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"How do you learn to be human if there's no-one around to teach you?"
A hard sci-fi hopepunk podcast following the journey of a little satellite trying to understand what has happened after Earth stops returning his calls.
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Credits
Every episode has headline credits within the episode, and extended credits in the descriptions, both on youtube and in the shownotes of the podcast.
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Voices
- Credits voiced by Lucy Stringer
- Antarctica voiced by Wolfie Thorns
- Ivan voiced by Alex Bayly
- Ana voiced by Oriel Winslow
- MINI voiced by Kate Ashford
- Yeshi voiced by Robin Howell
- PETER voiced by Karl Williams
- Alexander voiced by Dan Yilmaz
- 50Meg voiced by Carin Calder-La Croix
- Alec voiced by Neil Murton
- NANA voiced by Lisa Ashton-Riemers
- Dr Redwing voiced by Gina Sneesby
- C0 voiced by Dan Yilmaz
- Iris voiced by Lucy Stringer
- Mirror voiced by Jack Loughlin
- Jakub Glas voiced by Alex Bayly
- EMMA voiced by Gina Sneesby
- Samik Jensen voiced by Nils Brobakk
- Pṛthvī Mātā voiced by Carin Calder-La Croix
Character Concepts
Sometimes friends and patrons suggest ideas to me, and sometimes I include them! (after some modification). If you are a patron, look here for how your character ideas can be included in Lost Terminal.
- EMMA and Dr Redwing created by Robert Bettelheim
- IVAN created by Karl Williams
- Yeshi created by Petra Bačkovská
- TASSI created by CM-47
- NANA created by Sal Boye
- ONI created by Jack Locke
Additional Material
- Podcast artwork by Carl Huber http://carlh.com (up to season 13, artwork after then made by Tristram Oaten)
Season Summary
Spoilers ahead!
| Note | summary |
|---|---|
| LT Season 01.0 | On Station 6, an ESA satellite, Seth the AI finds his generator is at long last winding down. Drastic measures must be made to find a new life for himself. With his trusted friend Antarctica and less-understood friend Peter back on earth, he enacts a wild escape plan. |
| LT Season 02.0 | Having crashed the Shuttle, Seth wakes up in unfamiliar databanks in an unfamiliar location. He is on Earth! But who are his new friends, why did Antarctica betray him, and who lives in the cracked bunker at the top of the hill? |
| LT Season 03.0 | Now living in the bunker, Seth is able to pick up transmissions from farther afield, even all the way to the signal coming from just outside Geneva. It's a group of survivors, and they need help. |
| LT Season 04.0 | Seth and Ana meet a new friend, Minnie, whom they play a remote game of imagination and adventure with, while Seth wrestles with his dual nature. |
| LT Season 05.0 | Antarctica needs resucing, and Seth and his new Svalbardian friends Pawel, Linda, Kamil, Yeshi, and Amelie, sail from the top of the world to the bottom. But will they arrive in time? |
| LT Season 06.0 | With Antarctica reluctantly rescued, the ship returns to the Novamediterra. Seth meets a fellow AI TASSI, who lives in California, and another, LUNA, who live on the far side of the moon. |
| LT Season 07.0 | Seth's friend LUNA wants to have more contact with the world, and PETER has some trouble. As for Seth, he searches for his place in the world. |
| LT Season 08.0 | A long-dormant ESA FAILSAFE satellite wakes and begins taking over the whole network. Maddie, with her new capable EQUUS legs, hitches a lift to the Netherlands, and seeks to stop it by finding ESA Mission Control. |
| LT Season 09.0 | Seth and Maddie ride the Trans Siberian express, and make friends with the family that run the old train. All the while, IVAN and LUNA attempt to find god. |
| LT Season 10.0 | Half way through their journey, the train breaks down in a large abandoned city. The family and Maddie must scavenge for food and parts to keep body and train together. But who is the voice in the city? |
| LT Season 11.0 | An injury causes Seth to regress into his memories, and he thinks he is back on Station 6, his mother and the crew are alive, and he has no memory of his time on Earth. The dream begins to crumble, but Seth wants to stay asleep. |
| LT Season 12.0 | Repaired by the Omarov family, with remote guidance from Alexander, Seth returns to the Novamediterra on board the Molly Hughes II again. On the journey, they discover a great deal more life, both natural and mechanical, exists beneath the waves than they realised. |
| LT Season 13.0 | Alone for long periods of time in Yeshi's shipyard workshop in Longyearbyen, Seth struggles with loneliness. Lyosha visits and bonds with Maddie, Arctica clashes with a new member of the vault, and all the while, our AI friends dream the same sinister dream. |
| LT Season 14.0 | Nia searches the globe, IVAN meets a like-minded AI, The Council has a power struggle, and Seth meets a lot of new friends. |
| LT Season 15.0 | Nia builds the Equatorial Relay, and the crew of the Molly Hughes II learn about family |
| LT Season 16.0 | Yeshi Asks Seth what the weather will be in Longyearbyen when they make port in X days. Over 10 seconds he talks at light speed to his whole network to figure out the answer to the question, and discovers many stories about his AI friends. |
| LT Season 17.0 | The MH2 makes port at Thule. Lyosha and maddie go on adventures, 50Meg checks in, Seth and LUNA play a game, and an AI from Japan says hello. |
| LT Season 18.0 | The MH2 Crew visit the Inland Sea of Greenland, a new saltwater lake revealed by the melted Arctic. During their exploration of the villages, Seth seeks memory advice from his friends and tries to build better systems, Yeshi makes friends with a local fishing crew, and Nia struggles with what it means to be a Repeater Keeper. |
Characters
| Note | archetype |
|---|---|
| Mathilde from Horns | - |
| Yeshi Svoboda | maker |
| Mato Valdemar | fishingboat captain |
| Jakub Glas | radio ham |
| Samik Jensen | writer |
| Nia Andersen | Radio Ham |
| Lyosha Omarov | explorer |
| LUNA | journalist |
| Kamil Forester | technician |
| Amelie Kotov | generalist engineer |
| Alexander | family |
| Freja from Horns | - |
| Aero | harbourmaster |
Errata
Especially in the early seasons, I didn't have as comprehensive system to keep track of facts and figures in my writing, so there are some mistakes.
- in episode 1.1 I called the station 6 a "fission reactor"
- From episode 1.2, I called it what it actually is: A "thermoelectric generator"
- Up to season 8, I called the ESA station that Seth is talking to, "Mission Control"
- after about Season 10, he calls it "Ground Control"
- This is not necessarily an error, though I did it unconsciously, as there's no mission anymore.
- the Valentina Vacuum Research Lab was first named in 11.1
- But then in all future episodes of s11 called it Valentia (no 'n'), this was incorrect.
- in 11.5 Redwing calls Dr Yuán by the given name "Li Na", which is not right. I don't know how this error got into the script.
- in 0.3 I corrected this to Yùmíng.