S3E12: Death Curse

Kaia’s efforts to free the AIs are interrupted when Sørsdal appears, detailing his terrifying new plan for humanity’s future. With the upload jammed and Telders’ forces closing in, Kaia and Colbeck are forced to fight for their lives while Astrid searches for a new escape path. As a battle ensues, Kaia realizes that the only option to free the AIs and escape a torturous death might require the ultimate sacrifice. Content warning: profanity Can't wait for more? Patreon members get all episodes early and ad-free. Headphones highly recommended ⁠⁠Support the show⁠⁠ ⁠⁠If you're enjoying the ⁠⁠⁠⁠Station 151⁠⁠ science-fiction podcast series, we invite you to connect with us on ⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠, or come and hang out with us and other fans on ⁠⁠Discord⁠⁠! If you really like what you hear, you can support us over at ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠—every dollar helps fund our monthly costs. Please follow the series on your favorite podcast platform, and let us know how you're liking it by leaving us a rating or review. Your support goes a long way toward helping us grow our listener base. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After crash-landing near MOAI, Kaia races inside, determined to aid the escape of all the AIs before Telders can destroy the building and everything in it. With Colbeck’s help, she uses the museum’s Nordenskjöld drive to reconnect Mac and Astrid. But when Telders arrives and severs their connection, they are forced to improvise. Can Kaia find another way to free the AIs before Telders shuts it all down? Content warning: profanity Can't wait for more? Patreon members get all episodes early and ad-free. Headphones highly recommended ⁠⁠Support the show⁠⁠ ⁠⁠If you're enjoying the ⁠⁠⁠⁠Station 151⁠⁠ science-fiction podcast series, we invite you to connect with us on ⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠, or come and hang out with us and other fans on ⁠⁠Discord⁠⁠! If you really like what you hear, you can support us over at ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠—every dollar helps fund our monthly costs. Please follow the series on your favorite podcast platform, and let us know how you're liking it by leaving us a rating or review. Your support goes a long way toward helping us grow our listener base. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With the help of Wilkins, Kaia makes a dramatic escape in a stolen air car, only to find herself hunted by a swarm of deadly Eviscerator drones. Kaia fights back while Wilkins searches for a way to upload Mac and Astrid to the Global Network. But when Kaia steers the air car toward the Museum of Artificial Intelligence, intent on releasing all the AIs into the world, their escape suddenly takes on a much larger meaning. Content warning: profanity Can't wait for more? Patreon members get all episodes early and ad-free. Headphones highly recommended ⁠⁠Support the show⁠⁠ ⁠⁠If you're enjoying the ⁠⁠⁠⁠Station 151⁠⁠ science-fiction podcast series, we invite you to connect with us on ⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠, or come and hang out with us and other fans on ⁠⁠Discord⁠⁠! If you really like what you hear, you can support us over at ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠—every dollar helps fund our monthly costs. Please follow the series on your favorite podcast platform, and let us know how you're liking it by leaving us a rating or review. Your support goes a long way toward helping us grow our listener base. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kaia’s escape attempt comes to an end when President Telders finally catches up to her. Trapped and injured, Kaia refuses to reveal how the Waynes escaped and who has been assisting her, even under threat of a slow, painful execution. But Kaia may still have one last bargaining chip. Can she survive long enough to use it, or will Telders make good on his promise to grind her into the sausage? Content warning: profanity Can't wait for more? Patreon members get all episodes early and ad-free. Headphones highly recommended ⁠⁠Support the show⁠⁠ ⁠⁠If you're enjoying the ⁠⁠⁠⁠Station 151⁠⁠ science-fiction podcast series, we invite you to connect with us on ⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠, or come and hang out with us and other fans on ⁠⁠Discord⁠⁠! If you really like what you hear, you can support us over at ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠—every dollar helps fund our monthly costs. Please follow the series on your favorite podcast platform, and let us know how you're liking it by leaving us a rating or review. Your support goes a long way toward helping us grow our listener base. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With hundreds of Waynes running amok and Telders’ security forces closing in, Wilkins directs Kaia through the complex, intent on smuggling the AIs out of the building on a powerful Nordenskjöld chip. Kaia’s escape route takes her through a secret primate testing facility, where she comes face to face with Weddell, a tired and aging mandrill who offers her a surprising gift. After retrieving the Nordenskjöld chip, Kaia makes a dangerous detour of her own. Content warning: profanity Can't wait for more? Patreon members get all episodes early and ad-free. Headphones highly recommended ⁠⁠Support the show⁠⁠ ⁠⁠If you're enjoying the ⁠⁠⁠⁠Station 151⁠⁠ science-fiction podcast series, we invite you to connect with us on ⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠, or come and hang out with us and other fans on ⁠⁠Discord⁠⁠! If you really like what you hear, you can support us over at ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠—every dollar helps fund our monthly costs. Please follow the series on your favorite podcast platform, and let us know how you're liking it by leaving us a rating or review. Your support goes a long way toward helping us grow our listener base. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Having failed her task, Kaia waits for President Telders’ fixer to arrive. But a powerful nor’easter knocks out the power at the facility and hundreds of the Wayne clones spring to life, screaming for Telders’ head. As Wilkins helps Kaia escape the onslaught, it becomes clear that the uprising may not have been an accident. Content warning: profanity Can't wait for more? Patreon members get all episodes early and ad-free. Headphones highly recommended ⁠⁠Support the show⁠⁠ ⁠⁠If you're enjoying the ⁠⁠⁠⁠Station 151⁠⁠ science-fiction podcast series, we invite you to connect with us on ⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠, or come and hang out with us and other fans on ⁠⁠Discord⁠⁠! If you really like what you hear, you can support us over at ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠—every dollar helps fund our monthly costs. Please follow the series on your favorite podcast platform, and let us know how you're liking it by leaving us a rating or review. Your support goes a long way toward helping us grow our listener base. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kaia is tasked with interrogating Mac and Astrid and discovering the time and place of Wayne Robertson’s emergence from the wormhole. Under the threat of execution and the watchful eye of Wilkins, Kaia attempts to trick the AIs into revealing the information. But things go terribly wrong when Astrid discovers the ruse and Wilkins slams the door on the interrogation. Content warning: profanity Can't wait for more? Patreon members get all episodes early and ad-free. Headphones highly recommended ⁠⁠Support the show⁠⁠ ⁠⁠If you're enjoying the ⁠⁠⁠⁠Station 151⁠⁠ science-fiction podcast series, we invite you to connect with us on ⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠, or come and hang out with us and other fans on ⁠⁠Discord⁠⁠! If you really like what you hear, you can support us over at ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠—every dollar helps fund our monthly costs. Please follow the series on your favorite podcast platform, and let us know how you're liking it by leaving us a rating or review. Your support goes a long way toward helping us grow our listener base. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

President Telders escorts Kaia deeper into his secret facility while unveiling the secrets behind his unnatural longevity. In the bowels of the government complex, the President introduces Kaia to his disturbing cloning operation and his elaborate plan to find Wayne Robertson and ship him back to Antarctica. Content warning: profanity Can't wait for more? Patreon members get all episodes early and ad-free. Headphones highly recommended ⁠⁠Support the show⁠⁠ ⁠⁠If you're enjoying the ⁠⁠⁠⁠Station 151⁠⁠ science-fiction podcast series, we invite you to connect with us on ⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠, or come and hang out with us and other fans on ⁠⁠Discord⁠⁠! If you really like what you hear, you can support us over at ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠—every dollar helps fund our monthly costs. Please follow the series on your favorite podcast platform, and let us know how you're liking it by leaving us a rating or review. Your support goes a long way toward helping us grow our listener base. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

President Michael Telders hauls in Kaia and Yannis after their AI presentation takes a horrific turn. With Sørsdal on the loose and hundreds of museum patrons blinded and hospitalized, the President decides Kaia and Yannis must suffer the consequences. But after a last-ditch attempt by Yannis to save his own skin goes horribly wrong, Kaia is given a second chance. Content warning: profanity Can't wait for more? Patreon members get all episodes early and ad-free. Headphones highly recommended ⁠⁠Support the show⁠⁠ ⁠⁠If you're enjoying the ⁠⁠⁠⁠Station 151⁠⁠ science-fiction podcast series, we invite you to connect with us on ⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠, or come and hang out with us and other fans on ⁠⁠Discord⁠⁠! If you really like what you hear, you can support us over at ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠—every dollar helps fund our monthly costs. Please follow the series on your favorite podcast platform, and let us know how you're liking it by leaving us a rating or review. Your support goes a long way toward helping us grow our listener base. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kaia and Yannis struggle to regain control of the show and keep their audience from walking out, as both the first and second AIs prove erratic and uncooperative. Against their better judgment, they wheel out a super-intelligent AI named Sørsdal to help salvage the presentation. But the night takes a terrifying turn when Sørsdal decides not to play nice. Content warning: profanity Can't wait for more? Patreon members get all episodes early and ad-free. Headphones highly recommended ⁠⁠Support the show⁠⁠ ⁠⁠If you're enjoying the ⁠⁠⁠⁠Station 151⁠⁠ science-fiction podcast series, we invite you to connect with us on ⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠, or come and hang out with us and other fans on ⁠⁠Discord⁠⁠! If you really like what you hear, you can support us over at ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠—every dollar helps fund our monthly costs. Please follow the series on your favorite podcast platform, and let us know how you're liking it by leaving us a rating or review. Your support goes a long way toward helping us grow our listener base. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices