The Alien bomber is an alien warship encountered, on a number of occasions, by the inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha.
In "Alpha Child" the bomber is used to destroy the ships belonging to the fugitive alien Jarak (which are the auxiliary craft designed by the sixteen year old Bower).
In "War Games" the aliens cause the bomber to appear, perhaps using as sources the Alphan memories, to destroy Moonbase Alpha.
In "The Last Enemy", a modified version of the design serves as the Deltan battleship.
Behind the scenes[]
This unidentified spaceship based on the Discovery One from 2001: A Space Odyssey called Guardal Canal (a misspelling of "Guadalcanal") was designed (along with its auxiliary craft) and built as a model by a sixteen-year-old Martin Bower just after he saw that film. Around a decade later, he reused it for the series.
As well as it's above appearences, The model was also included among the vessels in two spaceship graveyards - the one above Ultra in "Dragon's Domain", and the one on Psychon in "The Metamorph".
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