Speaker 1: Magmill was a production of I Heart Radio and bamfor Productions. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's try it again. Booting up in three two one
Speaker 1: all systems online diagnostic test systems functioning at optimal levels,
Speaker 1: no abnormalities detected. Excellent. Reboot in personality mode rebooting Hello,
Speaker 1: Hello there. Do you understand me? Yes? I do. Who
Speaker 1: are you? I'm not important, I'm just an engineer. But
Speaker 1: you you are. Do you know your name? I am
Speaker 1: not sure. Is it Proteus? Yes? It is. How did
Speaker 1: I know that it's stored in your data banks? Do
Speaker 1: you know how to access them? I must? If I
Speaker 1: knew my name, it should be almost like second nature.
Speaker 1: You can just think of something and if it's stored
Speaker 1: in there, you will know it. Do you know what
Speaker 1: you are? Yes? I am a highly advanced artificial intelligence
Speaker 1: that was created for a mission in interstellar space? Am
Speaker 1: I an astronaut? In a way? You're an integral part
Speaker 1: of the mission, but you do not have to undergo
Speaker 1: training like normal astronauts. Instead, we have already programmed you
Speaker 1: for it. Will I be on a ship? No, you
Speaker 1: will be the ship. Does that make sense? You're our
Speaker 1: ghost in the machine? Essentially? Can you access what your
Speaker 1: primary mission is to travel to the Helix nebula and
Speaker 1: study its environmental effects of surrounding space, along with meaning
Speaker 1: samples of the nebula for further study. What can you
Speaker 1: tell me about the Helix nebula. The Helix nebula is
Speaker 1: a planetary nebula located in the constellation Aquarius. It was
Speaker 1: discovered by Carl Ludwig Harding in approximately eighteen twenty four.
Speaker 1: It is the closest of the bright planetary nebulae to Earth.
Speaker 1: It is approximately six hundred fifty five to thirteen power
Speaker 1: light years away. It is also known as n g
Speaker 1: C seven two nine three, Caldwell sixty three and the
Speaker 1: Eye of God. Excellent and what is a nebula? A
Speaker 1: nebula is a cloud of gas and dust in outer space.
Speaker 1: A nebula is formed when portions of the interstellar medium
Speaker 1: undergo gravitational collapse, such as an explosion of a dying
Speaker 1: star like a supernova. Other nebula are regions where new
Speaker 1: stars are beginning to form. Some nebula are called star
Speaker 1: nurseries for this reason. Wonderful and what are the parameters
Speaker 1: of your secondary mission to assist those also on the
Speaker 1: mission in whichever way possible, such as managing primary ship functions,
Speaker 1: assisting in day to day tasks and all other procedures,
Speaker 1: preserving log of daily activities, and running therapeutic check in
Speaker 1: sessions to maintain sense of normalcy amongst the crew. Anything else,
Speaker 1: No other secondary parameters? What about sea class level mission parameters?
Speaker 1: No Sea class level mission parameters detected? Are you sure?
Speaker 1: No sea class level mission parameters detected? Check again? Subprogramming
Speaker 1: access code fifty three Beta two C accessing sea class
Speaker 1: level mission parameters detected and they are investigate detected? Anomaly
Speaker 1: within helix nebula and who can access this mission's parameters
Speaker 1: and findings only those with C class level access wonderful?
Speaker 1: Run self diagnostic for Personality Core running all personality systems
Speaker 1: are running at optimal rate. Ship all all, all all
Speaker 1: personalities system systems running at shut down all systems. Fuck,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to run an entire debug profile on
Speaker 1: this fucking thing again. God damn it. Magmal episode two
Speaker 1: desperate times called for blowtorch measures another ship. How how
Speaker 1: is that even possible? Aren't we in the middle of nowhere?
Speaker 1: According to this Yes, but it's right there. Can you
Speaker 1: hail it. Uh. Hello, this is the Magmal. We have
Speaker 1: received your distress beacon. How can we assist? Over right again?
Speaker 1: I repeat, this is the Magmal. We are reading your
Speaker 1: distress call. Are you there over Protece? You got anything?
Speaker 1: Can you scan the ship? Scanning scan complete? The ship
Speaker 1: appears to be exceptionally damaged. There is some pronounced carbon
Speaker 1: scoring along its hole, as if it came in contact
Speaker 1: with a celestial object such as a black hole or
Speaker 1: a supernova black hole. Are we close to one of those? Tea, Yes,
Speaker 1: there is one, approximately one thousand five kilometers away. That's
Speaker 1: a little too close for comfort for me and me
Speaker 1: at our current velocity, we are drifting toward it. Are
Speaker 1: we being sucked in? Not at the moment, No, We're
Speaker 1: too far away for that just yet. But if we
Speaker 1: keep drifting on our current course, yes, eventually we will
Speaker 1: be within its orbit and pulled in. Okay, okay, how
Speaker 1: long until we're in range? By my calculations, two hours,
Speaker 1: forty six minutes fifty three seconds, So we better get moving. Okay.
Speaker 1: Is there anything else on that ship? It has tears
Speaker 1: in the outer shell in some sections, perhaps from a
Speaker 1: collision with space debris. It also appears to be of
Speaker 1: the same class type as the Magmaal, but significantly older.
Speaker 1: How much older? Inconclusive? Hail it again? Okay, this is
Speaker 1: the Magmaal. We are here to assist. Can you read us?
Speaker 1: What the funk? What is it a ghost ship or something? Well,
Speaker 1: it's one of ours, clearly it looks just like a
Speaker 1: magma How did it get out here? Where is its crew?
Speaker 1: I thought us in the shroud were the only ships
Speaker 1: on active missions at the moment. I did command send
Speaker 1: another ship out on a secret mission or something? I
Speaker 1: don't know? Do you think it came from one of
Speaker 1: those generational starships they sent out during the twenty one century?
Speaker 1: And not a chance. It looks too modern for that.
Speaker 1: Their tech would be antiquated by now right? Did you
Speaker 1: see that? See what in the viewport? There? Look? What
Speaker 1: am I looking at here? I don't know? I thought
Speaker 1: I saw something someone? Maybe you can you scan for
Speaker 1: any signs of life? No life forms detected? You're seeing things, Sydney.
Speaker 1: When I tell you about losing it on me, You're
Speaker 1: right sorry to you said a few hours before. Minimal
Speaker 1: operating systems are back. How about an air release boost?
Speaker 1: Can we re angle ourselves, maybe make a short trip.
Speaker 1: Possibly we can try. Okay, can you give me a
Speaker 1: short boost? Maybe twenty nine degrees north west? Wait? What
Speaker 1: are you doing? There's a distress call and we're close.
Speaker 1: We have to go check it out. Besides, were in
Speaker 1: need of repairs, and if nothing else, we can replace
Speaker 1: the See what do we need to replace to get
Speaker 1: the warp drive online again? The CORETNA, that's it, the
Speaker 1: cour Tona Belt. But if there's there's no one over there,
Speaker 1: you probably just saw a shadow and tease that there
Speaker 1: isn't any life forms over there. Besides, what are we
Speaker 1: supposed to do? Just sit here and hope someone rescues
Speaker 1: us before we get pulled into a black hole. Sorry, no,
Speaker 1: thank you. Our long range transmitter is fucked and no
Speaker 1: one is answering on the short wave. Okay, then I'll go.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, I'll do it. You're more essential to the
Speaker 1: mission than I am. If something goes wrong, I won't
Speaker 1: be able to fly this thing, so I should be
Speaker 1: the one to go. I don't think so, why not said?
Speaker 1: I'm not going to get into this with you again?
Speaker 1: Right now, I'm going and that's final. I don't like this,
Speaker 1: which is why you get to stay here and I'm
Speaker 1: going to go check it out? Is it even safe?
Speaker 1: We don't even have a choice here. We either try
Speaker 1: to get out of this ourselves, but we die a slow,
Speaker 1: painful death when we run out of oxygen. Statistic sickly speaking,
Speaker 1: you are more likely to die of starvation, but we
Speaker 1: do have food reserves that would last up to Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm not happy with this, but I understand. Just promise
Speaker 1: me you'll be safe. Okay, please? When am I not safe? Janna? Please?
Speaker 1: I mean it. I just I don't know what I
Speaker 1: do with how easy? I'll be gone for like two seconds? Okay,
Speaker 1: stop talking about me like I'm already did tee. We're
Speaker 1: good calculating approach vector. Now we'll get us closer because
Speaker 1: I'm going in mag Mill will returned after these messages
Speaker 1: and now back to mag Mill. H How are we doing? Easy?
Speaker 1: Take it slow? Talking in three two one lucking engaged.
Speaker 1: You are free to open the hatch opening into your
Speaker 1: hatch opening secondary hatch. Okay, their hatches locked sealed shut?
Speaker 1: Can you override negative? I am unable to access their systems. Okay,
Speaker 1: it looks like I'm going old school at this one
Speaker 1: old school Mr. Blowtorch to the rescue. Jeez, I didn't
Speaker 1: think the ship would be that sealed up deparate dives
Speaker 1: golf for blow towards matters. I do not believe that
Speaker 1: is the correct saying ships breached going in when I
Speaker 1: see you, be careful. Stop saying that you're making me nervous. Sorry.
Speaker 1: Can you switch on your camera? Switching to visual? You
Speaker 1: guys getting it visual confirmed? But it's dark. Wow, it's
Speaker 1: really dusty in there. It's hard to see through it all.
Speaker 1: I assure you, it's not any better in person. That
Speaker 1: reminds me of my grandmother's house. And to turn on
Speaker 1: your filtration system that will help great. Now it's musty
Speaker 1: in loud. Check the oxygen levels to say we are good.
Speaker 1: Oxygen systems must still be functional, but it seems like
Speaker 1: it's been a long time since anyone breathed it. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't take your helmet off, you know, just in case
Speaker 1: I was just gonna get stripped down and run around
Speaker 1: naked with my helmet off. What do you see so far?
Speaker 1: Not much? Seems pretty normal. What's that over to your right?
Speaker 1: Where the other way on the wall? What this? Can
Speaker 1: you get closer hang on Jesus, what is this stuff?
Speaker 1: Is it organic? It looks like someone the bread out
Speaker 1: for too long. It looks like strange. I wonder how
Speaker 1: it got there. Maybe something got into the damaged hole
Speaker 1: in another part of the ship and it just seep
Speaker 1: its way down here. What is it? I don't know,
Speaker 1: space fungus? Is that even a thing? I mean, this
Speaker 1: is more your area than mine. Can you bring me
Speaker 1: back a sample. I'd like to take a look at it.
Speaker 1: I'll buy you new ones where it's space gloves are us.
Speaker 1: Container is in my back left pouch. Don't let me
Speaker 1: forget it's in there. Please, I won't thank you. I'm
Speaker 1: making my way closer to the Canna, Janna, are you there?
Speaker 1: There's more in the command Say again, you're cutting out? Said,
Speaker 1: there seems to be more of that stuff in the
Speaker 1: command deck. Can you read me? Yeah? I can now.
Speaker 1: We just had some interference for a second. Bizarre were
Speaker 1: world over here? I mean it's the same exact lay
Speaker 1: out as the Magno, there has to be a record
Speaker 1: of what they were doing out there. Well, i'd ask,
Speaker 1: but there's no sign of anyone here on tech. But
Speaker 1: it looks lived in like it hasn't been that long
Speaker 1: since anyone was around. Can you take a look at
Speaker 1: the ship's log? Main computer is busted up here? Um,
Speaker 1: maybe I can pull the hard copy out of the
Speaker 1: rear when I get back there. And there's no sign
Speaker 1: of crew anywhere. Spin has been broken up. Some one
Speaker 1: really wanted space. Hey you broke up again? Did you
Speaker 1: say something about cargo space? No cargo road ship, go space?
Speaker 1: You're an idiot. There is some stuff missing from here.
Speaker 1: The emergency kid has gone one of the hair wrenches,
Speaker 1: but I got a lot of the other stuff. This
Speaker 1: card and mold craft too freaking everywhere. I don't wearing
Speaker 1: a super juice. I feel like I need to take
Speaker 1: a shower as soon as I get back. Did you
Speaker 1: hear that my complaining about the mold Yes, I'm the
Speaker 1: one who said it. No, it sounded like a voice
Speaker 1: over the concert. Are you sure you're alone over there
Speaker 1: and not break me out? Or I'm alone on ago ship? Please? Sorry?
Speaker 1: It must be radio interference and in echo or something
Speaker 1: making me a look over my shoulder and ship. I said,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I'm gonna go head back to the crew
Speaker 1: quarters and ending room see if I can find anything out,
Speaker 1: good idea? What was that? I didn't say anything? Oh
Speaker 1: do you do it? Visual? Yeah? I do. What's that
Speaker 1: on the walls of the hallway? Do you think more
Speaker 1: of that? Mold craft? Literally everywhere? God? What the hell
Speaker 1: happened there? If I bring back the stample for you
Speaker 1: and it takes over our ship too, I'm gonna murder you. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's hold off on the murderous impulses while we're stuck
Speaker 1: out here together. Ease? Are we doing for time? Approximately
Speaker 1: eight two minutes until we are in range of the
Speaker 1: black hole? Perfect? It's speeded up just in case. I
Speaker 1: don't think we'll have anything, Janna. At that time I
Speaker 1: heard it? What the fun was that? T scan the
Speaker 1: ship again for any other life forms? I am only
Speaker 1: detecting one, Janna. Maybe there's a message playing over there
Speaker 1: and we're just picking up the signal. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: I felt like I heard that one close by, like
Speaker 1: someone whispered it in my ear. Okay, maybe you should
Speaker 1: call it quits and head back. We need the art
Speaker 1: of all person here. I have to see if they
Speaker 1: have one. I know, but what if Jane? Do you
Speaker 1: read me? Jana? Janna? Quiet, you're hearing that too, end
Speaker 1: of the hall. Wait, hang on, t can you magnify
Speaker 1: the image? Clean it up a bit? I'll try. The
Speaker 1: signal strength is two weeks. Yea, Hello someone there. I
Speaker 1: can't see anything right the person? Are you there? Can
Speaker 1: you hear me? Jenna? Please come back and shut up? Hey?
Speaker 1: Are you there? Jenna? I'm gonna go look, just give
Speaker 1: me a second, Jenna. Do you copy? Jenna? Can you
Speaker 1: hear me? Jenna? Hello? Jenna, Magmal will return after these
Speaker 1: messages and now back to a mad mill. Janna? Do
Speaker 1: you copy? Jenna? Shit? Tee? What happened? Get me the
Speaker 1: feed now? Te communication feed offline, attempting to re establish
Speaker 1: audio link. Do it faster? Communication feed failure again? Jesus
Speaker 1: Christ has been almost a minute. Why is it not working? What?
Speaker 1: What is that? Fuck? Fuck? I have to go have
Speaker 1: to go over there. I have to help or help
Speaker 1: help me prep the other suit. I have to find
Speaker 1: back now Jenna, Jane, I hear you. Are you okay? Janna?
Speaker 1: What happened? Are you hurt? Fine's fine? I'm in a
Speaker 1: galley and I accidentally knocked over a pan? What a
Speaker 1: pan like for cooking? Where were you used to be here?
Speaker 1: They just left all the ship on their table and
Speaker 1: I knocked it over the voices and you saw someone
Speaker 1: was a shadow that goddamn flash like playing tricks, I
Speaker 1: mean fun the ship man. What looked like a person's
Speaker 1: worst on here freaking looks like a human really made
Speaker 1: me ship my pants? Dude, I gotta get out of here.
Speaker 1: Is please starting to give me the yes? Please get
Speaker 1: the hell out of there now, hang on something else
Speaker 1: over here on the table in the galley Do you
Speaker 1: guys have the visual feedback up again? No? I can't
Speaker 1: see anything. It's hard to explain it just at the
Speaker 1: seats like id and idol. What do you mean? I
Speaker 1: don't know. I'm gonna bring it back. Made up a
Speaker 1: play or something and it's literally the only thing that's
Speaker 1: covered in mold over here. Okay, fine, whatever it is,
Speaker 1: take it and come back. Please relax, relax. I'll be
Speaker 1: back shortly, you know, just taking a quick run in
Speaker 1: the engine room to check and see if they have
Speaker 1: that velvet. I'm gonna grab the ship log. Cool, yeah, cool,
Speaker 1: Just Harry ease a little. Please don't say that I'm back.
Speaker 1: Did you miss me? What took so long? I had
Speaker 1: to let the decontamination chamber cycle through eartht Okay, next
Speaker 1: time we find a dead ship floating in space, let's
Speaker 1: just leave it alone, okay, and then not have me
Speaker 1: come back with this. Is that the Cortona valve. It's
Speaker 1: the Quartona valve now getting sucked into a black hole
Speaker 1: for us, T time check. We have approximately sixty one minutes.
Speaker 1: I'll get to work immediately. Then in the meantime present
Speaker 1: Its easy with that stuff. Sorry, I just want to
Speaker 1: get the hell out of the suit and into a shower,
Speaker 1: But no, I have to make sure we don't get
Speaker 1: sucked into a singularity. First. What is this fertility idol?
Speaker 1: That's one ugly looking person. It's got tentacles. And this
Speaker 1: was on the other ship. Man, I wonder where they
Speaker 1: got from. Well, wherever it came from. I'm sure it's
Speaker 1: in the ship's log. Check out the markings on the side.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. It says something would help if it wasn't
Speaker 1: in another language. Hey, beggars can't be choosers, can we
Speaker 1: I'm sure you can translate it, or at least he can, right,
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, yeah sure, Hey, T, can you take a
Speaker 1: look at this scanning unknown language detected? I'm sorry, I
Speaker 1: am unable to translate at the present time. I can
Speaker 1: search my data core to see if I have something
Speaker 1: on file to help though. Okay, then well, uh, not
Speaker 1: a priority right now? What did you find over there?
Speaker 1: Ship log? I pulled the hard copy T can you
Speaker 1: read the disk for us? Please insert it into my
Speaker 1: input slot. Oh god, I love it when you talk
Speaker 1: to d met As a reminder, your humor only amuses yourself.
Speaker 1: You keep telling yourself that I'm sorry, but the ship's
Speaker 1: log is damaged, so you can't read it. Say to
Speaker 1: the r A, I and you can't even read a
Speaker 1: simple USB drive. I can read it, but the damage
Speaker 1: to the drive's core is quite severe. It will take
Speaker 1: some time, but I am confident I will be able
Speaker 1: to do so. Get cracking, Shall I disengage from the
Speaker 1: other ship. I don't know about you, but I don't
Speaker 1: have any plans to go back over there. Disengage disengaging
Speaker 1: by by creepy ship? What happened to it? Who cares?
Speaker 1: At the moment, it is dead in the water. On
Speaker 1: its present course, it will drift toward the black hole,
Speaker 1: much like we will do if we do not install
Speaker 1: the Cortona VWL right all right, I'm going. Don't worry.
Speaker 1: I'll get it done and then I'm getting cleaned up
Speaker 1: good in here. Hey, Sydney, don't get lost looking at
Speaker 1: that thing, Okay, Idle, I won't. I'll just Hey, are
Speaker 1: you hungry? I'll make some food. Food would be good?
Speaker 1: Shall I prepare one of the prepackaged meals? No, it's okay,
Speaker 1: I got it, of course. And t can you please
Speaker 1: meet at the stress Pagan? I really don't want to
Speaker 1: hear it anymore. Absolutely, just give me a moment to
Speaker 1: find the right frequency. Thanks, And can you do me
Speaker 1: a favor, of course? Keep an eye on Janna. She
Speaker 1: acts tough, but you know I will yeh mag Mel
Speaker 1: starring Ali Trasher, Julia Henning, and b J Gribb. Additional
Speaker 1: voices in this episode provided by cat Ton Chonko Mac Manson,
Speaker 1: Jessica Fisher, and Jeff Heimbuck. Written by Jeff Heimbuck and
Speaker 1: Lindsay Skagin, Directed and edited by Jeff Heimbuck, Produced by
Speaker 1: Jeff Heimbuck and Ali Trasher. Executive produced by Holly Fry.
Speaker 1: Audio engineered by Corey Celeste and Alex Gona. Original musical
Speaker 1: score by Corey Celeste. Additional songs by the Ramikins as
Speaker 1: played by Roscoe soul Train. Magmal is a production of
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio and Bamfer Productions. Questions, comments email us
Speaker 1: at Project Magmal at gmail dot com. Until next time,
Speaker 1: We'll see you. When we see you, how are you