Grave Orbits

[Transcript] Power. I need more power. The accretion disk could work. I would need to repair the solar cells. I don’t have enough energy left for that and a record given the rate of decay I’m currently experiencing. The record is more important. They need to know what happened. What could have been. It started when all the outposts began going dark along the Harbinger Void. The Sages pulled all de...

[Transcript] The Fridjardin Lightway is a cluster of systems about 3 lightyears long. Too short to bother using an Odo Lens or metaphysic diaphragm. Neutrino substrates are frowned on there by the residents. Never met one myself. They’re said to be like comets, long flowing trains of ice and metal dust in their wake. The Lightway is dense with almost 4,000 systems packed into such a small stretch...

[Transcript] Fellwhim Commune got wind of us finishing a job over in the Eadron Quadrant. . That abbot I gave a ride to way back when must have told them an abomination was loose in the Continuum. Not like I’m the only one. Hyperskiff drifters come blasting out of faster than light travel, their neutrino substrates hot on the scopes. Hamark takes co-pilot and Zery takes point on the reverse therma...

[Transcript] Zery’s more familiar with Morobian customs and rites than Hamark, Ruthin, or myself. Though, given Ruthin’s fallen back into hypernation, that ain’t sayin’ much. Zery says the Morobians are an adventurous type, brave, and courageous and all that. The one in the cargo hold is rechecking that suit of theirs for the fortieth time.  Morobian anatomy is mainly crystalized exodermis shieldi...

[Transcript] The Methagor Dwarf Galaxy lies about 650,000 light years up linear-y from Apotheosis. Dexikai home world, Dexes, is on the far rim. Zery managed to sweet talk us a job from the Termescash Conclave. They’re trying to establish a new fulcrum diode that goes out beyond the Kedder Void, beyond the Fubrosis Supercluster. The job would take us further away from home than I’ve ever been. We...

[Transcript] Zery and I were looking for another crew member.  Startin’ to feel the strain of only the two of us doing jobs. Met a Gahjavian while working for the Commune of Obdrin. Poor bastards still trying to save their Wrot. Zery bets it won’t last another millennium. I give them another hundred years. Obdrin Commune had us going towards the galactic heart of Apotheosis. Said there was a genus...

[Transcript] Tritium barnacles don’t come off vitro-plastic steel easy but the commission from the Escathai was too good to pass up. Ship is docked on the dorsal side of their Reef Leviathan for the time bein’. They needed navigation help gettin’ around the Lorn Supercluster. Something I just so happen to be uniquely qualified for. We take a wide arch around the it but that has the unfortunate con...

[Transcript] Badacamsana is not a friendly place if you don’t know what you’re about. A Sckelian’s been talking us up to transport a Kedash Monolith for a friend of his there. Hamark is back on Plaxis so it was just Zery and I on the scout to see if the delivery was even possible. Badacamasana lies between three white dwarfs. Celestorian out of Falomorgon hitched along for the ride out. The Badaca...

[Transcript] Wrots. Iron psychic celestial parasites. Most stars aren’t sentient until one of the fissile larva takes root. Commune of Vortixi gave us the job. Their wrot is one of the few to have survived solar collapse, the worm god entombed behind the event horizon, bound to a singularity. Reality breaking power, if only it could get free. The commune is only one of three out in the Yan quadran...

[Transcript] Job is on relay from the neighboring quadrant on behalf of the Commune of Yistoff. I think their Wrot is trying to make paths into Vikoor culture here but so have half a dozen other worms over the last million years. I’m not worried. What does get my head scratchin’ are the details. Salvage brief the Commune relayed through our contact on Vikoor didn’t have much. Metallic, we know tha...

[Transcript] Temis Beta has an orchard that was cozy enough. Client wanted a delivery sent to Trinity Breach out in the Alagda Quadrant. Ayin and Veshinai territory. Fulcrum diodes out to that part of Apotheosis are watched by Slavers. Hamark isn’t humanoid and Zery is amorphous when she wants to be. So I stayed behind on this one. Temis Beta is uninhabited. Swevor mite colonies organize seed pods...

[Transcript] Picked up a data lace from the Garden of Eve. Little known branch of the mythosphere along the linear Y rim of Apotheosis bleeding over to this side of reality. The lace is woven in a style I don’t recognize. Stranger still is Hamark doesn’t recognize it either.  Thing was a part of an echo-capsule buried in an older part of the Garden. The Reapers of Eve were torching an old ilgar vi...

[Transcript] Fuel shortage on Gadrion Gadrion left the three of us with a lot of spare time. First break in a while, we set the awning along a cue of ships waiting our turn for a  neutrino substrate. Metaphysic flight is banded inside the Gadros system of worlds except on Gadrion Peqor.  News comes down the line and the Jeshure Mergini in front of us passes the word it will be another rotation bef...

[Transcript] Access Attempt 35…Failure Access Attempt 36…Failure Access Attempt 37…Success Data veil pierced. Commencing cortex breach. Power integration start… Integration complete.  Origin of genesis: unknown: Location recovered: Regina Quadrant , coordinates 04-99-132 at 131° off galactic axis off Linear X. Information storage model: unknown. Analysis:: Partial data lace splice embedded in cogn...

[Transcript] Pivot sits down linear Y at the crux of Nadir and Apotheosis. The two galaxies' spiral arms snare each other in a bramble garden of star nurseries and primitive solar masses shepherded under the Geist Brumes. Chum of mine, Tod’rish Scar, chats over the entangled coms as we make our final approach to Pivot’s docking port. I check on “Ruthin” in the cargo bay. It was Zery’s idea to...

Get the Soundtrack here : [Transcript] Ether-shrike commission target was along the underbelly of Nadir. Not my home galaxy but I’m familiar. Long ancient home to humanoids this side of the Chasm though that was almost 8 billion years ago. Coordinates park us below the galactic disk on a moon without craters. We wait for the sands in the Pore Glass to stop moving. Zero kelvin at the top of the hou...

Get the Soundtrack ⁠ here ⁠ : [Transcript] Only met a handful of Spinal Druids over the millenia. Help to reache versifier networks. Filaments made from parable silk, yarns made out of yarns. They help with traveling through the Mythosphere. Cut off from the linear flow of time, it's hard to get there if you aren’t humanoid in some way.  Can’t take the ship. Gotta start at a legend mecca, swea...

Get the Soundtrack ⁠ here ⁠ : [Transcript] Ugrians are a strange folks. Half descended from humanoids some six and a half million years ago and an earlier kind of Hemotripe, tall gymnosperms found at home over on Petrichor VIII. Arboreal world protected by stratis-palms, orbit breaching plants with sap caustic enough to eat through vitro-plastic. Valued in the Yontis medical community. Only thing...

Get the Soundtrack ⁠ here ⁠ : [Transcript] Between the cantilevered axis of the Nadir and Apotheosis galaxies lies the Chasm. Nadir’s spiral arm locks with Apotheosis some 80 million light years below us. Odo lens cracked again, spinning us way out into the breach here. Not as bad as gettin’ hurled into the Lorn Supercluster, but unlike that there’s little help out here. We were transportin’ a Ked...

Get the Soundtrack ⁠ here ⁠ : [Transcript] Running scared. I can’t find Zery. Clouds of lithium ion blast crimson lightning over the land against a red sky. I can feel ‘em in orbit. Zether’yin isn’t supposed to be a part of their patrol pattern. Hamark hands me the syringe of ji’fra extract. We only got a few seconds. Had to dump the Verkin sediment in the emergency landing. They won’t be happy bu...

Get the Soundtrack ⁠ here ⁠ : [Transcript] The star at the center of the Obdrisceant rings is dyin’. The commune of Obdrin been hiring our flyers from all over to bring their followers to the rings. They want to all be together when their god passes away. The Wrot has tried to keep the natural death cycle to a minimum. No super nova, no collapsing into a black hole. Its strange hearing a Wrot be s...

Get the Soundtrack ⁠ here ⁠ : [Transcript] Route between Sevetis IX and Gadrion Gadrion is nothing special. Along the rim of the Lestif Quadrant, nothing’s back there except the occasional wandering pillar drifting over from Gipsum Formations beyond Agora.  Was transporting a Lamorae gene seer and a Nelgani technopath through there the other day. Hamark was back on Plaxis to visit the rest of the...

Get the Soundtrack ⁠ here ⁠ : [Transcript] Sefrin. It’s cold when we land on the dark side of the last planet in the chain. I take a deep breath of my nitrogen mask, the atmosphere nearly pure O2 outside. Chaldricom, our contact, walks up the loading ramp to say hello, the fiery waves of his body dancing shadows on the hull. I shake his hand, sweatin’ in my suit from the radiant heat.  They’re tal...

Get the Soundtrack ⁠ here ⁠ : [Transcript] I need to visit the Yan quandart more. Simple delivery for a huru on the cathedral world of Teshilpelemonvesti. Weevillites hollowed the entire planet through with chapels, vestibules, and foyers. Ain’t got no divine ties myself but I always take my hat off in those halls. Respect for the space if not the faith. The Anathema out in Yan are some of my favo...

Get the Soundtrack ⁠ here ⁠ : [Transcript] It came that time to jump the rim. Finishing our business on Palathora, we told the Lorewalker we were going to the Fulcrum Diode in orbit round Termer Kai. Busy body like them make sure everyone knows where we ain’t going. Ayin patrol the diodes, figuring humanoids will go in or out of one sooner or later. Frozen in crystalline sapient solution means we...