Timekeeper

Other People's Stars — Ep 08: Timekeeper Series One · Runtime 22:40 About Relay-tender Yara Haddad has spent four years listening to the heartbeats of eight ancient buoys on a frontier comms chain, and now Buoy Four's clock is drifting toward the point where the network will mark it gone forever — while the Reach's only offer is quarantine, a years-long replacement queue, and a bigger NO RELAY stamp on the sector chart. Armed with an uncertified scratch-built analyzer she calls the spike, Yara goes hunting for the timing reference the manuals swear doesn't exist, and finds that every old machine in the sky keeps time to a pulse coming from the one dark place the whole network was built to avoid. Saving Four will mean breaking the same forbidden clause that already cost her one buoy, and keeping perfect time, by hand, with something far older and stranger than her instruments were ever meant to hear.