MOONBASE ALPHA SECTIONS:

The alien metamorph Maya (Catherine Schell), Co-heads the science section of Alpha with Professor Victor Bergman. She comes from the planet Psychon, which was destroyed in a natural disaster. Played in the RPG by: ?

Name: MAYA Date of Birth: 3rd DAY OF TAYAD, 6752 PSYCHON YEARS Place of Birth: MANOS PROVINCE, PLANET PSYCHON Assigned Alpha: 347 DAYS SINCE LEAVING ORBIT Job Assignment: SCIENCE OFFICER

Maya joined the Alphans when her homeworld was destroyed. She is an enchanting, sensuous female about 26 Earth-years old. Maya has the amazing talent of melecular transformation. With just a thought, she can become anything organic for an hour. She must then transform back to her original self before another change, but she does have the ability to transfer directly from one form to another. She has yet to master this technique on a voluntary basis however, and can only perform such a feat under emotional panic. Her brain is quicker than Alpha's computer thanks to an education in Psychon's advanced mathematics. Maya has a pixie's sense of humor and seems to be most comfortable when she's near Tony Verdeschi.

The mature and brilliant Professor Victor Bergman(Barry morse), Co-heads the science section of Alpha with Maya, the Alien metamorph. was a visiting scientific advisor when the Moon was blasted out of Earth's orbit. He was born in England. He died several years ago, due to a spacesuit malfunction. He was recently resurrected by an alien force seeking to steal Alphan bodies. Played in the RPG by: David

Name:BERGMAN, VICTOR Date of Birth: Place of Birth: Job Assignment: JUNE 27, 1940 LONDON, ENGLAND PROFESSOR OF TECHNOLOGY, INTERNATIONAL SPACE ACADEMY, VISITING ALPHA FOR STUDY

Professor Bergman is, to a great degree, the father of Moonbase Alpha, having contributed more to the base's construction than anyone else. He is also a father figure for many of the base's key personnel. As a young man he was deeply involved in early space exploration efforts, however he can still remember when a visit to the Moon was considered to be only a figment of Jules Verne's imagination. To some extent, he is very much the proverbial professor. He has a brilliant mind and has been responsible for many advances in space science, but he is naive in many practical matters. In some ways, he reminds one of a 19th century scientist rather than a man of the late 20th century, though physically he is more a part of the new era than he appears. He is something of a philosopher and very much a humanist. Bergman is unusual in one respect. An early illness led to his having a mechanical heart replacement. Be- cause it responds more slowly to nervous stimuli than a normal heart does, it reduces his reactions to most emotional stresses. Whatever the situation, he is physically immune from panic. There is one drawback--a ruthless or desperate person might be able to interfere with his mechan- ical heart and upset his finely-tuned metabolism.

Also back from the dead...the head of the Technical Section is David Kano(Clifton Jones). He is the leading computer expert on the base. He is from Kingston, Jamaica.. Played in the RPG by: Craig

Name: KANO, DAVID Date of Birth: JANUARY 29, 1965 Place of Birth: KINGSTON, JAMAICA Assigned Alpha: MAY 1, 1999 (TENTH TOUR OF DUTY) Job Assignment: HEAD OF TECHNICAL SECTION

David is a most remarkable individual who almost never fails to amaze his fellow Alphans. His expertise and rapport with computers is uncanny. This ability is the sum total of several decades of experience dating from the years he spent watching his computer-expert father. The operation and main- tenance of huge multi-operational machines became almost natural from that point on. His life-long dedication to the science took hold after he sur- vived an experiment to link a man's brain with a computer. Two men became vegetables--their minds wiped clean. David Kano managed to leave the ex- perience with a heightened sensitivity to these "mechanical brains." Occas- sionally he's seen talking to the female-voiced Moonbase master computer as if it were a living woman, but what seems to be a wildly unnatural affec- tion between man and machine is actually a well-earned feeling of respect.