Echoes of Armitage

The Solkas has returned to Earth.

Or at least, the crew think it has.

From orbit, the planet appears familiar. But as the ship’s sensors begin to examine the surface, the truth becomes impossible to ignore. The Earth they have returned to is not the Earth they left behind.

Across northern Europe, vast industrial structures have replaced the cities they knew. And at the centre of it all is a name from the past: Edwin Armitage.

Eleven years after the Bilberry flood, Armitage has transformed Holmfirth into the heart of an industrial empire — powered by technology no nineteenth-century engineer could possibly have created.

As the Solkas struggles to understand what has happened to history, an away team descends into the ruins of the altered Holmfirth. Beneath the remains of an old mill, they discover a hidden structure, a mysterious alloy column and a message that appears to have been waiting for them.

But Armitage’s story may not have begun with the fragment he found in the flood.

And the Solkas is about to discover that whatever happened to history, it may have been waiting for them to come back.

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The Weaver’s Flood

Holmfirth, West Yorkshire — February 1852.

The valley is already struggling beneath the weight of winter when an impossible vessel appears above it.

The Solkas, a 22nd-century cargo ship equipped with experimental ChronoCoil technology, has travelled far beyond the limits of its intended mission. Now its crew find themselves witnessing a disaster that history remembers all too well: the catastrophic collapse of the Bilberry Reservoir.

As the flood tears through the valley, the crew face an impossible choice. Can they intervene without changing history — and if they do, who will they save?

The Weaver’s Flood is the first episode of Solkas Sagas, an immersive science-fiction audio drama where the future collides with the past, and history may not be quite as fixed as we thought.

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The year is 2185.

Humanity has reached Mars, and the distance between worlds is about to become considerably less inconvenient.

The Solkas is the first commercial vessel fitted with UESS’s experimental Chronicle – a technology designed to transform interplanetary travel. Cole, lead engineer of the Chronocoil program, disappears during the development of technology that could change humanity’s future forever.

Events begin to suggest that the Chronocoil may be capable of something far more extraordinary than anyone is prepared to admit.

Some journeys take you across space. Others take you somewhere else entirely.

Solkas Sagas is an immersive, science-fiction audio drama about time, technology history, and the people caught between them.

This is where the journey begins.

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