One such tale was the Holding Back the Dark.


The Dark came. From where, no one knows. It grew, it consumed. Whole worlds were lost. They were left lifeless, barren, and covered with ash.

The Mighty Mars led the entire Stellar Patrol to confront the Darkness. They were routed.

The Darkness had no form. No body. There was nothing to fight. How can you defeat a shadow?


From there Jinm spoke. Jinm was a skeq, a small collection of moist cells, just barely able to carry its rod.  It send a thought via radio telepathy to the Patrol. " You can't hit the Darkness, but you can trap it...with light."

  A plan was hatched. The darkness enveloped a world. It skulked onto the planet from its dark side, using the planets umbra as a pathway. It began to consume. 

Then Jinm's plan was set into action. In perfect harmony, via radio telepathic relays, the entire Patrol bent gravity and rained a deadly hail of asteroids upon that small nameless world.  Tears were shed for the poor microorganisms that swam in shallow seas as they perished  from the barrage.

The planet moaned. The world's orbit shifted, and success was achieved.   The planet's natural rotation was slowed.  From now on, only one side of the world would face Algol, the Demon Star. The Darkness was trapped, hungry, in a cave.

As long as this tiny, now ravaged world kept the same side facing its star, the Darkness could not escape.


Alas the tiny micro martyrs who died ignorant of their sacrifice. The Stellar Patrol honors you!