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The Triskelion Universe: 3 Goldilocks planets, 3 space faring species: the wolven, the rakal, and the humans
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United States
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Storytelling Podcasts
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The Triskelion Universe: 3 Goldilocks planets, 3 space faring species: the wolven, the rakal, and the humans
Twitter:
@MichaelTDoyle
Language:
English
Contact:
7034732772
Episodes
Triskelion 15: Original Backup
6/29/2023
suspense - world building
New story arc creates a dimensional rift to allow you to jump on here with minimal cellular disruption!
Flesh of my Flesh Chapter 1
A Triskelion Black Citadel Story: Original Backup
“Our homeworlds are barren. Humanity is dying. The last remnants are still arriving on their patchwork arks from distant colonies. Humanity, huddled up around a black hole, hides from the Cel Arthro. We’re the termites in the walls of the universe hoping not to be noticed by the new owners.” --Attributed to Chief Scientist Zero Squared, Unity Government, Black Citadel
Duration:00:29:07
Triskelion 20: The Crowning of the Usurper Monarch
6/29/2023
Epic Action Intrigue
The fate of the Rakal Throneworld! Jump in for a wild ride or enjoy Triskelion 14, 15, and 16 to land on T'ka fully armed!
Flesh of my Flesh Chapter 6
A Triskelion Prime Reality & Black Citadel Story: The Crowning of the Usurper Monarch
The Court Jesters are accusing Ghoura of matricide! His sister Fen-fen has sacrificed her jumpship, so he can escape. Who set up Ghoura? Who is purging the Royal family? Princess Fendoularata with the forerunner alien Flourish attempt to infiltrate the Palladium as plasma weapons scorch the air around them.
T'ka's sixth dynasty begins here!
Duration:01:05:33
Triskelion 21: Weaponize Me
6/29/2023
Epic Action Intrigue
The space platforms splinter and crack, circling the collapsed star. The fugitive copies of Zero Squared are in hiding. The portal to Reality Prime is being opened, but at the cost of the Triskelion itself to reach Zero Squared's senses-shattering conclusion!
Flesh of my Flesh Finale!
A Triskelion Prime Reality & Black Citadel Story: Weaponize Me!
13 has been captured. Six and Seven are holed up in hiding. The remaining Zero Squared has all she needs to open the gate to reality prime. A rakal foundress has been quietly watching events unfold and suddenly realizes there may be no tomorrow if she does not act now!
Discover the fate of the Black Citadel
Duration:01:00:16
Triskelion: Galumphing for Love
6/29/2023
Light-Hearted Action
Hieron is a wolven fisherman, but he fishes in the seas of a great gas giant for the rarest meat of all--Galumphrey, the morsels of the mighty, the delicacies of the decadent. More precious than gold. Hieron hopes to make money to start a new life with Eyrie, a beautiful wolven of house emerald vines in bloom.
For those of you who stuck around, my only regret is not being able to make the stories more enjoyable. That was always my goal, entertainment. Hope you crack a smile or two at my voice acting at least! Thank you so much for listening. It meant a lot to me.
--Michael Doyle
Duration:00:32:54
Triskelion 19: Slop Job
6/16/2020
character driven - suspense
Flesh of my Flesh Chapter 5
A Triskelion Black Citadel Story: Slop Job
Jack and 0 13 268 are alternating consciousness and control of his body. The power plants of the Black Citadel are being pushed past their limit, threatening the city. As 0 13 searches to find a way to oppose Zero Squared, Jack determines to stake his own territory amid all the slop.
Duration:00:28:08
Triskelion 18: A Prayer for 0 13 268
5/31/2020
speculative - suspense
Flesh of my Flesh Chapter 4
A Triskelion Black Citadel Story: A Prayer for 0 13 268
Jack has escaped with the brain in a suitcase, but 0 13 268 is dying. She is dying with the knowledge that the Citadel is in danger. Their only hope? Duplicate the original experiment that merged Zero and Sam, but can Jack accept 0, heart, mind, body, and soul for the opportunity to gain root access to the Citadel?
Duration:00:20:31
Triskelion 17: Jaguar and the Living Brain
5/18/2020
character driven - action
Flesh of my Flesh Chapter 3
A Triskelion Black Citadel Story: Jaguar and the Living Brain
Jack Paul lives in a run-down tenement on the colossal Black Citadel. He wants to escape. He wants to live in the shadowy depths of the Citadel away from the wilding tenements. Running away, Jack Paul runs into something he never expected.
Duration:00:17:11
Triskelion 16: Circling the Drain
5/17/2020
character driven - intrigue
Flesh of my Flesh Chapter 2
A Triskelion Black Citadel Story: Circling the Drain
The military of the Black Citadel has begun building vast drydocks and construction of a new fleet is underway. Zero Squared meets with the Citadel leader, Grand Marshall Ghourababadaroum, hoping to extend Project Omega Alpha. Project OA, not military strength, she believes, is her best hope to escape the Cel Arthro that have ravaged the Triskelion homeworlds and colonies.
Duration:00:23:23
Triskelion 14: A Ronin on the Rakal Throneworld Part 2
4/19/2020
epic - intrigue - action
The Great Fall, the Great Awakening, the impending coronation, Ghoura must bend them all in his pursuit of war with the entelechy that wiped out Planet Salacris. This is a 2-hour epic when combined with Triskelion 13.
"Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out." -I, Claudius
Duration:00:59:20
Triskelion 13: A Ronin on the Rakal Throneworld
3/25/2020
epic - intrigue - action
11 brothers and sisters all vying for the throne. It means nothing to him. All he wants is war.
Duration:00:49:19
Triskelion 12: Whirlpool
1/12/2020
suspense - world building
The Cel have devoured the major wolven-human colony planet Salacris. One of the 12 rakalian founder caste princelings has been dispatched by a confederacy of rakalian congregations to bear witness and attend a memorial on Planet Salacris. Pampered since birth, Prince Gourababadourum finds himself immersed in the tombstone planet.
Duration:00:24:56
Triskelion 11: Fetal Princess Anxiety
12/2/2019
suspense - world building
The Cel Arthro devour.
An unwilling diplomat. A maddened refugee. One is the pebble before the avalanche and presages the Cel Arthro invasion of colony planet Salacris; the other fights her own demons as the Cel swarms her home. The triskelion species form the Unity military. Colony Salacris, a discovered Goldilocks planet, had been home to over a billion humans and wolven.
Duration:00:18:54
Triskelion 10: DownTown BeatDown
8/25/2019
Fast-paced - action oriented
After encountering Triptych in Episode 9 Family, Sam and Zero must decide if they want to hunt for an unknown forerunner planet when their hand is suddenly forced.
Duration:00:21:30
Triskelion 09: Family
8/11/2019
contemplative & character driven - action
Triptych, the wolven navigator who survived calamity in jump space, has signed on with another wolven house, yet another ill-fated crew. But Trip refuses to lose another crew. He takes the curse upon himself and seeks help from the USSF dogfighter duo, Sam and Zero.
Duration:00:29:07
Tales of Triskelion: Lazarus in the Tomb
7/1/2019
contemplative & character-driven - world building
A metal world. An iron cored planetoid, bored through by robotic drills seeking gold. The corporation is long since gone, but miners still live and seek and struggle in the terraformed tunnels, generation after generation - delving underneath subterranean mountains.
Duration:00:18:06
Triskelion 07: The Lone Wolven Triptych
6/22/2019
Contemplative & character-driven
I wanted one last loving look at the one thing on this colonial outpost closest to a hook in my heart. I’d reached the final exit before resigning myself to the easy downslope of my willfully chosen addiction and alcoholism.
Duration:00:23:14
Triskelion 06: Paterfamilias
6/22/2019
contemplative & character-driven
When the Paterfamilias of a wolven house, or the alpha wolf in vulgarian, is incapacitated the house may collapse in strife. Frequently a diaspora occurs as surviving members seek refuge in related houses. However, a spacer merchant house engages in star-spanning merchant runs. A young prince must confront the reality that the alternative to usurping the Paterfamilias - a frozen death in the vacuum of space.
Duration:00:18:40
Triskelion 05: 10 Seconds to Kill
6/8/2019
Action
The war buzzer sounded and would continue to sound in my skull for 10 seconds, creating a full autonomic fight splurge from my endocrines.
Duration:00:09:00
Triskelion 04: Pilot and Copilot
6/8/2019
Pilot and Copilot is a great jumping-on point, pairs well with 10 Seconds to Kill
How fast do you need to be to dogfight in space? How fast do you have to be to protect an asteroid colony with only one thin bubble to protect your colonists from the vacuum in space? The rogue fighter cannot be allowed an opportunity to strike. Every second to scramble counts. Strapped to the operating table, dogfighter pilot Samuel De Griffith is prepped to meet his AI copilot Zero.
Duration:00:10:27
Triskelion 03: Birth of the Rakal Dynastic Wars
5/1/2018
world building - action
As a species, we rakal are in a sociological box canyon. If Thoora and I are successful, our posterity, you, will birth a new rakalian congregation that hearkens to the age of blood to leap forward to lead future generations of rakal among the stars.
Duration:00:16:48