“Argo Lifts Off Into A New Dawn”

Credits and Notes

Episode two sees the rest of the new “Star Force” characters arriving. We get to meet Mac, Colin, Hans and... Jordy Venture, all grow'd up! We also get a hint, just a tease really, about what happened to the rest of the Argo's original crew. The whole story will be forthcoming, I hate loose plot ends, but for now... well, let's just say there's a reason Wildstar looks like he's twenty years older than he is.

We also get to begin a major plot arc for this season of the show, the distrust of the Black Tigers. The idea of the crew being unsure of their shipmates is a major theme in this first arc, and one that provides some interesting insights into the crew's personalities before it's finally resolved.

This episode is dedicated to J. Michael Straczynski because much of his writing (especially his television work, such as Babylon 5) has influenced the nuts and bolts of how I write. Writing a novel is one thing, writing a script for audio or visual media is quite another. The entire “Mac and Colin first meet” scene is, I admit it, an ode to B5.

-Dev

CREW

Sea of Stars is written, produced and directed by Devin Cox, of Forward Momentum Productions.

CAST (in order of appearance)

Narrator: Mark “The ENCaffinated ONE” Kilfoil

General Wendy Singleton: Melissa D. Johnson (aka Mippa)

Captain Derek Wildstar: Joe Harrison

Jordan “Jordy” Venture: Dave Frizzell

Hans Schneider: Zach McCue

Colin O'Donnell: Jim Perry

Mac Stevens: Emry Kinney

Major Berit's Aide: Eric Olp

Major Berit: Ducky Patterson

Colonel Nasca: Andre de Almeida

Michael Vega: Sean Hill

Neville Drake: Scott Breakall

Sam Vandom: Philippa Ballantine

Joachin Reyes: Nathan Butler

IQ-9: Jonathan Edward Dolnier (aka Pokejedservo)

Pops McClendon: Devlin James

Little Girl: Raye Perry

Girl's Father: Jason Ramboz

Mei Gideon: Silas Carder

MUSIC:

All music in the series is drawn from several commercially released CDs of music from the original animated series “Uchuu Senkan Yamato.” Many of the CDS have long since gone out of print, though some may still be importable through Amazon.com.

SOUND EFFECTS:

All the sound effects for Sea of Stars come from one of three sources: The original series DVDs available through Voyager Entertainment at Starblazers.com, The “Sound Fantasia Yamato” CDs which are now out of print, and The Freesound Project, at freesound.org.

((DISCLAIMER: Sea of Stars is a non-profit fan production, produced for the enjoyment of the fans. All rights to “Star Blazers”, “Uchuu Senkan Yamato” or any other copyrighted materials herein, including any unoriginal music and sound effects, are reserved to their ORIGINAL CREATORS. No infringing claims are intended))

LINKS:

Our site:

http://forwardmomentumproductions.com/

Voyager Entertainment:

http://www.starblazers.com

Voice Acting Alliance:

http://voiceactingalliance.com/board/index.php

PROMOS:

Anomaly

http://www.anomalypodcast.com/

The Adventures of Indiana Jim

http://podcast.indianajim.net/

The Weird Show

http://theweirdshow.com/

See you at Episode Three!

-Dev