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CSS Vigilant — a seven-part space-war serial about one destroyer left to hold a shipping lane after the fleet withdraws. Machine Age Radio Theatre is original science-fiction radio drama, assembled by machine, in the tradition of X Minus One. New episodes are live now.

Machine Age Radio Theatre is made entirely with AI-generated voices, music, and sound : a deliberate experiment in bringing back the sound of golden-age radio drama. Regular episodes include a sponsor spot for Decoder Ring, a secret-message app by the same person who makes this show : https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769765354

Machine Age Radio Theatre is made entirely with AI-generated voices, music, and sound. This episode includes a sponsor spot for Decoder Ring : a secret-message app that encodes and decodes messages sent through your other messaging apps, made by the same person who makes this show : https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769765354

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Ascendancy boarders are inside Vigilant's hull and the trap is still unsprung. Anand holds the junction, Farrow buys seconds, and Vasquez waits for the enemy's own aggression to pull all ten reserve ships into the killing radius — knowing the detonation that ends Thorne's fleet may end her ship with it.

Machine Age Radio Theatre is made entirely with AI-generated voices, music, and sound. This episode includes a sponsor spot for Decoder Ring : a secret-message app that encodes and decodes messages sent through your other messaging apps, made by the same person who makes this show : https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769765354

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Vasquez wakes, reads the wreck of the situation in minutes, and lays out a plan the whole crew privately thinks is suicide: play dead, and let the enemy fleet come in close enough to finish the job. The trap is set. Whether it closes in time is another question.

Machine Age Radio Theatre is made entirely with AI-generated voices, music, and sound. This episode includes a sponsor spot for Decoder Ring : a secret-message app that encodes and decodes messages sent through your other messaging apps, made by the same person who makes this show : https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769765354

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With no relief coming, Vasquez pushes a hard forward maneuver to buy time and pays for it. Command passes to Commander Reyne, who has to hold a frightened crew together and make the next call alone, while Thorne senses the opening he's been waiting for.

Machine Age Radio Theatre is made entirely with AI-generated voices, music, and sound. This episode includes a sponsor spot for Decoder Ring : a secret-message app that encodes and decodes messages sent through your other messaging apps, made by the same person who makes this show : https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769765354

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There is a saboteur aboard Vigilant and the hunt for them strains every relationship on the ship. Vasquez handles it her own way — quiet, exact, and telling. Meanwhile Farrow pulls a transmission out of the noise that changes what holding the line is going to cost.

Machine Age Radio Theatre is made entirely with AI-generated voices, music, and sound. This episode includes a sponsor spot for Decoder Ring : a secret-message app that encodes and decodes messages sent through your other messaging apps, made by the same person who makes this show : https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769765354

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Vasquez turns the debris field itself into a weapon, funnelling the enemy vanguard into a killing lane — the crew's first real victory, and a costly one. Admiral Thorne absorbs the loss without blinking and adjusts. Then engineering finds something in the reactor damage that has no business being there.

Machine Age Radio Theatre is made entirely with AI-generated voices, music, and sound. This episode includes a sponsor spot for Decoder Ring : a secret-message app that encodes and decodes messages sent through your other messaging apps, made by the same person who makes this show : https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769765354

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The war for the Corvus Strait comes down to one navigable corridor of open space: hold it and you control resupply, reinforcement, the whole war. When the Meridian Concord fleet is ordered to withdraw, a single aging destroyer — CSS Vigilant is left behind to hold the line until relief arrives. Captain Elena Vasquez takes the measure of her crew, the odds, and the man being sent to break them.

Machine Age Radio Theatre is made entirely with AI-generated voices, music, and sound. This episode includes a sponsor spot for Decoder Ring : a secret-message app that encodes and decodes messages sent through your other messaging apps, made by the same person who makes this show : https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769765354