Dark Matter (TV Series)



Dark Matter is an animated science-fiction horror TV series.

Synopsis

Aydin Hayes is a lone pilot whose shuttle becomes stranded in an abandoned star system. As he struggles to survive with limited fuel and provisions, the forgotten horrors he shall uncover will haunt him to the edge of the galaxy...

Episodes

Episode One: 'Lost' (Part I of II)

Aydin Hayes becomes stranded in the Noviss System, without a distress beacon nor supplies.

Episode Two: 'Found' (Part II of II)

Having lost all hope, Aydin waits out his demise. However - when his shuttle's computer detects a faint signal emanating from the planet below - one last chance is seemingly presented.

Episode Three: 'Arrival'

Aydin embarks on a desparate journey - through meteor storms and tsunami winds - toward the alien surface of planet Lorsan-C, his last bastion for survival.

Episode Four: 'This Unknown Island' (Part I of III)

As Aydin explores the terrain of Lorsan-C, he uncovers secrets and memories left abandoned for countless millennia.

Episode Five: 'The Abyss' (Part II of III)

Aydin follows a series of cavernous tunnels, stumbling upon an underground cave network filled with ancient evidence of civilization: statues, texts written in an unfamiliar language... and buried corpses.

Episode Six: 'Ravenous' (Part III of III)

The dead awake from their slumber.

As Aydin flees from an apparently-immortal enemy, he comes to the conclusion that more mysterious, darker forces are at work on this planet - and he has set them free.

Episode Seven: 'Chronicles of the Coven'

Aydin learns through several pillaged artifacts, of the downfall of this planet and its culture: of the parasitic outbreak; of the great betrayals and resulting genocide; and of a final, desparate pact - made with an eternal trickster.

Episode Eight: 'In Etta Mar's Way'

As Aydin continues to run from the endless-seeming hordes of the awakened dead, he finds the makeshift headquarters of another survivor. Her name is Etta Mar and this is the beginning of an uneasy alliance between the two of them.

Episode Nine: 'Amalgamation' (Part I of II)

Ancient evolution culminates in deadly fruition.

Aydin and Etta witness darkness and death combine to form the apocalypse, personified.

Episode Ten: 'Apotheosis' (Part II of II)

Voices in Aydin's head. Hundreds of distress beacons activating throughout Noviss. The Prophecy of the Second Kind. The army of the dead, led by the Amalgamation.

This is only the beginning...

Continuation

The series was followed by a second season, Dark Matter: Aperture (TV Series).