EARTHDARK

“Moon colony is twenty-five years old, and for ten yearsLEMCOM HAS used our minerals to make money andhasn’t paid us a penny. It can’t go on”

Ann and Keppler live on Moon. Soon there willbe big changes – Moon will be free of Earth. Butwhat will LEMCOM do? Trouble is coming andKepler lands in the middle of it. Then, Ann’sfather disappears and they must follow him – toEarthdark!

EPISODE 1‘Back from Earth’

I`M GOING TO

MARRY HER TREE

YEARS` TIME,

WHEN WE FINISH

SCHOOL

WHY ISN`T

ANN HERE TO

MEET ME?

THE UN SAID WE CAN

HAVE OUR

INDEPENDENCE ON

MOON. THERE’S TALK

THAT LEMCOM WILL

STOP MINING ON

MOON.

I wiil go for a drive. Let’

see what is going on in

Aristarchus with those

strange men…

OH MY GOD, A

SUN-STORM!!! I NEED TO FIND COVER

OR I WILL DIE!!!

EPISODE 2‘The Sun Storm’

SUCH A

TERRIBLE

DRIVE! I WAS

SCARED OF THE

SUN-STORM…

ALREADY IN

ARISTARCHU

S…

I WONDER

WHAT ARE

THOSE

LIGHTS…

AFTER THE LIGHTS, KEPPLER FELT DIZZY BECAUSE OF THE SUN-STORM RADIATION AND HE

FINALY FAINTED. SOMEONE TOOK HIM TO A SOFT BED AND HE SLEPT THERE.E MOON BASE

KEP WOKE UP AND SAW ON THE

OTHER SIDE OF A GLASS DOOR A FAT

MAN AND OTHER MAN TALKING. HE

COULDN’T LINTEN BUT HE COULD

READ THEIR LIPS.

HE WAS IN LEMCOM! AND THEY

WERE PLANNING TO KILL HIM.

EPISODE 3‘Trouble in Lemcom’

BACK IN KEPLER’S BASE, ANN WENT

STRIGHT TO KEPLER. SHE HAD

SOMETHING IMPORTANT TO TELL HIM

BUT THERE’S

NOTHING ON

EARTHDARK, AND

ITS FAR AWAY

FROM HERE.

KEP, MY FATHER

HAS DISSAPEARED

AND I FOUND THIS

MAP IN HIS ROOM.

IT HAS A BROKEN

LINE FROM HERE

TO ERTHDARK.

PLEASE,

HELP ME.

COME WITH

ME!

KEP WENT

TO BED,.

HE

NEEDED A

REST AND

HE

WANTED

TO THINK

ABOUT ALL

THE

THINGS

ANN HAD

TOLD HIM.

…THERE’S SOMETHING

MY FATHER IS NOT

TELLING ME.

TOMORROW I WILL GO

WITH ANN TO

EARTHDARK.

FROM KEPLER BASE, A BROKEN LINE WENT WEST-NORTH-WEST STRIGHT INTO THE PLACE PEOPLE ON

EARTH CALL ‘THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON’. PEOPLE ON THE MOON CALLED EARTHDARK, BECAUSE IT

ALWAYS LOOKS DARK FROM EARTH. IT IS COMPLETELY EMPTY, LIKE A DESERT. THERE WERE NO BASES THERE

AND NOBODY LIVED THERE.

EPISODE 4‘Follow the map’

INTO

EARTHDARK?

THAT`S CRAZY!

DO YOU KNOW

HOW FAR IT IS?

I’WANT YOU TO

COME WITH ME. I

WANT TO FOLLOW

THE LINE ON THAT

MAP.

KEPLE

R,

LOOK!!!

THEY GOT

INTO A DARK

GARAGE.

SUDDENLY

THE DOOR

BEHIND THEM

SHUT ITSELF.R

TESTING IT.

IN THE DARKNESSES, SOMEONE WAS HIDDEN.

IT WAS CLINT, THE FAT MAN.

HE HIT HARRIS OVER THE HEAD AND FELL ON THE FLOOR.

…I STILL CAN

GET US OUT

OF HERE…

EPISODE 5‘Dr Sheppard’s secret’

I WILL

TRAVEL

WITH YOU.

WHO ARE

YOU?

YOU DIDN’T

KIDNAP MY

FATHER, DID

YOU?

NO. PEOPLE ON EARTH

SENT ME HERE. LEMCOM

PEOPLE, YES, BUT THE

PEOPLE WHO WANT TO

KNOW WHAT IS REALLLY

HAPPENING IN

ARISTARCHUS.

IT SMELLS

LIKE EARTH….

KEP, LETS

HAVE A LOOK!

KEP AND ANN FOUND A

DOOR IN THE CRATER

WALL THAT LED THEM

INTO A TUNNEL…

THAT’S THE QUESTION

I WAS GOING TO ASK

YOU!

BUT WELCOME TO

GENESIS ONE. YOU’RE

COMING WITH ME, THE

BOSS WANTS TO SEE

YOU.

TIM

O’CONNOR!

WHAT ARE

YOU DOING

HERE?

HOW DID YOU

GET THERE?

I WANT TO KNOW

I’M SORRY MY

DEAR… IT HAD TO

BE A SECRET, AND

THIS TIME I HAD TO

MOVE QUICKLY.

BUT WHY DID

YOU

DISSAPEAR?

YOU’VE NEVER

DONE THIS

BEFORE DAD. I

WAS SO

WORRIED.

EPISODE 6‘The last stand’

I ASKED MY FATHER

ABOUT THAT. HE SAID,

NOT UNTIL WE´RE

TWENTY. AND ONLY

MARRY PEOPLE CAN LIVE

IN THIS COLONY.

I’D REALLY LIKE

TO LIVE HERE

SO HOW DO YOU

FEEL ABOUT

GETTING

MARRIED?

…

IN THAT MOMENT, THEY KNOCKED INTO SOMEONE. ANN

REACTED… IT WAS HARRIS!

ANN RUN FOR HELP…

MY HOME IS

HERE, IN

GENESIS.

I THOUGHT

YOU WERE

GOING BACK

TO EARTH,

HARRIS

WHAT ABOUT

CLINT AND

BLUE? THOSE

STUPIDS….

THEY HAD A

TERRIBLE

´´ACCIDENT´´

AAARGH!!!DON’T

TOUCH MY

NULLIFIER!!!

HAHAHA!!! YOU

WILL DIE… I

WILL KILL

YOU!!!

YES, I’M

VERY PROUD

OF YOU KEP!

HE KILLED

CLINT AND

BLUE. HE

TOLD ME!

WE FOUND

THEM. DON’T

TALK ANY

MORE KEP.

IT’S ALL

FINISHED.

MOON IS

SAFE.

DAD, DID

YOU GET

HARRIS?

YOU’LL SEE

HER SOON.

NOW SLEEP.

THAT’S AN

ORDER.

ANN?

Three weeks later, at midnight, the UN peoplearrived, and Moon made the first proud movetowards independency. LEMCOM was closeddown.But Kepler’s father had an idea. He kept themines and miners working in Aristarchus. And theEarth paid for the new brilliant stones a lot ofmoney.And he kept something else too…

I NOT ONLY KEPT THE MINES

WORKING, KEPLER, I ALSO

KEPT TWELVE OF THE STONES

FOR YOUR WIFE. I WANT TO

MAKE THEM SOMETHING

BEAUTIFUL FOR HER TO WEAR.

WAS THAT ALL RIGHT,

KEP?

YES, FATHER.

EVERYTHING IS

GOING TO BE ALL

RIGHT FOR ANN

AND ME…

… AND IT WAS.T

The End.