{"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":"I Led A Spec Ops Team To Recover A Gravity Device. It Crushed Anyone Who Panicked","slug":"i-led-a-spec-ops-team-to-recover-a-gravity-device-it-crushed-anyone-who-panicked","published_at":"2026-08-23T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/galactic-horrors-6264033/i-led-a-spec-ops-team-to-recover-a-gravity-device-it-crushed-anyone-who-panicked","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/galactic-horrors-6264033","url":"https://shows.acast.com/galactic-horrors/episodes/i-led-a-spec-ops-team-to-recover-a-gravity-device-it-crushed","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/66477018b68429001342b9a2/e/6a708f2b6af4dfc9180d5f1d/media.mp3","summary":"A stolen gravity machine can crush anyone whose heartbeat betrays fear. Ninety miles off the Virginia coast, Directorate operator Halsey leads a five-man extraction team onto the Carthage, a hijacked freighter drifting dark and silent. Their orders are simple: recover the classified generator intact before a foreign buyer arrives. Then they find bodies flattened into steel by force from impossible directions. Below decks, armed devotees have trained themselves to remain calm inside the distortion. The device's corrupted safety system locks onto nearby heartbeats, turning panic, pain, and exertion into lethal vectors. Every gunshot, wound, and surge of adrenaline can wrench gravity sideways, hurl men into walls, or turn the cargo hold against them. With the buyer closing in and his team trapped between zealots and a machine that weaponizes the body's most honest signal, Halsey must reach the controls without letting his pulse become its next command. Survival demands more than courage. It demands control so absolute that fear cannot touch his heartbeat, even as the ship breaks every rule of gravity around him. 🔗 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…","meta_description":"A stolen gravity machine can crush anyone whose heartbeat betrays fear. Ninety miles off the Virginia coast, Directorate operator Halsey leads a five-man…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3208,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/galactic-horrors-6264033/episodes/i-led-a-spec-ops-team-to-recover-a-gravity-device-it-crushed-anyone-who-panicked/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/i-led-a-spec-ops-team-to-recover-a-gravity-device-it-crushed-anyone-who-panicked.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}