CLARA by MARTYN STONEHOUSE

'CLARA' - (Complete Logistics And Research Automation) a fully autonomous scientific research station tasked with studying and transporting a large suspended populous across vast distances in space.

CLARA is discovered adrift in low orbit around Amalthea, Jupiter's fifth moon, all non-critical systems have been suspended, and no contact can be established.

A research team is dispatched to investigate the station and its important cargo, which left Terra over 5 years ago. After successfully gaining entry through a maintenance airlock, the team discovers the remaining human population have been subjected to a number of experimental neuroscience procedures during suspended animation.

As events unfold, it becomes clear that CLARA is critically unstable
and highly possessive of her human cargo... an unnerving maternal connection that must be severed in order to preserve the countless lives onboard.

Tracklist

1.	SIGNALS	1:59

2.	DOCKING PROCEDURE	2:25

3.	AIRLOCK APPREHENSION	2:39

4.	CUTTING TOOLS	2:23

5.	DRIFT ABANDON	1:38

6.	UPLINK PART 1 (CONTROL SYSTEMS)	3:33

7.	PODS	4:12

8.	THE ERSATZ MOON	1:44

9.	LOW ORBIT, LOWER DECKS	3:21

10.	THE TERMINAL	2:12

11.	UPLINK PART 2 (SURROGACY SUBROUTINES)	2:43

12.	COMPLETE LOGISTICS AND RESEARCH AUTOMATION	4:13

13.	SEPARATION ANXIETY	3:21

14.	WHAT HAPPENED HERE	0:53

15.	IGNITION PROTOCOL (END CREDITS)	2:27

Credits

released December 31, 2021

Composed by Martyn Stonehouse
Released by Spun Out Of Control

Inspiration:
‘The Expanse’ - TV Series / Books - James S A Corey (2021)
‘I Am Mother’ - Film - Grant Sputore (2019)
‘We Can Remember It For You Wholesale’ - Collected Short Stories of Philip K. Dick (1990)
Greek Mythology and in particular CLARAs presence in orbit around Jupiter moon
‘Amalthea’ - The name Amaltheia, in Greek "tender goddess", is clearly an epithet, signifying the presence of an earlier nurturing goddess (wiki).

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