Stuck in a Space Whale 💫🐋

hey ya'll.

This is a little audio drama I've made about being stuck inside a Space Whale.

It's a fun little thing, based in a universe that I've been working on for a potential tv show.

Chapters:

0:00 Welcome And Premise

0:30 Mission Log: Trapped In A Space Whale

1:34 Angels And Five-Dimensional Tech

3:48 The Whale’s Shanty Town

5:00 Finding The Inverter

6:21 The Escape Plan

8:12 Inversion And Aftermath

10:24 Sign Off

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The story opens with a wry greeting and a bold promise: a compact sci‑fi audio drama that tests the limits of survival and imagination. Our narrator, a hired gun with a mission to recover a five-dimensional inverter, discovers that the target sits within a living maze—an enormous space whale that has swallowed starships, krill, and entire human micro‑civilisations. The podcast leans into vivid worldbuilding without slowing the pace: jet thrusters fighting digestive storms, car‑sized space krill dissolving on contact, and a mission log that reads like a confession. It’s not just spectacle; the premise asks a direct question about problem‑solving under pressure. When an object can reshape time and space, does the shortest path to safety become the only acceptable one, even when it leads through something alive?

From there, the episode unspools a brisk history of the angels, five-dimensional beings who seeded the galaxy with tech that lets humanity collapse distance and converse across time. The lore of “five-dimensional wishes” adds texture: shimmering artefacts that let mortals parley with entities outside linear time, bending causality like wire. These elements create SEO‑rich touchpoints—time travel technology, five-dimensional objects, angelic aliens, space opera survival—that ground the drama in a mythology that feels both wondrous and perilous. By framing the inverter as a cousin to other angelic devices, the story hints at rules: inversion as a principle, not a miracle, and consequences that ripple through biology and vacuum alike.

The whale’s interior becomes a setting and a society. The narrator stumbles on a shanty town cobbled from swallowed hulls, where barter buys calories and superstition stands in for physics. The tone swings from deadpan to grim as we meet Cricket, the elder guide who understands the currents and the acids better than any star map. Hunger turns neighbours into predators, and engines become lifelines that determine who floats and who dissolves. When our mercenary admits to stealing fuel after being targeted as food, the episode forces a hard look at scarcity ethics: at what point does survival collapse into cruelty, and can anyone claim clean hands inside a stomach where the rules are digestion and decay?

The pacing tightens once the inverter appears. It sits lodged on an asteroid trapped above the digestive depths, a visual metaphor for opportunity hovering over entropy. The device itself is described as a canister housing an impossible geometry, an object that looks like many things ageing and collapsing all at once. The science‑fantasy logic is crisp: an inverter inverts signals, so a five-dimensional inverter should invert space and time. This is where the episode hits its thesis—tool choice shapes destiny. The narrator chooses action over caution, trusting that inversion will create an exit even if the cost is irreversible. The tension is physical and moral as jetpacks ignite, the canister opens, and the whale’s body begins to shrink against an unseen gradient.

What follows is both triumph and horror. The inversion works, ejecting our narrator into open space while the whale is turned ins

Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome And Premise
• 0:30 Mission Log: Trapped In A Space Whale
• 1:34 Angels And Five-Dimensional Tech
• 3:48 The Whale’s Shanty Town
• 5:00 Finding The Inverter
• 6:21 The Escape Plan
• 8:12 Inversion And Aftermath
• 10:24 Sign Off

Transcript

Sharam: 0:01

Hey guys, welcome to Sharam Namdarian makes a podcast. This podcast is an audio drama. It's basically a sci-fi show that I'd like to write. It's gonna take a while, so I thought I'd use this podcast to get ideas out of little short run ideas. So if you like it, let me know. I'll make more. This one's called uh stuck inside a space whale. I'll let the actual thing do the talking. So in advance, thanks for watching or listening wherever you are. And uh catch you on the other side. Uh mission log checking in. Uh mercenary code 531800867.

Ships Computer: 0:55

Mercenary code confirmed.

Sharam: 0:56

The mission's been going smoothly, except for one major hiccup. I'm stuck in this goddamn space whale. The mission was simple. Get the 5D inverter and bring it back to the client. That was it. Unfortunately, when I got to the coordinates, the coordinates were actually a space whale. So logically, one could assume that the five-dimensional space inverter was actually inside the whale. So I went in. But I had to figure out a way to get inside the space whale. And then I noticed something. The whale was eating space krill. You know those car sized monstrosities that somehow manage to eat your bones before they eat your flesh and organs? Yeah, those things. Well, I managed to slip my ship in between a massive herd of space krill as I went into the actual whale. How genius! The krill immediately dissolved in its stomach, and thanks to my ship's miraculous thrusters, I was able to just, you know, maintain status quo and not actually get dissolved. But I've been stuck in this space whale for at least a day now, and the inverter is nowhere to be seen. I have no idea why this inverter is wanted or it's so powerful. All I know it's a five-dimensional object, and we all know how good those things are. For those who want a history lesson, for some reason if you don't remember, humanity was struggling to span out into the stars when one day we were visited by the only creature in space that isn't out to get you. The angels. The angels are creatures beyond time and space. These five-dimensional beings that gifted us with the technology on how to travel through time and space through five dimensions, both moving forward and backwards through time and space at the same time, giving us the ability to collapse any point in space. During this time, they also littered the galaxy with a million tiny objects, these five-dimensional objects that are both mysterious and just batshit crazy. Our favorite ones are the five-dimensional wishes. These are small enchanted objects that shimmer with five-dimensional energy, that if you encounter it, you actually get to speak to an angel and it will grant you a wish, and you can even alter time and space when you talk to one of these creatures. Now, unfortunately, I'm stuck inside a space whale trying to find a five-dimensional inverter. Now, why it's called an inverter, I can only assume that it has the ability to invert things, whatever the hell that is. But it has been a journey. At one point in time, inside this space whale, because it is so huge, I managed to find a small shanty town. It was a small village of cobbled together spaceships that had been swallowed up by the space whale, where I was able to barter for food. It was insane. I met an old man, his name was Cricket. Hello, my name is Cricket! And Cricket helped me navigate and learn the ways of the space whale. There are a society of people that are stuck inside this thing. Get in a space whale, suck it up and get over it. Pretty soon after I left, their engines failed and they fell and collapsed into the acid of the stomach of the space whales. Oh no, our entire society is dissolving! So there goes that society. I'm lucky I have fuel. Dear lord. I think that mercenaries stole our fuel! I had to steal all their fuel after they tried to eat me. Turns out being stuck in a space whale doesn't lead to a lot of protein, and you end up becoming a cannibalist society. Anyway, space is a dangerous place. It's filled with things trying to kill you. And humans aren't even the worst ones! I once heard of a peaceful farming world. It's the only peaceful planet where nothing is out to kill you. And even that has a gigantic creature that comes once every 50 years that they have to lure off that is bigger than the planet that just tries to eat it. The future is dangerous, and I don't know how we're alive. Anyway, that's the mission log. If I don't find this inverter soon, I am stuck in this space whale. Mission log. Mercenary code 531800867.

Ships Computer: 5:49

Mercenary code done.

Sharam: 5:52

We found it. We found the inverter. It was literally floating on an asteroid that the whale had swallowed that hadn't yet dropped down into the stomach of the whale. Now all I need to do is figure out how the hell to get out of this space whale. Oh man. This this five-dimensional inverter is beautiful. It's it sort of looks like a canister, but inside it is an object that my eyes literally do not understand. It looks like several things constantly collapsing in on itself, aging, dying. Sort of like if there were many objects occupying the same space, and all of those objects looked like they were all throughout time. Now, call me crazy. But this thing is an inverter. In the past I've used inverters to alternate signals on tracking beams, ultimately boosting me away from the people trying to track me rather than sucking me in. So hypothetically, I should be able to use this inverter to get me out of this whale. Hold on. Inverters invert things, right? And a five-dimensional inverter should be able to invert both time and space. So I'm grabbing my jetpack and getting out of the ship. I've got an idea. With my five-dimensional inverter in my hand, this is so crazy, it just might work.

Ships Computer: 8:14

Opening up the canister of the five-dimensional inverter is highly unrecomended, Mr. Sharon.

Sharam: 8:23

I don't care. On the count of three, I'm gonna throw this canister against the stomach lining of the whale. Because if I can't get out to return the object, there's no point in it whatsoever. Alright, stabilizing jets. Three, two, one. Throwing inverter. The whale is being inverted. Activate jetpacks back to the ship. The stomach of the whale is slowly getting smaller. I can only assume the whale is being sucked in into the inverter. Back to the ship. Uh mission log. Mercenary code 531-800867.

Ships Computer: 9:36

Mercenary code confirmed.

Sharam: 9:39

The mission is a success. I am successfully out of the whale. Unfortunately, the whale has been inverted. The only way that I could escape was to use the inverter on the whale itself. The whale was slowly sucked into the inverter and then exported out the other end completely inside out. Now that's why I know they call it an inverter. Now all I gotta do is pick up the damn thing that's still floating out in space, move past the horrific mess that is the whale's corpse, and get this back to the client. Mission success. Anyway, uh that was stuck inside a space whale. Hope you enjoyed it. My name is Sharam Namdarian, and uh guess what we did? We made a podcast.