Stalkers

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Introduction

"Stalker," said a recorded voice. This was clearly part of a recent entry in a database. "The mysterious alien race encountered by many spacefaring nations, but until recently never heard of due to their rather nasty habit of trying to board every ship they can and eating the passengers. Recent mind probes reveal that the aliens are smarter than usual, but they have no need to communicate with their prey. Called 'Stalkers' first by marines, these aliens hide in the shadows and pick off their prey in moments of their weakness. They leave very little trace and thus make ghost ships. However, remains of people and some spawning chambers are clearly left behind on some ships. Stalkers leave ships when their supply of prey is gone.

"Recent mind probes have revealed that the aliens are from a remote star. The Stalker mothership is hidden from sensors by the radiation the star emits. The only traces of the Stalkers are ghost ships. However, Stalkers can eventually starve to death if they don't move soon enough. Once the mothership is destroyed, it is theorized that one of three things will happen. Theory one - all Stalkers die. Theory two - Stalkers have no more command and cannot board any more ships and thus eventually starve. Theory three - all Stalkers attempt to invade a planet or moon to get a homeworld."


This chilling entry from A Scream in Space described the Stalkers very well during the time it was written. The Intrepid Incident was the first recorded encounter with these alien creatures in which the humans actually survived. The following information will describe the Stalkers and then discuss Nanakaland's Scream in Space series from which they appeared.

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As opposed to the first known information published on the Stalkers (shown above in itallics), the following will be the most recent information.

There are actually three species of the Stalkers (genus Venator). The first species is the original Stalkers (Venator terra) who live on their original homeworld. A colony of humanoids once was established on the homeworld, but the Stalkers were awaken from their slumber. The humanoids were massicred and many Stalkers took over their ship that was in orbit around the homeworld. However, the surviving colonists managed to trap the remaining Stalkers, including the Stalker queen, into a temple. The Stalkers were then turned into stone. The colony of humanoids were wiped out by drought because their ship was captured and there was no way to get supplies to the colony.

The first division in the Stalker species occured. There became two queens and some slight differences. The spacefaring Stalkers (Venator stella) lost some of their intelligence and became able to breathe in space for longer periods of time than the regular Stalkers. While both Stalker species were similar and were capable of attacking in space, the differences made V. stella a more spacefaring species. The V. stella were encountered in the original A Scream in Space and A Scream in Space II: Dark Alliance. The V. stella were wiped out entirely except for one. The mothership was destroyed, too.

A scientist in Nanakaland stumbled upon the dying Stalker and cloned it making significant genetic modifications (including less intelligence and more strength). Thus the V. redux - or resurrected Stalker - was born. The V. redux was encountered and wiped out in A Scream in Space III when they tried to destroy the earth. Thus, the second two species of Stalker were annihilated.

However, the original species of Stalker (V. terra) remained on their homeworld untouched until years later in the Third Age of Nanakaland. The V. terra were stronger than even the V. redux They had to be faced and destroyed in the final part of the Scream in Space series - A Second Scream in Space.

Scream in Space Series

A Scream in Space Original Trillogy

A joint project between Super American VX Man, Nanakaland, and other allies from their region was done to create the United Grand Celestial Glory, a super capital class ship with a very powerful weapon. A patroll ship, the NSS Gallant was in the area arond the secret construction, which was taking place above Nanakaland's colony on Earth's moon. The patrol ships were making sure that no one found out about the United Glory yet or compromized the construction.

However, one ghost ship did not respond to hails, so the NSS Gallant launched a boarding team lead by the then major, Aaron Watson. This bording triggered a chain of events known as the Intrepid Incident, named after the discovered name of the mystery ship, that led to the discovery of the Stalkers and the eventual battle with them.

Commander Thomas Johnson and the crew of the NSS Celestia, along with the surviving members of Major Watson's team, eventually defeated the Stalkers on the Intrepid, destroyed the Stalker mothership, defeated the allies of the Stalkers, and stopped the Stalker invasion of the moon and Earth. They became heroes, supposedly wiping out all of the traces of the Stalkers - even the Stalker clones made by a crazed scientist in Nanakaland. Nanakaland and those who helped were triumphant, or so they thought.

A Second Scream in Space

A lone Nanakan tradeship stopped by a remote system and accidentially awoke the Stalkers from their ancestrial homeworld. This Stalker threat highjacked the tradeship and approached slowly toward Klonor space. Meanwhile, the Nanakaland Space Command (NSC) managed to eventually figure out what was going on. Colonel Watson was called out of retirement and led an elite team onboard the specially designed NSS New Glory on a twofold mission to save Klonor from the danger they didn't even know about and to exterminate the Stalkers for good.

Colonel Aaron Watson, Captain Nathan Rodgers, Major Rachel Davis, Specialist Charles Thompson, Private Jack Carson and others deparated from the NSC, but shortly after disobeyed a direct order from High Admiral Nelson Clark. He then sent the NSS New Triumph, the sister ship of the New Glory, to take track down and take out Watson's team. Along the way, the ships ran into a ship from Ma-tek and a ship from Lunatic Retard Robots.

The Stalker-infested tradeship suddenly changed course from Klonor and headed straight toward the New Glory. However, the ship had deployable extra external armor that saved it from the launching of the Stalker pods (originally, the New Glory and its sister ship were designed to handle the Stalker threat). Upon boarding of the tradeship, the team found it entirely empty. The team went down to the surface of the Stalker homeworld on a suicide mission to take out the Stalkers.

Meanwhile, changes in the NSC were underway. High Admiral Neslon Clark fled from the NSC stealing the supercapital ship, the United Grand Celestial Glory, when he was ordered to relieve his command to Commadore Thomas Johnson. Johnson eventually moved in a fleet to back up Colonel Watson on an assault on the Stalker homeworld and encountered former admiral Clark with the supercapital ship and much of the Nanakaland Admiral Space Fleet. A battle ensued both in space between Johnson and Clark and on the Stalker homeworld between humanity and the killer aliens. Heavy loses were on all sides, but eventually Johnson and Watson were victorious. Victory had its price, however. Private Carson and much of Watson's team died on the surface of the Stalker homeworld and Johnson's flagship, the NSS Celestia, was destroyed.

High Admiral Johnson merged the two damaged fleets, the First Nanakaland Space Fleet and the Nanakaland Admiral Space Fleet and took the NSS Empyreal, Clark's old ship, as his new flagship. Colonel Watson, on Specialist Thompson's advice, followed a distress signal to an LRR mining colony where two Stalkers that survived the Stalker homeworld fight had multiplied and were destroying everything.

The team entered the colony and more problems arose. The NSS New Triumph, now on the side of the New Glory, was attacked by Stalkers before the extra armor could be deployed and Captain Daniels was the only surviver. Finding a way into the mining colony himself, he helped the team on the colony eventually make their way past the Stalkers and rescued LRR survivors and took them back to the boarding frigate. However, about half of the remaining team was left and Specialist Thompson died clearing the impassible path of Stalkers for the others. Captain Daniels helped out by going on a suicide mission to manually open the hanger doors of the colony. While the others made it out, Daniels sacrificed himself.

Both Captain Daniels and Specialist Thompson were heroes that sacrificed their own lives to lead to the success of the team and the eventual extermination of the Stalkers and both got posthumous awards. The LRR miners returned home via the LRR ship and they gave the rescuers a gift, the Colonel Watson. When the Nanakaland team returned to NSC, they were rewarded and promoted. Colonel Watson became a brigadier general and commander of the space marines, Captain Rodgers became commadore of the Second Nanakaland Space Fleet using the NSS New Glory as its new flagship, and Major Rachel Davis was one of a special few chosen to lead the Fifth Nanakaland Space fleet in a dangerous journey that would take them to the outer reaches of the universe. However, one Stalker was not killed and lay dormant in a Stalker pod...

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A Scream in Space

A Second Scream in Space

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