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EPISODE · May 19, 2026 · 5 MIN

Deathworld Human Engineer Outsmarts an Alien Fleet Using Scrap in Min

from Short SciFi Stories on the go · host Kelli Korner

Its lights flickering, hull screaming, alarms echoing into empty corridors, and one human was still inside. Scanning interior life signs, an alien commander said, one survivor, just one, another replied amused. She rerouted the station's dying power into its communications array, overloading it, then broadcasting. Storm of noise erupted into space, false signals, ghost signatures, phantom coordinates, the fleet's sensors flooded with targets, hundreds, then thousands. And as the wreckage of a superior alien fleet drifted through the void, destroyed not by power but by improvisation, one truth echoed across the stars.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/little-scifi-stories-on-the-go--7033804/support.

Its lights flickering, hull screaming, alarms echoing into empty corridors, and one human was still inside. Scanning interior life signs, an alien commander said, one survivor, just one, another replied amused. She rerouted the station's dying power into its communications array, overloading it, then broadcasting. Storm of noise erupted into space, false signals, ghost signatures, phantom coordinates, the fleet's sensors flooded with targets, hundreds, then thousands. And as the wreckage of a superior alien fleet drifted through the void, destroyed not by power but by improvisation, one truth echoed across the stars.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/little-scifi-stories-on-the-go--7033804/support.

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Its lights flickering, hull screaming, alarms echoing into empty corridors, and one human was still inside. Scanning interior life signs, an alien commander said, one survivor, just one, another replied amused. She rerouted the station's dying power...

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