Episode 2: Echoes Between the Stars Shadows of the Dark Knight 14 June 2300 — Pioneer-12, Anaïs’s Cabin and Outer Service Walkway The retro disco rhythm is still bouncing lightly in Anaïs’s cabin when a nineteenth-century constellation clasp — an heirloom piece used in the gown design — slips through a maintenance grate near the…

Episode 2: Echoes Between the Stars Bridge of Souls 14 June 2300 — Pioneer-12, Anaïs’s Cabin and Design Studio One week since Evie first tried on the gravity-stabilizing shoes Anaïs designed. She has steadied. Her steps under 0.7 gravity have become surer. The new weight of the world no longer feels like somewhere that might…

Episode 2: Echoes Between the Stars Elegance on Mars 7 June 2300 — Pioneer-12, Residential Ring and Anaïs’s Cabin Four days since Pioneer-12 left the dock. Gravity in the Residential Ring has settled at 0.7 Earth gravity, and most passengers have adapted. But for Evie, the change is not only physical. Without the familiar noise…

Episode 2: Echoes Between the Stars Loneliness in Artificial Gravity 4 June 2300 — Pioneer-12, Residential Ring Pioneer-12 has finally left the Earth-Moon L1 Gateway Dock. At exactly twelve noon the previous day, Captain Koen’s voice moved through every speaker on the ship — announcing final safety confirmation and the start of the journey to…

Episode 1: The Last Song Beneath Paris The Deep Space Observer 2 June 2300 — Pioneer-12, Lowest Engineering Bay, Maintenance Console Seven Far below the recreation lounge — past the acoustic walls, past the laughter and the saxophone notes — lies the engineering bay. Here, at Maintenance Console Seven, Seb Naidoo has been working for…

Episode 1: The Last Song Beneath Paris Destined Meeting 2 June 2300 — Pioneer-12, Culture and Civic Ring Public Recreation Lounge On her first night aboard Pioneer-12, Evie barely sleeps. Her cabin is small but far cleaner than any dressing room in Underground Paris — soft white walls, a small observation window beside the bed,…

Episode 1: The Last Song Beneath Paris Boarding Pioneer-12 23 May 2300 — Underground Paris Space Shuttle Station One week after the concert, Evie leaves Underground Paris. Not by train or by surface airport — Earth’s surface is no longer safe for ordinary people, and the true road to space has long been buried beneath…

Episode 1: The Last Song Beneath Paris The Last Song Beneath Paris 16 May 2300 — Underground Paris, Level Seven Central District It is 2300, and Paris no longer belongs to the sky. Fifty years after the Nuclear Global War left the surface world an uninhabitable wasteland, the city lives seven levels underground. Real sunlight…