Other People's Stars

Other People's Stars — Ep 09: Standing Series One · Runtime 22:54 About Junior diplomat Rosa Okafor thought she had made the memorial for six Vask dead permanent. Then a Suul recovery house finds a new angle of attack: don't call the record false — call the human who made it a nobody. With the accord's records under reconciliation and a deadline counting down, Rosa has to prove she had the standin...

Other People's Stars — Ep 04: First Recovery Series One · Runtime 19:55 About Salvage chief Hari Rao is grinding through another bad week when a battered Vask skiff coasts out of the dark and says his name — Dako, the pilot he pulled from a dying wreck nineteen years ago, come at last to settle a debt Hari always assumed ran the other way. What Dako brings is a fortune: an inherited drive-core, th...

Other People's Stars — Ep 03: Keepalive Series One · Runtime 20:52 About Yara Haddad tends nine ancient comms buoys at the frontier's edge, four hundred thousand kilometers from anyone, next door to the Hush — a wedge of dark space that swallows every signal sent into it and gives nothing back. Then, at 0300 with cold tea in hand, the dead band coughs up the impossible: a Vask mayday coming out of...

Other People's Stars — Ep 02: Site Significance Series One · Runtime 23:48 About Rosa Okafor is a second-year junior liaison with a notebook, one surviving pen, and the bad luck of being the nearest credentialed officer when a Vask trade-clade — a people who owe the great interstellar Accord nothing and have never forgiven it — arrives unannounced at Reach Orbital Sixteen to ask for something. The...

Other People's Stars — Ep 01: Cold Storage Series One · Runtime 21:25 About Salvage contractor Hari Rao has spent twenty years working off his debt one wreck at a time, so when the Suul broker Iri-of-Six-Voices walks into the lounge in person — brokers never do that — with a job worth nearly half of what he owes, he takes it: retrieve one old refrigeration component, intact and inert, from a Vask...