Breathing Space: A Sci-Fi Western Audio Anthology

Content warnings: this episode contains discussion of traumatic workplace environment ** "Don't go work for YuKon." My dad said. "You can always just get a job with me at OCP!" Well sorry, Mom! I didn't listen." Two strangers meet at a bar. One is a disgraced former YuKon PR rep at the end of his rope. The other, a career criminal looking for his next score. They soon hatc...

Content Warnings: this episode includes parental abuse of a child, childhood neglect, amputation, eye trauma, audio gore. ** "It was supposed to be a simple job. But in this line of work, there's so such fucking thing." Dogwalkers take the jobs you can't put in the books. Sometimes, that's taking something for someone it doesn't belong to. Sometimes, it's bringing back something that doe...

Content Warnings: These episodes contain: main character death, implied suffocation, physical injury. ** "Ari, seriously, if you're receiving this you need to get back here now. We just lost telemetry for C-COWs across half the planet..." A solar storm can kill a ship or rip a station to shreds, but what will it do to a couple on Mars whose relationship is already on the rocks? Does it p...

Episode Notes It's not all feelings and found family. Sometimes it's fart jokes. A peak behind the scenes into some of the recording sessions of Season 1. 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...

The writers and editors of Season 1 talk about the first season of the show-- what we loved, what we learned, where we're going-- and answer the questions you sent in. Including the voices of: Scott Paladin, writer, director, editor, actor Lee Seguinte, writer, director, producer Erika Kaiser, writer, director, actor Erik Seguinte, editor --- Welcome to the System Our Website Join the Law of Names...

This episode contains depictions of a large scale disaster and the effects thereof. -- We Interrupt This Program (Part 2) Good evening. Tonight, on the eve of a new century, the solar system finds itself on leading edge of a disturbance within our sun, the star on which all our worlds rely, which ties them together. A disturbance unlike any in recorded history. This is Felicity Fumero, Nova News N...

This episode contains depictions of a large scale disaster and the effects thereof, employer violence and abuse, including intentional neglect of employee safety, and an on screen panic attack. -- We Interrupt This Program (Part 1) Good evening. Tonight, on the eve of a new century, the solar system finds itself on leading edge of a disturbance within our sun, the star on which all our worlds rely...

Content Warnings: This episode contains explosion sound effects. -- Advanced Readings in Theoretical Helioseismology That's the kind of "interesting" that means "potentially catastrophic and largely unexpected" isn't it? The scientists on the Occulohelios Solar Research Station know that something big is coming. That the end of this 11 year solar cycle is going to bring with it...

I Walk These Hills Joseph Brand is dead and I am his memorial. I'm a reconstruction. My face is sourced from photos and video. My voice is a mimic, using recordings from life as a blueprint." There are Salvagers, and there are Vultures. One breaks down derelict ships for resale, one stands back and waits for ships in distress to become derelict. Which one was Joseph Brand? Only his ghost know...

The Greatest Show Off Earth "The Carnivale di Vagabondi Stellari offers any entertainment a soul could desire. Wonders to delight the senses and baffle reason. One may see things here that are no where else in this universe. Like so many ventures in these precarious times, the Carnivale needs new investors. Sometimes, acquiring them just takes putting on a good show. Luckily, that's exactly w...

Content Warnings: This episode includes scenes of police violence against protestors (in news report from 20:30-21:40, in action at 28:13-30:40) -- Attention, Associates! "Attention Associates! This is a reminder that inappropriate behavior with other team members is strictly prohibited by YuKon. If you wonder if you shouldn’t talk to someone, be smart, and don’t! And remember! You put the Yu...

The Next Big Thing "The Peregrination is a simultaneously anarchic and strongly collectivist group. They're idiosyncratic and down right paranoid. Probably the largest isolated population of people in the solar system." Vista Unlimited has both the money and materials to expand their Jovian settlement. What they don't have is the ships to carry it there. In an attempt to secure the use o...

Content Warnings: This episode contains gun violence & gunshots. Three Stories from the System This is the Blue Lady, greencast to all local, anybody in the neighborhood? It gets mighty lonely in the black. Every spacer knows that really, when it comes down to it, they're on their own. Especially if you fly solo. And when you're on your own out there, a ship malfunction isn't a temporary incon...

Content Warnings: This episode includes brief discussion of eugenics, and crimes against humanity. It also includes repeating sounds including sirens, and explosions. -- Oh Beautiful For Heroes Proved "I wouldn't blame you if you don't want to risk throwing away your life on some kind of revenge mission that might not have even a chance of succeeding. But it's him. And this may be the only ch...

This episode features brief descriptions of police brutality and violence against protestors. Wayfaring Strangers I’m a NoGo—No Home, Going Anywhere. I been that way since I was knee-high. My mother gave me a name, but I won’t bore you with it. Three short stories about the lives of NoGos, wanderers who travel the System via stolen trips in cargo holds and overlooked corners, and who have their ow...

Content Warnings: This episode includes grotesque descriptions of body horror, and sexual situations. -- The Salvage of the Valentina Tereshkova "Buy me a drink. The stronger the better. And get the funds transferred. When they’re in my account, and the drink’s in me, I’ll tell you what you want to know. The entire story of the salvage of the Valentina Tereshkova." They've got reliable i...

Content Warnings: This episode includes a depiction of a situation of certain death, digital noises & distortion, and distorted speech. -- Objects in Motion "This is Jemma Falcano, Solar Scout troop 316, on the freighter Cantankerous. There are three of us aboard. We are adrift." A troupe of Solar Scouts' attempt to earn their survival badge turns from a simple camping trip in hard v...

Content Warnings: This episode includes references to military violence and depictions of alcohol abuse. -- Take a Number, Get in Line "You know how we tell a new guy? They kick rocks. It’s human, I guess. We’re tactile sons of bitches, right? There’s some part of our monkey brains that never grows past the stage where you chew on your hands and try to shove blocks into holes." There has...

Content Warnings: This episode includes violence toward children, and a countdown. -- Rat Among Falcons "Welcome to the Forge Sorrow Into Joy_, home ship to 152 of The Family."_ Ships of the Peregrination often rescue those afloat in space. But this time, the person Captain Yuri Arturoskin fishes out of the black is more a problem than potential partner- an angry young pirate with no nam...

Content Warnings: This episode includes violence, a countdown, and repeating sounds, including sirens and alarms. -- Goodnight, You Moonlight Ladies "Some of the most beautiful sights in the System lie along the Saturnian Stock Drive, but damned if it ain’t a lonely ride." Two asteroid-wrangling vacuum cowboys--one as worn-in as an old exosuit, one new-minted and still shiny. An entire f...

I ain't got no home to go to I ain't got nothin' to sell But my stars'll never leave me Even when I'm sold to hell. I was born under a blue sky I'll die out in the black, When I'm gone don't no one mourn me 'Cause my debts will drag me back. Premiering Friday, June 4, 2021 --- Composed & arranged by Michael Freitag written by Scott Paladin , and vocals by Jeremiah. --- Welcome to the System Ou...

Coming June 4, 2021 Breathing Space, Fading Frontier --- Welcome to the System   Our Website   Join the Law of Names Discord   Follow us on Twitter Support us on Patreon

Coming June 4, 2021 Breathing Space, Fading Frontier Announcer 1 is played by Kris Announcer 2 is played by Scott Paladin Announcer 3 is played by James Ion Pile Drive is played by Rue Dickey -- Written by Lee Seguinte Edited by Erik Seguinte -- Read the script here Music from https://music-cellar.accusonus.com/ sound effects provided by zapsplat.com

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