ORRIONA: S01E05 · A New Mantra

Dr. Rian Jengu has spent years working frontier clinics, patching radiation burns and septic prosthetics with equipment older than it has any right to be. His mantra has carried him through countless impossible shifts: Medicine is the sum of small victories when the larger battle feels unwinnable.

Today, that mantra rings hollow.

On Level 18 of Edgepoint Station, the medical wing never quiets. Settlers return to toxic work sites before their lungs heal. Pirates refuse treatment that might slow them down. And the supply cabinet—managed by his brilliant, theatrical partner Nix—is empty of everything except bio-regenerative meds and improvisation.

When a crew contract notification appears offering proper medical facilities, generous pay, and the chance to eventually build something better, Rian faces a question that cuts deeper than any he's treated: How do you leave people behind when you're one of the few things holding them together?

Between meditation sessions that no longer bring peace and a head physician demanding extra hours, Rian must decide if small victories are enough—or if it's time to find a new mantra entirely.

WHAT TO EXPECT:

1. Audio drama adaptation of Legacy with cinematic sound design
2. A queer-norm galaxy (no homophobia, no coming-out angst—just space adventures)
3. A compassionate doctor stretched too thin
4. A theatrical partner with hidden depths
5. The weight of impossible choices
6. Grand, hopeful adventure with a massive heart

CONTENT NOTES:

Medical trauma references, exhaustion, ethical dilemmas, systemic healthcare failure

WHERE TO PURCHASE THE BOOK:

Currently in Kindle Unlimited.

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#QueerSciFi #AudioDrama #SpaceOpera

Engineer Valunara "Val" Jaren has spent five years on Edgepoint Station fixing other people's broken equipment with salvaged parts and scarred knuckles. The pay barely covers a bunk and a meal. The work keeps her moving, but it's not progress—it's drifting. And at fifty-five, with grey streaking through her hair and a workspace converted from a storage closet, she knows the difference.

Then a private job invitation appears in her inbox: the Orriona needs an engineer. It's the kind of opportunity that doesn't come to people like her—people who've spent years holding stations together with spare parts and stubbornness while the galaxy moves on without them.

Jotter, her ancient bot companion with memory cores spanning generations, thinks she should take it. But leaving means saying goodbye to the few connections she's made in five years of surviving Edgepoint's depths. It means packing up a life she's built from nothing and betting everything on a ship she's never seen, with a captain she's never met.

As Val makes her way through Level 11's familiar corridors one last time, she's forced to confront a question her grandmother once asked: What happens when you give up on broken things too soon? And what happens when the broken thing is yourself?

WHAT TO EXPECT:

• Audio drama adaptation of Legacy with cinematic sound design
• A queer-norm galaxy (no homophobia, no coming-out angst—just space adventures)
• A seasoned engineer haunted by lost potential
• An ancient bot with unexpected wisdom
• Found family and difficult goodbyes
• Grand, hopeful adventure with a massive heart

CONTENT NOTES:

Themes of aging, regret, economic hardship, emotional goodbyes

WHERE TO PURCHASE THE BOOK:

Ebook is currently exclusive to Amazon and available in Kindle Unlimited.

Visit https://www.orriona.com/ and subscribe to the newsletter for more information about wider availability and free content.

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Welcome aboard. The Driftline awaits.

#GaySciFi #AudioDrama #SpaceOpera

Former Sector Guard Commander Kellan Harr sits alone in Nebula's Edge Bar on Level 9, nursing cheap whiskey and watching his credits drain away. Two years of searching for his father's missing freighter, the Starweaver, have led him here—to Edgepoint Station, where trails go cold and answers dissolve into corrupted data logs.

Tonight feels like the end of the line. But on a station where survival trumps truth and everyone has something to hide, Kellan is about to discover that sometimes the universe offers one more chance—if you're desperate enough to take it.

The question is: how far into Edgepoint's depths is he willing to go

WHAT TO EXPECT:

• Audio drama adaptation of Legacy with cinematic sound design
• A queer-norm galaxy (no homophobia, no coming-out angst—just space adventures)
• A former commander haunted by loss and duty
• Mysterious strangers and dangerous encounters
• The weight of family expectations and impossible choices
• Grand, hopeful adventure with a massive heart

CONTENT NOTES:

Alcohol consumption, mild violence/intimidation, grief, family trauma references

WHERE TO PURCHASE THE BOOK:

Ebook is currently exclusive to Amazon and available in Kindle Unlimited.

Visit https://www.orriona.com/ and subscribe to the newsletter for more information about wider availability and free content.

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SUBSCRIBE for weekly episodes as we follow the crew of the sentient starship Orriona.

Welcome aboard. The Driftline awaits.

#GaySciFi #AudioDrama #SpaceOpera