ksf@security.UUCP (Kieth S. Fung) (08/23/83)
Captain Scarlet Vehicles SPV Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle A heavily armoured multi-wheeled vehicle that the occupants drove with their backs facing forward. They saw thru TV monitors and steered with a periscope attatchment. it was equipt with a heavy rocket launcher (forward mounted); retractable catapiller tracks and various anti-personel devices. Color: blue SPC Spectrum Personnel Car A heavily armoured two door station wagon. Color: red SMSV Spectrum Maximum Security Vehicle A very heavily armoured car that was used to transport dangerous or valuable cargo/ personnel. Color: white Angels Spectrum Fighters Capable of STOL, these one person fighters were capable of mach 3 speeds. Offensive systems included a single forward mounted 30mm rapid fire cannon, and 18 air to air missles. Cloud Base Spectrum Command Post (this was before Marvel comics thought of SHIELD's Flying Fortresses or what ever their called) A mobile base that hovers above the earth via several powerful jet turbuprop engines. Origin of Mysteron Invasion of earth Earthmen have set up lunar stations and have started an intesive exploration of the moon. A three man exploration party are traveling in a lunar hopper across the lunar waste land. One of these men in Captain Black of Spectrum. They come across a valley, and see a strange alien city. The aliens are curious to these new creatures and send out a probe/scanner beam to- wards these invaders. Captain Black believes this to be an attack and opens fire on the city. The city is destroyed as is the crew of the terrian craft. The Mysterons swear revenge on this unprovoked act of violence. Because they have no physical bodies, the MYsterons must use human duplicates to do their bidding. The first of these is Captain Black. The Mysterons cause great destruction as they have declared war on all earthers. The duplication process works by scanning/altering a recently dead person and then creating a double. the double is an exact copy of the former person, having the memories, skills, and looks of the dead. But this new one is a complete slave to the Mysterons. One man who survived the duplication process was Captain Scarlet. The double was made, but the original was not dead. The original was altered due to the scanning process, and so his body gained the "retroactivization" ability that the Mysterons use to make doubles. Now if Captain Scarlet is injured, his body has a healing factor that can repair nearly any damage. A brief trip to the future brought to you by: Keith Fung Mitre Bedford