...an encounter with a huge Cthulhu-like alien propels the Atari Institute's experimental mutiverse-spanning vessel Scanner One into an unknown realm,where they make a forced landing on a planet with a beautiful, deserted futuristic city.
While exploring, alien ships attack them, but a different alien vessel rises up from below the city to defend the moribund metropolis and the Atarians.
Using their advanced technology to interpret data sources found in the city, the Earthmen learn the attacking aliens are "Zylons", and the fighter craft that saved them was designed to destroy the attackers!
In a fit of righteous anger, Commander Champion and Security Officer O'Rourke decide to carry the battle back to the Zylons.
But the crew's medical officer, Dr Orion, perceives his crewmates acting our of character, and searches for the reason why...
Using their advanced technology to interpret data sources found in the city, the Earthmen learn the attacking aliens are "Zylons", and the fighter craft that saved them was designed to destroy the attackers!
In a fit of righteous anger, Commander Champion and Security Officer O'Rourke decide to carry the battle back to the Zylons.
But the crew's medical officer, Dr Orion, perceives his crewmates acting our of character, and searches for the reason why...
Considering DC's Atari Force V1N3 was published in 1982, I don't think it'd be a spoiler to reveal the Dark Destroyer did, in fact, survive...and would become the Atari Force's primary nemesis!
Though the Zylon vessels and the other fighter craft (as shown in the comic) are based on the Colonial Vipers and Cylon Raiders of Battlestar Galactica...
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| Art by Bob Larkin ...they were, in the video game itself, based on the X-Wings and TIE Fighters of Star Wars! But that's another story...which we'll tell next month! Next Week... A NEW World of Wonder! |
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