A survey Eagle is dispatched
to
a seemingly lifeless planet to
search for the rare mineral
Titanium, needed to repair
Alpha's damaged life support
systems. When they locate a
deposit they are called back
to Alpha. As they leave orbit a |
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ball
of light forms on the planet
and follows the Eagle into space.
Unable to outrun it, Eagle 1 is
engulfed by the light. Annette
Fraser faints as her husbands
Eagle disappears while she
watches from Command Center.
As the Alphans try to determine |
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just
what happened, they
recieve a transmission from
Mentor of the Planet Psychon.
He tells them that it was a
defensive measure against the
armed ship of an unknown
intruder, but the pilots are safe,
and they can send another |
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Eagle
to pick them up.
Koenig suggests a rendezvous
in space to avoid further
"misunderstandings", and has
an Eagle equipped with extra
boosters, just in case. When
they reach the designated meeting
place. Koenig tries to contact |
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Mentor's
ship so that they can
dock. There is no answer because
the ship is empty. It begins to
pull the Eagle down to the
planet, but with the additional
thrust of the boosters they are
able to break free. A short lived
victory, as the ship turns into a |
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ball
of light and drags the Eagle
down to the planet. They land in
what looks like a graveyard of
spaceships. Mentor contacts them
and asks that they wait in the ship
until he is ready for them, but they
decide to search on their own for |
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their
missing people. They enter
a nearby cave and see the
mindless husks of the beings that
belonged to the ships outside.
They also find one of the pilots
from the firs Eagle, his mind
completely drained. Mentor
appears in holographic form |
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to
tell them to give themselves
up. When Lou Picard tries to
overload the circuit with a laser,
it backfires and kills him. Mentor
captures the Alphans with a
green ball of light, and deposits
them into holding cells.
When Koenig wakes, |
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he
sees a lioness outside of his
cell. The animal changes into
Mentor's daughter who introduces
herself as Maya. She cannot
understand why Koenig is so
unfriendly. She believes her father
has been nothing but kind to
them, as he has hidden |
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all
his darker doings from her.
She brings Koenig to her father
so that he can see his the rest
of his party. When they arrive,
Mentor dismisses her, so he can
reveal his true intentions to Koenig.
He wants to feed the minds
of the Alphans to Psyche, |
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his
biological computer, with
which he dreams of restoring
his planet, from the volcanic
wasteland it has become, to
the beautiful planet it once was.
To coerce Koenig, Mentor shows
him that with Psyche's power of |
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molecular
transformation, he can
destroy the Moon. Koenig tells him
to go ahead, that would be better
than the living death of the aliens
in the pits. Mentor shows him the
rest of his party hooked up to
Psyche. He starts to drain
their minds while Koenig |
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watches.
Unable to endure their
suffering, he tells Mentor to stop,
that he will arrange for his
people to come down to Psychon,
in exchange for their freedom.
He contacts Alpha, and tells Tony
to start a phased evacuation. |
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Tony
questions the unorthodox
nature of his decision, and
Koenig quotes "Directive 4" as
giving him the right. Tony orders
a robot Eagle to be loaded
with explosives to destroy the
planet. He explains to Sandra
that "Directive 4" is a coded |
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signal
to destroy the source of
it's origin. Mentor has Maya scan
the Eagle, and discovers the
plot. She decides to confront
Koenig in his cell. He explains
that Mentor has fed the minds
of aliens into Psyche and that
she'll find proof in the caves. |
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She looks and finds that what
he
said was true. Shocked, she returns
to the cell only to find that Mentor
is now retaliating by blowing up
sections of Alpha! Now aware,
and unable to support her fathers
actions, she releases the Alphans
on Koenig's word that Mentor |
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would not be harmed. Koenig
sends the others to the Eagle,
while Maya takes him to help her
stop her father. Koenig begins
smashing Psyche. Mentor begs
him to stop, as Psyche's energy, if
released, could destroy the planet.
But his warning comes too late.
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Psychon is already starting
to
break up. Mentor is trapped in
the fire and wreckage of the
destruction. He tells Koenig to
take Maya away. Koenig struggles
to get her out as she changes from
animal to animal, until Mentor is
killed in a cave in. Koenig takes |
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her to the Eagle which is
barely
able to lift off as Psychon violently
breaks apart. They manage to get
to a safe distance as the planet
explodes in a blinding flash of
light. Koenig consoles Helena who
is distraught at the loss of Lou
Picard and Ray Torens. |
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They thank Maya for saving
their
lives, as she sobs uncontrolably.
She is devastated by the loss
of her father and her world, and
worries that anywhere but
Psychon she will be an "alien".
Koenig says "We're all aliens until
we get to know one another." |
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