This is the record of the inquiry of Bear Heroditus of Kempston Hardwick, so that things done by pilots not be forgotten in time, and that great and marvellous deeds, some displayed by the Explorers, some by the Bounty Hunters, and some by the Traders, not lose their glory,  including among other things - what was the cause of their waging war on each other.

Kempston Productions

Entertainment to the Galaxy

Alien Encounters – Bear Investigates

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Bear is back at the unidentified station, to hear how CMDR Oddblud got on. He nearly falls found of the social custom in the system – for strict gender separation – by checking in to the Miss Bates hotel for girls rather than the one for men.

Once ensconced with a little bottle of something, a routine phone call interview with the Children of Raxxla is followed by a more sinister one with the Director of Kempston Productions.

 

Grateful thanks to the following CMDRs

CMDR Oddblud
CMDR KronFromGalvatron

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Credits

Additional Material:
This program uses these sounds from freesound:
“Electronic Beeps” by bluebloomers (http://freesound.org/people/bluebloomers/)
“sim phone ring.wav”  by THE_bizniss (https://www.freesound.org/s/58378/)
“airlock_extended.wav” by primeval_polypod (https://www.freesound.org/s/156508/)

Soundtrack: Moults Music — “The End” — Provided by Jamendo

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Alien Encounters: Scientists Investigate

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Keen to get the authentic scientific view of the Alien Encounters phenomenon, Izzy the Intern has been moved into a research role, and has uncovered “The Canonn” a dedicated scientific body, who know all the science stuff anyone would ever need.

 

Equipped with their contact details, Bear headed out to the Varati system to try to secure an interview.

 

 

Despite a few  teething problems getting in touch, Bear arrived safely and managed to blag his way in to an informal evening get together of Canonneers in the “Sinful Skinful”

 

 

 

Grateful thanks to the following CMDRs

CMDR Outspan
CMDR Hugo Ross
CMDR Delmonte
CMDR Powell
CMDR Kyp Shard
CMDR Clarion-Z

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Credits

Additional Material:
This program uses these sounds from freesound:
“Electronic Beeps” by bluebloomers (http://freesound.org/people/bluebloomers/)
“static noise, several different ones” by ohrpilot (http://freesound.org/people/ohrpilot/)
“Bar atmosphere – Busy” by fogma (http://freesound.org/people/fogma/)
Soundtrack: Moults Music — “The End” — Provided by Jamendo

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The Elite Episode 3 – Cmdr Calomiriel

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IThe problem with being part of a real ‘budget’ outfit, is you get the worse locations in the station – so I was interrupted in my preparations for my next ‘The Elite’  interview by some pretty loud banging and scaping in the docking bay next door.  There was some commotion there – it had been a tight pattern all day and I was concerned that CMDR Calomiriel, war hero of the feared Mercs of Mikunn might not be able to find a place to land.

I needn’t have worried.

Once we had settled down in the studio, drinks in hand courtesy of Izzy the Intern, he turned out to be somewhat more gentle that I expected – in person. But only in person – I wouldn’t want to be near his ship when he was blazing all weapons.

CMDR Calomiriel’s ship – ‘The Blackjack’

Here is what he talked about …

Alien Encounters: Commanders Investigate

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Arriving in a starport which the controlling faction have asked us to keep anonymous, Bear headed straight up to the landing pads to find a commander who was heading out to the Pleiades to hunt the newly emerged aliens.After a few blunt words from the more hairy commanders keen to be away, Bear managed to speak with a CMDR Oddblud about his preparations for the journey and his hopes and fears in his own alien encounter.

Not only  did CMDR Oddblud have some advice for our listeners, Bear also managed to meet a shy and secretive member of the Fuel Rats, and managed to elicit that esteemed group’s take on these strange new developments.

CMDR Oddblud’s Asp Explorer : “Questae”

 

You can hear Bear’s report here

Grateful thanks to the following CMDRs

CMDR Oddblud
CMDR OrangeSheets

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Credits

Additional Material:
This program uses these sounds from freesound:
S: door-open-close.wav by amholma
S: walk-underground-passegeway-70m-kijkduin-den-helder-130910-01.wav by klankbeeld
Soundtrack: Moults Music — “The End” — Provided by Jamendo
Additional Material: CMDR NEBS90

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Bear Grills … Galcop

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The final  interview, and possibly our most bizarre, in our series, “Bear Grills … The Powers” is with Galcop, the disputed aspirants to the mantle of the historical Galactic Co-operative of Worlds.

Galcop Crtoon

Why would anyone support Galcop?

CMDR Kermit Laphroaig, leader of the Diamond Frogs, and spokesperson for the new Galcop, arrived at some point on Kempston Hardwick Station, but was only found wandering into synth-trees in MacEllen Park when we sent Izzy the intern out to find him. He was a little worse for … well worse for something.

We settled him in a chair in the studio, and when he work up  3 hours later, we began the interview.

It transpires that this new Galcop are the real good guys of the galaxy, helpful folks, providing a friendly, local, white man in a van service. Hear CMDR Laphroaig explain in his own words …

Izzy liked Kermit, and couldn’t see what all the fuss was about their questionable reputation in some quarters.

Cmdr Winston Jung, Emeritus Professor at the University of Kwatee, and our learned commentator on the aspiring powers, was more critical.  Maintaining balance in his contribution was not a struggle for him on this occasion: because he never even tried – making plain from the start his distaste for this contender.

CMDR Jung has taken a vacation a long way away, just in case … Personally relying on the huge respect for the press corps, will simply slip off somewhere quiet in a slight disguise …well I was due a holiday.

 

Credits

Soundtrack: The Final Battle, Akashic Records

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Bear Grills … ICU

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The next power interviewed in our series, “Bear Grills … The Powers” is  ICU, the Interstellar Communist Union, who are fighting an aspirational campaign for a new world order of peace and individual freedom.

We were eager to welcome CMDR Autumnfox and his translator to the studios, but important affairs of state kept him from attending in person. Unfortunately, we suspect some powers took advantage of the interview taking place over open galactic channels, as we experienced some hostile interference and jamming.

Although we removed the worse of this (which occurred when CMDR Autumnfox was pointing out the difficulty the Federation would face as a result of his campaign), there has been some degradation in voice quality.

Goodness knows who would want to block that part of his signal.

Including discussion on the aspirations of ICU, the split from Communism Interstellar and their joining with the Border Coalition, and their historical enmity with the Federation, hear for yourself why CMDR Autumnfox  and ICU think you should be supporting their Community Goals during the Dangerous Games:

 

Credits

Soundtrack: The Final Battle, Akashic Records

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Dangerous Dispatches 3: Good Hunting All

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On a late evening, the station on the dark side of the planet, Bear Heroditus slipped the berth at MacLeod Hub. Comms on silent he set his navlock on Naunin 4, to join that nights Wulff Pack hunt.

Now Chil the Kite brings home the night
That Mang the Bat sets free–
The herds are shut in byre and hut,
For loosed till dawn are we.
This is the hour of pride and power,
Talon and tush and claw.
Oh, hear the call!–Good hunting all
That keep the Jungle Law!

Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

The target tonight for the pack was not food, not pirates, but … Gold. Bear joined the pack hunting in the Naunin 4 rings, and filed this report.

Wolves Mining

Ready … Aim … Fire

Credits

Soundtrack: The Final Battle, Akashic Records

Laserfaced by Rho is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License.

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Dangerous Dispatches 2: EG Miners

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Unwilling to leave the amazing productive miners of the EG Pilots, CMDR AL TARF insisted that I fly out to the mining site to get my interview with him.

Running second place over the first two days, EG pilots turned in an incredible performance – second place in total goal with the 2nd fewest pilots pledged. Even now their Gold/Pilot is about 70% higher than their nearest rival.

It seems the piracry level is increasing, with some of their pilots being quizzed about who their faction is before being ordered to drop their cargo …

EGP Mining 2

Getting hot on this rock

Credits

Soundtrack: The Final Battle, Akashic Records

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Dangerous Dispatches 1: Adle’s Gold

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After days pounding the corridors of MacLeod Hub, Bear finally managed to track down a spokesperson for the Adle’s Armada Coalition, CMDR Silk, who agreed to an interview.

Understandably cautious, he insisted on meeting in a busy street, to comment on the progress of the CG, and the nip and tuck race emerging between Adle’s Armada and the EG Pilots, and lets us into a few secrets about their science and strategy.

Mining

Mass Mining for Gold

Credits

High Street of Gandia (Valencia, Spain) by Jormarp — https://www.freesound.org/people/Jormarp/sounds/207208/ — License: Creative Commons 0
Soundtrack: The Final Battle, Akashic Records

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Bear Grills … The SEPP

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The third power in our series, “Bear Grills … The Powers” is with SEPP, the Social Eleu Progressive Party, who are campaigning on a strong platform for Explorers.

Cmdr Vantas of SEPP

Cmdr Vantas’ Asp Explorer: ‘ESS Orinoco’

We were pleased to welcome CMDR Kancro Vantas, who arrived at the studios, perhaps unsurprisingly, in his Asp Explorer “ORINOCO”! The discussion ranged comfortably across the mass exploration project that was Distant Worlds, the pleasures of mining, and the limitations of AEDC and the Border Coalition as the natural power choice for Explorers.

 

However,  the production crew were left rapidly searching out the studio’s stock of tin foil hats when the conversation turned to the risks and dangers of ‘what might be out there’.

Hear for yourself why CMDR Vantas and SEPP think you should be supporting their Community Goals during the Dangerous Games.