RILEY
What if we missed it? What if everybody else did wake up, took off to rebuild on some distant world. What if we’ve been left behind?
ANNOUNCER
From the creators of The Magnus Archives, comes a new horror podcast. Subscribe to Neon Inkwell to join us on humankind’s last hope, the Ozymandias generation ship.
COMPUTER
Humanity’s will to survive and explore has triumphed over the vastness of space. And now we will triumph over time, with the Ozymandias project…
[The computer’s voice fades until it’s underneath the dialogue below.]
LEVI
Grrr!
RILEY
Hey, hey! Careful!
LUNA
Levi? Are you alright?
RILEY
Remember last time, when one of these things caught fire?
LEVI
None of this makes any damn sense! We were supposed to wake up together. All of us!
RILEY
Maybe the system decided to stagger it?
LEVI
No, it wouldn’t work like that. There are meant to be thousands of us, hundreds of thousands, all at once.
ANNOUNCER
What if you awoke, only to discover your future was already sabotaged?
LEVI
What’s wrong?
MIRA
There’s, uh, a lot of the stuff in here is… broken.
RILEY
That’s not broken. That’s smashed.
[The music shifts]
MIRA
How old is it?
ZACK
Old.
MIRA
Anything more specific?
ZACK
Only that no one could lose this much blood and live.
ANNOUNCER
And in our search for a new home, what if something truly monstrous finds us first?
[Whistles apparent, music builds to climax]
MIRA
You hear it too, don’t you?
LEVI
Don’t move.
ZACK
Mira, what do we do?
MIRA
RUN!
[Transition music to:]
ANNOUNCER
Rusty Quill Presents: Of That Colossal Wreck. A Neon Inkwell podcast, premiering the 24th of November, 2023. Search for Neon Inkwell wherever you get your podcasts.