Standalone science-fiction stories from a galaxy that was getting along fine without us. Humanity is the newest species on a crowded galactic stage — outmatched, outnumbered, and weirdly good at misusing alien technology it doesn't understand. Each episode is a complete, fully narrated story in one shared universe, with one slow-burning mystery underneath. Wit by default, gravity when earned.
Other People's Stars — Ep 30: Other People's Stars
Series One · Runtime 20:48
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The clock at the center of the Hush is failing toward a rate of change the Vask records say comes just before a silence answers — and for the first time in a hundred thousand years, there is a whole frontier of people gathered at the edge who have learned how to knock. A relay tender, a salvage chief carrying a hundred Holds' dead, a tech with a chorus of gas-giant ancients, a bureaucrat who would not look away, and the quiet network of everyone who could never un-hear it. They are not going to solve the oldest question in the galaxy. They are going to do the one thing no older, wiser, more frightened species ever dared: answer it on purpose, together, and find out if anyone is still home.
30 Jun 2026
The Door That Stays Open
Other People's Stars — Ep 29: The Door That Stays Open
Series One · Runtime 18:42
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The clock at the heart of the galaxy is failing, and the accord that has spent three hundred years perfecting the art of not knowing things has decided to do what it always does when the unknown gets too loud: pull back behind its oldest walls and abandon the edge. Rosa Okafor is the only human both the Tcharn Court and the Vask will read — the named party, the held witness, the architect of a door the accord cannot close. She cannot make ancient, frightened powers brave. So she is going to build them a way to be brave that lets them keep pretending they aren't.
30 Jun 2026
Mourned-Kin
Other People's Stars — Ep 28: Mourned-Kin
Series One · Runtime 18:47
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Pointed at the center of the silence by the Suul who spent two years aiming him, carrying a fired salvager's map of every blank region on the chart and a linguist's proof that all of them are changing at once, Hari Rao goes back to the one people who have flown around the kept places since before the accord — and to the cluster where his oldest friend died. He cannot ask the Vask who taught them the carrying; they don't know. So he asks a different question, the only one a grieving people can answer: not who made the map, but what the map remembers.
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