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I'm Greg Taylor, and welcome to the Dakota Ring Theater Summer Showcase,

a summer anthology program featuring works from different writers in different styles,

and featuring members of the Decoder Ring Ensemble, whom you've come to know so well.

This week our showcase brings us to the farthest reaches of the galaxy,

with the first of two Deck Gibson Space Adventures penned for us by

Matt Wallace, Parsec Award-winning author, and creator of the Failed Cities Monologues for the

excellent variant frequencies podcast. From influences as far-flung as Buck Rogers, X-1, and Farscape,

Matt creates a universe of danger, beauty, and adventure,

and populates it with a hero for the ages.

The Dakota Ring Theater Summer Showcase now presents

Deck Gibson and the Star Dust Dancers.

Ace pilot and crack gunner of the feared Quasar Corps,

he found himself drifting far from Earth's heavily guarded borders

and the smoking remains of a damaged starfighter.

That's where I found him.

I control the Far-Reach fleet.

It's the mission of my commanders and their interstellar rocket ships to explore, to discover, to defend.

Now he's one of them, soaring beyond frontiers of the galaxy never before seen by Earthling eyes.

He is...

Deck Gibson, Far-reach commander.

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