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

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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:

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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:

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When the sentient starship Orriona receives High Priestess Nienna's encrypted distress call on a frequency dead for thousands of years, she knows the impossible has happened—Contingency Starfall is active. The message is brief, urgent, and bears quantum authentication that can't be faked: an Axrathan diplomatic fleet is under attack, and Protocol Seven must be initiated immediately.

But there's a problem. Protocol Seven requires a crew. And Orriona has been operating alone for a very long time.

Her tactical assessment is swift and merciless: her autonomous functions, however advanced, cannot meet the mission requirements. She needs organic operators—specialists who can adapt, improvise, and handle the unpredictable chaos of a rescue operation five gates away.

Racing against time, her search leads to Edgepoint Station—a decaying twenty-four level frontier outpost where Council oversight fades and survival trumps regulations. It's not her first choice. But the distress call is growing more desperate, and Edgepoint offers something the pristine Inner Meridian stations don't: candidates who've learned to adapt under pressure, who operate outside rigid systems, who won't balk at an AI making command decisions.

As Orriona initiates docking protocols, one question remains: who will she find in the depths of Edgepoint Station willing to trust a sentient ship on a mission into the unknown?

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 sentient ship with ancient protocols awakening
• The beginning of a desperate rescue mission
• Mysterious transmissions and impossible choices
• Grand, hopeful adventure with a massive heart

CONTENT NOTES:

Space emergency, time pressure, discussion of autonomous AI, tension

WHERE TO PURCHASE THE BOOK:

Currently in Kindle Unlimited with wide release in February 2026.

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#QueerSciFi #AudioDrama #SpaceOpera

S01E01 · Attack on the High Priestess (Meyn) is the Prologue from Legacy, Book One of the Orriona Universe.

When High Priestess Nienna's ceremonial fleet is ambushed by an ancient enemy, her last surviving Warden must witness her final moments—and a desperate sacrifice that will rewrite the timeline itself. As boarding craft rip through the hull and reality begins to fracture, Meyn faces a truth his oath never prepared him for: some acts of devotion transcend death.

Meanwhile, the sentient starship Orriona receives Nienna's distress call—breaking centuries of exile to save an old friend. But to mount a rescue, she needs a crew. Her search leads to Edgepoint Station, a decaying frontier outpost where she finds an unlikely group: a doctor with a theatrical partner, an engineer haunted by her past, a con artist with dangerous skills, and a disgraced pilot trapped in his own tragedy.

This is the prologue to LEGACY—a character-first space epic set in a queer-norm galaxy where no one needs to come out, found families are forged among the stars, and hope burns brightest in the darkest corners of the galaxy.

WHAT TO EXPECT:

• Audio drama adaption of Legacy with cinematic sound design
• A queer-norm galaxy (no homophobia, no coming-out angst—just space adventures)
• A found-family in a queer-norm galaxy.
• A mysterious sentient ship with a will of its own.
• A tender, slow-burn M/M romance.
• Heists, ancient mysteries, and epic space battles.
• Grand, hopeful adventure with a massive heart.

CONTENT NOTES:

Space-battle peril, some violence, grief, telepathy/mental pressure

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Currently in Kindle Unlimited.

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Hangar Bay C on Level 12 is where Edgepoint Station keeps the things it wants forgotten. Corroded pipes drip overhead. Uneven lighting casts jittery shadows. And wedged between two towering freighters sits the Orriona—polished, streamlined, impossibly clean against the station's rust and decay.

Kai Kyros watches from the shadows as the others arrive. An engineer with grey-streaked hair and an ancient bot. A doctor carrying a meditation bench. A Taree'karin whose theatrical energy fills the hangar. A former Sector Guard pilot whose green eyes hold too many questions.

Strangers, all of them. People who answered the same impossible invitation Kai did. People who believe a sentient ship and generous credits are reason enough to leave everything behind.

Supply bots haul provisions up the boarding ramp in a steady stream. The Orriona's amber light spills across deck plates, warm against Edgepoint's harsh glare. One by one, the others climb aboard—stepping from a station that takes everything and gives nothing, into something none of them fully understand.

Kai stands at the threshold, pack digging into his shoulder. Eight years ago, he escaped one impossible situation with nothing but hope. That hope delivered him to Edgepoint, where he learned that survival means staying invisible, relationships are transactional, and trusting anyone is the fastest way to lose everything.

But ahead, a pilot waits. A crew waits. A ship that chose him specifically waits.

Time to decide: stay in the shadows he's mastered, or step into amber light and see what happens when someone finally sees past the masks.

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 found family's first meeting
4. The moment strangers become crew
5. Hope warring with hard-earned survival instincts
6. Grand, hopeful adventure with a massive heart

CONTENT NOTES: Anxiety, trust issues, references to past survival trauma

WHERE TO PURCHASE THE BOOK: Currently in Kindle Unlimited.

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#QueerSciFi #Audiobook #SpaceOpera #MMSciFi

Kai Kyros has survived eight years on Edgepoint Station by being invisible. Every night he deals cards at Lucky 9 casino—except he doesn't actually work there. The casino just never noticed an extra dealer who never appears on payroll. Magnets in his gloves. Marks who think they're skilled. Credits that keep him fed one more day.

It's a system. It works. And systems are safe when you have nothing else.

Tonight should be like every other night—run the con, read the marks, disappear before security notices. But then Ieoa walks in. The only person who knows who Kai really is beneath the careful masks and calculated angles. The only person who's ever really seen him.

When Kai retreats to the shadows he calls home, he has a choice to make. The notification glows on his screen: crew contract, position gunner, vessel Orriona. Three hours to respond.

He could ignore it. Keep running the tables, keep surviving in the spaces between notice and consequence. It's worked this long.

But in his pocket sits a reminder that some people believe he's capable of more than survival. And the clock is ticking down to a decision that will either carry him beyond Edgepoint's stagnant orbit—or prove that some shadows are too comfortable to leave.

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 con artist facing an honest choice
4. Found family origins and fractured connections
5. The weight of survival and the cost of hope
6. Grand, hopeful adventure with a massive heart

CONTENT NOTES: Survival themes, implied poverty, gambling, deception, isolation

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#QueerSciFi #AudioDrama #SpaceOpera