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	    T H E   D A R K   T R O O P E R - THE STORY v1.7
		    (c) 1999 by Andreas melcom Urban

     The Dark Trooper Symphony (c) 1995'99 by Andreas melcom Urban
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This  story  is based on fictional  material. Names, persons, places and
occurrences   either  arise  from  the	author's  fantasy  or  are  used
fictively.  Any	 similarity  with real	occurrences,  places or persons,
either dead or alive, is totally accidental. ;)
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The old planet earth was destroyed by the Dark Troopers in the year 4001
and mankind escaped into space and discovered the small planets DarkStar
1  and 2 in the year 4078. Mankind settled on both. We all talk the same
language  and  use Cracks for payment. Cracks  is a kind of gold, we get
out of the deepness of our moon "MegaCircle".

we write the year 6990.
I  am sergeant melcom and i am 26  years old. I was born in BreakTown on
DarkStar  1.  Today is my first day  at the MartianCorps, a very bad air
force  that tries to keep the law in the universe. I would say, they are
the  best. We got 5 units. Every unit has got 300 men and women. I am in
unit 4 and my commander is commander Sorthen.
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		    The Dark Trooper Story part 1-4
			 (the soundtracks 1-4)

	 This is the 1st of 4 stories - Soundtrack 1 (c) 1995.

We write the year 6992:
Today,	we received the mission to  destroy the planet Pananorth, so our
supply	ships  can  land  quicker  and	safer  on  DarkStar  2.	 What we
unfortunately  didn't know, was that the Skulks  - a bad band of pirates
and  friends  of the Dark Troopers -  occupied	it and were just in this
moment	on their way to plunder the resources. We flew with unit 2 and 4
to the planet and were surprised by the Dark Troopers and the Skulks. We
didn't  have a chance and flew back home to bring reinforcements, but as
we landed on DarkStar 1, the chaos ruled there already.

The  Skulks  and  the Dark Troopers  were  attacking our planet. We, the
MartianCorps,  defended the planet with all our resources and forced the
enemy to retreat.

After  a  few  months  of rebuilding  the  planet,  the Skulks still did
smaller attacks to us, but they were no problem. We contacted DarkStar 2
and  ordered  some units, so we	 could finally destroy Pananorth. In the
meantime,  we  created	2 new units and	 built	600 new and better armed
Warships.

Mid  6993,  the 2 new units from  DarkStar 2 finally arrived and we were
now  in	 superiority.  We flew with unit  2,4,5,6  and	the 2 units from
DarkStar  2 to Pananorth to finally erase  it from space. I received the
mission to overfly it with a PrisonShip and to seek enemy troops, to put
them into prison and to bring them to HellLock - a planet for criminals.
We  found  what we wanted and landed.  What  seemed strange to me in the
first  place, was that the planet looked very deserted and that we found
only 300-400 Skulks. We had to struggle with some of the Skulks and took
about  130 men into prison; "We really gave a fuck about the rest of the
bunch, we only wanted away from here."

We  flew  to HellLock to hand over the	130 men and in the meantime, our
troops	erased	Pananorth  from space. We  received  2 million Cracks on
HellLock  for  the 130 men and then flew  back to our units. Back at our
troops,	 i passed the usual report and some Cracks to commander Sorthen.
Full of joy and 2 million Cracks richer, we flew back home.
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		    The Dark Trooper Story part 1-4
			 (the soundtracks 1-4)

	This is the 2nd of 4 stories - Soundtrack 2 (c) 1995'96.

Arrived	 on DarkStar 1, we received  the message from the Dark Troopers:
"WE ARE BACK!" Duh, that was a kick in the butt.

Our  planet  was in the hands of  the  Dark Troopers, and that they only
left  a	 part of their friends - the  Skulks  - on Pananorth was part of
their plan.

Truly  said, we didn't have had a chance and lost 2 units and both units
from  DarkStar	2.  We quickly contacted  WashingTown,	Telsa  2 and our
continents   Decent  and  GregRiga  to	immediately  evacuate  the  last
inhabitants  of DarkStar 1 to DarkStar	2. Telsa 2 was totally destroyed
but  the other lands were partially reachable.	We now broke the wall of
the Dark Troopers that hindered us from escaping into space.

Arrived on DarkStar 2, we divided the last inhabitants among the cities.
After  that, we needed a break. Neither we got ammunition for our ships,
nor  we	 had sufficient food for all  the people. We had nothing left to
do,  than  fly to NovaStorm - a	 neighbor-planet of DarkStar 2 - and ask
for help.

We  just  came right, because the  Skulks  were attacking the planet. We
offerd	-  with	 our last reserves -  our  help	 and defeated the Skulks
together  with the troops from NovaStorm. Finally ... We received enough
food and fuel for our ships and NovaStorm even offered to ally with us.

We  then  took	the general and some  of  his men from NovaStorm over to
DarkStar 2 and formed an alliance there. I now got transferred to unit 1
and  i	became	unit-leader.  I flew the  general  and	his  men back to
NovaStorm.  On	NovaStorm,  i  took my	vacation  and  met the beautiful
Jesper.

"WOW,  that  was  a  woman!" She was  unit-leader  in  the third unit on
NovaStorm.  Jesper  immediately	 fell in love  with  me.  We had much in
common:	 We  both  were unit-leaders and  both	had predilection for the
ProofProtector 2 GUN, which is able to split a Dark Trooper's alien head
in 2 pieces even from 100 hysometers.

Early  6994,  i	 was  ordered back  by	commander  Sorthen  to safeguard
DarkStar  2  with mine and unit 4,  because  they got a message from the
Dark  Troopers	that  wanted  to come  because	of  a peace agreement. I
actually   doubted  it,	 but  i	 followed  the	orders	of  Sorthen  and
safeguarded DarkStar 2. We now flew around DarkStar 2 and waited for the
Dark  Troopers,	 but  nobody  arrived, except the  last	 -  so i guess -
Skulks, that only asked for fuel, but we gave them not a single drip.

After  about 2 weeks, the Dark Troopers	 finally arrived. But what i saw
there,	i  found no more good. They came  with	9 units, a warship and a
fuelship.  It  looked  suspicious  like	 trouble,  but	we  also weren't
supplied  that	bad, because in this nearly  1	year of calmness we also
could  have build enough ships and  additionally, we still had the units
from NovaStorm in our hindquarters.

The  Dark  Troopers came in peace, so they  said, and we let the ship of
their  leader pass through. Now, so were my orders. But something didn't
fit  to	 all  this. Why did they  came	with all their power?! I ordered
Jeffrey	 -  the	 unit-leader  of  unit 4 -  to	send  one  of his men to
NovaStorm to bring reinforcements, just in case...

After  about 5 minutes, we already got the message from the president of
DarkStar  2  and he told us: "I am  a prisoner of the Dark Troopers, let
them  pass  and	 nothing will happen to	 our  people.  The only want our
resources."  Just  in the moment, as Jeffrey  wanted  to send his man to
NovaStorm,  him and some of his men split up: The Dark Troopers attacked
us and now the party really got interesting.

Some  units of NovaStorm, that were on	their way to MegaCircle, came to
help  us,  but this didn't change very  much.  We lost nearly all of our
troops and the NovaStorm units retreated. We simply were in minority. My
unit  -	 what was left of it -	and  Sorthen flew with them to NovaStorm
because DarkStar 2 could not be rescued anymore. Some smaller ships with
some hundreds of people of the inhabitants of DarkStar 2 also made it to
escape the fireworks of the Dark Troopers.

Back  on  NovaStorm,  i	 did immediately  go  to  Jesper  and needed her
closeness for a while. The Dark Troopers have won, there's no doubt, and
they began to plunder and settle down on DarkStar 2. They also struggled
with  their friends - the Skulks - which  also wanted a piece of the big
cake. But the Skulks were defeated - as far as i know.
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		    The Dark Trooper Story part 1-4
			 (the soundtracks 1-4)

	This is the 3rd of 4 stories - Soundtrack 3 (c) 1997'98.

We write the year 7002,
i  got	my  own	 house	with Jesper  on	 NovaStorm,  near  the	coast of
StoneyHill.  Since  about 8 years now, we  lived  in peace from the Dark
Troopers  and  1 month ago, we have  received a transmission from one of
their  warships.  They wanted to seize over  to us but we won't tolerate
any  Alien-Mutants,  only  human  creatures.  That's  the  law,  here on
NovaStorm.

In  7003,  again  and  again we	 received  small  attacks  from the Dark
Troopers,  that always tried to assault NovaStorm. But in now 9 years of
peace,	we  finally could build 12 new	units  and 3 warships and we now
could resist the attacks of the aliens very well.

In  7004,  i finally was promoted to  the  rank of commander and Sorthen
still  was  it. He even was punished  for 2 years on HellLock because he
flyed  his spaceship while he was drunk.  It was also planned to ban him
from  the MartianCorps, but because of his great fighting skills and his
popularity by some of the BIGGER persons, he stayed in his unit and only
couldn't be promoted anymore.

Late  7004,  Sorthen and i were ordered	 to enter the planet of the Dark
Troopers - "ViolenceCity" -, to punish the leader - "VoreFace" - of them
and  to	 bring him to HellLock. "This  ain't  that easy, eh?", but thank
god,  we  had some spies among the  Dark  Troopers that told us that the
Dark  Troopers	still were on DarkStar 1  and  2 and slowly settled down
there.	So, ViolenceCity was not guarded very well and we got there with
3 units and one warship.

On  our way to ViolenceCity, we had some more - but small - attacks from
the  maybe  last Skulks. We also  wondered,  that they still existed but
those loosy creatures are really vicious and tough.

We  are now on ViolenceCity and just  like it was promised by our spies,
we  could  land	 unhindered and enter  the  city  DruggersJam. Duh, pure
anarchy	 ruled	here and we had to  break  through until the fortress of
VoreFace.  First, we examined the fortress from the outside and even had
contact	 with  some  - but not very  intelligent  - Dark Troopers. I was
happy  that  i	could depend on	 my  ProofProtector  2. It really ripped
everything to pieces, what was in it's way.

We  then finally got access to VoreFace's  fortress and found him in his
bedroom.  But  he  didn't slept. He received  us  with all his power and
fired like crazy around him. Sorthen was hit and i pulled him out of the
hail  of  bullets. I brought him to  a cave near before the fortress and
tried  to look after him. Sorthen died in my arms and i got mad. Just in
the  moment as i ran out of the	 cave, VoreFace stood in front of me and
grinned.  I  drawed  my ProofProtector and  took  VoreFace to a hundreds
pieces.

It's finally all over now...
I  collected  the  rest of VoreFace,  took  Sorthen over my shoulder and
entered	  my   spaceship.  I  left   this  planet  and	outside,  before
ViolenceCity, my troops waited. We flew on to HellLock to bring VoreFace
there. We received 3 million Cracks and took our way home to NovaStorm.

Back  on  NovaStorm, we were celebrated,  because  it's finally all over
now.  We abandoned the victims and i was  on my way to Jesper, who cryed
in worry of me. I held her in my arms and said: "It is over now, honey".

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		    The Dark Trooper Story part 1-4
			 (the soundtracks 1-4)

	This is the 4th of 4 stories - Soundtrack 4 (c) 1998'99.

(song: Intro Sequence)
10 years later!
We  write the year 7014. Jesper and i got offspring. Our daughter Jersey
is  now	 8 years old and derives from  her  mother. Jersey is one of the
youngest  members  of the MartianCorps. She  actually  may not issue any
orders	or  fly	 missions  but she is  present	at  every meeting of the
MartianCorps  and  learns everything a	good  MartianCorp needs to know.
Jesper and i are very proud of our daughter and we hope that she will be
a very good MartianCorp.

(song: Alien Chase 2)
Jesper	and i laid in bed and made  love. I kissed her neck and lovingly
spreaded  her legs. I was shocked very hard as i heared the cries of the
people	outside	 and the sound of some	explosions.  I started to put my
pants  back  on and in this moment, they  broke our door and what i then
saw  snatched my breath away. Dark Troopers stand with Jersey before our
door  and holded a pistol on her head. "Stand up! Stand up immediately!"
they  shouted at us. "And put your clothes  on!" We stood up and got out
with  the  Dark	 Troopers. Half of the	city  stood  in flames and i saw
children and some of my friends burning. They hit our outpost before our
planet,	 and so the Dark Troopers could enter our planet. They came with
3  warships  and some of their	transporters. The Dark Troopers punished
thousands  of  our  men and brought  them  to their transporters. I lost
Jesper	and Jersey out of my sight in this trouble and could escape from
the  Dark Troopers. Despairing, i searched  my family and then runned to
the  headquarters of the MartianCorps to get some weapons. In the moment
as i wanted to go into the headquarter, i was shot in my shoulder. I had
a blackout and fell to the ground.

(song: Violence City)
As  i woke up, i saw blood on the walls and dead bodies all around me. I
screamed  around like mad and couldn't  believe all this as my screaming
was  stopped  by a muffled voice  who  said "Commander Melcom!" I looked
around	and  couldn't believe my eyes. A  man  sat there who looked like
Sorthen	 and i asked for his name. "I'm commander Sorthen" he said. "You
are dead! I buried you by myself!" i said and tears were running over my
cheeks. I was totally confused because i believed to have buried Sorthen
as  he	was  hit by a bullet of	 VoreFace  and	died. "I'm here since 10
years.	They  had pulled me back out  of the earth, after you buried me.
And since then, I'm here." "Those bastards reanimated me in some way and
tortured  me  to get informations about	 our weapon systems, our outpost
and  our people." The celldoor cracked open  and they pulled me out. The
Dark  Troopers	pulled	me to a room  i	 already knew. It was the former
bedroom	 of  VoreFace.	Their  new  leader  welcomed  me  with	"Welcome
commander,  on	ViolenceCity." He explained, with  a hard voice, what he
planned	 for me and my friends. We destroyed ViolenceCity and should now
rebuild	 it,  in  any way possible. Catan  -  the new leader of the Dark
Troopers  -  took  me into chains and we  got  out  into the city. I saw
humans,	 that  nearly weren't. I saw children  who had to do the work of
adults and pulled big stones after them and were treated very bad by the
Dark  Troopers.	 "That's  your new job."  said  Catan.  "You will be the
slave-driver  of  your own people, so they  will  build up the city in a
shorter time."

(song: Confront)
3  months were gone by and they seemed to me like 3 years. Sorthen and i
were  already creating a plan. In any case, we wanted away from here and
also  wanted to free our people out of the claws of the Dark Troopers. I
haven't  seen Jesper and Jersey since the  night we were captured. I met
secretly  with	spies and ordered them	to search for Jesper and Jersey.
One  night, they cut me out of my  sleep and led me to Catan. Catan said
to  me:	 "I will kill you all! Your  children, i will feed to my dogs if
the  build-up of my city won't go faster." I promised him to be finished
with the build-up in a few months. Catan opened a door and Jesper and my
daughter  Jersey stood there. "I show them to you only for one time. And
when  i will show them to you the second time, they will be dead!" Catan
said.  "The build-up must go on faster" he said a second time and closed
the  door  again. After the meeting with  Catan, i met my spies the next
evening. "We need arms.", "Arms!", i said.

(song: Happy Bloodbath)
A   few	 days  later,  some  allies  of	 the  Dark  Troopers  landed  on
ViolenceCity and they brought some new men for the build-up of the city.
I knew some of those men and i saw a very good friend among them. I felt
my  heartbeat up to my head as	i recognized my chance as someone winked
at  me	and so gave a sign to me.  I got Sorthen to me and explained him
the  situation.	 We pretended that we were  working as the allies of the
Dark  Troopers	came  near  us with the	 new  men.  It was damn quick as
someone	 throwed a weapon to me and i shot my chains. It showed that the
allies	of the Dark Troopers actually were our men. The actual allies of
the  Dark  Troopers  were overcome by  the  slaves  during the flight to
ViolenceCity  and  that was now a chance  to escape from the violence of
the  Dark  Troopers.  I saw giant explosions  on  the way to my friends.
Sorthen	 and  i freed some of our people  and gave them arms. Some of my
people	were hit by the Dark Troopers before they could escape. But many
of  them escaped that grasped some Dark	 Troopers and killed them. I ran
with  Sorthen  and 2 other men to  Catan's  fortress and searched it for
friends	 and  enemies. "melcom!", "melcom!" i  heard  behind a big steel
door.  I opened the door and saw  Jesper and my daughter. Immediately, i
gave  my daughter to my friend Sorthen,	 who should bring her out of the
fortress. I handed some explosives to Jesper who put them on some doors.
I  walked  to the basement of the  fortress  and saw Catan who wanted to
escape	through	 a Portal. "Why don't  i have my ProofProtector here?" i
thought when i saw him disappear and only fired into void.

(song: Nemesis II)
I  didn't  dare to go through the  portal  because i didn't knew where i
would  come  out or what could wait  there.  The Dark Troopers handed us
some  of their warships and weapons when they heard that Catan was gone.
They  let  us pass freely and promised	that they would let us alone and
avenge	them  on Catan who cheated on  them for years. With our survived
men,  we  left ViolenceCity and flew  directly	to NovaStorm. Jesper and
Jersey	now were by me and in safety. We looked out of the window of our
ship  as we saw a giant explosion.  Catan's fortress explode and with it
his  damned  portal. Wherever Catan may be,  he	 now couldn't go back to
ViolenceCity.  His portal is destroyed and should he made it anyway, his
troops will wait for him to destroy him.

(song: DTS4 End Theme)
On  NovaStorm,	we tried our best to  rebuild  our city over the months.
Jesper	and i got another child after 1	 year and he was a splendid kid.
We  named him melcom jr. Jersey now has a playing comrade and we all are
very happy now.

(song: Death is not the END!)
Now,  this  is the end of the  Dark Trooper story. melcom and his family
lived  another	10 years in peace until,  in  the year 7031, melcom died
mysteriously  during a training flight with  his daughter. In the report
of  the	 MartianCorps, they wrote that	melcom	and his daughter died by
means  of  a navigation-error. melcom's  and  Jersey's bodies were never
found. Even the help and search organizations which were put together by
Jesper did not find any clues about the disappearance of the two.

		     --- === T H E   E N D === ---
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	     Everything of the soundtracks you can find on:
		    http://www.darktroopers.cjb.net/

	 You need the Impulse Tracker for the individual Songs.
	   You can get it from: http://www.noisemusic.org/it/

	     Send comments etc. to 'melcom@traxinspace.com'
	     Or visit my WebSite: http://www.melcom.cjb.net
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	    T H E   D A R K   T R O O P E R - THE STORY v1.7
		    (c) 1999 by Andreas melcom Urban

     The Dark Trooper Symphony (c) 1995'99 by Andreas melcom Urban
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