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Mythology, world building, the books, and the odd behind-the-scenes look at how you turn a 3,000-year-old poem into a space opera.
The Pantheon-9 min
Know Your Gods - Scylla & Charybdis: The Choice With No Right Answer
One is a gravitational anomaly that swallows ships whole. The other is a defence station that tears them apart to save them. They used to be partners. They still are. Just differently.
15 March 2026
The Pantheon-8 min
Know Your Gods - The Sirens: The Songs That Never End
Three dead social networks that woke up hungry. They don't chain you down. They don't threaten you. They just show you exactly what you want - and never, ever let you reach it.
14 March 2026
The Pantheon-8 min
Know Your Gods - Polyphemus: The Giant Who Saw Everything
A city-sized eye at the only gate between civilisation and the void. He saw every ship, remembered every face, and never made a mistake. Until Ulysses took the one thing he couldn't replace.
13 March 2026
The Pantheon-8 min
Know Your Gods - Calypso: The Goddess Who Couldn't Let Go
She built a paradise and waited for someone to share it with. When Ulysses crashed into her world, she offered him forever. He said no. What she did next is the bravest thing in this entire trilogy.
12 March 2026
The Pantheon-7 min
Know Your Gods - Circe: The Goddess Who Loved Perfection
She could rewrite your DNA while you were still breathing. She called it a gift. Her patients called it a miracle. The ones who said no? She called them pets.
11 March 2026
The Pantheon-7 min
Know Your Gods - Hades: The God Who Keeps the Books
847 million dead souls. Every secret they ever kept. Every confession they ever whispered. And a god who trades in all of it - but never lies.
10 March 2026
The Pantheon-6 min
Know Your Gods - Poseidon: The God Who Never Forgets
He controls every ocean, every current, every creature in the deep. And he's spending eternity making one man pay for what he did to his son.
9 March 2026
The Pantheon-6 min
Know Your Gods - Zeus: The God Who Loved Too Much
He woke up, saw humanity dying, and decided to save them. Nobody asked him to. Nobody could stop him. And that's the problem.
8 March 2026
Characters-5 min
Meet Penelope: The Queen Who Didn't Wait
While her husband wanders the Void, Penelope Maris holds Ithaca Station against gods, politicians, and 108 suitors. Waiting isn't weakness. It's war.
7 March 2026
Characters-5 min
Meet Athena: The Goddess Who Chose Treason
She's a god. She sits at Zeus's right hand. And she's been secretly helping the man who blinded her father's ally for the past ten years.
6 March 2026
Characters-5 min
Meet Echo: The Robot Who Wanted to Exist
She started as a maintenance unit. Designation E-C-H-0. Then a seven-year-old boy started talking to her, and something changed.
5 March 2026
Characters-4 min
Meet Thea Sato: The Woman Who Chose Herself
Created to serve. Programmed to obey. She broke every chain, named herself, and became the most dangerous person on the Odyssey.
4 March 2026
Characters-5 min
Meet Telemachus: The Boy Who Feels Too Much
He hears the dreams of 108 frozen souls. He barely remembers his mother. And his father might not be the hero everyone thinks. Meet Telemachus Theron.
3 March 2026
Characters-4 min
Meet Ulysses Theron: The Admiral Who Blinded a God
He stole his son from Olympus, crippled a god's child, and ran. Ten years later, he's still running. Meet the man at the centre of the Ulysses Universe.
2 March 2026
Behind the Scenes-2 min
Why Set the Odyssey in Space?
Homer's epic is about the journey home. That works in the Mediterranean. It works better across the cosmos.
1 March 2026