The Quantum Range Chronicles
About the show
The war starts at dawn. Experience the shocking opening chapter of the new sci-fi epic, Quantum Range: Echo Born.
In the remote mining valley of Dustville, a heavily-armed force known as the Crokonians arrives with terrifying, surgical precision. Their goal is not chaos, but clinical, total occupation, leaving the civilian population paralyzed by confusion. While the town's defenders—a ragtag security team—are overwhelmed, two figures connected to the mysterious "Order" are forced to act.
This is the sound of a new regime settling in. Listen to this full chapter to find out why the invaders ignored the mines but systematically disabled everything else, and what happens when the defense chief, Mayor Cassian, attempts to negotiate with an enemy that operates with absolute silence.
To continue the story and join the fight, find the full audiobook, Quantum Range: Echo Born, on Audible, Apple Books, and all major audiobook platforms today!
Episodes
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Episode 4: The Shadow Behind Ankin (Chapter 2 Review)
November 15th, 2025 | 6 mins 15 secs
Chapter 2 opens inside the damaged Council Chamber, a visual reminder that the Order is still reeling from the Krokonian incursion. While the High Council debates strategy—withdraw, retaliate, or attempt to stabilize Ryoshi’s assessment cuts through the political fallout: the attack wasn’t meant to capture Dustville, but to test the Order’s speed, tactics, and chain of command.
Ryoshi pushes for a rapid counterstrike, and Ankin is unexpectedly appointed to lead it. His silence, tension, and refusal to meet Ryoshi’s eye foreshadow the internal shift beginning to take hold of him.
As the teams move into the high-country night for the covert ascent, the chapter transitions from political tension to field operation.
Ryoshi leads with discipline and precision. Ankin, however, trails the group like a loaded weapon, his presence both reassuring and unsettling. During the infiltration, the Order’s squads execute their objectives with near-perfect coordination—disabling generators, taking comm relays, and neutralizing patrols with non-lethal force.But Ankin’s tactics grow sharper, colder. He breaks formation. His aura reads wrong. His decisions veer toward total suppression rather than surgical disruption. Ryoshi finds him alone with a Krokonian officer—alive, but scarred by something that seems to come from Ankin’s very presence.
Throughout the mission, Ankin behaves as though someone—or something—is guiding him, his reactions too perfect, too automatic. Ryoshi confronts him, sensing a script, a foreign influence, or the first signs of a deeper corruption. Their relationship strains under the weight of it.
The chapter ends with the operation escalating into full street combat as Krokonian reinforcements flood the mining quarter. Ryoshi feels the mission slipping out of its careful structure and realizes, with building dread, that the greatest danger may not be the Krokonians at all—but the darkness beginning to take root inside Ankin.
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Episode 3: Chapter 2 – The Fractured Council
November 1st, 2025 | 40 mins 9 secs
In Chapter 2, we shift from cosmic myth to ground-level reality. The ruined outskirts of Dustville come into focus as we follow Jake Slade in the fragile hours before everything changes. Still unaware of the scale of the war he’s been born into, Jake moves through a world where silence is never truly safe—where every shadow holds either memory, danger, or both.
We meet the early supporting cast: the watchful Ryoshi, the mysterious ANA presence, and the first whispers of a coming force tied to Dark Matteris. The chapter builds tension through atmosphere, hinting that the universe isn’t just collapsing politically—but spiritually. Jake’s instincts sharpen, the fractures widen, and the first real question settles in:
Is Jake Slade being hunted, guided… or prepared?
This chapter sets the emotional foundation of the saga—before the invasion, before the rebellions, before the legends. It’s the last breath of quiet before the storm that will reshape the galaxy.
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Episode 2: Episode 2: Seige Dustville
October 28th, 2025 | 4 mins 47 secs
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In this episode of The Quantum Range Chronicles Podcast, we journey into Chapter One of Quantum Range: Echo Born — “The Fall of Dustville.”
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Episode 1: Quantum Range: Echo Born Chapter 1
October 21st, 2025 | 49 mins 21 secs
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