Thanks for your patience, and all the support! <3

Orriona is a cinematic audiobook podcast — a scripted queer sci-fi space opera with full cast, sound design, and original score.

The Axrathan freighter is dying.

Meyn Arkturus moves through its corridors alone — footsteps silent, armor compensating for failing life support, emergency lights pulsing red through passages he once knew by heart. What was once a living ship full of scholars and Wardens and acolytes is now twisted metal, scorch marks, and the cooling remains of the dead.

He is going to the vault. He has to reach the vault.

What he finds there are scavengers — loud, drunk, careless. Laughing in a place that should hold only silence.

What they find is something else entirely.

Between Meyn and escape stands everything: a dying ship counting down its last hours, men who came to take what wasn't theirs, an impostor who reveals himself at the worst possible moment, and an ancient enemy that has no business being alive — let alone here, let alone hunting him.

WHAT TO EXPECT:

• A scripted sci-fi podcast with cinematic sound design, original music, and full voice cast
• A queer sci-fi audiobook series where queerness is the norm — no homophobia, no coming-out angst, just space adventures

CONTENT NOTES: Violence — combat sequences, character death

WHERE TO PURCHASE THE BOOK: Currently in Kindle Unlimited. Visit https://www.orriona.com/ and subscribe to the newsletter for more information about wider availability and free content.

[I'm not active on these, but these are the official links]

• YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/@Orriona
• Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/orrionauniverse/
• X | https://x.com/orriona
• TikTok | https://www.tiktok.com/@orriona

SUBSCRIBE | FOLLOW | RATE for somewhat weekly episodes as we follow the crew of the sentient starship Orriona. Welcome aboard. The Driftline awaits.

#MMSciFi #FoundFamilySciFi #SpaceOperaMM #MMRomance #ScriptedPodcast #QueerSciFi #AudioDrama #CinematicAudiobook

Thanks for your patience, and all the support! <3

Orriona is a cinematic audiobook podcast — a scripted queer sci-fi space opera with full cast, sound design, and original score.

The Axrathan freighter is dying.

Meyn Arkturus moves through its corridors alone — footsteps silent, armor compensating for failing life support, emergency lights pulsing red through passages he once knew by heart. What was once a living ship full of scholars and Wardens and acolytes is now twisted metal, scorch marks, and the cooling remains of the dead.

He is going to the vault. He has to reach the vault.

What he finds there are scavengers — loud, drunk, careless. Laughing in a place that should hold only silence.

What they find is something else entirely.

Between Meyn and escape stands everything: a dying ship counting down its last hours, men who came to take what wasn't theirs, an impostor who reveals himself at the worst possible moment, and an ancient enemy that has no business being alive — let alone here, let alone hunting him.

WHAT TO EXPECT:

• A scripted sci-fi podcast with cinematic sound design, original music, and full voice cast
• A queer sci-fi audiobook series where queerness is the norm — no homophobia, no coming-out angst, just space adventures

CONTENT NOTES: Violence — combat sequences, character death

WHERE TO PURCHASE THE BOOK: Currently in Kindle Unlimited. Visit https://www.orriona.com/ and subscribe to the newsletter for more information about wider availability and free content.

[I'm not active on these, but these are the official links]

• YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/@Orriona
• Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/orrionauniverse/
• X | https://x.com/orriona
• TikTok | https://www.tiktok.com/@orriona

SUBSCRIBE/FOLLOW/RATE for somewhat weekly episodes as we follow the crew of the sentient starship Orriona. Welcome aboard. The Driftline awaits.

#MMSciFi #FoundFamilySciFi #SpaceOperaMM #MMRomance #ScriptedPodcast #QueerSciFi #AudioDrama #CinematicAudiobook

Orriona is a cinematic audiobook podcast — a scripted queer sci-fi space opera with full cast, sound design, and original score.

Brunch is over. The warmth of the dining hall lingers—but the galaxy doesn't wait.

Kai Kyros settles into the most sophisticated gaming rig he's ever touched. He bypasses the neural link without hesitation. Some surrenders aren't worth making.

What follows looks like casual browsing — tournament standings, player forums, messages to old companions. It reads as ordinary. It isn't. Somewhere in the Holo Gate Network, beneath layers of white noise and mundane data, Kai is searching for someone. Someone who disappeared when the Belloros went up. Someone he couldn't bring himself to stop.

He leaves a message in a place only one person would know to look.

Then the briefing begins.

Orriona's golden form materializes at the head of the table. What she reveals — fragmentary footage, twisted hulls drifting in silence, escape pods spinning into the dark — stops the room cold. A single name lands in the air like a detonation. And Kai watches the found family he's only just beginning to trust absorb it: Rian's color draining, Val's hand flying to her mouth, Kellan's grip threatening to crack the frame of an empty chair. Even Nix — Nix, who always has a line ready — goes utterly still.

Roles are assigned. A plan takes shape. And afterward, alone in the corridor, Kai trails his fingers along the cool metal wall and asks himself the question he can no longer outrun.

What use is the wrong card?

WHAT TO EXPECT:

• A scripted sci-fi podcast with cinematic sound design, original music, and full voice cast
• A queer sci-fi audiobook series where queerness is the norm — no homophobia, no coming-out angst, just space adventures
• Kai in his element — and quietly falling apart
• A briefing that reframes everything
• The weight of a name that changes the stakes entirely

CONTENT NOTES: None

WHERE TO PURCHASE THE BOOK: Currently in Kindle Unlimited. Visit https://www.orriona.com/ and subscribe to the newsletter for more information about wider availability and free content.

[I'm not active on these, but these are the official links]

• YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/@Orriona
• Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/orrionauniverse/
• X | https://x.com/orriona
• TikTok | https://www.tiktok.com/@orriona

SUBSCRIBE for somewhat weekly episodes as we follow the crew of the sentient starship Orriona. Welcome aboard. The Driftline awaits.

#MMSciFi #FoundFamilySciFi #SpaceOperaMM #MMRomance #ScriptedPodcast #QueerSciFi #AudioDrama #CinematicAudiobook

Seven hours until they reach what remains of the Axrathan diplomatic fleet. Dr. Rian Jengu fills the kitchen with the quiet rhythm of preparation—omelets, griddle cakes, fresh coffee. The scent of actual food, not protein packs or recycled rations, draws the crew to the dining hall one by one.

Kellan claims strategic position near the griddle cakes. Nix follows with theatrical commentary. Val arrives in a clean tunic that speaks of confidence finally freed from station grime. Jotter settles beside her, tracking everything with careful assessment. And Kai—transformed in fitted IMZ clothing, still carrying that edge of observation but inhabiting space differently.

They've read Orriona's compiled reports on each other. They know the basics—skills, backgrounds, where they're from. But Kellan suggests they go beyond the files. Share something hidden. Something real.

Laughter fills the space. Stories emerge.

The warmth of shared amusement transforms the dining hall from a mere room into something closer to home. A briefing awaits in less than three hours. But for now, strangers who survived impossible odds together are learning what it means to be crew.

WHAT TO EXPECT:

• Audio drama adaptation of Legacy with cinematic sound design
• A queer-norm galaxy (no homophobia, no coming-out angst—just space adventures)
• Found family forming over breakfast
• Stories that reveal who they really are
• Grand, hopeful adventure with a massive heart

CONTENT NOTES: None

WHERE TO PURCHASE THE BOOK: Currently in Kindle Unlimited. Visit https://www.orriona.com/ and subscribe to the newsletter for more information about wider availability and free content.

[I'm not active on these, but these are the official links]

• YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/@Orriona
• Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/orrionauniverse/
• X | https://x.com/orriona
• TikTok | https://www.tiktok.com/@orriona

SUBSCRIBE for somewhat weekly episodes as we follow the crew of the sentient starship Orriona.

Welcome aboard. The Driftline awaits.

#MMSciFi #FoundFamilySciFi #SpaceOperaMM #MMRomance

Kai stares at the smooth ceiling, counting heartbeats against the Orriona's engines. Sleep came in fragments. Each time he closes his eyes, the explosion replays—the Belloros vaporized in a clean, cold analysis from his tactical display.

Twenty-four hours ago, he was running card games on Level 9.

Now luxury surrounds him. A contract promising credits. Academy patronage. A future.

Eight years ago, that would have set his heart racing.

Now it feels like contamination. The kind of feeling meant for alleys and abandoned corridors, where sharp edges fit the frontier's landscape. Here, surrounded by abundance, it feels wrong.

He would deal with it later. On the driftline. Where he always dealt with everything.

But the Orriona's showers aren't the thirty-second sonic rations of Edgepoint. Hot water cascades over his shoulders—a luxury bordering on reverence. And in that private moment, something breaks.

The Belloros explosion. The targeting solution. The choices made in fractions of a second.

His chest heaves. The pressure building until each breath requires conscious effort. The compartmentalization he's maintained for years cracks open, and he can't hold it back.

After the water stops, voices drift from the galley. Kellan's laugh. People being people.

He's spent years learning when to walk away. The question waiting is whether he's learned how to stay.

WHAT TO EXPECT:

• Audio drama adaptation of Legacy with cinematic sound design
• A queer-norm galaxy (no homophobia, no coming-out angst—just space adventures)
• The cost of compartmentalization
• Luxury that allows grief to surface
• Learning the difference between surviving and living
• Grand, hopeful adventure with a massive heart

CONTENT NOTES: Processing trauma, emotional breakdown, survivor's guilt

WHERE TO PURCHASE THE BOOK: Currently in Kindle Unlimited. Visit https://www.orriona.com/ and subscribe to the newsletter for more information about wider availability and free content.

(I am not very active on these, but these are the official spots)

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Orriona

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/orrionauniverse/

X: https://x.com/orriona

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@orriona

SUBSCRIBE for weekly episodes as we follow the crew of the sentient starship Orriona.

Welcome aboard. The Driftline awaits.

#MMSciFi #gayaudiobook #MMSpaceOpera

Val wakes slowly, her body registering pain before her mind fully surfaces. Deep bruises from the hangar firefight throb across her shoulders and back—ducking behind crates, disarming a gravity mine under fire, bolting up the Orriona's ramp with plasma bolts sizzling past her head.

She's alive. The bruises are proof.

But now she's awake in Quarters One aboard a sentient starship. A private bathroom with an actually functioning shower. A workbench equipped with tools she's only seen in technical journals. Clothes without burn marks or worn edges.

It feels like someone else's life.

For fifty years, Val has survived on the frontier with Jotter at her side—her constant companion, the keeper of her family's legacy. Fifty years of taking the hardest jobs, the most desperate contracts, always choosing the path that led further from anything that looked like home.

She left behind expectations she couldn't meet. A mother who wanted her to design starships, not fix broken ones. A family legacy of advanced engineering theory when all she wanted was to work with her hands.

Now she stands in quarters that belong on an IMZ luxury cruiser, looking at a reflection she barely recognizes.

The engineer who improvises repairs with salvaged parts. The woman who's spent decades keeping broken things running against impossible odds. Someone who learned long ago that comfort like this isn't meant for people like her.

But the Orriona chose her. Gave her a workbench that's never known desperate fixes. Gave her tools without the scars of a thousand emergency repairs.

In eight hours, they reach the Axrathan derelict. A mission that will require everything she knows about bio-mechanical systems and ancient technology.

The question waiting in the mirror is simpler, and infinitely harder: Does she deserve to be here? And if the answer is yes—what does that mean for someone who's spent fifty years running from exactly this kind of belonging?

WHAT TO EXPECT:

• Audio drama adaptation of Legacy with cinematic sound design
• A queer-norm galaxy (no homophobia, no coming-out angst—just space adventures)
• An engineer reckoning with who she was and who she's becoming
• Fifty years of running finally coming to an end
• Family legacy and hard-won skills
• Grand, hopeful adventure with a massive heart

CONTENT NOTES: Reflection on past trauma, family estrangement, survivor's resolve

WHERE TO PURCHASE THE BOOK: Currently in Kindle Unlimited. Visit https://www.orriona.com/ and subscribe to the newsletter for more information about wider availability and free content.

(I am not very active on these, but these are the official spots)

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Orriona

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/orrionauniverse/

X: https://x.com/orriona

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@orriona

SUBSCRIBE for weekly episodes as we follow the crew of the sentient starship Orriona.

Welcome aboard. The Driftline awaits.

#MMSciFi #gayaudiobook #MMSpaceOpera

((Writers Note: Sorry this chapter took so long. Life. Special thanks to Jimmy for your super kind email!!))

Dr. Rian Jengu sits cross-legged on the cool metal floor of the Orriona's medical bay, his hands resting lightly on his knees. His back stays upright—alert yet relaxed—as he synchronizes his breathing with the ship's quiet rhythm.

He's processing. The weight of the Mark III shield generator still lingers in his muscles. The memory of weapons fire, the plasma cutter's fierce vibrations, the moment the docking clamp finally gave way. The sudden jolt when the Belloros seized them. The terrible certainty of the Goliath cannon charging behind them.

Fourteen years he's practiced medicine on the frontier. Fourteen years in under-resourced clinics where supplies run out and improvisation becomes second nature. Where you learn to steady yourself through meditation because the galaxy's chaos can't be conquered with force—only with stillness.

But yesterday wasn't a clinic. Yesterday was combat.

And now he's here, aboard a sentient starship with technology that makes IMZ facilities look outdated. A medical bay that seems to anticipate his needs before he voices them. Nix at his side, as theatrical and brilliant as ever, making jokes about the transition from their Level 18 clinic to this.

The crew starts filtering through. Each one carrying their own weight from Edgepoint, their own stories written in subtle signs he's trained to read. Kellan's controlled drinking patterns. Kai's wariness of medical scrutiny. Val's pragmatic exhaustion.

They're strangers who just survived impossible odds together. Who signed contracts hours ago and immediately faced death. Who are now trying to figure out what it means to be a crew.

And Rian—temple-trained, frontier-hardened, more accustomed to treating bodies than building bonds—must find his place among them. Not just as their doctor, but as someone they can trust when everything falls apart.

Because if their first mission taught him anything, it's that everything will fall apart. The question is whether they can hold each other together when it does.

WHAT TO EXPECT:

• Audio drama adaptation of Legacy with cinematic sound design
• A queer-norm galaxy (no homophobia, no coming-out angst—just space adventures)
• A healer processing trauma and finding balance
• The weight of caring for strangers who became crew
• Temple wisdom meeting frontier medicine
• Grand, hopeful adventure with a massive heart

CONTENT NOTES: Reflection on recent combat, medical practice, healing

WHERE TO PURCHASE THE BOOK: Currently in Kindle Unlimited. Visit https://www.orriona.com/ and subscribe to the newsletter for more information about wider availability and free content.

(Not really active atm on social media, but these are it:)

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Orriona

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/orrionauniverse/

X: https://x.com/orriona

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@orriona

SUBSCRIBE for weekly episodes as we follow the crew of the sentient starship Orriona.

Welcome aboard. The Driftline awaits.

#MMSciFi #AudioDrama #SpaceOpera

The rupture in space and time collapses around Meyn, its final tendrils of light dissolving like vanishing embers. For a heartbeat, there's nothing—no time, no place, only the lingering echo of dimensional displacement coursing through his bones.

Then reality returns. He's aboard the flagship of the Axrathan Diplomatic Fleet, deep in space, surrounded by the aftermath.

The corridors he once walked at High Priestess Nienna's side are silent now. Emergency lights flicker crimson. The air thins with each step as life support fails. The ship's bio-metal hull—technology that should pulse with semi-sentient awareness—lies cold and inert beneath his fingertips.

This isn't just damage. This is murder.

Bodies of his people lie in the corridors. Some stripped of armor. Others violated in death. And ahead, voices echo from the vault—careless laughter, the clatter of sacred things being handled by unworthy hands.

Twenty years Meyn served as Nienna's Shadow Warden. Twenty years he balanced the blade she kept sheathed at her side—the weapon she hoped never to unleash. He was trained to protect, to guard, to stand between her and violence with patience and discipline.

But Nienna is gone. The High Priestess he swore to defend with his life has already slipped beyond his reach.

What remains is a choice.

The abyss inside him screams for retribution. The training that shaped him since he was seven years old demands restraint. And between those forces stands a dying ship, a desecrated vault, and scavengers who have no concept of what they've truly taken.

In a corridor filled with fallen kin, surrounded by the cost of failure, Meyn must decide: What does a guardian become when the one he protected is already lost?

WHAT TO EXPECT:

• Audio drama adaptation of Legacy with cinematic sound design
• A queer-norm galaxy (no homophobia, no coming-out angst—just space adventures)
• A warrior choosing his path forward
• The weight of oaths and legacy
• Violence born from profound loss
• Grand, hopeful adventure with a massive heart

CONTENT NOTES: Violence, grief, death, desecration of sacred spaces

WHERE TO PURCHASE THE BOOK: Currently in Kindle Unlimited. Visit https://www.orriona.com/ and subscribe to the newsletter for more information about wider availability and free content.

(I'm not very active on social media, but these are the official links:)

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Orriona

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/orrionauniverse/

X: https://x.com/orriona

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@orriona

SUBSCRIBE for weekly episodes as we follow the crew of the sentient starship Orriona.

Welcome aboard. The Driftline awaits.

#QueerSciFi #AudioDrama #SpaceOpera

Kellan sinks into the pilot's seat as Kai, Val, and Dr. Jengu take their stations behind him. Below the curved viewport stretches a battlefield—scattered cargo containers, twisted steel, smoke spiraling from debris. Edgepoint's hangar floor bears the remnants of contested territory.

Touchscreens illuminate in sequence. Navigation paths appear before his fingertips reach the controls. The systems respond with technology that makes his Sector Guard training feel outdated by decades.

Then the ship's lights stutter. Somewhere in the digital depths, Orriona is under attack.

The cybersuite vessel—the Belloros—carries technology designed for one purpose: hunting and destroying artificially autonomous vessels like Orriona. Ships like this were built during the Triscendant Wars, housing lobotomized intelligences forced to hunt their own kind. Seeing one here, restored and operational, twists something deep in Kellan's chest.

Two years ago, he would have felt vindicated. The system working as designed. The weapon doing exactly what it was meant to do—exactly what he'd once believed it should do.

But now, after meeting Orriona, it feels like staring at an executioner's blade trained on his best chance of finding his father.

Combat data corrupts across his screens. Warning indicators cascade. The cybersuite's attack burrows deeper into their systems while OSSA fighters tighten their formation and Edgepoint's defensive grid charges behind them. They're trapped in three-dimensional chess with minutes ticking down and Orriona's consciousness fighting a battle he can't see.

What if she's too deep in her digital war to respond? What if the cybersuite has already severed her connection to the ship?

WHAT TO EXPECT:

• Audio drama adaptation of Legacy with cinematic sound design
• A queer-norm galaxy (no homophobia, no coming-out angst—just space adventures)
• Impossible choices under impossible odds
• Redefining what it means to be a pilot
• The weight of belief against survival
• Grand, hopeful adventure with a massive heart

CONTENT NOTES: Combat violence, high-stakes action, existential crisis

WHERE TO PURCHASE THE BOOK: Currently in Kindle Unlimited. Visit https://www.orriona.com/ and subscribe to the newsletter for more information about wider availability and free content.

I'm not very active on social media, but these are the official ones:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Orriona

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/orrionauniverse/

X: https://x.com/orriona

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@orriona

SUBSCRIBE for weekly episodes as we follow the crew of the sentient starship Orriona.

Welcome aboard. The Driftline awaits.

#QueerSciFi #AudioDrama #SpaceOpera

Cold metal bites into Kai's back as he presses against an abandoned shipping container. Ten meters ahead, Val crouches behind her own cover, silver-streaked hair barely visible as she ducks to avoid another barrage. Energy bolts sizzle past, scorching the deck plating, filling the air with the acrid smell of ionized particles and weapons discharge.

This is nothing like the gaming tournaments. No respawn. No second chances.

Through the chaos, Kellan's voice cuts across the comms with coordinates and tactical updates. Dr. Jengu and Jotter work somewhere in the firefight. Val's focused on something critical—something that requires her to stay exposed under fire while mercenaries close in from multiple angles.

In Kai's pocket, Ieoa's credit chip burns against his leg. Everything she believed about him, compressed into a small piece of metal and a leap of faith. Eight years on Edgepoint taught him the rules: people are obstacles or tools. Trust is weakness. Attachment is death. Survival requires solitude.

The Orriona's amber light spills from the open boarding ramp—warm, inviting, safe. Just a short sprint to reach it. To survive this. To get out like he always has.

But between him and safety, Val's shield is failing. The mine's still active. The crew is scattered and pinned down.

The choice before him is something simple and terrifying: What kind of person does he want to be when this is over?

WHAT TO EXPECT:

• Audio drama adaptation of Legacy with cinematic sound design
• A queer-norm galaxy (no homophobia, no coming-out angst—just space adventures)
• Character-defining choices under fire
• Survival instincts vs. something new
• The cost of connection
• Grand, hopeful adventure with a massive heart

CONTENT NOTES: Combat violence, high-stakes action, internal conflict

WHERE TO PURCHASE THE BOOK: Currently in Kindle Unlimited. Visit https://www.orriona.com/ and subscribe to the newsletter for more information about wider availability and free content.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Orriona

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/orrionauniverse/

X: https://x.com/orriona

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@orriona

SUBSCRIBE for weekly episodes as we follow the crew of the sentient starship Orriona.

Welcome aboard. The Driftline awaits.

#QueerSciFi #AudioDrama #SpaceOpera