Grave Orbits

Get the Soundtrack ⁠ here ⁠ : [Transcript] Psychic zoetropes are a new thing. Only really started being used about a thousand years ago. Zery likes to remind me they're older but so are a lot of things. Hamark and I met her when she was a junior weaver on Hakelm Adi.  Mystic place. Busy now that word has gotten out. Ships washing over the planet like locusts. Zery pilots whenever we go. Hamark...

Get the Soundtrack ⁠ here ⁠ : [Transcript] Friend of mine got lost once a couple centuries back. Real lost. Tried to fire up an old set of seraphim wings using a second hand drive core. Previous owner had never used it. No one in recent memory had. No way of knowing the thing was made with old Fervor Engine parts. One flick of the switch, and my friend was gone. Hamark knew an old Numeric Sage on...

Get the Soundtrack ⁠ here ⁠ : [Transcript] Was looking for Shriipal Ice shards when I was hailed. Minor abbot of the Fellwhim Commune had gotten. I gave him a lift off the asteroid. Said he’d been there close to three centuries. He’d lie there on the tidally locked side, contorted in prayer to Fellwhim. The Wrot must have heard him as wreck after wreck came drifting out of the void laden with supp...

Get the Soundtrack ⁠ here ⁠ : [Transcript] I’ve been alive long enough to remember when Corvisites were a galactic panic. Hurus and politicians, Priests and Wrots said they would be the end of the Continuum. That in a thousand years we’d all be drowning in nano-particles. I was on the other side of the Drelneigh Quadrant when the first ones appeared on Plaxis. Of course there was a huge push to tr...

Get the Soundtrack ⁠ here ⁠ : [Transcript] Shimmer Fly. I once was either unlucky or fortunate enough, depending who you ask, to get caught in the Cascade. Thousands of nests take to space, born aloft by biogenic balloons expanding from thermogenesis. This time, the dorsal sacks on a Shimmer caught my port-side stabilizer and I was along for the ride. Once gave a lift to a celestorian off of Vikoo...

Get the Soundtrack ⁠ here ⁠ : [Transcript] I wound up in the debt books of a Wrot named Trekia Avantis. Wasn’t the first time I’d owed a favor to one of them. I expected something dangerous, reckless, maybe even stupid as part of their request. I went out to the Commune of Avantis’s temple and spoke to their priestess. All she handed me was a sealed soul box, a truncated hexahedron made of silver...

Get the Soundtrack ⁠ here ⁠ : [Transcript] I must confess Adaxerxes is one of my more frequent stops. No shame if you’ve never heard of it. You buy an atlas from a Ugrian outpost and it’ll have the names of everything else in the quadrant. Just not that. Nothing remarkable there. Adxerxians don’t like to advertise. Small fellas, maybe sixty centimeters. Mostly alpine mountains watered with acid ra...

Get the Soundtrack ⁠ here ⁠ : [Transcript] Nebula Regina. It’s a colorful and vibrant quadrant. If you want to get to the Magi, that’s your only door. Odo Lenses can't penetrate the helium and hydrogen so you have to go slow. Visibility is blind and your sensors are worse. Intuition is your best friend in there. And fear. Local wisdom credits all the lost pilgrim ships to pirates, marauders, a...

Get the Soundtrack ⁠ here ⁠ : [Transcript] There’s a data scrawl wrapped in a dried skin binding beside my bed. The first dreams in there are pitiful things. I’ve tried selling them but no mediums will pay. I thought of hanging them up as tourist curios, but then again they were dreams of ugly things. There’s a couple gaps in the data scrawl. I sometimes wonder what they’ve birthed. Unfettered to...

Get the Soundtrack ⁠ here ⁠ : [Transcript] It’s hard to forget the thin turquoise atmosphere there.  It was so thin the stars would wink bleary eyed in the daylight. Or what passed for it in that place. All the oxygen on the Calradia moons has been used by the wandering factories on the surface. Large machinaliths plow the rusty soil leaving entrenchments twenty kilometers wide across the lunar su...