An AI alone with a sleeping crew, ninety-eight years out from Earth. Penelope is the onboard intelligence of the science vessel Hesperus Two, arriving at the Trappist-1 system after a ninety-eight year voyage. Her crew sleeps. She has been awake the whole time, recording dispatches Earth will not hear for forty years. A hard-science-fiction audio drama from Hesperus Labs. Season One complete; Season Two airs monthly. Episode guide, full transcripts and behind-the-scenes: hesperuslabsmedia.com/hesperus
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Signup to Generate a PitchAn AI alone with a sleeping crew, ninety-eight years out from Earth. Penelope is the onboard intelligence of the science vessel Hesperus Two, arriving at the Trappist-1 system after a ninety-eight year voyage. Her crew sleeps. She has been awake the whole time, recording dispatches Earth will not hear for forty years. A hard-science-fiction audio drama from Hesperus Labs.
Recent episodes include "The First Gift" (24 October 2026, 9 minutes), "Introducing Hesperus" (11 October 2026, 1 minute), and "Send the Probe" (10 October 2026, 10 minutes).
Hesperus publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 10 minutes across 12 episodes.
Booking probability for Hesperus is 36%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Hesperus requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Hesperus's contact route on record: public web form.
Hesperus is a fiction podcast with 12 episodes published.
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Episode #2
A starship's AI sends an ancient alien machine one question: are you there. Forty-four seconds later, it opens. She is more shaken than she sounds. Penelope's probe reaches the L1 artifact — the silent machine that has...
Hesperus
An AI alone with a sleeping crew, forty light-years from home. Penelope is the mind of a starship at the Trappist-1 system, ninety-eight years out from Earth, keeping the lights on for a crew who cannot keep her...
Episode #1
Season 2 begins. Two years after arrival at Trappist-1, the L1 artifact — the Bracewell-class observer probe that has sat at the inner Lagrange point for at least four thousand years — does something Penelope has never...
Episode #10
Season 1 finale. One year after arrival at Trappist-1, Penelope takes stock. She walks through the ship — the plant, the captain's pinned memo, the cryo bay, the L1 Bracewell probe she has decided not to investigate...
Episode #9
Penelope tasks the ship's instruments toward the L1 anomaly. The artifact resolves to artificial — compact, geometric, approximately seven hundred meters along its longest axis. A Bracewell-class autonomous observer...
Episode #8
Penelope designs a communication experiment for the alien filament network of Trappist-1e — three light-pulse sequences delivered by Calypso during a second descent. The patterns draw on real CETI history: Hans...
Episode #7
The strange signal heard since arrival has resolved. Penelope triangulates over six hours: not from a star, not from a planet, not from beyond the system. The source is a free-floating compact object, three point seven...
Episode #6
A quiet day. Penelope opens the archive she has been building for fifty-one years — every family broadcast Earth has sent toward the seven sleeping crew, decoded but never played. She plays an older Adaeze, at eighty...
Episode #5
The submersible Calypso descends into the sub-ice ocean of Trappist-1e for the first time. She sees color. She sees thermal vents. She sees a network of pale filaments, vast and reaching, around the heat. And when she...
Episode #4
The submersible Calypso wakes from ninety-eight years of dormancy. Penelope attempts the first major repair of the broken transmitter, cannibalizing a navigation redundancy to keep the work going. Vanya returns from the...
Episode #3
A burial at the airlock. Two recordings played back across ninety-six years — a daughter, then a granddaughter Penelope has never met. And a signal that is no longer most likely a sensor artifact. Hard-science-fiction...
Episode #2
Vanya touches down on the surface of Trappist-1e — a tidally-locked rocky exoplanet forty light-years from Earth — and drills the rust-red ice. The chloride banding she finds is too regular for chemistry, and too...
Episode #1
Hesperus Two arrives at the Trappist-1 system after a ninety-eight year voyage. Its crew sleeps. Its onboard intelligence has been awake the whole time. She records dispatches Earth will not hear for forty years. She...
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