Main Characters
- Commander Randy Perkins, an experienced officer and main protagonist.
- Major Peter Hoffmann, Perkin's best friend. Tends to panic during action, but makes characteristic humorous and sarcastic remarks. He has a crush on Cindy Common.
- Professor Dr. Arthur Common, scientist, is the inventor of the Dimension Transmitter.
- Cindy Common, his impulsive young daughter and assistant, she is a physicist and mathematician. She has a crush on Perkins and fends off Hoffman's flirting with biting humor.
- Ralph Common, the telephathic 12 year old son of the professor.
- Oberst (Colonel) G. Camiel Jason, the administrator of moon base Delta-4. Unsympathic, stubborn and impulsive, he is much an antagonist as the various aliens Perkins has to fight.
- General Basil Lucan Crinian, the chief of the Armed Forces of Earth.
- Camiel, individual class robot, brings humor into the series.
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