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About The Dex Legacy
The Dex Legacy is a BSFA Award-winning audio drama, written by Emily Inkpen and Produced by Alternative Stories. Since the launch of Season 1 in 2022, the drama has received over 200,000 downloads internationally, placing it in the top 3% of global podcasts. Episode 1 - The Bomb, was written in 2020 as a standalone and appeared in the Alternative Stories and Fake Realities anthology podcast. It went on to be the most popular episode of the year, prompting the creation of the entire independent series. The Dex Legacy is set 11 years before the start of Emily’s debut Blood Road trilogy. The Blood Road is repped and has been on submission for a long time. It’s been close to publication on a few occasions, but Emily is now working on a series that will run alongside the audio drama. The original trilogy can wait. If it came out now it would mean giant spoilers!
Summary
Almost 1500 years after ancestors from Earth colonised planet SP714, the human population has grown. Countries have divided, risen, fallen and out of the ashes, Dex Island is about to take centre stage. Weapons manufacturer and President, Nathaniel Dex, works with his colleagues to run his company and steer world politics, while his three adopted children wreak havoc on the world.
Varian, Isra and Ren are the most controversial weapons ever created by Dex Industries. Designed and adapted by the infamous Doctor Devek Za, they embody the ever-expanding limitations of biological technology. The ongoing development of the three siblings is mirrored throughout by the growing influence of Nathaniel Dex in world politics. With the new nation of Dex Island populated by Dex Industries employees, and no one but Nathaniel Dex to lay down the law, the interests of the company outweigh all else.
Questions of accountability are central to every episode of The Dex Legacy. Who is responsible for a bomb that destroys a nation in a single devastating blow? The person who designed it, the person who attached the price tag, or those who eventually launched it? Who is responsible for the deaths of those who fall at the hands of three fifteen year-old super soldiers? The person who designed them, the people who raised them, or the children themselves?
With parental figures who wield more motives than anyone can count, it’s up to Varian, Isra and Ren to draw their own lines wherever they can. Because when it comes to the damage inflicted on them by their adopted father and his associates, there are no lines whatsoever.
The Dex Legacy - Wasteland
1500 years after Ancestors from Earth colonised planet SP714, countries have divided, risen, fallen, and been consumed by larger, stronger nations. Just off the coast of Xenos, the island of Rone has spent 12 long years fighting for independence against the nationalist Xenosi government.
In the hopes of ending the war once and for all, the Xenosi Prime Minister, Tazenik, purchases an experimental missile from Dex Industries, the notorious weapons corporation. This missile lays waste to Rone, wiping out all life and turning the landscape to fine grey dust.
Following this devastating event, Captain Sarra Sax and her Unit of specialised Mecha Pilots are the only soldiers capable of exploring this new Wasteland. Together, they search for survivors… and find answers.
