Space Captain Smith Kareem Abed

Space Captain Smith Kareem AbedIts the 25th Century and the British Space Empire faces the gathering menace of the evil ant soldiers of the Ghast hive, hell bent on galactic domination and the extermination of all humanoid life forms. Captain Isambard Smith is the square jawed, courageous and somewhat asinine new commander of the clapped out freighter John Pym, destined to take on the alien threat because nobody else is available. Together with his bold crew a skull collecting

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its inevitable dispersal

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