PALISADE 56: Some New Thing Found in the Light, Or: A Year in Nine Parts

This episode carries content warnings for death and severe isolation.

It happened without much fanfare: They'd scattered—like the so-called shards of Divinity itself—all across the Milky Way. Searching. Fleeing. Exploring. Building. Fighting. A year apart. Not their year apart, because there was no "them" anymore, not by affinity or proximity, not through collaboration or communication, not in duty, not in friendship.

And around them, the Divine Principality seemed to be slowly splintering too. Worlds detached from each other. Families separated not by war but by silence. New claimants to old thrones. Civil wars at small scales, intimate scales.

This week on PALISADE: Some New Thing Found in the Light, Or: A Year in Nine Parts

I don't need rescue / But it helps when you drift through

Dramatis Personae

Barnacle (Austin Walker) … … … ... ... ... ... ... ... ... A spymaster

Cas’alear Rizah (Austin Walker) … … … ... ... ... ... ... ... ... An exiled heir

Coriolis Sunset (Sylvi Clare) ... … … … ... ... ... ... An anguished pilot on the run

Exeter Leap (Keith Carberry) … … … ... ... ... ... A pirate captain in leisure

Gallica, Elect of Present (Austin Walker) … … … ... ... ... ... ... ... ... A powerful bon vivant

Jorrie Bluebrick (Austin Walker) … … … ... ... ... ... ... ... ... An ambitious recruit

Kalvin Brnine (Ali Acampora) … … ... ... ... ... A crestfallen commander

Levitation Cascabel-Gardner (Andrew Lee Swan) … A renowned hero

Resolute Welkin (Austin Walker) … … … ... ... ... ... ... ... ... A scout

Riah Connadine (Jack de Quidt) ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... A master spymaster

Rye, Elect of Space (Austin Walker) … … … ... ... ... ... ... ... ... A brilliant negotiator

Svir (Austin Walker) … … … ... ... ... ... ... ... ... A pilgrim

Thisbe (Janine Hawkins) ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... A traveler in search of Divinity

Xylem (Austin Walker) … … … ... ... ... ... ... ... ... A researcher far from home

Wakeful (Austin Walker) … … … ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Emergence Itself

Hosted by Austin Walker (@austin_walker)

Featuring Janine Hawkins (@bleatingheart) Sylvi Bullet (@sylvibullet), Ali Acampora (@ali_west), Art Martinez-Tebbel (@atebbel), Jack de Quidt (@notquitereal), Keith J Carberry (@keithjcarberry) and Andrew Lee Swan (@swandre3000)

Produced by Ali Acampora and Austin Walker

Music by Jack de Quidt (available on bandcamp)

Text by Austin Walker

Cover Art by by aurahack (aurahack.jp)

With thanks to Amelia Renee, Arthur B., Bill Kaszubski, Cassie Jones, chocoube, Clark, DB, deepFlaw, Edwin Adelsberger, Emrys, Greg Cobb, Ian O'Dea, Ian Urbina, Irina A., Jack Shirai, Jake Strang, Katie Diekhaus, Ken George, Kristina Harris Esq, L Tantivy, Mark Conner, Mike & Ruby, Muna A, Nat Knight, Nich Maragos, Quinn Pollock, Robert Lasica, Shawn Drape, Shawn Hall, Summer Rose, TeganEden, Thomas Whitney, and weakmint for their support

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