Breathing Space: A Sci-Fi Western Audio Anthology

Content Warnings ** "Is that what this business with your rotten ship is? A fuck up so bad you have to call the neighbors for help?" When the Peregrination finds themselves in a legal crisis that can't just be solved over drinks, they appoint a Lawspeaker. The current Lawspeaker has come to a clandestine meeting with the Outer Rangers about just such a crisis as events seem inevitable co...

Content Warnings: Terminal illness. Child death. Separation from family. Very small mention of unethical adoption. ** "What makes a dying man decide to stow away on a smugglers ship instead of going peacefully into the void. You've got a story? You'll tell it." The Silver Lady, a smuggling ship, becomes home to a young, dying spacer and his search for his sister across the universe ** Th...

Content Warnings violence, extortion ** "And that's the bell! Sol Survivors demolish the Red Planet Rollers, 159 to 72, securing the coveted second spot in this year's Martian Madness making this the first time two teams from Ganymede will go head to head in the recently-renamed Augusto Amphitheater. _"_Martian Madness 26! 10 players. One rink. Two Variable Gravity Roller Derby teams. On...

Content Warnings: Violence, death, firearms, descriptions of blood and internal injuries, discussion of human trafficking and slavery, infants in distress, discussions of suicide, depictions of panic attacks, vomiting (19:30 - 19:40) ** "Still sorta feels like walking up to the front door and ringing the bell." When a simple freighter-jacking goes badly, two estranged partners will find...

Content Warnings: divorce, cult behavior, deception, kidnapping, mention of gore ** "We're already pretty self-sufficient, plus we're willing to trade with ulko, so the Family ships don't have anything we can't make ourselves or get elsewhere." Brought aboard a Peregrination ship against their will by a friendly young crewman, a prickly NoGo discovers the Family’s soft, rotten underside....

Content Warnings: Workplace accidents, injury, environmental disasters ** "Since you're all here, I guess you figured out we got ourselves a new yard. Reason for that's we got a new hull too. A fuck-off big one. _"_With the recently-signed treaty between Mars and Luna exponentially increasing the prices of industrial imports to Terra, corporations on Earth have found themselves in need o...

Content Warnings: Mentioned Animal Death, choking/strangulation ** "Never before seen a fella that far from anything and still alive. Figure I needed to drag you aboard just to see if your luck would wear off on me." Hank pulled a body out of the black, but the man’s still breathing. And the two grow to know each other as they travel to Io. ** The Cast Ekrem is voiced byy Kale Brown Hank...

Content Warnings: death, suffocation, concussion, a vehicle crash ** "Tranquility, you know that I love you, but the only way either of us will ever be safe is if Neveah Starr is gone."...and then we CG in the airlock door opening, Starr gets sucked out, Quili and Nemesys kiss, and that's an episode, fan-tastic, OK. " They call it “the hottest soap opera in the system”: Tidal Heat,...

"Kiss and make up. Kill each other. Fucking, write an opera together. I don't care, but when that door unlocks you two better have figured it out.." Left to run her deceased father's noodle shop, Cat Novak faces an uncertain future. And to make it more complicated, Heck is there. Her best friend, with whom she has entirely too much history and just a whole metric ton of unresolved... stu...

Content Warnings This episode contains gaslighting, manipulation, mentions of death & murder ** "I’m not too proud to admit it: my brain absolutely shut down at the first sight of him. Casey thought it was just going to be another day on Terminal Station. But that was before Felix Theodore LeGris showed up. But is he the romantic stranger he seems? Or does he have a secret he’s hiding? **...

Content Warnings ** "The people are hungry for entertainment. Especially out past the Belt...and we can provide it. Because we, actors, storytellers, we are the stuff as dreams are made of." Not satisfied with their status as one of the preeminent Shakespeare troupes of the Inner System, Thalia’s Players seeks to take a production of Romeo & Juliet to theaters past Kuiper. Their atte...

"Gracie, I am... I'm so far out. The sun doesn't... I can't even pick it out anymore. So many stars are brighter now... I dream, sometimes... Last time, I dreamed of you, Gracie." Travis Sojourn is running from something so hard that he’s all but left the solar system. Out in the black, where nothing and no one should be save frozen rocks and vacuum, he finds people. Exiles from existenc...

The hardest part of a director's job is remembering to save the funny clips that happen during recording, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. ** Welcome to the System Our Website Join the Law of Names Discord Follow us on Twitter Support us on Patreon Our theme music was composed & arranged by Michael Freitag written by Scott Paladin , and vocals by Jeremiah. Breathing Space, Fading Front...

** A look at some of the many holidays of the System. ** The Cast The Netpedia Narrator is played by Kale Brown I’ll Manage Price is played by Jerry Harris Manager is played by Eryn "Cerise" Dearden Written by Olivia Cottle, edited by Aaron Olsen Aphelion Away From Home Ariel "Ari" Attison is played by Vic July Lamarr is played by Meredith McKee Written by James Big, edited by...

**Content Warnings: mafia-esque torture, gambling addiction, wanted pregnancy. ** ** "Don't matter, in the end. They're just words. Person who wrote 'em's long since turned to dust. Guess that's how we all end up, one way or t'other. Words matter more when they're all you got left. _"_On a warm summer's evening, on a train bound for nowhere, I met up with the gambler. We were both too ti...

"We are putting together the largest change to Family law since Commodore Grandma was alive. It's been a monumental effort and we're not even close to done. But five years from now, the Family will be better off than we've ever been before. That's what I'm doing." Four months after the Peregrination ships Look to the Stars and Find Hope and Forge Sorrow Into Joy saved Arcturus Station fr...

Do you even know what's out there? Corrosive air hot enough to melt lead! Billions of kilograms of pressure. There are clouds of sulfuric acid just floating around! A troop of Venusian Solar Scouts and their fearless leader take an overnight trip to a surface observation and survey station. But what starts as a chance to work on some badges turns into a very strange, and more than a little scary,...

Content warnings: this episode contains mentions of human trafficking. ** "Shay Russell, you are under arrest, pursuant to Article two of the—Dusty get your goddamn hand off your gun before I blow it off—pursuant to Article two of the Ceres Accord, I am empowered to take you into custody for transportation back to the jurisdiction of import." Raven Station’s new sheriff, Luce, arrests a...

Content warnings: this episode contains corrupt law enforcement, drugging ** "Does life in the black always end up with someone jumping out the airlock of a ship in motion, kilometers away from anything else with atmo and relying on exo suit thrusters to get them to a ship with a jerry-rigged remote hatch lock, before their O2 runs out?" Two familiar faces work together to steal somethin...

Content warning: this episode contains depictions of animal abuse and detailed descriptions of physical violence. ** You come all this way, kid, on what? Some kinda holy quest, some kinda journey? So desperate for that absolution I was talkin’ about that you’ll haunt an old man with hope? An old gunslinger-turned-cricket-farmer gets pulled out of retirement for one last ride to save Felina, the lo...

Content Warnings: This episode contains asphyxiation, tightly enclosed spaces, self harm, immolation, substance abuse, body horror, audio gore ** Here's the deal, this is happening, and you're going to find a way to be fine with it, or you're going to have to learn how to breathe vacuum. The crew of the freighter Six Foot Weaver try to capitalize on an opportunity for some quick salvage, but what...

Content warnings: this episode contains reference to near death experience, implied bombing attempt, unnerving and terrifying experiences, implied unreality ** "Have you ever heard of the Station at the End of the Universe? It is told on planets, ships and space stations alike, one that is told late at night... Some say it’s a bright place... Others say it’s derelict and in ruins... Its appea...

Content warnings: this episode includes Major character death, illness, aging, grief, & parental abandonment ** "Any of these stars coulda burned out hundreds of years ago, but we can still stare up long after and not even know the difference." Far from home, a soft-spoken traveler runs into a charismatic stranger in a bar. One tells a true story, and the other one tells a lie. Years...

Content warnings: this episode contains bomb threats, terrorism, implied abuse by law enforcement. ** Delivery! One anarchist, union-sympathizing ordnance handling, demolitions expert direct from Makhnovshchina, thanks to the YuKon 24-hours anywhere-in-the-system guarantee! The Intrastellar Workers Movement continues to fight for worker’s rights and unionization against megacorporations like YuKon...

Content Warnings: implied firearm threatening, alcohol references ** Welcome to Waystation Markets, Store 369. How can we propel you through the stars today? When you work and live on a Waystation Market asteroid, frequented only by people just passing through and refueling, with only your manager for company, you make your own fun. Price spends their shifts musing about the patterns they’ve recog...