Sixteen 12 (Product Enterprise) Space 1999 Eagle Transporter 12″ (300mm) Die Cast. Year 1 – Episode 8: It is 877 days since the moon was blasted from Earth’s orbit. On Alpha, after attempting to hijack an Eagle, Captain Tony Cellini is seized and taken to the Medical Section in an unstable and agitated state where Dr Helena Russel deems him a threat to himself and all on Moonbase Alpha. As a lifetime friend of Cellini, Koenig refuses to accept her diagnosis.
Flashback: 1996. Cellini is commander of the high-profile, seven-month, Ultra Probe mission to investigate the newly discovered planet Ultra. On arriving at Ultra, the ship encountered a flotilla of drifting alien spacecraft, and upon boarding one vessel, encounter a huge, tentacled creature with one giant glowing eye and gaping maw emitting a deafening scream. All crew are horrifically devoured by the creature and only Cellini escapes. Using the ULTRA PROBE COMMAND MODULE as a lifeboat, surviving only on rations and his wits, he makes the long journey back to Earth.
Now, many years later, the inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha find themselves in the same region of Space and are about to encounter the same terrifying nightmare…