Juno Steel and the Shadows on the Ship (Part 2)

Shadows on the Ship poster by Sharon Oh

**Juno Steel and the Shadows on the Ship (Part 2)** is an episode of the Juno Steel series. It is the 6th Juno Steel episode of season 3 and 10th overall. It was released March 24, 2020.

## Overview

Sometimes, seeing the truth is enough to make you miss the blissful blindness that is ignorance.

### Trigger Warnings

* Death and physical injury
* Claustrophobic spaces
* Sudden loud noises
* Kidnapping and incarceration
* Use of drugs/sedatives
* Deception and gaslighting
* Depiction of mental illness
* Depiction of hallucinations
* Implied abusive parent
* Misgendering
* Deadnaming

## Cast and Crew

### Cast

Starring

* Chloé Cunha as Vespa Ilkay
* Joshua Ilon as Juno Steel
* Alexander Stravinski as Jet Sikuliaq
* Sarah Gazdowicz as Buddy Aurinko
* Noah Simes as Peter Ransom
* Mertz as Vespa's father
* Uncredited, possibly Sophie Takagi Kaner, as Voice of the assailants

### Crew

* Kevin Vibert, Co-creator, Head of Operations, Lead writer
* Sophie Takagi Kaner, Co-creator, Head of Episode Development, Director, Sound designer
* Kat Buckingham, Head of Merchandise and Outreach
* Alice Chuang, Head of Design
* Noah Simes, Production manager
* Ryan Vibert, Composer and performer of original music
* Promotional art by Sharon Oh

## Quotes

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> | JUNO: | All right, fine. I’m sorry if we... “y’know” too loud. But
> | JET:: | My apologies. I did not know that the poetry you and Ransom
> | JUNO:: | It is not poetry! And we get loud because... we’re just
> trying to... communicate things with each other!
> Normal things! Because he has nothing suspicious going on!
> And if he does, which he doesn’t, I don’t know about it!
>
>
>

>
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> | VESPA:: | If you blame one more thing on Buddy I'm gonna come in
> | JUNO:: | Well, she did, all right? It’s the same thing as what Jet’s
> been hearing through my wall. Ransom and I were having
> trouble... y’know, talking to each other about
>
> | VESPA:: | (SARCASTIC CHUCKLE)
> And a tag-team assault on the entire ship seemed like just
>
> | JUNO:: | She said it seems like I’m talking to myself and just never
> saying any of it out loud, like these big long speeches to
> myself about I-don’t-know-what, or why, but if I wanted to
> get better at talking about myself I should start trying to
> say that stuff out loud, record it on my comms, that kind
> of thing. So, then she told me she wasn’t my therapist
>
> | VESPA:: | Oh, drop it! How stupid do you think I am? Nobody likes the
>
>

>
>
> | VESPA (NARRATOR):: | I picked the bot out because I trusted what I knew, and I
> knew Steel wouldn't call me crazy. Wish I'd known that
>
>
>

## Trivia

* This episode was narrated by the character Vespa Ilkay. It was the third episode of season three to be told from the perspective of someone other than Juno Steel, after Juno Steel and the Man in Glass (Part 1) and Juno Steel and the Man in Glass (Part 2) and Juno Steel and the Tools of Rust (Part 1) and Juno Steel and the Tools of Rust (Part 2).
* Before the Episode there is a note from Sophie Takagi Kaner, where they remark that this episode will addressing some dark themes and that due to the current situation during the time of publication (the Corona Pandemic), they'd recommend listening to it only "when you feel you're up to it."
* In this episode Vespa mentions a memory of "the swamps of Ranga" releated to her childhood, suggesting that this is where she grew up.