Transmissions from the City

Stories and dispatches from Tomorrowland — headquarters of the League of Planets, where the future never quite arrived.

The Big Shot
TRANSMISSIONJun 15, 2026

The Big Shot

The Tomorrowland Interplanetary Convention Center is hosting its first off-world delegation next week. Read the frantic internal memos from the Convention Center's director as they realize the catering, the translation protocols, and the atmospheric regulation are all wrong for a species that breathes something other than oxygen and considers the color gold to be a mortal insult.

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Now is the Time
TRANSMISSIONJun 8, 2026

Now is the Time

A TTA PeopleMover car completed its circuit this morning with one passenger who had not been there at the start of the route. The passenger was calm, well-dressed, and asked the operator a single question before departing. This is the full account of what they asked — and why the operator hasn't been able to stop thinking about it.

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The Cog of the Cosmos
TRANSMISSIONJun 8, 2026

The Cog of the Cosmos

During routine maintenance on the great ornamental gear assembly at Rockettower Plaza, a maintenance worker finds something lodged inside the teeth of the largest cog — something old, something that predates the 1994 construction by decades. This is the story of what it is and the investigation that follows.

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The Merchant's Ledger
TRANSMISSIONMay 25, 2026

The Merchant's Ledger

The Merchant of Venus keeps two sets of books. One is for the League of Planets customs inspectors. This is the story told by the other one — a single transaction that the Merchant has never been able to explain, involving a trade made with someone who shouldn't have existed yet.

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Keeping Time
TRANSMISSIONMay 20, 2026

Keeping Time

Docking Log: Intergalactic Space Port 77 A vessel has arrived at Space Port 77 bearing registry markings from a civilization the League of Planets has no record of. The ship is intact. The crew is gone. The cargo hold is full of clocks, all stopped at the same time. Write the intake report and what follows.

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