
Digital Insurgency
The counterfeit world, mapped as a field manual for the ones fighting it.

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Spaceship Alpha 9 is the premier AI storytelling studio in the South — original IP across audiobook, audio drama, nonfiction, and music. Greg architects the intelligence; Daniela engineers the empathy.
// every release is a Space Pirate Zero transmission.
In 2027, as corporate boards swap their CEOs for cheaper, scandal-proof AI, Prescott 'Cope' Mercer IV — a charming, coke-addled fourth-generation Atlanta heir — fights to stay human, right up until the machine taking his job quietly uncovers the thing he buried that got two people killed. A full-cast audiobook, narrated by Space Pirate Zero.
Succession meets Flowers for Algernon, by way of a Twilight Zone broadcast.
Thirteen modules teach how manipulation actually works: cold reading, gaslighting and DARVO, the liar's dividend, radicalization funnels, astroturf, deepfakes. How to spot each move, how to defuse it, and how to stay free. Nonfiction, narrated by Space Pirate Zero.
A scored, serialized audio drama in three acts — The Fog, The Mastery, The Refusal. Space Pirate Zero is the time-slipper who burns himself down to jump, chasing a signal across the wreckage of the 20th century. Twenty-four episodes, each closing on its door's song from the companion album, Signal Finds Signal.
A Twilight Zone fable stitched into a concept album.
A daily comedy news show anchored by two machines that cannot pass as human and will not stop trying. Diane Vale performs the plastic warmth she learned from archived tape; Chip Sterling invents a new fake human biography every segment. The headlines are real, sourced and cited; the anchors are the counterfeit. Space Pirate Zero salvaged their signal off the dead CDN and patched it into the feed.
Max Headroom anchors a local newscast that nobody is watching.
5 works and counting — audiobook, audio drama, daily news show, nonfiction field course, field manual, and album.

The counterfeit world, mapped as a field manual for the ones fighting it.

The last human chief executive in the Fortune 100 wages a manic crusade to prove a person still belongs in the chair.
Succession meets Flowers for Algernon, by way of a Twilight Zone broadcast.

A training class for the general public in the dark arts of influence — and how to see every move coming.

Twenty-four doors of an Advent calendar of death — each a dead-artist 'saint,' each a jump to another era and city.
A Twilight Zone fable stitched into a concept album.
Investigative AI journalism, cybersecurity deep-dives, and gonzo dispatches from the outer edge — 21 and counting.
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