Do you even know what's out there? Corrosive air hot enough to melt lead! Billions of kilograms of pressure. There are clouds of sulfuric acid just floating around! A troop of Venusian Solar Scouts and their fearless leader take an overnight trip to a surface observation and survey station. But what starts as a chance to work on some badges turns into a very strange, and more than a little scary, experience in the dark. ** The Cast Gary is played by Thomas Flemming Ayrik is played by Christine T...
Aug 19, 2022•33 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Content warnings: this episode contains mentions of human trafficking. ** "Shay Russell, you are under arrest, pursuant to Article two of the—Dusty get your goddamn hand off your gun before I blow it off—pursuant to Article two of the Ceres Accord, I am empowered to take you into custody for transportation back to the jurisdiction of import." Raven Station’s new sheriff, Luce, arrests a dangerous criminal and comes under threat. Aided only by Brother Argyre, a wanderer who has Heard the Call, th...
Aug 05, 2022•35 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Content warnings: this episode contains corrupt law enforcement, drugging ** "Does life in the black always end up with someone jumping out the airlock of a ship in motion, kilometers away from anything else with atmo and relying on exo suit thrusters to get them to a ship with a jerry-rigged remote hatch lock, before their O2 runs out?" Two familiar faces work together to steal something a very rich person doesn't need and give it to another very rich person who doesn't need it, as it’s transpo...
Jul 15, 2022•46 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Content warning: this episode contains depictions of animal abuse and detailed descriptions of physical violence. ** You come all this way, kid, on what? Some kinda holy quest, some kinda journey? So desperate for that absolution I was talkin’ about that you’ll haunt an old man with hope? An old gunslinger-turned-cricket-farmer gets pulled out of retirement for one last ride to save Felina, the love he thought was lost. The Cast Theo is played by Scott Paladin The Kid is played by Jem Mason is p...
Jul 01, 2022•34 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Content Warnings: This episode contains asphyxiation, tightly enclosed spaces, self harm, immolation, substance abuse, body horror, audio gore ** Here's the deal, this is happening, and you're going to find a way to be fine with it, or you're going to have to learn how to breathe vacuum. The crew of the freighter Six Foot Weaver try to capitalize on an opportunity for some quick salvage, but what should have been easy money instead wakes a dormant danger. ** The Cast Ridley is played by Alice Ky...
Jun 17, 2022•37 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Content warnings: this episode contains reference to near death experience, implied bombing attempt, unnerving and terrifying experiences, implied unreality ** "Have you ever heard of the Station at the End of the Universe? It is told on planets, ships and space stations alike, one that is told late at night... Some say it’s a bright place... Others say it’s derelict and in ruins... Its appearance changes depending on who you ask about it. But you'll always find someone who has seen it. As five ...
Jun 03, 2022•36 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Content warnings: this episode includes Major character death, illness, aging, grief, & parental abandonment ** "Any of these stars coulda burned out hundreds of years ago, but we can still stare up long after and not even know the difference." Far from home, a soft-spoken traveler runs into a charismatic stranger in a bar. One tells a true story, and the other one tells a lie. Years in the past, two friends born and raised on an abandoned mining outpost find themselves on diverging paths - ...
May 20, 2022•35 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Content warnings: this episode contains bomb threats, terrorism, implied abuse by law enforcement. ** Delivery! One anarchist, union-sympathizing ordnance handling, demolitions expert direct from Makhnovshchina, thanks to the YuKon 24-hours anywhere-in-the-system guarantee! The Intrastellar Workers Movement continues to fight for worker’s rights and unionization against megacorporations like YuKon, and they’ve gained an unlikely leader. A small group of IWM members plan and execute an attack on ...
May 06, 2022•52 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Content Warnings: implied firearm threatening, alcohol references ** Welcome to Waystation Markets, Store 369. How can we propel you through the stars today? When you work and live on a Waystation Market asteroid, frequented only by people just passing through and refueling, with only your manager for company, you make your own fun. Price spends their shifts musing about the patterns they’ve recognized in the customers who stop here. Every stranger has a story, and Price wonders just how much th...
Apr 15, 2022•40 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Content warnings: this episode contains discussion of traumatic workplace environment ** "Don't go work for YuKon." My dad said. "You can always just get a job with me at OCP!" Well sorry, Mom! I didn't listen." Two strangers meet at a bar. One is a disgraced former YuKon PR rep at the end of his rope. The other, a career criminal looking for his next score. They soon hatch a plan to steal from one of the richest people in the system. What could possibly go wrong? ** The Cast Korrine is played b...
Apr 01, 2022•50 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Content Warnings: this episode includes parental abuse of a child, childhood neglect, amputation, eye trauma, audio gore. ** "It was supposed to be a simple job. But in this line of work, there's so such fucking thing." Dogwalkers take the jobs you can't put in the books. Sometimes, that's taking something for someone it doesn't belong to. Sometimes, it's bringing back something that does. This job is one of the latter. Grey's employer this time is very influential, and very wealthy. And current...
Mar 18, 2022•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 2
Content Warnings: These episodes contain: main character death, implied suffocation, physical injury. ** "Ari, seriously, if you're receiving this you need to get back here now. We just lost telemetry for C-COWs across half the planet..." A solar storm can kill a ship or rip a station to shreds, but what will it do to a couple on Mars whose relationship is already on the rocks? Does it push them together, or finish tearing them apart? ** "I don't know...Is that what you're looking to hear? I don...
Mar 04, 2022•55 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Episode Notes It's not all feelings and found family. Sometimes it's fart jokes. A peak behind the scenes into some of the recording sessions of Season 1. Welcome to the System Our Website Join the Law of Names Discord Follow us on Twitter Support us on Patreon Our theme music was composed & arranged by Michael Freitag written by Scott Paladin , and vocals by Jeremiah. Breathing Space, Fading Frontier is a Law of Names production. © This work is copyrighted by Law of Names Media, 2022 It may...
Feb 04, 2022•38 min
The writers and editors of Season 1 talk about the first season of the show-- what we loved, what we learned, where we're going-- and answer the questions you sent in. Including the voices of: Scott Paladin, writer, director, editor, actor Lee Seguinte, writer, director, producer Erika Kaiser, writer, director, actor Erik Seguinte, editor --- Welcome to the System Our Website Join the Law of Names Discord Follow us on Twitter Support us on Patreon -- Our theme music was composed & arranged b...
Jan 21, 2022•1 hr 15 min
This episode contains depictions of a large scale disaster and the effects thereof. -- We Interrupt This Program (Part 2) Good evening. Tonight, on the eve of a new century, the solar system finds itself on leading edge of a disturbance within our sun, the star on which all our worlds rely, which ties them together. A disturbance unlike any in recorded history. This is Felicity Fumero, Nova News Network, Redline U142, reporting from Rogers Station. -- This episode of Breathing Space, Fading Fron...
Jan 07, 2022•35 min•Season 1Ep. 15
This episode contains depictions of a large scale disaster and the effects thereof, employer violence and abuse, including intentional neglect of employee safety, and an on screen panic attack. -- We Interrupt This Program (Part 1) Good evening. Tonight, on the eve of a new century, the solar system finds itself on leading edge of a disturbance within our sun, the star on which all our worlds rely, which ties them together. A disturbance unlike any in recorded history. This is Felicity Fumero, N...
Dec 17, 2021•33 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Content Warnings: This episode contains explosion sound effects. -- Advanced Readings in Theoretical Helioseismology That's the kind of "interesting" that means "potentially catastrophic and largely unexpected" isn't it? The scientists on the Occulohelios Solar Research Station know that something big is coming. That the end of this 11 year solar cycle is going to bring with it a solar storm of unprecedented proportions, and effects that will echo through the System. They know, and the have the ...
Dec 03, 2021•50 min•Season 1Ep. 13
I Walk These Hills Joseph Brand is dead and I am his memorial. I'm a reconstruction. My face is sourced from photos and video. My voice is a mimic, using recordings from life as a blueprint." There are Salvagers, and there are Vultures. One breaks down derelict ships for resale, one stands back and waits for ships in distress to become derelict. Which one was Joseph Brand? Only his ghost knows the real story. -- The Ghost of Josephine Brand is played by Mere Tess is played by Christine Savage Ma...
Nov 19, 2021•41 min•Season 1Ep. 12
The Greatest Show Off Earth "The Carnivale di Vagabondi Stellari offers any entertainment a soul could desire. Wonders to delight the senses and baffle reason. One may see things here that are no where else in this universe. Like so many ventures in these precarious times, the Carnivale needs new investors. Sometimes, acquiring them just takes putting on a good show. Luckily, that's exactly what Alois Ilmater and their troupe do best. -- Alois Ilmater is played by Emily Buza Portwait Germid is p...
Nov 05, 2021•26 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Content Warnings: This episode includes scenes of police violence against protestors (in news report from 20:30-21:40, in action at 28:13-30:40) -- Attention, Associates! "Attention Associates! This is a reminder that inappropriate behavior with other team members is strictly prohibited by YuKon. If you wonder if you shouldn’t talk to someone, be smart, and don’t! And remember! You put the Yu in YuKon!" Welcome to YuKon Production and Fabrication Facility 1990, a company-owned asteroid community...
Oct 15, 2021•34 min•Season 1Ep. 10
The Next Big Thing "The Peregrination is a simultaneously anarchic and strongly collectivist group. They're idiosyncratic and down right paranoid. Probably the largest isolated population of people in the solar system." Vista Unlimited has both the money and materials to expand their Jovian settlement. What they don't have is the ships to carry it there. In an attempt to secure the use of single largest fleet in the System, their agent seeks an audience with the Peregrination. They've done the p...
Oct 01, 2021•28 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Content Warnings: This episode contains gun violence & gunshots. Three Stories from the System This is the Blue Lady, greencast to all local, anybody in the neighborhood? It gets mighty lonely in the black. Every spacer knows that really, when it comes down to it, they're on their own. Especially if you fly solo. And when you're on your own out there, a ship malfunction isn't a temporary inconvenience. It's a death threat. That's how it is everywhere, Cal. People'r out for themselves. An' th...
Sep 17, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Content Warnings: This episode includes brief discussion of eugenics, and crimes against humanity. It also includes repeating sounds including sirens, and explosions. -- Oh Beautiful For Heroes Proved "I wouldn't blame you if you don't want to risk throwing away your life on some kind of revenge mission that might not have even a chance of succeeding. But it's him. And this may be the only chance we have to make him pay." Once, they were a unit of skilled individuals, hunting some of the System'...
Sep 03, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 7
This episode features brief descriptions of police brutality and violence against protestors. Wayfaring Strangers I’m a NoGo—No Home, Going Anywhere. I been that way since I was knee-high. My mother gave me a name, but I won’t bore you with it. Three short stories about the lives of NoGos, wanderers who travel the System via stolen trips in cargo holds and overlooked corners, and who have their own ways of understanding friendship, loyalty, and honor. -- The NoGo's Way Booster Rockets is played ...
Aug 20, 2021•51 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Content Warnings: This episode includes grotesque descriptions of body horror, and sexual situations. -- The Salvage of the Valentina Tereshkova "Buy me a drink. The stronger the better. And get the funds transferred. When they’re in my account, and the drink’s in me, I’ll tell you what you want to know. The entire story of the salvage of the Valentina Tereshkova." They've got reliable information about a luxury cruise ship, completely intact and ready to be salvaged. What could go wrong? -- Dow...
Aug 06, 2021•47 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Content Warnings: This episode includes a depiction of a situation of certain death, digital noises & distortion, and distorted speech. -- Objects in Motion "This is Jemma Falcano, Solar Scout troop 316, on the freighter Cantankerous. There are three of us aboard. We are adrift." A troupe of Solar Scouts' attempt to earn their survival badge turns from a simple camping trip in hard vacuum to a life-and-death struggle when an unexpected equipment failure leaves them stranded in an engineless ...
Jul 16, 2021•36 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Content Warnings: This episode includes references to military violence and depictions of alcohol abuse. -- Take a Number, Get in Line "You know how we tell a new guy? They kick rocks. It’s human, I guess. We’re tactile sons of bitches, right? There’s some part of our monkey brains that never grows past the stage where you chew on your hands and try to shove blocks into holes." There hasn't been a real war on Terra for 150 years. But that doesn't mean she hasn't needed soldiers. Gabriella Bishop...
Jul 02, 2021•40 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Content Warnings: This episode includes violence toward children, and a countdown. -- Rat Among Falcons "Welcome to the Forge Sorrow Into Joy_, home ship to 152 of The Family."_ Ships of the Peregrination often rescue those afloat in space. But this time, the person Captain Yuri Arturoskin fishes out of the black is more a problem than potential partner- an angry young pirate with no name -- Captain Yuri Arturoskin is played by Scott Paladin Nulla is played by Jermiah X.O. Blindskin is played by...
Jun 18, 2021•40 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Content Warnings: This episode includes violence, a countdown, and repeating sounds, including sirens and alarms. -- Goodnight, You Moonlight Ladies "Some of the most beautiful sights in the System lie along the Saturnian Stock Drive, but damned if it ain’t a lonely ride." Two asteroid-wrangling vacuum cowboys--one as worn-in as an old exosuit, one new-minted and still shiny. An entire field of mineral-rich BRONCOs. One chance to round them up and bring them home. And one ship of BRONCO rustlers...
Jun 04, 2021•36 min•Season 1Ep. 1
I ain't got no home to go to I ain't got nothin' to sell But my stars'll never leave me Even when I'm sold to hell. I was born under a blue sky I'll die out in the black, When I'm gone don't no one mourn me 'Cause my debts will drag me back. Premiering Friday, June 4, 2021 --- Composed & arranged by Michael Freitag written by Scott Paladin , and vocals by Jeremiah. --- Welcome to the System Our Website Join the Law of Names Discord Follow us on Twitter Support us on Patreon -- Breathing Spac...
Jun 02, 2021•2 min
