has been sighted, right?
It is really there, where Zarro said.
It moves straight towards Earth, but...
-But what? -It is unbelievably low in mass.
Just as if one would weigh a balloon.
It is twelve times the size of Earth. But the mass is...
It is not heavier than a spaceship!
Size and mass do not match. Perhaps the answer to the riddle lies there.
Captain Future, glad, that you are here.
Marshal Ezra, how is the situation on Earth?
President Carthew wants to calm the people, but it won't hold much longer.
Did you find Zarros support-base already?
We don't have a clue.
And Dr. Kansu Kane has disappeared too.
The one with the Doublespectral-theory?
All first class astronomers disappear.
Only Professor Gatola of the Mars-observatory is still there.
-Something is fishy. -What?
Could Zarro be behind all this?
He is suggesting, they ran away from the dark star, but...
He has kidnapped them?
-20 minutes till Earth. -We are not flying to Earth.
-What? -New destination is the Mars-observatory.
MARS
Mars' thinner atmosphere is favourable for astronomical observations.
This night Professor Gatola devotes as usual to his studies in the observatory.
Who are you?
So simple. To break out of prison, was much harder.
As you already know, this is an invisibility-field.
Captain Futures invention.
Please be careful!
What is it, Kallak?
I just sensed, how someone passed me closeby.
There's no one here.
Curious.
Captain Future!
Joan!
Captain Future is here. Prepare start immediately!
Soldiers, to deck five!
Search the escaped prisoners!
Captain Future? How did he came in here?
He has failed. I must come to his rescue.
Out of the way!
You like that, eh.
You only follow the orders of my clock.
Damn.
And now? Weren't you going to help him, you good-for-nothing!
What is happening here then?
But I know you. Your name is Roj.
You were a cunning biologist.
You are Kallak.
You were transformed into a dummy and assist in Rojs misdeeds.
You have taken prisoner Master Roj and me once.
Now it is the other way round.
You are Dr. Zarro.
And you are Captain Future, the most troublesome man of the galaxy.
I will happily finish you later.
Such a bad treatment! After all I am the best astronomer in the Solar System.
Open the door! I have important research to do.
I am sorry, Captain. I shouldn't have shouted like that.
I was just as surprised.
You surely are here,
because you too suspect Zarro to be the kidnapper of the scientists.
Yes, but apparently we have failed...
Failed? Do you think, such a little setback would stop me?
This watch is my identification mark.
What makes it work?
Of course! Atomic power.
I can make a little blowtorch from it.
Be careful now.
The blowtorch is too bright.
We are doing something important here.
I am trying to think. How rude!
Ready in a minute.
Doctor, come here. Doctor.
Where are we going?
At the front is a rescue-capsule.
Are we running away? I need my calculations.
We cannot take a whole wall.
Rescue-capsules are rescue-boats in space.
All spaceships are, on account of the law, equipped with rescue-capsules,
that contain certain amounts of fuel and nourishment.
Start!
That is strange.
-Just now a capsule disappeared. -What?
Ah, there it is.
Check it. Rescue-capsules don't start by themselves.
That must be Captain Future.
How shocking! I am the best scientist in the Solar System!
Some gratitude would be in place.
Captain Future after all risked his life, to save yours.
Not yet.
Zarros ship is after us.
Lets see, what we can do. There will be pressure-forces.
-Joan, please protect the doctor. -Yes.
What are you doing now?
Don't let them escape, Roj. The rescue-capsule will soon run out of fuel.
I know, Dr. Zarro.
They won't escape us.
Roj, switch to reverse thrust.
What? We've almost got them.
-Right. We can... -Fools!
Don't you see, where we are flying to?
What was that, Master Roj?
-A space current. -What?
Do you see, how the capsule is floating sideward?
An interstellar particle current moves like a sea current,
influenced by radiation pressure and gravity.
If one is trapped inside, one is finished. One gets...
That doesn't look good!
We cannot get away anymore. The space current is detaining us.
What will become of us?
There is only one destination.
The Space Cemetery, the Sargasso-sea of Space.
But Captain, you have been there before and came out again.
Because Mark Carew, a great pilot, left enough fuel for me.
So much luck I will never have again for sure.
The Sargasso-sea was once feared by sailors as ship cemetery.
This worst region of space was named after it.
This place of damaged spaceships, where only death and silence rein,
seems to mean the end of Captain Future.
To be continued
Next episode: The Howling Glacier
Once again Captain Future has ended up in the ominous Space Cemetery.
How will he, with Joan and the old astronomer on board,
escape the Sargasso-sea of Space?
And how does he intend
to stand Dr. Zarros pitiless attacks,
that now are directed at Professor Simon?
Next time on Captain Future: "The Howling Glacier"
If you ever, somehow, one day or another,
Should go to this city
Please visit the little house
You can find it in Poplar Street
When there, by chance
Still lives a girl
With a really gentle face
Then, please, could you tell her
That I'm doing very well
This girl, too, that laughs a lot
And whose cotton clothes dance in the wind
Will be grown-up by now, and have fallen in love
And will have forgotten about me
To Poplar Street,
Forever and always, in my dreams I will return
Although time goes by, right there lies
The homeland of my soul, in days gone by