WRFH/Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM - Haven [Into the Unknown Anthology Audio Drama]

Episode Date: January 3, 2024

A dying star. A one-person shelter. A robot for company. Life on a barely habitable planet might be lonely, but it's also a great way to escape the past--or so Ozero thinks. But when an unfamiliar spaceship crash-lands near his shelter, Ozero is faced with a decision: Will he seek revenge for the destruction of his family, or will he find healing through forgiveness?Performed by Lauren Smyth, Ryan Bagley, Alex Bodnar, & Rachel Moeller

The following is an audio drama of the Into the Unknown Story Collection by Ambassador International, a division of Emerald House Group. S3748 to Earth. Do you read? An autonomous starship? I'd like to file a report. Ah, finally, something interesting. Where are you calling from? Planet 11, Vega. Boring. Uninhabited. It was? Until a year ago.

But then Kickstart Biology Center researcher. 493, 494, 495... No, 494. Can't count today until it's over. How are you doing? Is it time for the daily psychavowal? It won't take long. Of course.

Please accept the prompt on your watch so I can access your vital signs. Can you do anything besides check my blood pressure? You could help me classify these plants. I just got that stack left, and then I can go home. Back to Earth. Back to living inside an airlock.

Wouldn't you be bored if you had nothing to do? Humans are always getting bored. That's why the government invented work. Why the what did what? Scan complete. Let's talk about your results. What if we didn't? You are showing signs of mental stress.

You haven't been taking your medications. I won't. There are no side effects. You know as well as I do that joining the clerical order is my only way off the research rotation, and they'll never take me if I'm dependent on those pills. By the time Kickstart Bio comes to get me off this miserable rock, I need to have stopped taking them. What do the clerics have to do with you? Nothing. Of course they don't want me. Why would they?

All I see in this room is imperfection. In the plants, the walls, the floors, those tiles that don't make my voice echo exactly the way I think they should. should. They don't satisfy me. Nothing does. Nobody wants a cleric that focuses on a speck of dust instead of, I don't know, maintaining justice and all that. Is that why you've cleaned the floors twice already this week? You were keeping track? Repetition is the only thing I'm good at. You shouldn't be so hard on yourself. It's only a symptom of your... The off button is why we'll never have robot overlords. Pop up in our files. That's the kid they sent out with a bad case of OCD, isn't it?

Yes. I heard he accidentally left an airlock door open when he was a kid. Almost suffocated the whole compound. Rough mistake to recover from. Let me finish my report. Now I'm seeing things too. Is that a... There's no one here but you. No one? Here. But you? There couldn't be.

Let me in. His coats are radiated. Hey, wake up. Somebody has a lot of explaining to do. Wake up! Warning, radiation approaching dangerous levels. Leave the area now. Warning, radiation approaching dangerous levels.

Leave the... Okay. Whoa, whoa, whoa. There's nothing to be afraid of. Not for you anyway. Let's talk. What's your name? Chem.

Okay, Kemp? Can you please put that gun away? I don't trust you, but I don't have the choice. Warning, radiation approach... My scanner says you're irradiated. It's the star, you know. It's dying.

And the Stanstorm the other day, that didn't help. You should change clothes. Did you scan me? I started to. and I... No need. I know what's wrong. Radiation poisoning and a head nearly split open on a rock.

Pain killers? I've got iodine pills. What happened to you? Spaceship malfunctioned. How did you land? Are you a crash investigator? Gonna report me to the clerical council? Sorry, I didn't meet a pry.

Would you like to get some sleep? You can use my bed. or bullying cubes in the cabinet if you're hungry. T. Do you trust me enough to leave me alone for an hour? Don't touch that gun. Like someone's gonna die. Let me finish my report. Ask Delta, serial number unknown.

The ship must be in decent shape if it's still transmitting. Huh. This isn't a Federation ship. It's not a Federation ship. It's a pirate ship. So it wouldn't be breaking and entering if I... What's this? I'm not sure if this part is true. It's just what I heard. Well, I want to hear it too.

Ozero said he found a picture of his family in Kemp's ship. Oh, that's cute. Was he in it? No. His file says he and his family had a fling out of some kind after the airlock incident. Says his therapist thinks that's where he got, these obsessive tent. If I had checked the locks. if I checked the locks. Let me finish my report.

Did you get this? Where did you get this? You've got some nerve locking me in. Federation citizens trust each other. Then explain why you're illegally operating a spaceship in Federation space. Where did you get this? How did you know them? You know, you look just like your mother.

Tell me why you have this. I'm an old family friend. What did you think I was going to say? I think it was you. You who? Fine. I'll tell you the truth. If it's the last thing you want to know.

You won't get far without a radiation suit. I'll borrow yours. It was me. I swapped the switches on the airlock. And then, while everyone was distracted trying to find the leap, I broke into your house. Would have been the heist of the sense. And everything was blamed on you.

Because you left it unlocked. You didn't go back and shack. You left us with nothing! What made you do it. The kind of person he is. I hope that antiseptic stings. Oh, come on! That can't be the end of the report.

Clarex. After. Hello? Forty-eight. I can't hear you. Read the news myself. computer. Find recent stories containing the name Azaro. Here's the most recent headline. Clerics,

recruitment class of late year 497. Keep going. Head Clerk Malachi praised recruit Azaro's bravery under pressure, saying that his actions reflected the values of the clerical order. Fine, fine. So we got to join the clerics. But what, what happened to Kemp? Here's the most recent headline. Convicted robber sentenced to 10 years hard labor. I wonder if Azo ever regretted saving him. Here is a recording of Azero's comments at the trial. Yes, sorry. What is it you're asking?

No, I think punishment is the ugly side of justice. I'm not happy about it. Look, would you all please just let me go in hell? I'm hungry. Has anyone gotten any earth food? Like, I don't know, chicken? Has anybody got any chicken? It's sort of like college. Yeah, I have a lot of good memories. This story was told by Ryan Bagley, Rachel Muller, and Alex Bodner. Script adapted from Haven and Into the Unknown Anthology story by Lauren Smith. This has been a production of Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM.