Flight of the Icaron: Ep 1 - Maiden Voyage
1/6/20261 hr 45 min
This is the maiden voyage of the Icaron - Earth’s first S-Class Battle Station. This demonstration flight has been certified as routine by all relevant oversight bodies. Systems have been tested, personnel vetted, and contingencies reviewed. Passengers are reminded that the Icaron represents the highest standard of planetary defense engineering.
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Brennan Lee Mulligan
Erika Ishii
Aabria Iyengar
Lou Wilson
Flight of the Icaron was produced by Fortunate Horse and Worlds Beyond Number
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[dramatic music] A bright summer sun shines out over the city of Mombasa. Clear blue sky, an occasional lazy cloud floating by. At the city's most humming landmark, New Dawn Plaza, the first thing that draws your eye is the ground itself. The entire plaza is paved in a vast mosaic of the Global Executive Council insignia, two cupped hands stretched upward, palms open to the heavens. Around them, tiny inlaid tiles catch the sun in shifting colors, forming constellations and planets in brilliant whites, deep blues, and flecks of gold. When the light strikes just right, it looks as if the stars themselves are glittering beneath your feet. At the far end of the plaza, the space opens onto a viewing platform that looks directly toward the Mombasa Airfield and the towering silhouette of its gravity well. From here, visitors can watch spacecrafts taxi across the strip, engines roaring before they rise into the sky and are carried upward into orbit around the shining