Crusader Probe Mission

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**Crusader Probe Mission** is the sixteenth episode of Gemini Home Entertainment.

## Transcript

"Gemini Home Entertainment"

"Gyneva Production Company - High Quality Educational Tapes"

"Crusader 5"

"Introduction:

After 12 long years, Crusader 5 successfully completed its planetary fly-by mission, resulting in a plethora of new data and photographs."

"During its mission, Crusader photographed..."

"Jupiter"

"Saturn"

"Neptune"

"Crusader Incident Timeline - Outing the timeline of events leading up to and during the Crusader Incident"

"June 1982 - Crusader approaches Jupiter"

"JUN 15 1982

JUL 3 1982

AUG 12 1982"

"Callisto - Moon of Jupiter"

"Europa - Moon of Jupiter"

"Io - Moon of Jupiter"

"December 1985 - Crusader approaches Saturn"

"DEC 5 1985"

"JAN 2 1985"

"JAN 30 1986"

"Titan - Moon of Saturn"

"Iapetus - Moon of Saturn"

"Chiron - Moon of Saturn"

"September 1991 - Crusader approaches Neptune"

"SEP 28 1991"

"Saturn's Moons - Saturn has 79 moons, each with their own unique characteristics. During its mission, Crusader photographed two of these moons."

"Jupiter - Saturn - Neptune"

"NOV 20 1991"

"February 1992 - Crusader approaches first cluster"

"Themis - Moon of Saturn"

"Hestia - Moon of Jupiter - Kadlu - Moon of Uranus"

"Ceto - Moon of Jupiter"

"December 1992 - Crusader approaches"

"Cyst - Moon of Iris"

"Umbilic - Moon of Vitreous"

"Yucous - Moon of Iris"

"Macula - Moon of Iris"

"Vitreous - Moon of Iris"

"January 1993 - Crusader experiences sudden gravitational pull"

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"January 1993 - Crusader enters Esophage Grove"

"Laceral Passage"

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"January 1993 - Crusader enters Respiratory Spinal Complex"

"Laceral Passage"

"Lower Sacralic Throat"

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"Lower Sacralic Throat"

"February 1993 - Crusader approaches Conscious Mind"

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"MAY 06 1993"

"MAY 07 1993"

"MAY 08 1993"

"MAY 09 1993"

"OCT 24 1993"

"Crusader Signal lost for 7 months"

"MAY 1994 - Crusader approaches Earth"

"Crusader 5 - Conclusion"

"Crusader's voyage through space has been thrilling for scientists and space enthusiasts alike, uncovering hundreds of new, exciting possibilities for humanity's future."

"Who knows what's in store for Earth next?

"Crusader Probe Mission (3D models created by Swift Animations)"

"Gemini Home Entertainment"

## Lore

The episode begins with an announcement of a new launching a new space probe, Crusader 5, to photograph Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune.

The video progresses relatively normally when photographing Jupiter and its moons, but there is an oddity with Saturn in the form of its rings being much, much thinner.

Crusader 5 then begins travelling towards Neptune, before a few split second frames show up.

When Neptune is approached, there is nothing there. Neptune has vanished. Meanwhile, photographs are of other objects in the Solar System, morphed or fused together.

It the cuts to some completely bizarre and alien moons. This includes:

* Cyst: A peanut shaped moon with a ruddy colour and white markings. It's texture resembles raw steak.

* Umbilic: A spherical, yellowish moon with a long tendril extending out of it. It is the moon of another moon, Vitreous.

* Yucous: A relatively normal moon in comparison, seeming to be a craterous rock.

* Macula: A small circular object with sprawling tendrils extending from it.

* Vitreous: An eldritch fusion of bizarrely shaped rocks strung together by tendrils.

However, none of this is as shocking as what they're moons of:

The Iris.

Before long, Crusader 5 begins being pulled in by the gravity of the giant planet, and finds itself going through its insides, with hole filled passages, tunnels filled with the pods that birth Woodcrawlers, Lights, and Gardeners, the same ones seen in Advanced Mining Vehicle, and it then approaches "the Conscious Mind". The Crusader then takes photographs.

The photos received are of a grey carpeted floor, followed by a man in his bed, before a red figure approaches. A few photos later reveals that this figure is a victim of Deep Root Disease in its final stages. They then spread out the stringy mass they are composed of towards the sleeping person, before it cuts to a picture of some sort of tower. The Crusader then loses connection for 7 months, in which it somehow travels the full distance back to Earth, despite the outgoing journey taking 10 years, indicating some sort of force was or is being applied to it, allowing it to travel faster. Meaning it got ejected from the Iris. Or, the Iris is coming to us, which we can see.

The video ends.

## Gallery

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## Trivia

* This episode actually gave a redesign to The Iris' core.
* This episode revealed several of The Iris' moons.
* Chiron and Themis are presented as Saturnian moons here, despite being disproven in reality.
* Hestia is listed as a moon of Jupiter despite actually being an Asteroid Belt object.
* Ceto is listed as a moon of Jupiter despite being a trans-Neptunian object.
* Kadlu is lasted as a moon of Uranus despite being a minor planet in actuality.
* Saturn is listed as having 79 moons, despite at the time period this episode is set in, only 18 moons have been discovered, with the discovered number reaching not only to, but past that number to a total of 82 known Saturnian moons in the year 2019.
* Most of The Irisian moons are named after features and conditions of the human body.
	+ Cyst is named after Cysts, a closed sac of skin that may contain such things as ranging from liquids and air, to parasitic creatures.
	+ Umbilic is named after the Umbilical Cord, a cord that foetuses have to supply nutrients to them. They fall off not too long after the baby is born.
	+ Macula and Vitreous are both named after parts of they eye, just like The Iris itself.
	+ Yucous is the only exception, as its name is a fictional word.
* Remy Abode has stated that The Iris' moon, Yucous had a different design and name, the design being a simpler version of The Iris' core, with a line down the middle. The moon's name was also different, being originally called Ulcer. Remy stated he would like to reuse this name in the future.
* The Gemini Home Entertainment logo and opening is incredibly distorted.

## Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sd2ahUfi9Y