A dying world, a vanishing island, a second chance.
Station Arcadia is an anthology audio drama set in a dying world of endless war, failing food supplies and an island that was not there before and will be gone by morning. Production stopped partway through season two, so its feed also holds cutaway scenes from unmade episodes, a finished script read aloud, a blooper supercut and the producer's account of the plot that was planned.
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Station Arcadia is an anthology audio drama set in a world that is running out of road. An empire fights a war its people cannot remember living without, across blood-soaked battlefields, radiation-filled wastes and high walled cities. West across the sea lie the whirring cities of Hardison. On the Ganon Islands the worry is food: empty family tables, soup kitchens running dry and food pills packed with more appetite suppressant than nutrition. Elsewhere, guards with laser guns arrest trespassers on Arachne property. Episodes are identified by region, an Empire episode here and a Ganon Islands episode there, so the world is assembled piece by piece. Its worldbuilding and characters are credited to a long roster of contributors. Resistance is the connecting thread. There is a revolution headquarters, a scheme to evict a poor neighborhood and replace it with a mine and a company town, and Axel, who would rather be fishing but makes her gambit anyway. In one set of scenes she considers getting close to an old friend, Asphodel, partly to reach classified information, and gets called out for it. The narration does not soften how badly things can go. 'Hundreds of stories end poorly,' one passage says. The same passage then turns to an island that was not there before and will be gone by morning, a second chance for the few who reach it. The show sits in that tension between despair and stubborn hope. Station Arcadia was cancelled partway through season two, and the bonus material is unusually candid about the process. 'Gannon Cutaway Segments - s2e14' and 'Talsorian Cutaway Segments - s2e11' hold scenes written for season two episodes that were never completed. In 'Revenge Is Best Served For Supper', producer Eli Allen reads the part of Kass from the last finished script while J.R. Steele speaks the sound directions aloud. In 'What We Had Planned', Eli Allen talks through beats that never got made, such as Peaches opening Jebediah's mail to confirm his plans. 'Voice Acting Struggle Compilation' collects bloopers first posted to Patreon: flubbed words, a fly in the room, a microphone that keeps peaking. 'Was It Worth It?' answers the question in its title plainly: 'Yes. Duh.' The work is released under a Creative Commons non-commercial share-alike license, and transcripts are posted on the show's website. It suits a listener who wants a large shared dystopia and doesn't mind seeing how it was put together.
Made for: It suits a listener who likes audio fiction set in a large, collaboratively invented world, who can take bleak material about war and hunger for the sake of the hope underneath it, and who is curious about the unfinished side of an audio drama.
What sets it apart: Its world comes from a long roster of co-creators and is told one region at a time. Because production stopped partway through season two, the feed keeps the unfinished parts: rough cutaway scenes, a script read with its sound directions spoken aloud, and a producer's account of the plot that was planned.
The Station Arcadia podcast tells stories from a dystopian world where dieselpunk, steampunk, cyberpunk and solarpunk societies all exist side by side. These diverse stories are told through a radio station on a shifting island, and given voice to by the Station's Host - Kass. Woven through each stand-alone story are threads that come together to tell the story of a revolution, and hope in the face of a dying world. Also, it's queer. Station Arcadia is now cancelled, but still releasing bonus content for now. Listen from the start for the full picture, or jump in anywhere to make life interesting. Transcripts and additional information are available at https://stationarcadia.wixsite.com/podc…
Imperial war news arrives, and you still get a reminder to appreciate stucco ceilings.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A candid look at Station Arcadia's planned future, from Jebediah's neighborhood scheme to Teddy's dangerous bind.
Station Arcadia makes its unrealized future feel like part of the story itself. Eli Allen moves from smoky air and paper beads into a tour of what comes next, laying out Jebediah's plan to buy out a poor neighborhood, force people out, tear it down, and replace it with a mine,…
Livia's hard-won care gives Station Arcadia's last finished script its emotional center.
Station Arcadia's season two, episode eight sits in the hard space after damage has already been done. Livia helps Mika bring Patty into a risky plan, while Charlie's firing hangs over a date that might otherwise feel simply tender.
At Fort Merck, Callum and Louis find only fragile cover from a war neither can leave behind.
Forever Fort Mercury draws its force from a wartime conversation at Fort Merck, where Callum and Louis weigh a fractured empire from very different distances.
Sabotage, loyalty, and a forbidden romance press the system's politics into personal stakes.
Station Arcadia's "The Pixel Princess" keeps its conflict close to the people carrying it. Axel's job with the Russell administration gives him a way to undermine the system from inside, while Cass takes Sorin's warning seriously: petty sabotage may ask more of them than it…
Hark's seaweed proposal turns a food experiment into a challenge to Island Eight's survival-first thinking.
Hark's seaweed idea gives this episode a modest but useful pressure point: can Island Eight think about the future when everyone is trained to be ready to flee? The town hall scene works because the resistance is practical rather than cruel.
Speculative stories, read with quiet precision.
A fan-made audiobook of Wildbow's superhero serial Ward.
Story-heavy actual play with sharp supernatural turns.
Local radio at reality's breaking point.
Station Arcadia's "Was It Worth It?" asks whether collective care can matter in a world shaped by the Empire's war and Talsoria's corporate power.
Eli Allen opens from Western Canada on the unceded territory of Coast Salish peoples, making paper beads and promising to explain "what happens next in Station Arcadia." The recap walks through planned season-two episodes, including Charlie calling Cass about Peaches, Alice's flug-a-thon mission, and a Talsoria story that reveals an internet friend trying to flee by ship.
["Station Arcadia's \"Revenge Is Best Served For Supper\" opens with Eli Allen explaining that this is the last finished script after the show's season-two cancellation.", "Micah steals from the old Preston factory, finds Patty in an abandoned ice rink, and learns that her mother has died and her father is sick.", "Livia brings Patty in, evaluates a small mechanical bird, and folds the children into a theft-and-shelter arrangement built around tea, bread, and weekly supper.", "Charlie and Peaches debate leadership and fair compensation before Abraham Dryden fires Charlie over the flyers he distributed on Courier Marks' route."]
["Station Arcadia's \"Forever Fort Mercury\" opens with Eli Allen explaining that only eight of 30 season-two scripts were finished, so J.R.
Station Arcadia's The Pixel Princess centers on Mocha of the Muses, a code-made techno star in Talsoria, and Tonio, a lonely hacker who notices her at a stadium concert.
Station Arcadia’s “In The Seaweeds” follows Hark’s attempt to reconstruct pre-seafaring food practices on Island Eight after finding a tool for harvesting seaweed near the Bunbell River.
Station Arcadia's "Waves In The Wastes" follows Owen, a one-armed former steelworker from Tyre, as he joins an airship crew seeking a prosthetic in Talsoria.
Station Arcadia's “The Montgomerys” presents Clarecourt's powerful Montgomery family through a military manor filled with battle art, weapons, and controlled appearances.
A queer dystopian audio drama set on a shifting island where multiple punk genres coexist, told through a radio station.
In this episode, a courier delivers a letter from a grandson to Mrs.
A fictional radio station in a dystopian world presents standalone stories that weave together a revolution narrative.
The host introduces the show and begins telling a story from a dystopian world with multiple punk genres.