Linkara (v/o): Although, admittedly, this is a weird combination. Even when Doctor Who had a scientific advisor on the show back in the '60s, its understanding of science and technology has always been more in the realm of science fantasy than science fiction...
Fantasy Grounds - Savage Worlds: Science Fiction Companion Xforce
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Yan is a boy in an orphanage, where he is teased by the other children and falsely punished by the director. When he has to kneel outside the orphanage in the cold as punishment, he sees a spaceship land from which Mirka, an alien with blue skin, and her robot Zopix emerge. Mirka tells Yan that she comes from the planet Tarox, part of a brotherhood of three planets, more than a hundred light years away, and is making her first expedition into this solar system, to follow a weak signal, that points to lost members of Tarox on Earth. Mirka has made this unexpected landing as she needs a spare part for her spaceship, which is found in the form of the orphanage director's gold bell. Yan says he will help them retrieve the bell, but he is first caught in the act by the boys in his dormitory and then the director who comes to see the cause of the commotion. Zopix intervenes, trapping the director in a bubble. Yan flees and begins his fantastic adventure with his new companions. On board the spaceship, Yan experiences a sunrise over Earth and then a voyage to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, where they follow a signal that Mirka has been tracking. There, they find a sunken Spanish galleon laden with treasure, including a gold disc from the original spaceship, but also dangerous canisters of nuclear waste. Back on the spaceship, they examine a golden cup that Yan had found with the disc amongst the Spanish treasure. The characters on its surface identify it as belonging to a Peruvian Andean civilisation. They decide to fly to Peru and on their way they pass over the famous Nazca lines. In these, Zopix recognizes symbols of the Tarox Confederation. They land their spaceship in the South American jungle, and near to a huge step-temple. They enter deep into the building and reach a vault where they find a man in a hibernation capsule. The three want to take the capsule on board, but they first have to get it to a clearing so that the spaceship can land. Zopix and Yan are attacked by indigenous jungle dwellers, who carry spears and swing from vines. Zopix falls into a swamp and Yan is captured. Mirka who had separately gone to the spaceship arrives just in time, and as she beams down from the futuristic flying craft the scared natives bow down to her as a god. With the companions safely back on board the spaceship, the capsule is thawed and the man inside, Xanot, who is also from Tarox, comes to life. He explains that he knows where the other members of Tarox are: Easter Island. Xanot says that once the Tarox spaceship had been damaged by a comet they had to make an emergency landing on Earth, where they were helped by the Inca people. Then the Spanish conquistadores arrived destroying the Inca culture in their search for gold. The Tarox hid with their spaceship in the forest step-temple after leaving clues regarding their whereabouts in the desert (of Nazca). As the conquistadores approached the hideout, the Tarox fled to Easter Island with the little energy that remained on their spaceship. Xanot had volunteered to hibernate in the temple in case their signs in the desert were found. The team fly to Easter Island, where they set down in the crater Rano Kau. From there they find behind a large rock an entrance into a cave, where the Tarox are hibernating in their sleeping capsules. The "lost expedition" has been found. The reawakened Tarox convey that they lived well with the indigenous people of Easter Island for a long time and that with their carriage rays they contributed to transporting the moai. Mission accomplished, Yan flies with Mirka into a future of new adventures.Originally published in France in 1986, this more widely available Swiss edition was the first story in an intended new series of adventures featuring Yan, Mirka, and her robot Zopix. But no other comics have been published since the first. The duo Yan and Mirka resemble the more famous French science fiction comic book pairing of Valerian and Laureline. Moreover, the graphics appear influenced by the artist Jean Giraud/ Moebius and they contain a number of political messages regarding the dumping of toxic waste and the brutal conquests of the Spanish in South America. The moai are featured boldly on the front cover of this Swiss edition, but Easter Island is not mentioned or seen until page 46 of this 52-page comic. Even then the moai appear in just three frames. Clearly of all the fantastic elements in the story, it was felt that the moai carried a strong selling point for a tale of science fiction and adventure and were exploited to promote the comic. The connection of Easter Island with the Nazca lines had occurred previously in the French film Les Soleils de l'île de Pâques (reviewed above), with the aliens helping to transport the moai also not a completely new idea. Unfortunately, in 'resolving' the perceived mystery of how the moai were moved it displaces the labours of the Rapanui. 2ff7e9595c
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