Galactopus

Oh &%$@! Either the advance warning satellites are %&$#!@ again or there's a giant %©#&$ space octopus heading straight for earth! Congressional budget cuts have reduced NASA to launching model rockets in the park but never fear, the private sector is here! For six easy payments of just $199,999,999,999.99, Astr-O-Corp has volunteered to send their prototype low orbit fighter to intercept Galactopus™. Since it's still in the prototype phase, the laser cannons aren't powerful enough to destroy Galactopus™, but they can chip away his Octonuim armor. Collect eight pieces of Octonium and add them to the ship's reactors and the cannon will be powerful enough to finish Galactopus™ off once and for all!

No creature in recent memory has been as widely misunderstood as the galactopus. Once thought to float mindlessly through the void consuming whatever fleeting bits of matter floated into its path, we now know it is a purposeful and voracious destroyer, capable of lev­eling a city the size of Akron, Ohio. Astrobiologists are unclear what motivates the galactopus to wreak such havoc, but they do know that Akron is home to forty-five percent of America's rubber indus­try and losing it would be a critical blow to the economy.
Until now the galactopus has been able to rampage through the galaxy unchecked, but recent developments in space flight and ion displacement cannons give us hope that one day soon mankind will be able to rid itself of this eight-legged menace once and for all.

Homebrew author: Ric Pryor
Released: 2014