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In the dark of orbit, the crew of the Icaron makes its last stand. A desperate plan unfolds across steel corridors and open vacuum as the ship is pushed beyond its limits and an armada bears down. This is the final assault.

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We are:

Brennan Lee Mulligan

Erika Ishii

Aabria Iyengar

Lou Wilson

Flight of the Icaron was produced by Fortunate Horse and Worlds Beyond Number

Edit and Sound Design by Brian Flaherty from Many Sided Media

https://www.manysidedmedia.com/

Score by Will Savino

https://wsavino.com/

Sound Effect library courtesy of artlist.io

Director of Operations: Melanie Bowman

Social Media Manager: Shannon H

Lorekeeper and Transcriptionist: Jack Morgan E.F. Lavandowska 

Special Thanks to: Amanda Freberg at Big Giant Head and the team at Laservision

Character Art Alecia Doyley

https://tallnquirky.carrd.co/

Ship Art by Britt Anderson

https://brittajj26.com/

Graphics by Lu Tomkiewicz

https://www.lumadethis.com/

You can find transcripts of all our episodes on our Patreon. Just navigate to the post for the episode and the transcript will be attached.

Comments

Eden Moen

So pumped for the finale! Listening to Lou GM has been an absolute treat! 🥳

Dream Wizard Kyle Arca

How can we submit questions? Until then, Lou: How did you come up with the sci-fi terms? Improv in the moment? Talked with some science folk? Channeled the Void???

Rosa

that was an amazing finale! Lou absolutely nailed this campaign, I'm so excited for the wrap-up fireside! I'm off to listen from the beginning 🚀

PriscillaG

Quest fever time. LET'S FUCKING GO!

Ewizabeth Herd

That was so incredibly fun!!! Lou’s excitement ratcheting up throughout really amped the energy! Loved it! Helped me fold the hell out of four baskets of laundry!

John Folmer

Absolutely amazing episode!!!!

Dream Wizard Kyle Arca

Don't read this if you don't want SPOILERS: . . . . . . . . . . Why did she Pinky the guy at the end? Did I miss the reveal he was the mole or something?

Nym

Tuesdays used to be the WORST day of the week. Now I can’t wait for them. So excited!

PriscillaG

That was so much fun! And now that we have all episodes I'm off to create a lil Icaron playlist so I can "watch" my new fave space action movie in its entirety. I love it here.

Lane

LFG!!! THAT WAS INCREDIBLE!!!! Oh my gosh! KINGS! I love NATE AND KIKI!!! FANART NEEDED NOW!!! lol

Zengief

So so good!!! Amazing job Lou and everyone!

The Pompous Peasant

Yus teh finarl asaults in teh dark nast that wil be sooooo lolol;loooo eoic when brensn finaly will be touching funny style all OVER. its amazing snd good that they continue to smell! Lessss go! lolol;lolol

Trevor Sion

“gotta unionize some way…” 🤘

CarpeBootium

Great job Lou! That was fun from start to finish!

TPK_light

This was so much fun! And it was such a good set up and brilliant world building for a shorter form campaign that the team could come back to if they every felt like it. All around awesome!

Barron Botts

The breakcore is really scratching an itch. Impeccable ep.

Jo Carter

Lou, I hope that was as much fun for you as it was for us. Amazing work, all! I know Aabria has the next big arc, but we better get more Lou GMing along the way!

The Wizard Subjudice

11:23 — ANDRÉ DAULKA, MY MAN! MY COMRADE AT ARMS 🫱🏼‍🫲🏾⚒️

Baker8613

Jesus Christ, were the dice weighted? I think these were the hottest rolls I've ever seen 😂. This story was so so good. Great job Lou and team.

Alyssa

The cheer moment for Lou after the credits was so cute! 🥰 I’m so glad it was left in And very well deserved, great job!!!

Trina

I had also forgotten why that guy was bad, and decided I'm going to re-listen to all of the episodes together now.

Trina

Ohh making a playlist is a great idea! I usually just line them up in my queue to re-listen. Thank you for this!

Trina

Everyone was so amazing, I love these characters and this story!! Thank you all for this and everything!

The Wizard Subjudice

"THAT'S PUBLIC FUNDING, YOU FUCKING MARTIAN C*NTS" has inspired me to even attempt artwork (i am not an artist). My man André not here to fuck space spiders, holy shit

Conor Steinke

What a nice little journey this was

Nym

“Achilles’ heel turn out to be Achilles’ spear”😂

Alexander Cavalli

Firstly and foremost, I loved the episode! But please don't use (and frankly over use) emergency service sirens in the future. It's really annoying while you're driving. There's many other kind of alarms and sirens you could use. Not sure if they're different in Australia but it was very distracting

Jodin

I could listen to another 30 episodes of this. With this trio, Andre, Fishcakes, and Kiki were great, and there's still so much more I want to hear about them. I really hope Lou keeps cooking. 🤘

mads

Yessssssss!

Fxd Gear Queer

Yeah, I'ma need about 8 Novels, three movies and an animated anthology series in this 'verse...

Emily C

So much fun to listen to, thank you for making it!!

Jess A

Amazing work everyone! I would really love to hear Taylor's sound interpretation of the voice distortion Aabria describes. He did such phenomenal sound work on WWWO, I feel like he could team up with Aabria and find the sound.

The Wizard Sparrow

What a wonderful episode, my mind was whirling at all the different moving parts, suspense and vigor wrapped into one story. Great job everyone, wonderful storytelling Lou. Can’t wait for the next adventure ❤️🔥🦊

The Wizard Subjudice

I certainly do not have the talent to do this concept justice, but I'd absolutely be in line there with you to get one myself! I just can't get the image of a silhouette André punching the air with a toolkit on his belt (with something that looks suspiciously like a space sickle and hammer) looking out the glass screaming "LONG LIVE PUBLIC FUNDING, YOU COLONISING PLUTOCRAT C*NTS!" 😅

Joel Hicks

I need about ten million more hours of content from this universe as soon as humanly possible, please and thank you

ChefJustinLane

Suvi would rend the world of spirits into oblivion for ten minutes of these dice rolls from Kiki.

Blaize Gordon

Lou, WHAT A FANTASTIC FUCKING JOB, IM SO PROUD OF YOU MY DARLING BOY!!!!

Samuel Colvin

TEEMO and NILAH?! does Lou play League of Legends?!?!

Duncan Hill

The audio work on this was soooo good. The siren sound legit made me check in my rear view mirror to make sure I wasn’t getting pulled over 😂

Witch of the Widdle Wiggly Guys

Also thank you finally someone insists on there being no noise cues in space (it's both better AND scarier that way!)

BunSum

[12:27] AYO WILL CAN WE GET SOME OF THAT TOONAMI TYPE DRUMS AND MOTHER FUCKING B A S S ON THIS SPACECRAFT THANK YOU

BunSum

[radio click] "You're gonna want to turn it down, it's about to get *loud*" Tom: We'll be back with more Gundam Wing, right after this.

o

couldn't agree moreee

o

yes!! was also wondering

Elenie

Same!

Cole Sarar

I paused the ep and checked out the front door!

Cole Sarar

It's incredible how you built such a deep and interesting world, and each of you built such obviously nuanced and compelling characters with intriguing backstories that WE DON'T GET TO KNOW ABOUT!!! What was Fishcakes "built" to do? What happened to Andre's marriage? What strange horrors did Kiki embrace in the deep? What will they do next‽‽? What are the tradeoffs of their victory and narrow escape of sudden death and enormous tragedy? What happens when down-to-earth and non-political Andre's voice is suddenly THE VOICE of Earth's victory against Mars? What happens to Kiki, who probably has made many enemies where she once wheeled and dealt? Can she find a place among Earth's banality, what with all her deep space otherness? Can Fishcakes and the kids return to their solar system tour, or has the taste of doing something important spoiled them on being posterchildren? I do not want answers. I WANT TO TUNE IN NEXT WEEK, FRIENDS.

Mac

the soundtrack absolutely fucked

Maggie Hall

I have absolutely been loving Flight of the Icaron! I would love another story in this world in the future :)

Lojaan

Damn. That was great

Fxd Gear Queer

I was so riveted, I didn't even notice 🙈 Time to listen agajn!

Melina

Once again, standing ovations all around! Incredible story, characters, world, sound 🥰 echoing everyone else, would love to revisit this world again!

Lindsay Cullen

Fantastic adventure, but I WANT MORE!

David Renna

Hot potato on a cat-tin roof, what a wild ride that was! Honestly, listening with the wife here (henceforth known as the Wizard Sparkplug) and we were blown away by how easily Fishcakes slipped between Mother Hen and Mother Murder. The Wizard Sparkplug loved the characterization between the two sides of Fishcakes because it didn't limit them in how they approached scenes, nor did it pigeonhole them to become that bored and tired trope in media where two women characters show up and they just HAVE to be the opposite of each other. Kiki wasn't the only one kickin' Martian butt, that's for sure! Loved the interlude and can only wish for more.

S'Morgan

So yeah, basically, he was the one that specifically asked for Fish Cakes to come onboard for the ceremony, indicating that he knew they were a living locator beacon.

Will Savino

Most of the music is like... '90s action movie vibes, but some of the music just HAD to be '90s JRPG vibes.

BunSum

SO TRUE Hey you *crushed* it, the sound design in WBN is unparalleled, y'all are amazing 💖💖💖

Tony C

Lou needs to sell a tv show or movie in this world.

crs_morgan

I loved this so much. I really loved the Dad that Brennan brought to the table. No one gets it until they have their own kids. Andre’s experience during the hijacking was so honest and raw. “I am in Hell, this is a nightmare, all monsters welcome.” Thank you for these little acts of creation. Y’all are really making my whole life brighter.

Carrie Mook Bridgman

I've been anticipating finally getting to hear Lou GM. His small, perfect details match the epic sweep of his world-building, and it was such fun hearing him play "Everyone and Everything Else."

Carrie Mook Bridgman

Good thing after the lousy rolls in Ep 1. This could have gone differently, but the dice are good storytellers.

TrashPanda

This is such a triumph of pacing and attention to detail and story progression through action and RADICAL optimism, and it was such a JOY to listen to. What a table.

Erica Klein-Meisenhelter

This ending was wonderful, I loved that the dice rolls in this final stretch really seemed to be saying "you were right to have hope for humanity's future in space". Really beautiful. I only wish there was more! Massive applause to everyone creating such incredible characters that I got fully invested in, in such a short time.

Fishes

Awesome.

Lizzy_belle

I love that Brennan's character could have been a Borg soldier, but the collective just decided not to be.

Peter Lucke

Just catching up, and I loved this series so much. If the next merch drop could just have a pin “Space Justice!,” I would be so happy.