The story of Charon continues in Part Three of Anarchist86ed’s Alien fan audio drama!
You can find all three episodes of Charon available to download here. Charon is a spin-off from Anarchist’s other Alien audio drama called Alien: Solara. The previously released short dramas and main episodes are also available on Anarchist86ed’s YouTube channel. They all have direct download links for each release too.
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Part 5.
The crew of Solara find themselves in a desperate situation with the deadliest creatures in the universe. And the man who wants to control them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbIzM-7WTHw
Download: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zsozxzwf8naj2q5/AlienSolaraPart5.mp3?dl=0
As always, there's lots of fun stuff hidden in the show.
FUN. STUFF.
The chief and Ramirez briefly discuss how their voices are different and that no one will probably even notice. Losing both people who originally did the voices had to be explained somehow. And no one will ever mention the voices being different anyway, which was a sad reference only I understand.
Gorman's sidearm sound effect. Someone was able to acquire it after I asked for it.
You can kinda hear a sentry gun firing.
Operations alarm in the background.
The Captain fires a pulse rifle much the same way Ripley does the first time.
"The three amigos", the prospectors and Jack are the ones responsible for the events of the series. The prospectors found the eggs, and Jack was stealing Gold that brought Deckard to Solara and then the rest of the events unfold.
I wrote the scene between the Captain with Stephanie in Mind long ago, but since we lost her that scene between our new Captain and the prospector lost its meaning.
A dual cassette boombox would be considered state of the art in the alien universe. In ours you can literally find them rotting away on a curb somewhere. Not far from where I live someone tried to dump what was at some point a very expensive boombox in the trash. But it never got picked up and no one ever took it. It's been decaying on the side of an abandoned building for years. So that's where I got the idea from. In the spring it gets covered with grass. In the fall it gets covered by the fall leaves. In the winter it gets covered in snow. You'd almost feel sorry for it.
Awesome mix tape.
Tarzan boy literally plays every time I shop at Kroger.
"She looks like a Stephanie". Was an obvious reference before she left.
when coming up with the idea for the 5th episode, I thought how cool it would be, if this were visual, with the crew gearing up while fox on the run plays. In my head the crew is all geared up, heavily armed and looking bad-ass as they head to the lift. I imagined the Captain had a sucker in her mouth and Church tried to slip away from the group only to be grabbed by the Chief and dragged back. This all takes place in slow motion. And the lift begins to descend as a certain part of the music hits. It doesn't quite translate to audio though.
No one stays behind to blow the bomb. I remember I was watching Armageddon when I was writing.
The bangs on the door are the same sound effect used in Stargate SG-1 when something would impact the iris.
Church doesn't say who's giving the orders. Foreshadowing something else I was planning but probably will never get to due to all the problems I've had with this.
Church mentions Hadley's Hope wasn't nuked because the processor air bursted. This was written long before Charon was even an idea.
The "nuke" is very important to the final episode.
Final performance by AJ Carter as John which is why he is mentions as "was" in the credits.
Now that AJ is gone, the need to change the ending of the series is required. He had the first lines of the series, was to have the last. Losing him completely obliterated a very emotional ending I had planned.
I teased what would have been a continuation of the series after this ended when John talked about food and water on the engineer ship. This is no longer a possibility.
Our new Captain said Solara wrong. I did not ask her to do it again because I was honestly unbelievably angry with former cast at the time and couldn't stand to bother with it anymore.
I did not ask our new Ramirez to record in better quality. I was still angry and didn't want to take it out on the new crew.
The major reason this took almost a year from the last episode was: Stephanie left to pursue her education. Absolutely no problem there. Another left for real life. And the rest because of money. Graham never left, nor did he become a diva. He even offered to do the credits for me even after I told him not to waste his time with this anymore.
We make sure to mention Fox is owned by Disney now.
Things I wrote that got cut out:
I wrote church offering a "5 day all expenses paid pass to Disney planet" as a bribe to the Captain, to which she responded with "I still couldn't afford it". Because Disney will never, ever be cheap. But I cut it out.
Originally the Xenomorph was going to grab the power loader from behind and Jack would scream about it trying to "mate" with him. But I thought it'd be funnier to have John punch it.
I wrote a scene with the chief and kid raiding operations and finding "Jalapeno cheese dip and Doritos". When I was a kid during Summer vacation my friends and I would guzzle Pepsi and eat tons of Fritos Jalapeno cheese dip and Doritos while playing video games damn near 24/7. It was a personal reference. Pointless otherwise.
What to expect from the final episode?
Even though I have to change the ending, I'm still firm on what happens during the final scene and into final credits. I always knew Solara would end while Roll me away plays. And believe it or not, it's a very important song to the series.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9V_2-Pbz4Q
They both sound good! I'm so glad you managed to get it all back together.
https://chirb.it/aBba1J
I want to say a big thanks to Xenohunter for auditioning. I got some really great auditions at the last minute and I had to go with them. One guy really wanted to do as many as roles as I could throw at him, and given the problems with casting I couldn't say no to a multiple role taker.
But we will get Xeno into a project. I'm still working on salvaging Bunnies project, which was destroyed in the recent outbreak of V.A. disease as well.
The good news: Charon is just about done recasting.
Let's hope so.
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And no, no one would ever give me a single penny. I'm not complaining. There will be no patreon for me. Solara helped me cast a for profit project though. Even then, I'll never make enough for a trip to McDonald's for the dollar menu. It's the way it is.
And I know it sounds scummy, but I'm allowing patreons. No direct profiting whatsoever will be tolerated. I told AJ and everyone else they could use this to promote their work and patreons but could never ask for money for it under any circumstances. But no one ever listens and expects me to dig into my empty pockets to pay them.
So expect when I release episodes to include patreons, if that's permitted. There will not be one for me because I know I will never, ever get anything. There are people on YouTube who make edits of stranger things season three and are getting hundreds in patreon money. But I'm not bitter at all. Just slowly losing my mind.
https://www.castingcall.club/projects/charon-an-alien-fan-audio-drama
Good luck, brother! I admire your dedication!
Great news!
I've got behind on the chapters. So looking forward to catching up. Life interupted my ALIEN obsession.
So glad your going to continue. Kudos to you Sir!
Never give up. Never surrender.
I had a fantastic story to tell with Charon. And I am absolutely livid that I can't continue it. I get no one wants to work for free, I certainly don't, but I know I'll never get one penny for doing this.
Projects shouldn't die because of one person.
AJ promised he would stick with Solara and Charon to the end, but I knew that wasn't going to be true at all. He won't even respond to my messages, and he had all the recordings for the next episode. I simply don't have the time or the energy to try casting anymore. Voice actors are the most unreliable people to deal with. I've never finished a single project because of them. They always flip out, disappear or eventually refuse to respond to messages. This situation is no different.
As soon as $ was mentioned, I knew it was over. Long story short, that's a reason Solara has been stalled so long too. Also his friends didn't want to do it anymore and I told him I wasn't going to just stop because of that.
So I hope you enjoyed the three episodes we were able to make. I just can't try to recast. You have no idea how much of a nightmare it is these days.
As for Solara, I don't know. 5 is done, but after that I don't know.
Yeah, and it's torpedoed Bunnies project too. He was a big part of it and had someone else doing a role I can't contact about it. So that's screwed too.
Still refuses to respond to me, so the future of these projects is in question since he was a big part of them.
But I'm looking forward to August!
Humans. If only I could use a text to speech program that sounded realistic, I wouldn't need them anymore.
And for the foreseeable future temperatures will be hitting the mid 90's, with feels likes up past 105.
Thank you for your patience.
You deserve a good break!
I'm kinda hitting burn out writing and putting it together.
Hmm, that smells as "Copyright trial"
Actually the synth dog was written in before I saw that.
And they're coming. With a bit of snip snip and gobble gobble.