{"podcast":{"title":"Galactic Horrors","slug":"galactic-horrors-6264033","podcast_index_feed_id":6264033,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/66477018b68429001342b9a2","website_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/galactic-horrors","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/66477018b68429001342b9a2/show-cover.jpg","author":"Galactic Horrors","episode_count":748,"summary":"Original dark science fiction stories, told as standalone narrated episodes. Ships, stations, labs and border worlds; deep-space missions, black projects, quarantined facilities and forgotten sectors where the plan makes sense on paper right up until it doesn’t. These are slow-burn, grounded stories about technology, secrecy and the people caught in the gap between what was promised and what actually happens. If you like quiet dread, institutional cover-ups and futures that feel uncomfortably plausible, this is your channel. All stories, artwork, and thumbnails are original to Galactic Horrors. We do not accept submissions. Disclosure: This show includes AI-generated elements. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-13T06:20:52.540919+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/galactic-horrors-6264033"},"episode":{"title":"A Deep Space Outpost Was Built To Seal A Dimensional Tear. Something Is Leaking Through","slug":"a-deep-space-outpost-was-built-to-seal-a-dimensional-tear-something-is-leaking-through","published_at":"2026-09-04T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/galactic-horrors-6264033/a-deep-space-outpost-was-built-to-seal-a-dimensional-tear-something-is-leaking-through","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/galactic-horrors-6264033","url":"https://shows.acast.com/galactic-horrors/episodes/a-deep-space-outpost-was-built-to-seal-a-dimensional-tear-so","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/66477018b68429001342b9a2/e/6a81e7f183128ee3d2f712e4/media.mp3","summary":"At the edge of chartered space, twelve living gates are dying one by one around a dimensional rupture. The Bio-Industrial Splicer assigned to keep them alive is running out of replacement tissue, time, and any realistic hope that the overdue supply convoy will arrive. Then something crosses the rupture. The first organisms seem almost helpful. They seal leaks, rebuild damaged vessels, and imitate repairs they have witnessed. But every tool, scrap of tissue, and procedure near the breach teaches them more. Soon the station is filling with an alien maintenance ecology that can keep the gates alive while quietly remaking the structure from the inside. With supplies collapsing and a debt contract still binding him to the job, the splicer faces a brutal engineering problem: destroy the intruders and risk losing containment, or depend on a biology that learns from everything it touches. As the station begins treating bodies as just another maintenance resource, keeping the rupture closed may demand a kind of repair no human manual was ever meant to authorize. 🔗 Official Links: The only place to get daily and bonus Galactic Horrors stories with no ads or interruptions is Patreon: 📡 Join Patreon: https://patreon.com/GalacticHorrors Galactic Horrors stories are also available as eBooks on Amazon, with new releases every week: 📚 eBooks: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0H2F5M2B3/allbooks 📖 Written by Galactic Horrors ⚠️ Content Ownership Notice All stories, artwork, thumbnails, and animations featured on this channel are original creations of Galactic Horrors. I do not accept or feature submissions from other creators. Unauthorized reproduction, redistribution, or re-uploading of any content from this channel, in any form, is strictly prohibited and constitutes a violation…","meta_description":"At the edge of chartered space, twelve living gates are dying one by one around a dimensional rupture. The Bio-Industrial Splicer assigned to keep them al…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3826,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/galactic-horrors-6264033/episodes/a-deep-space-outpost-was-built-to-seal-a-dimensional-tear-something-is-leaking-through/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/galactic-horrors-6264033/a-deep-space-outpost-was-built-to-seal-a-dimensional-tear-something-is-leaking-through.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}