Keepalive

Other People's Stars — Ep 03: Keepalive Series One · Runtime 20:52 About Yara Haddad tends nine ancient comms buoys at the frontier's edge, four hundred thousand kilometers from anyone, next door to the Hush — a wedge of dark space that swallows every signal sent into it and gives nothing back. Then, at 0300 with cold tea in hand, the dead band coughs up the impossible: a Vask mayday coming out of the Hush, a stranger falling deeper into the silence with hours left before they drift beyond hearing. The authorities answer the way authorities do — with a polite, ironclad no — which leaves one relay-tender, a scratch-built signal analyzer, and a stubborn conviction that if you can hear someone calling for help, you find a way to answer.