Justin McLachlan and PlanetM
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Space medicine with a time-travel headache.
EOS 10 turns medical emergencies, spacewalk disasters, time loops, and alien mysteries into rapid ensemble chaos. Its characters solve problems by arguing through them, often while injured, irritated, frightened, or one bad decision from court-martial.
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EOS 10 is a scripted science-fiction audio drama built around pressure, damage, and people who cope by talking too fast. Its world is full of space-station medicine, alien history, questionable technology, poisoned lunches, broken ships, and time behaving badly. The tone is rude in the useful way. Characters snap, deflect, correct each other, and keep moving because the emergency will not wait for anyone’s feelings to become convenient. The infirmary is a major engine for the show, but the story does not stay neatly at the bedside. A food court outbreak becomes a hunt for a botanical poison. A hull breach turns a rescue into a spacewalk. A gallery showing gets tangled with suspicions about time-travel manipulation and hidden restrictions around Adrarian Prime. Later episodes widen into lost time, gateways, dragons, source-code metaphors, and characters trying to repair choices that may already have happened. The show’s exposition almost always arrives under stress. Nobody simply explains the lore when they can argue over it, misunderstand it, weaponize it, or be interrupted by another crisis. That gives EOS 10 its particular snap: the mythology is big, but the room-level behavior is petty, funny, and immediate. It can be absurd one minute and bruised the next. The jokes often come from bad timing, medical bluntness, workplace hostility, or the sheer indignity of trying to save lives while everyone is being impossible. Underneath that noise, the series keeps circling loyalty, regret, aging, lost chances, and the fear that even a brilliant fix may cost more than it saves. Special feed episodes also point to adjacent audio-fiction tastes, from deep-ocean corporate dread to a heartfelt afterlife service station, but the core appeal remains clear. EOS 10 is for listeners who want ensemble sci-fi that runs hot: comic, messy, serialized, and emotionally sharper than its banter first suggests.
Made for: For audio-drama listeners who like fast ensemble sci-fi, medical chaos, time weirdness, and character comedy with teeth. It works best for audiences comfortable with serialized plots and irreverent crisis banter.
What sets it apart: EOS 10 makes lore feel like an argument in a crowded infirmary, not a lecture. Its mix of clinical emergencies, cosmic mythology, and abrasive affection gives the show a scrappy rhythm distinct from sleeker space operas.
Doctors in space, a deposed alien prince, a super gay space pirate and a fiery nurse who’ll help you win your bar fight.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
EOS 10 makes cosmic disorder legible through medical crises, tangled continuity, and an ensemble that keeps finding room for jokes under pressure.
EOS 10 runs space-station medicine through the machinery of a sharp ensemble comedy. Ryan, Jane, Nurse Johns, and their colleagues handle mass poisoning, severe trauma, improvised surgery, and broken timelines with arguments that keep the characters vivid even when the…
A poisoned food court becomes your gateway to medical panic, time travel, and impeccably timed insults.
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A deep-sea sci-fi opener that turns loss, bureaucracy, and an eerie discovery into one long, tense look into the dark.
The episode places Eva Graff 19,000 feet down and keeps her under steady strain as loss follows her and Fathom struggles to hold together. A relay outage, a damaged facility, and a stubborn mainframe give the story real pressure, so even the quieter exchanges feel charged.
A deadpan sci-fi comedy with a warm center, set in an astral-plane fueling service center.
Desert Skies sets its jokes inside an astral-plane fueling service center and gets a lot of mileage out of small, dry exchanges. An attendant, a literal cash register, and a pile of bureaucratic nonsense turn routine checks into something warmer than it sounds, and the burrito…
A frantic time-travel detour that turns confusion into momentum.
The episode jumps into a future-self confrontation and keeps tightening the pressure with broken ribs, internal bleeding, Everywhere, Anytime, and a dragon guardian that turns into a time-travel problem. It works because the chaos stays grounded in bruised, frazzled banter.
A cramped emergency keeps widening into a time-bending mystery.
Sunset gets pushed into full emergency mode by an airlock that will not unseal, a hull breach, and a miserable spacewalk. Wounded crew, a nurse practitioner, and a captain who has already crashed into the docking rig keep the danger immediate, while Ryan's timeline headache and…
A poisoned lunch, a smug doctor, and a station-wide mess that never quite stops moving.
EOS 10 turns a bad lunch into a station-wide mess, with 168 people sick from Food Court Delta and Dr. Delius showing up with his own unrelated problem, enzymatic sclerosis. The episode keeps circling the same question: was the stew botched, poisoned, or set up on purpose?
Four McElroys narrate a wizard battle-royale tournament across elimination trials on Octave Ziggurat.
A continuous Fabula Ultima actual-play campaign following one party through the world of Perpetua.
An ensemble cast plays teen superheroes through Masks: A New Generation campaigns and guest one-shots.
A recurring cast plays full Pathfinder 2E, Shadowdark, and Pendragon campaigns session by session.
A Dungeon World actual-play campaign following three comedians battling villain Callum Blackhammer.
Nineteen thousand feet down, Eva is barely holding it together.
The premiere episode of Desert Skies introduces Desert Skies Astral Plane Fuel and Service Station, a gas station on the lowest sphere between life and death staffed by an amnesiac Attendant and a mechanic named MAC.
Everywhere, anytime is not a metaphor.
EOS 10 episode 502, “Our Lost Time: Time To Leave,” follows Ryan Dallius and his crew as a telepathic space dragon is stolen by a one-armed Zycathian.
EOS 10 episode 501 follows Dr.
Commander Dahlias Ryan investigates a cascade failure in a remote data stream and discovers the cause is a time beacon with an anomalous quantum signature — the first confirmed case of quantum displacement in the series.
168 crew members of EOS 10 fall ill from a food court stew laced with taveric root, a rare and officially antidote-less botanical poison.