Crankie Williams Series

The Chief of Police on Earth finally managed to capture Cankie and had him shipped off in a fleet supply freighter. Crankie had a hard time in the beginning but managed to overcome the problems he was faced with. When the freighter was attacked by pirates Crankie was freed and he met up with the pirate captain, Martin West, who was to become his best friend. The pirate ship headed back to the pirate base, Tortuga, where Crankie settled himself. He became very popular at the base. Crankie, having become one of the leaders amongst the pirates organised a few raids and finally convinced Martin they should carry out a raid in the Heshny Galaxy. The first raid went off sucessfully and they decided to go back and do it all again, but this time things didn’t go as planned and they had to high-tail it out of there. Crankie made contact with his old buddy in the Milky Way Galaxy, Alexei, and finally the two met up again. Together they made plans for Crankie to meet up with his friends from Earth and a grand secret meeting took place, bringing Crankie up to speed on all his business interests and restructuring some of the facets of his organisation. He also managed to bring his super fast and beautiful space ship the Solar Plexus to Tortuga and used it to further his interests there. The Japanese President of Tortuga, Makatura, asked Crankie to arrange assistance for his home planet ‘Nga which was under attack by a rogue nation, the Ribaldese, from a neighbouring planet who was determined to destroy “Nga. Crankie planned the whole operation and with the willing participation of the hundreds of pirates with all their fighting ships they attacked the rogue planet and vitually destroyed it! The pirates, as payment for their participation pillage the planet and came away with rich booty. The Police Chief of Earth and the GASS (Galactic Secret Service) determined that Crankie was responsible for the masacre on Ribald. He was named as the ‘Butcher of Ribald’ and a hefty price was placed on his head. Crankie met up with his daughter, Lara, as well as with his secret love, the giant beautiful lady ex president of a Heshny planetary system, Eleza, and life for him became rosy again. He made contact with the Chinese leaders on their home planet, Manchuria, and they discussed their very secret and hugely ambitious project of heading out of the Milky Way galaxy and the universe and exploring the universe beyond, suggesting Crankie with his fleet of fighting ships as well as cargo ships accompany them as protection against any unforseen attacks. While the Chinese were making preparations Crankie and Martin West carried out various daring raids and this ended up in catastrophy, with Martin being killed, blasted to space dust by a heavy cruiser. Crankie took this loss very hard and blamed himself for what happened. His lady friend Eleza tried everything to comfort him and even called in Alexei’s help. Crankie tried to hold himself together and arranged several raids. He even made contact with Marood Hubool of the mysterious mystical planet Xanatanka who gave him guidance and support, but it was all to no avail. He planned a daring raid and things suddenly went horribly wrong when his ex wife Emily betrayed him to the GASS. The whole operation was a complete disaster! Crankie was distraught and totally fell apart, turning to strong drink and even Eleza and Alexei’s help and support couldn’t console him for all the deaths he was responsible for. Taking a space capsule Crankie headed off straight to a fleet cruiser and handed himself over, to the amazement of the captain of the cruiser who had dealings with Crankie in the past.

Crankie was taken to the penal planet Walmer, to the top security penitentiary Hellcatrazz, where he was sentenced to stay for life. He met with the Director of the penitentiary as well as some important inmates. Crankie began planning on how to make Hellkatrazz and the whole planet Walmer into a thriving and financially viable business, and after meeting with the Galactic Council, he was permitted to put his plans into place. Crankie set out on a daring escapade to make his plans succeed and called in the help of Marood Hubool from the planet Xanatanka. After many devious plans and much wrangling, his plans were put into action. Crankie finally made contact with his friends from Earth, who were managing his businesses during his absence. Together they came up with some weird ideas, and some of those led to battles throughout the Milky Way, and Hesny galaxies. Crankie finally identified the rogues who preyed on space miners and, using his super fast ship, the Solar Plexus, he destroyed the killers in a gruesome way. Crankie made deals with the Pleasure Lords of Barcator, and after many confrontations, he managed to unite the Heshny galaxy. A grand plan by the Valgonarians to invade the Heshny galaxy was uncovered, and a spy nest within the galaxy was eventually destroyed. What Crankie and the whole Galactic Council were unaware of, was that the Dark Force had awoken and was setting its plans into motion, influencing the rebellious galaxies to prepare for full-scale war. The Emperor of the Milky Way became aware of the Dark Force’s schemes and he in turn communicated with Crankie. Dark days lay ahead for the united galaxies.

The Dark Force, after it escaped from its dimension, managed to evade its pursuers and fled through many universes until it holed up in a universe that seemed sparsely populated, its energy depleted. The Emperor, sensing the presence of this evil force sets off in the spirit to find it and evaluate its power, but the long journey through the universe, and clear across the empty divide separating the two universes drained his energy. He finally found the Dark Force and forced it to battle but it overpowered him and he just managed to flee. The Dark Spirit easily conquered and enslaved lower order spirits and built up a powerful army. It spent aeons manipulating the inhabitants of several planets in and around the Milky Way galaxy and convinced them to prepare for war, promising them untold riches and power. The Emperor made it known that the Dark Force was preparing its allies for war, and Crankie with Martin and his guardian set off to find it. Marood Hubool warns him urgently to leave the sector immediately! He couldn’t imagine the power of that being! Through spies, the Milky Way Galactic Senate became aware that the Valgonar Galaxy and three of its neighbouring galaxies were preparing for war. The Galactic Senate consulted with the Andromedan and Heshnian galaxies, to form an alliance, and after the war had started, they were under the impression they were winning it until the Valgonarians called in the powerful Changchoos from the Transilvian galaxy! The allies were ready to retreat before that fresh force when suddenly a new ally arrived to save their bacon. The Valgonarians and their allies withdrew to lick their wounds. The Dark Force turns on the pressure and adds more allies to its forces, instructing them to attack once more. This huge combined fleet of warships was playing havoc amongst the allies and they were sure they would be beaten this time. On both sides, thousands of huge battleships were blown to space dust and even Crankie’s heavily armed freighters, as well as the combined might of the pirate fleet, made no impression on the enemy. They saw it coming, it was like a space-dust cloud filling the galaxy and it was approaching at a speed they couldn’t comprehend. It was the Halconans from the Tabulanè Hoff galaxy in another dimension, coming to their aid. The Valgonarians and their allies were defeated and eventually, due to major upheavals in that sector of the universe, the Dark Force’s peers arrived and captured it. They escorted it back to their dimension through the ‘Dimension Spiral’ and securely lock it up in a raw energy and plasma cell. Crankie, the Emperor, and the Supreme Senators were invited by the Dalmerians, from the neighbouring universe, to join them in their pursuit of the Dark Force, and eventually they discover the Dimension Spiral, but they’d lost track of the enemy. Crankie decided he needed to become more enlightened and withdrew himself completely from the Milky Way, to be tutored by the highly advanced spirits of the next universe, and then also by Marood Hubool of Xanatanka and other higher-level beings. Crankie eventually reached the stage he'd been searching for, and then - Crankie was no more.

Crankie Williams was born as Clarence Allain but as a baby his mother called him Crankie because, well, he was a cranky baby, so the name stuck. On his way home from school Crankie met with Commander Illian who was instructed by the Emperor to guide and tutor him through his young life, until he understood he had a higher purpose in the future. During his junior as well as senior school days he got up to all sorts of tricks and became a real thorn in the Principal’s flesh, so much so that the Principal, after Crankie decided to become an entrepreneur and began, with his brother and his friend’s help, to go into space and sign contracts with both the Arabs of the planet Murka and the Chinese of the planet Manchuria. The Principal eventually met with the Chief of Police to inform him of his suspicions that Crankie was involved in criminal activities. With the help of his brother, Crankie meets up with Alexei who was to become one of his best friends. The two of them plan raids in the Heshny galaxy and actually hijacked some Heshnian freight ships. When they, unbeknown to them, hijacked a brand new super ship belonging to the powerful Andromedans they were overjoyed, but, when they eventually realised what they had done Crankie ordered the new ship to be hidden until they could decide what to do with it. The Andromedans blamed the Milky Way pirates of stealing their ship and this put huge strain on relations between the two galaxies. There was big trouble in the Milky Way galaxy and the Galactic Council was in uproar, giving the Police Chief as well as GASS (Galactic Security Service) instructions to find the culprits at all cost! Crankie, through a clever scheme, managed to recover the new ship and take it back to the Andromedans, thereby earning the title of Universal Hero! Crankie decided to start a new venture for the business empire he was developing. He restructured his management team and made plans to construct motels all over the Milky Way galaxy. These motels would be called Star Havens and eventually, after they were built and commissioned, they catered not only for weary travellers in pleasure cruises, they also afforded rest and recuperation for the fleet officers and men. The problem came when the pirates also began using the facilities and it was passively agreed by all that Star Havens would also be ‘Safe’ havens. No pirates would attack any passenger of cargo ships they were with at the havens and the fleet would not attack or hunt any pirates until they had a chance to get safely away. Through the influence of the Emperor, Crankie met up with Chiefs Running Water and Running Bear of the Lacota Sioux tribe and it was decided to move all those people, who decided for themselves if they wanted to go, to a new mysterious planet called New Maka. Crankie got involved in some shady underworld activities and, although it was hugely successful for a long time, he eventually got caught red handed and much to the joy of the Police Chief, was locked up. The Police Chief decided to have Crankie shipped out in a fleet supply ship, with strict orders that for the rest of his life he was never to set foot on any planet again.