Centuries ago, a being known throughout the galaxy only as Maxwell Demon was born on a peaceful planet many light years away from our own. Although he was not one of their species the inhabitants of the planet Bael, known colloquially as Baeliens, raised him as one of their own. But, as he grew, he began to develop powers that no Baelien possessed, dangerous powers, and he started to show himself to have a cruel side that they could not understand. And so he was banished.
In his exile Maxwell Demon, grew more and more bitter, and more and more cruel, and his cruelty amassed him a following. He quickly gathered a crew and began attacking trade ships, passenger ships, space stations and whatever else he pleased. Even as his wealth increased he found there was an intense desire deep in his heart, a desire for revenge. And so, Maxwell Demon returned to his birthplace with a fleet the like of which no one had ever seen.
Being a peaceful race with almost no spacefaring capabilities, it was not long before Maxwell Demon had killed or enslaved most of the Baeliens. He planned to sell the enslaved Baeliens to the pleasure houses of the galaxy, because while genderless, the Baeliens are incredibly beautiful.
However, two Baeliens were able to escape and flew across the galaxy to find help, Maxwell Demon, and a detachment of his fleet in hot pursuit. The fleet caught up to the escapees just over a small underdeveloped planet called Earth. The Baelien fugitives were shot down and landed in the woods in an area in the Midwest of a continent called North America.
Nearby, a group of three men, musicians in a band calling themselves, Captain Gelato and the Supersonic Cosmonauts were just finishing up a practice session. They heard the crash and decided to go and investigate. When they got there, they found the Baeliens crawling out of the wreckage of their spaceship. They decided to help these strangers, and introduced themselves, Majic, the drummer, Supersonic, the guitarist and Captain Gelato, the bassist. The Baeilens explained their situation and the band said they would help in any way that they could.
But at that very moment, Maxwell Demon and his fleet had discovered the crashed ship and beamed the Baeliens and the Supersonic Cosmonauts up into his ship. They were all lead to the throne room and Maxwell Demon sentenced them all to die, and announced that as punishment for helping the Baeliens he would conquer the earth as well and sell the inhabitants as pets to wealthy aliens. And they would have to watch, only then would he execute them.
While in their prison cells awaiting their executions, the Supersonic Cosmonauts and the Baeliens met other prisoners, some of whom were Space pilots, and others opposed to Maxwell Demon’s evil. A plan was hatched to escape the prison and to acquire ships with which to stop Maxwell Demon once and for all. One of the fellow prisoners had discovered that Maxwell Demon had very sensitive hearing, and that certain frequencies render him useless. Captain Gelato and the Supersonic Cosmonauts, realize that Rock and Roll may be the answer to defeating Maxwell Demon and hook their instruments in to a massive speaker system and use the music to incapacitate the Evil Space Pirate. Earth is saved once again by the power of Rock Music.
Captain Gelato and the Supersonic CosmonautsKalamazoo, Michigan
In 2017, Earth first became aware of the existence of Maxwell Demon, the evil Demon Space Pirate. This is the story of how an unassuming rock-n'-roll band saved the planet from certain doom.
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