Breathing Space, Fading Frontier

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 recognized in the customers who stop here. Every stranger has a story, and Price wonders just how much they’ll factor into those - or how much those factor into them.

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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.

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Welcome to the System

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

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Welcome to the System

This episode contains depictions of a large scale disaster and the effects thereof.

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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 Network, Redline U142, reporting from Rogers Station.

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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.

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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, which ties them together. A disturbance unlike any in recorded history. This is Felicity Fumero, Nova News Network, Redline U142, reporting from Rogers Station.

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Stay tuned after We Interrupt This Program Part 2 for a full cast & contributor credits.

Content Warnings:

This episode contains explosion sound effects.

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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 a solar storm of unprecedented proportions, and effects that will echo through the System. They know, and the have the data to prove it. But catastrophe isn't marketable. And evacuation doesn't make sales. It's hard to convince people to prepare for a disaster, when the news is telling them it doesn't really exist.

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Dr. Modu Page is played by Luca
Dr. Septimus Novak is played by M. German
Dr. Senja Reitfelt is played by Cam Clarke
Dr. Danielle Kotanesku is played by Chrome Roman
Dr. Markus Medina is played by Thom Freitag
Marina Wescott is played by Lilth
Felicity Fumero is played by Paige Alena
Newt Wiggan is played by David Luzader

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 knows the real story.

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The Ghost of Josephine Brand is played by Mere
Tess is played by Christine Savage
Maria is played by Mel Nichols

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 what Alois Ilmater and their troupe do best.

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Alois Ilmater is played by Emily Buza
Portwait Germid is played by Sean Gettys
Ramon is played by M. German
Buxley Bones is played by Zach Jaquays
Dr. Zed Wild is played by Vic Collins
Tiffany is played by Paige Alena
Vixy is played by Paige Alena
Archie is played by M. German
Elexa is played by Siobhan

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)

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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 in YuKon!"

Welcome to YuKon Production and Fabrication Facility 1990, a company-owned asteroid community for employees of the digital retailer (with the System's only "anywhere in 24!" shipping guarantee). We have everything you need, from housing, to education, to entertainment all conveniently close to your places of employment! Just remember to stay productive! Marks against your record may limit your opportunities for apartment rentals, public transit passes, and other YuKon provided services.

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The Voice of YuKon is played by Jeremiah
Jamila Batori is played by Vanessa Haas
The RemoteManager Droid is played by Bunny
Dr. Gold is played by Landon Corbin
Manda Acterberg is played by Oliva Cottle
Angus Sparacello is played by AJ Garcia
Lynette Momoka is played by Rue Dickey
Mariam Momoka is played by Savvyva
York Ventura is played by Sean Gettys

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 of single largest fleet in the System, their agent seeks an audience with the Peregrination. They've done the planning, detailed the budget, what they haven't counted on is that gaining the cooperation of the Family might require something more than ready cash.

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Tora Zanches is played by Kris Allison
Etianne Calsdottir is played by Christina McClaine
Eka Amityskin is played by Rue Dickey
Alizia Stokes is played by Rebecca Krause
Bahram Atarah is played by Thomas Flemming

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 inconvenience. It's a death threat.


That's how it is everywhere, Cal. People'r out for themselves. An' they'll do whatever they got to to come out on top.
An asteroid community has to stick together to survive. People need to trust you have their back. But what if you aren't who everyone thinks you are?


"There she is. The love of my life. Maybe if I leave now she won't have noticed me. "
Dog Walkers take the jobs you can't put on the books. In that line of work, it pays to have friends in every port. Unfortunately for Kell, this job is going to bring her back to the one station where she doesn't.

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Bootstrap

Slick played by Scott Paladin
Bronsspouse played by Cam Clarke
Camdenskin played by Quill Turner
Add'l voice provided by Sean Getys & Jeremia

Content Warnings:

This episode includes brief discussion of eugenics, and crimes against humanity. It also includes repeating sounds including sirens, and explosions.

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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 chance we have to make him pay."

Once, they were a unit of skilled individuals, hunting some of the System's most dangerous terrorists. Now, they're nothing more than a professor, a hydroponics engineer, and a paper pusher in the Terran navy. But when they're given the chance to finish their last mission, to capture the man who killed their commander, even 10 years of inaction can't hold them back.

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Luna Beck is played by Shannon Roby
Lucien Sayid is played by Adam Morton
Kirsti Viktorskin is played by Alice Kyra
Brando Finn is played by Sonny Costa
El Radamacher is played by Cam Clark
Helen Nnamdisdottir is played by Paige Alena
Comm is played by
Hodge Carrington is played by Scott Paladin

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 own ways of understanding friendship, loyalty, and honor.

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The NoGo's Way
Booster Rockets is played by Sean Gettys
Zero Gravity is played by Thomas Flemming
Dr. Gold is played by Thom Freitag
The Bull is played by Adam Roquemore
The Candy Comet
Star Freighter is played by Olivia Cottle
Red Janey is played by Paige Alena
Zirconium Jaw is played by Quill Turner
Buddy is played by Zach Jaquays
Ensign Rawlings is played by Charlie Neal
The Llamas are played by llamas

Over Jordan
Steel Thumb is played by Scott Paladin
Captain Granville is played by Siobhan
Nurse Nott is played by Cam Clark

Content Warnings:

This episode includes grotesque descriptions of body horror, and sexual situations.

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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 information about a luxury cruise ship, completely intact and ready to be salvaged. What could go wrong?

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Dowe Maddox is played by Izzy Trevellian
ExaNic Pharmaceuticals Agent is played by Sean Gettys

Content Warnings:

This episode includes a depiction of a situation of certain death, digital noises & distortion, and distorted speech.

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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 vacuum to a life-and-death struggle when an unexpected equipment failure leaves them stranded in an engineless ship, without proper communications, and far outside normal shipping routes.

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Jemma Falcano is played by Sarah
Ishana Diaz is played by Izzy Trevellian
Veliny Ashgrove is played by Alyssa
Lt. Evie Yurisdottir is played by Jeremiah

Content Warnings: This episode includes references to military violence and depictions of alcohol abuse. 

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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 hasn't been a real war on Terra for 150 years. But that doesn't mean she hasn't needed soldiers. Gabriella Bishop, a former marine who saw more than her share of combat in things that weren't actually wars, has one more chance to keep her classification, and it's in the form of a recently-separated "Orbital Buddy" named Ace. It's just that Ace wants her help about as much as she wants to give it. But sometimes, the only one who can get through to a new veteran is an old one. 

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Gabriella “Gabs” Bishop is played by Erika Kaiser
Campbell is played by Alice Kyra
Alex “Ace” Trelawney is played by M. German
The Veteran's Hotline recording & Clerk are played by Alex Judkins 

This episode of Breathing Space, Fading Frontier was written by Erika Kasier, and edited by Scott Paladin. 

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Content Warnings:

This episode includes violence toward children, and a countdown.

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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 name

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Captain Yuri Arturoskin is played by Scott Paladin
Nulla is played by Jermiah
X.O. Blindskin is played by M. German

Content Warnings: 

This episode includes violence, a countdown, and repeating sounds, including sirens and alarms.

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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 field of mineral-rich BRONCOs. One chance to round them up and bring them home. And one ship of BRONCO rustlers waiting to make off with the string, and the profit.

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Herschel is played by Thomas Flemming
Anse is played by Quill Turner
Boseman is played by Vic Collins
Gasto is played by Corvyn Appleby

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

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Coming June 4, 2021

Coming June 4, 2021

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Head today to Walden Station and find us waiting for you on deck 8 right across from the Ranger Station. You can't miss us. 

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Are you feeling stuck in the mud?

Then it’s time to visit paradise!

Paradisio is a privately-owned orbital belonging to Omega Hotel Group, incorporated on Phobos and not subject to Terran law or governance. Guests take responsibility for their own health and safety, and understand that fluctuations in the orbital’s  temperature, atmo, power, and gravity may occur. Legal waivers required upon check-in.

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Coming June 4, 2021

Spacefaring Vessel Registration
[Ceres Accords 190A-34.12]

Ship Designation: RM63F

Ship Name: Open Sky

Registered Owner: Cal Horn

Registered Pilot: Cal Horn

License Type: S1-SR

Licensed through: Ceres Satellite Station 5

Description: 1-man, short-range vessel, limited cargo capacity, type V 8VAC/Atmo, propulsion class 5CF

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Coming June 4, 2021