EPISODE · Dec 17, 2025 · 4 MIN
1.13-Glass of Sefrin
from Grave Orbits · host Conundrum and Esoterica
Get the Soundtrack here: [Transcript]Sefrin. It’s cold when we land on the dark side of the last planet in the chain. I take a deep breath of my nitrogen mask, the atmosphere nearly pure O2 outside. Chaldricom, our contact, walks up the loading ramp to say hello, the fiery waves of his body dancing shadows on the hull. I shake his hand, sweatin’ in my suit from the radiant heat. They’re tall, Phasmagoths. We step off the ship, his gown of interlocking crystal clinking in the early morning air. Others pass us in proud dresses, frocks, and kilts made of the same. Spires of interwoven glass, faience, terracotta, and anaglyptics of all sorts tower over us in the dark: the famed ceramics of Sefrin. And above them, the 47th pillar of The Bridge.As we walk the streets star light rains down from the night sky. First only twinkles of light pierce atmo, but then more join the constellation until whole sections build into a blinding white light. Artificial sunrise. Phasmagoths have a reputation for being unfriendly and overly ambitious. Can’t say they haven’t earned it. Each of the three planets in their home system are linked together in a sort of planetary chain; vast bridges made of echodurum built over millennia physically connect one to the other. Legend says the entire thing is made from the Sefrin glass.We get to the depot. Chaldricom and Zery negotiate. She does most of the talking when we do deliveries here. Hakelm Adi and Sefrin culture have a lot in common. I’ve heard more than a few Oldanti archeologists speculate the two were sister peoples in the long distant past. Of course, neither group is about to let outsiders go poking around their historical and sacred sites to find out. Many have tried and never been seen again.We head back to the ship. I can see the discoloration on the hull only after a few hours. Rapid onset oxidation. VRS scrubs the O2 down to normal levels. Feels good to breathe with the mask off. We break atmo. Camoris, the system’s only star, shines 800 million kilometers away through the thin atmosphere. Hamark does the flying, weaving through the ten million satellites of mirrors and lenses in orbit that haul the sunrise from one end of the planets to the other.
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Get the Soundtrack here: [Transcript]Sefrin. It’s cold when we land on the dark side of the last planet in the chain. I take a deep breath of my nitrogen mask, the atmosphere nearly pure O2 outside. Chaldricom, our contact, walks up the loading ramp to say hello, the fiery waves of his body dancing shadows on the hull. I shake his hand, sweatin’ in my suit from the radiant heat. They’re tall, Phasmagoths. We step off the ship, his gown of interlocking crystal clinking in the early morning air. Others pass us in proud dresses, frocks, and kilts made of the same. Spires of interwoven glass, faience, terracotta, and anaglyptics of all sorts tower over us in the dark: the famed ceramics of Sefrin. And above them, the 47th pillar of The Bridge.As we walk the streets star light rains down from the night sky. First only twinkles of light pierce atmo, but then more join the constellation until whole sections build into a blinding white light. Artificial sunrise. Phasmagoths have a reputation for being unfriendly and overly ambitious. Can’t say they haven’t earned it. Each of the three planets in their home system are linked together in a sort of planetary chain; vast bridges made of echodurum built over millennia physically connect one to the other. Legend says the entire thing is made from the Sefrin glass.We get to the depot. Chaldricom and Zery negotiate. She does most of the talking when we do deliveries here. Hakelm Adi and Sefrin culture have a lot in common. I’ve heard more than a few Oldanti archeologists speculate the two were sister peoples in the long distant past. Of course, neither group is about to let outsiders go poking around their historical and sacred sites to find out. Many have tried and never been seen again.We head back to the ship. I can see the discoloration on the hull only after a few hours. Rapid onset oxidation. VRS scrubs the O2 down to normal levels. Feels good to breathe with the mask off. We break atmo. Camoris, the system’s only star, shines 800 million kilometers away through the thin atmosphere. Hamark does the flying, weaving through the ten million satellites of mirrors and lenses in orbit that haul the sunrise from one end of the planets to the other.
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1.13-Glass of Sefrin
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