Storm Mine (audio story)

Storm Mine is the sixth audio play in the Kaldor City series, written by Daniel O'Mahony. It centres on the character of Blayes, who finds herself awaking on a storm mine going round in circles in the desert.

Publisher's summary
"Evolution. No one said it was going to be easy."

Eighteen months after her final confrontation with Iago, Blayes awakes to find Kaldor City in quarantine and herself on a Storm Mine in the Blind Heart Desert. Her companions are three strangely familiar figures, a vengeful spirit -- and a robot with a dangerous secret.

Trapped in a claustrophobic, dreamlike environment, the former terrorist must now undertake a journey which may end in the destruction of her world... or its beginning.

Kaldor City - Storm Mine uses characters and concepts from Chris Boucher's Doctor Who novel Corpse Marker to tell a mindbending tale of discovery and transformation.

Cast
(in order of appearance)
 * Iago - Paul Darrow
 * Blayes - Tracy Russell
 * Chief Mover - John Leeson
 * Commander - Philip Madoc
 * Medvoc - Alistair Lock
 * Supervoc 6 - Mark Thompson
 * Voc 23 - Gregory de Polnay
 * Voc - Robert Lock
 * Voc 65 - William Johnston
 * Dockmaster - Wanda Opalinska
 * Chief Fixer - Patricia Merrick

Continuity

 * The story takes place aboard a Storm Mine circling the Painted Sea, one of the deepest regions of the Blind Heart Desert. It has seemingly been eighteen months since the conclusion of AUDIO: Checkmate. Blayes remembers nothing since that time. Kaldor City itself has apparently been quarantined since then due to the outbreak of killer robots.
 * The crew of the Storm Mine have apparently been touring the desert for nearly four years. Although mining tours usually only last two years. The Mine has been going in circles for over a year, ever since the quarantine prevented them from returning to Kaldor City.
 * Iago believes that what Blayes is experiencing could either be the product of a kidnapping, the crew of the Storm Mine are lying to her, or, a hallucination. However, Iago also states that since he’s supposed to be dead and nobody else can see or hear him, his word probably isn’t reliable.
 * There are several hints within the play that all is not as it seems - for example, several of the characters bear similarities to characters from earlier plays, such as Philip Madoc's Commander sharing mannerisms with Russell Hunter's Uvanov, himself once a Storm Mine Commander. The Fendahl also appears, apparently manipulating the crew and one of its robots for its own ends.
 * Inside one of the rooms of the Storm Mine, Blayes re-lives her final confrontation with Iago that occurred at the conclusion of AUDIO: Checkmate. The difference this time being that Iago’s voice fades away into static. The scene as it originally occurred is re-played as part of an opening prologue at the start of the play.