Space Mysteries #9

Brad Cummings grows suspicious when his boss, the brilliant physicist Professor Jackson, begins making mysterious modifications to Cerebex, a nearly complete electronic calculator—until a mysterious woman named Mary Smith arrives with a startling claim: the dictator Schmackenburg, thought dead, lives in hiding and has manipulated Jackson into building the machine as a vessel for his own twisted mind. When the plan goes catastrophically wrong and the electronic brain escapes Jackson's control, it begins spawning robot armies and laying waste to the world, forcing Brad and Mary to devise an unconventional weapon to stop it before the artificial dictator conquers everything.

When Earth and Mars send combat teams to Satellite C to fight over colonization rights, Captain Bren Judson and his squad find themselves facing a far deadlier threat than each other—nightmarish alien creatures that emerge from a sub-surface ship buried beneath the planet's surface. Forced to set aside their rivalry, Judson infiltrates the alien vessel and uses its own weapons against the invaders, but the real battle has only just begun.

When Jake Radik and Alec Ross stumble upon the legendary Seven Lost Cities of Syberno drifting in space, their hunger for treasure blinds them to the ancient warnings embedded in local lore—a protective force screen, guardian robots, and worse things still lurking within those alien gates. As they blast their way deeper into the dead metropolis, they encounter the Great Brain itself, a machine-mind that commands metal monsters to defend its domain. What begins as a desperate fight for survival becomes something far more unsettling when Jake recalls a crucial detail from the old tales.