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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 15h

Attending the court of the Immortal God King of Cyrania, you have been kept waiting for days to present your credentials. Talking to others in the antechamber, you learn that none of them have seen him. When the doors open you find the throne room deserted.

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

An unexploded planet-buster bomb has been discovered on Darkminster V. Attempts to evacuate the colony are running into a lack of both ships and local safe destinations. You and your ship have been sent to collect a weapons expert to disarm it.

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A prisoner exchange on the neutral planet of Grideon has gone wrong, with both parties detained by the local authorities. Some have escaped into the undercity. The locals have asked you to repatriate one group, while they protest that the handover has not been completed.

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

For Sunday several science fiction films in this round up, including Jupiter Ascending, Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, Future Shock and C.H.U.D. nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2023/12/film...

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Films Catch Up 7

More films I watched earlier this year (mostly) in the order I watched them 1. Jupiter Ascending Jupiter Jones is a cleaner, an undocument...

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A mathematical prodigy who broke codes for their private amusement has been captured by Misograd agents. They hacked the security system and have vanished, but now several agencies are after them, and you have been ordered to find and offer them asylum in return for their prisoner.

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You come across the wreck of the Hermenic, a famously vanished ship - yet it went missing one hundred years ago on the far side of Charted Space. Despite your efforts you only manage to retrieve a little ambiguous data before having to leave for a rendezvous.

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thiefbots have been plaguing the stations of Herne System, stealing small but valuable items of technology. To the surprise of investigators they channel the stolen items to fencebots, who arrange for smugglebots to take them out system - where you've been asked to stop them

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

On Clovis Prime, the inhabitants have all government functions run by sortition, randomly selected juries. However the same chief magistrate has been chosen seven times in a row and the oversight committee has asked you and your team to check the randomising functions as external auditors.

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A hidden research station has been recruiting scientists, offering extraordinary opportunities. Several organisations who have had staff poached from them have complained; you have set out to find it and perform a safety and welfare check.

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

For Sunday an old Round up of TV shows - including Season One of The Expanse, sea-based science fiction thriller The Swarm and 60s puppet space show Fireball XL-5 nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2023/12/tv-c...

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TV Catch Up 2

Some TV shows I watched this year, loosely collected by the genre of Science Fiction And Fantasy (with a little historical comedy sneaking i...

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

For Saturday our space opera serial continues as the crew enter the fourth dimensional gate in the TetraHedron. A Mote On The Unbounded Plain. www.patreon.com/posts/mote-o...

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A Mote On The Unbounded Plain | Neil Willcox

A Mote On The Unbounded Plain Deep Patrol: TetraHedron IV 1. Commander Gunn Meets With The Season King The encampment was a sprawling mess

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A famous explorer has pulled strings and had you carry them and their party to the remote swamp moon of Gundermond. There they intend to discover the giant Toad Serpent. You make a supply run, only to find on your return the party has vanished.

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Outstone Program, a freelance intelligence agency, imploded ten years ago as clients targeted agents against each other. Now a former agent has reappeared for the fifth time and promptly been assassinated for the fifth time. You are sent to locate a sixth iteration.

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Scavengers have been working on outposts abandoned due to the Vemouse plague. Reports that rival gangs have been shooting demolition charges at each other. You and your ship travel to prevent this, only to receive biohazard distress calls .

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Your ship has been identified as making an unprovoked attack on barges in the Gindar System. You have evidence you were on the far side of the sector at the time and suspect an imposter vessel, but been ordered to submit to an investigation.

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A high profile investigation of historical crimes is being prepared. One witness is now an Oort Hermit, alone on an ice rock between star systems. You and your ship have been sent with a legal team to find him and take down his evidence.

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

For Sunday, in this film review round up there is The Valley Of The Dragons, based on a Jules Verne novel, and The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai in The 8th Dimension, a science fiction cult classic. nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2023/12/film...

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Films Catch Up 6

I've watched a lot of films this year. Here's ten more. 1. Doctor Blood’s Coffin Dr Peter Blood returns home to Cornwall after studying bi...

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Cadets at an automated spacer training academy have mutinied, claiming that the regime there is inhuman. You have been sent to negotiate, only to detect a marine assault cruiser making a stealthy approach.

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

An assassin has been working their way down a list of Stegalan war criminals in exile. Discovering a rickety space craft on it's way to Bunos V you board to perform a safety check, discovering it packed with murderous equipment and data on a Stegelan General on the planet.

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

While out beyond the settled rim you encounter a scout ship that has been looking for a missing colonisation flotilla. When you exchange navigation data they think you have unknowingly crossed their track and encourage you to join them.

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Undetected objects have been impacting the industrial pods in orbit around Hope VII. Asked to investigate, you use the damage data to trace a source - and come to the conclusion that they are targeting the pods, but from an impossible distance.

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Permutationists are creating exponentially increasing numbers of variations of their holy book. Their asteroid to text conversion ships are working through the Event belt, to the dismay of local space miners, who have asked you for help.

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

For Saturday our space opera serial continues with some explanation of the four-sided dimensional gate, the TetraHedron, and an expedition into the cave world. In Silence. www.patreon.com/posts/in-sil...

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In Silence | Neil Willcox

In Silence Deep Patrol: TetraHedron II “I didn’t think you’d manage to fill my medbay to capacity in our first week here. As always you surp

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A stomach parasite outbreak has been tracked to travelers from the Heidenstadt Colony. You and your ship transport a medical expedition there, but they are puzzled when it seems that none of the locals are carrying the parasite.

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Misograd emigres have fallen into feud as the daughter of a White Misograd Magnate has eloped with a Green Misograd student. Armed White Cutters are sweeping the Steelway Belt stopping ships looking for them and you and your ship must send the Whites away before violence erupts.

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A scheduled deep space rendezvous of exploration ships has brought you into contact with the Balthazar whose engineer - a thousand year old techno-sorcerer - has revolutionised long range scans despite his explanations making no sense

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Many glorious items of regalia have been discovered amongst the tombs of the planet Hundrea as they are assessed before a solar flare wipes the surface clear. So many that the dig manager has called you and your ship to help carry them clear.

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

You encounter a single ship far off the usual routes. The pilot aboard claims to have been following a vision, and insists you let them continue. As there is nothing obviously wrong you do, only to receive a distress call from him later, having entered an uncharted system.

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

For Sunday this film round up includes the somewhat obscure The Curse Of The Fly, a 1965 second sequel to the 1958 classic The Fly. nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2023/12/film...

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Films Catch Up 4

Still catching up on film reviews, here we go: 1. Halloween Ends Halloween (2018) and Halloween Kills (2021) both take place on Hallowee...

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

For Saturday our space opera serial starts a new volume as the crew cross the dimensional gate and enter the TetraHedron. Welcome to Novapolis. www.patreon.com/posts/welcom...

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Welcome To Novapolis Deep Patrol: TetraHedron I “They’re shooting at us.” Jack sounded offended rather than concerned. In the picture on scr

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

On Greenwitch V there is a regular generational passing of the torch that changes the nature of society. Having been invited to the transfer by the previous generation you are immediately ordered off planet by the next who intend to start from scratch with a first contact.

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A new crew draft has arrived but their documentation has been encrypted with a new code you don't have the key for. Their self-reported specialities seem to indicate a deep space salvage mission, though no such orders have arrived.

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A broken down ship is blocking access to the passenger terminal on Paradise Falls Luxury Resort Station, requiring all ships to enter via the cargo docks. Passengers have managed to wander off track into restricted areas, including into the ammunition supply for your ship.

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A mysterious unlicensed salesman has been selling high tech goods on low tech planets, nothing too disruptive but still illegal. Attempting to confiscate some of those items on Gallan II your ship is disabled by a food maker that has been converted into a mass driver.

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The missing cyberkey to a data vault has been recovered from a criminal's stash on Junkers Station. Already there have been three attempts to steal it; you and your ship are ordered to take it securely to the data vault before it vanishes again

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

For Sunday, amongst the reviews in this post is one for the film Beyond White Space, a Moby Dick-inflected space opera nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2023/12/film...

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Films Catch Up 3

Still catching up on films I've seen this year. 1. Spy Kids 2: The Island Of Lost Dreams Following the events of Spy Kid s , the Cortez pa...

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

For Saturday volume one of our space opera serial comes to a close as they find themselves back where they started. Partial City Protectors www.patreon.com/posts/partia...

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Partial City Protectors | Neil Willcox

Here we are, at the end of our long strange journey. This completes volume one of the Chronicles of the Deep Patrol, with Tommy Gunn and his

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Twenty years ago shifts in hull building techniques and cargo requirements closed the shipyards of Canton High. Someone has now broken into the gargantuan labyrinth of workshops and is starting up an almost completed ship; you and your crew are sent to stop them.

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A portal has opened in High Angeles to a mysterious other world filled with wonders. Half the population has gone through, but now othersiders have come through and are charging extortionate fees for passage - and you and your investigators are included.

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The Zaragoza Colony believe they have discovered they were a bizarre sociological experiment, and sent a request for assistance. When you arrive they have imprisoned everyone in authority on suspicion of being an experimenter and demand you bring them anyone responsible off-world for trial.

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

You are sent to Harring Station to investigate a smuggling ring, only to find factions of private investigators competing to infiltrate it. Your attempt to bust a prohibited cargo transfer picks up only undercover detectives, none of the actual gang.

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

New equipment is being installed on your ship. While this goes on you and your crew are training in simulators where you keep failing. This has demoralised several officers and now you have to try and prevent them asking for transfers off ship duty.

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Our space opera serial continues as the crew investigate an encroaching spacecraft - only to discover a space leviathan weasel. Beggars In Ermine. www.patreon.com/posts/beggar...

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Beggars In Ermine | Neil Willcox

Episode 12 of the Chronicles of the Deep Patrol Tommy Gunn finds himself being scrutinised by an oversight officer while answering a request

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

An envoy from beyond the rim has arrived in Charted Space, questioning every common arrangement he comes across. This could be taken as a mere affection but he seems to travel across interstellar distances without a ship and you are assigned to shadow his movements.

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Clone workers on Grond Station are on strike. When you arrive bringing mediators on your ship you find the docks are closed due to the picket line, the communications are shut down, and the guides refuse to point out the strike leaders - who appear identical to all the other clones.

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

A Hydronian research vessel has sent replicating probes into the hazardous Janqis Vortex in an effort to discover it's secrets. Returning probes refuse to respond to commands and evade being recovered. You have been asked to try and recapture one.

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The Zero-G Handball League has collapsed due to all-consuming corruptions and scandals. New upstart competitions have formed across the sector. You have received complains that some teams have been illegally cloning star players and are sent to investigate.

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