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by Donald Simpson
| Comic in Very Good condition. No nicks, tears or creases.
Published by Kitchen Sink Press Inc.
32 pages in black & white.
16.9cm x 25.9cm.
Cover price: $1.95 US.
Our Story Thus Far ...
It's a thousand years in the future, and Earth is the homeworld of a galactic empire called The Domain. Among its possessions are the Arcameon Colonies, and its space station, Chrysalis. This section of space, located at the edge of the explored universe, is known as the Border Worlds ...
Jenny Woodlore travelled three months to reach Chrysalis. She thought she was going to work for her brother Frank's successful space-freight concern, the Skylore Trucking Company. When she arrived on Chrysalis after her long star trip, she found Frank's company in shambles, the fleet of trucks a mess of cannibalized wrecks, and Frank and his crony Benton Diggs surviving on the remnants of an inheritance that Frank and Jenny's uncle had left them both. To top this, Frank had loaned his only operative truck to the criminal Rory Smash.
When the Domain Port Authority blasts Smash and the truck out of the sky, Jenny realized that the only viable possession the Sklore Trucking Company had was a sleek, black hotrod left behind by Smash. Around this vehicle, Jenny builds a new company, a taxi service for travellers between the space station and the Arcameon planet colonies.
On Chrysalis an astronomer named Moore made a nerve-shattering discovery: the space station's orbit around the binary suns of Arcameon is decaying from its original position, and is slipping inexorably toward the suns. If nothing is done, Chrysalis will soon be sharing the orbit of the planet Padrone, and will collide with the much larger planet. Yet Moore was unsuccessful in convincing the Domain authorities of the urgency of the situation.
In desperation, Moore contacted Oliver Beecher, the architect of Chysalis, and pleaded with him to examine the data and find a way to rectify the decaying orbit. Beecher had been living in self-imposed exile on Padrone for years, but agreed to return to the space station he designed and built fifty years ago. He hired Jenny's shuttle service to travel to Chrysalis, and soon he and Jenny developed an unusual relationship. Beecher did not burden Jenny with the problem he and Moore work to solve in meetings late at night.
Lieutenant Kaarn Pinsen, a Domain Port Authority detective who had tracked the criminal Rory Smash until his explosive demise, found new evidence which suggested that Smash faked his death. She believes he is in hiding somewhere in the Arcameon colonies, if not on Chrysalis itself. Fearing that Smash will return to claim his hotrod, Pinsen embarked on a plan to make life miserable for Jenny, Frank and Diggs. Port inspectors grounded the tri-jet for safety reasons, citing unlawful propulsion systems. They employed a myriad of other bureaucratic rules to keep the jet in its hanger on Chrysalis.
To The Domain itself, the Smash case is closed. Pinsen finds herself reassigned to a different problem facing the empire on the Border Worlds. The problem had begun three months earlier, back on Earth.
What follows is the problem ...
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Publisher: Kitchen Sink Press Inc
ISBN:
Condition: Very Good |
Issue No.: #2 of 7
September 1986
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