{"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":"We Explored A Derelict Alien Megastructure","slug":"we-explored-a-derelict-alien-megastructure","published_at":"2026-08-30T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/galactic-horrors-6264033/we-explored-a-derelict-alien-megastructure","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/galactic-horrors-6264033","url":"https://shows.acast.com/galactic-horrors/episodes/im-a-space-cartographer-we-found-a-megastructure-that-feeds","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/66477018b68429001342b9a2/e/6a7ac5e2446de273c02cee14/media.mp3","summary":"For twenty years, survey cartographer Mark has mapped structures that stay where he leaves them. The Dyson sphere does not. His five-person crew is hired to chart the largest artificial structure ever found, a silent alien shell whose corridors are threaded with stresses only Mark's Barycentric Loom can see. The contract is supposed to make his career. Then a routine sample is removed from a wall, gravity vanishes, and the architecture folds itself around one of them. Mark discovers the sphere is not collapsing. It is balancing. Every gram moved, lost, consumed, or spilled forces the structure to redistribute mass, and the deeper the crew travels, the smaller the margin for error becomes. Their route home is already changing behind them. With a damaged suit in the team, a human-built instrument pushed past its calibration, and a company briefing that suddenly looks dangerously incomplete, Mark must guide the remaining crew through corridors no map can hold still long enough to describe. In a structure where a misplaced ration can become a death sentence, survival depends on knowing exactly what everything weighs, including the cost of being wrong. 🔗 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…","meta_description":"For twenty years, survey cartographer Mark has mapped structures that stay where he leaves them. The Dyson sphere does not. His five-person crew is hired…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4115,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/galactic-horrors-6264033/episodes/we-explored-a-derelict-alien-megastructure/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/we-explored-a-derelict-alien-megastructure.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}