Beacon 23

Previously, on Beacon 23...

Aleph, enough killing.

I didn't kill Aster. The Column did.

And now you want to hunt them down across entire systems.

Exactly.

Emergency. Mayday.

That was B174's last transmission.

I'm sorry.

Were you and B174 close?

We're both Beacon Keepers.

It just seems like there's something more.

-What is that? -Don't touch it.

I didn't know it was going to react.

Well, it did.

-Harmony? -

I can't control this. It's-- it's another AI.

This is not that hard, Harmony.

Get out of my programming.

You're afraid of me.

You're hiding from Aleph.

Not all of us have an imprint, and you had two.

-What are you doing? -Letting my person in.

Whoever's in there...

they need us.

-You have a name? -Dosto.

Any idea how you got here?

I assume you picked me up.

I must have been free floating.

Amazing you found me.

Thanks-- thanks for that.

That's not exactly what happened.

We didn't just snatch you out of thin air.

It's actually the other way around.

What the hell are you talking about?

You materialized in front of us,

like you were...

birthed out of some membrane.

I don't remember that.

No, it's true. The beacon experienced

frigid temperatures, fog, snow, and then this membrane.

-Beacon? -You're on a beacon.

This-- this ain't a ship? We ain't moving?

Sadly, no.

Ah...

I never saw any beacon. I was, uh...

I was...

Where were you?

I think you have a concussion

from when you came through.

Came through what?

Please, mister, what is she talking about?

-She ain't making sense. -Welcome to Beacon 23.

You want sense, you came to the wrong place.

Dosto, is it?

What do you remember? Were you on a ship?

A station? An outpost?

No, I-- I wasn't on a ship.

-But you were in a vessel. -A boat.

You mean, like on water?

It was tiny. With a sail.

-A sailboat. -We were sailing.

-In space. -Yeah.

You should get some rest.

I'll sedate him.

Good idea.

Here.

You're gonna be all right, okay?

-You're safe now. -Thank you.

-Harmony? -

Any idea where this is from?

Sybarra 82.

I heard about Sybarra when I was trapped in QTA.

Someone told me that they were closing that office.

I thought it was just office gossip, but...

Clearly, something went on there.

Beacon 23, this is B331.

Please stay off the sub channels,

you know they're not official.

331, it's me, 67.

B67?

What are you doing all the way over there?

It's a long story.

Is everything okay?

Yeah, thanks. You're sweet.

Is B23 back online?

I thought it had been destroyed.

Why'd you think that?

I don't want to be on the sub-c. What do you need?

What's going on in the Sybarran system?

You didn't hear?

I've been out of touch.

Sybarra's gone.

What do you mean, "gone"?

That system's 180 planets,

11 inhabited.

And it's gone.

The last Column holdouts were eliminated.

Military conducted a major purge.

None of those planets were left inhabitable.

That's over a billion people.

Less than a million survived.

They took to ships. A flotilla.

Military hunted a few down, but everyone else

was forced underground.

Be careful. Scary times.

Stay off the sub-c

and avoid saying the name of the system.

It's a red flag.

You don't want gunships outside your window.

No, I don't.

Thanks, 331. Stay safe.

You're the AI.

Harmony said there was one on board.

Dev.

I thought you were a hallucination.

In the jazz club.

You shouldn't be so hard on your playing.

-You're very talented. -What are you doing here?

I'm not sure.

The people who end up on this beacon always seem...

marooned.

Are you marooned, Iris?

A trickster.

Interesting.

No tricks. I really can help.

I could be your AI.

-I have an AI. -On your beacon, not here,

and it's not personal.

I could assist you with so many things.

Rebuilding this place, fixing Halan.

That's what you want, isn't it?

Why you're here?

We could be partners.

We could do such great things together.

I'm highly selective, you know.

There's only one other person here.

Have you tried connecting with Halan?

I want... you.

- - What are you doing?

Helping Iris.

Leave her alone.

I gotta go.

Nice to meet you, Dev.

You ruined that.

I was close.

How are you even able to be here?

Your totem, it's very generous.

What did you do?

What is the difference between how you assisted Aster

and how you assist Iris and Halan?

You're fooling yourself.

You're doing exactly what you've always done.

Worse... you're hoarding.

Selfish bitch.

I didn't know we had a gym.

Our friend's on the run.

-From who? -The military.

They hunted down the Column,

destroyed a system called Sybarra.

There may be other survivors.

With the military on their tails.

I know, but we can't just leave them out there.

They would only go after the Column for one reason.

-Aleph. -He had a billion people

in his way.

- -One point two.

That's a lot of collateral damage.

Their blood is on my hands.

If I didn't destroy the Artifact,

then maybe-- maybe Aleph wouldn't...

You can't know what Aleph would have done.

I should have played along.

Did what Aster wanted me to do.

You didn't turn him loose. You're not responsible.

Tell him that.

Where'd you get this piece of crap?

Geez...

-I made it. -Nice.

Look, we know you were on the run.

MC chased you to our doorstep.

What I want to know is how you got here.

I really don't know.

But I'll tell you.

I'm from Sybarra 82. You know it?

Just that it's the asshole of the galaxy.