Five colonists wake up from cryosleep on a colony ship bound for a distant part of space. What secrets does this ship hold? Music by Antti Luode.

A Note from the Writer/Producer:

This episode took longer than any other to make to date. Partially because it’s the first episode! But partially because it’s our first episode. We’ve never tried making an Audio Drama before now. We poured all of our effort into this, and it’s gone through several iterations. Both in the script and in the audio. We’ve been working on this, from outlining to polishing up the sound effects, for around six months. We didn’t think we’d need to count! This is a labor of love to be sure.

Originally, the entire crew woke up separately and made their way to the bridge. In this iteration, however, the entire surviving crew was moved to the same place and released automatically. Robbot was also going to be a benevolent part of the crew. I wanted to try and avoid the ‘crazy robot’ story line as it’s well overdone, but it seemed unavoidable. As the storyline developed, I realized there was no room for a perfect robot, and that in the universe we had made, there was no room for a robot that wasn’t in some way broken.

I thought I’d give my twist on it. That is to say, there’s a malevolent robot on board! One that desperately wants to kill humans! But he can’t. He has a secondary measure in place that takes over if his first layer of safeties are taken offline, as has his. How his laws were corrupted has yet to be revealed.

My real challenge was in writing the characters. I haven’t sat down and written since 3rd or 4th grade, so this was new territory for me. I’m pleasantly surprised at how well the series has turned out. We have everything written and hope to be able to release everything on a regular schedule. If all goes well, we’ll have a monthly show for everyone to enjoy!

On the other hand, as I write this, I’m shirking a different project: A monthly podcast which takes place at the beginning of humanity’s space age. One which will be our teams first real rapid-fire write-as-we-go production. We’ll try to keep it out of the way of Empty, but we’re not sure which one will take off.

Oh and by the way, feel free to give us to your friends. We can’t expand if you don’t give us reason to.