List of The Dark Aether episodes

The Good Officer is an American animated television series created by Freddie Goodwin.

Series overview

Season	Episodes		Originally released		Rank	Average viewership (in millions)
			First released	Last released
1	13		September 25, 2017 (2017-09-25)	March 26, 2018 (2018-03-26)	1	TBA

Storyline

Game One (2024/25)

The Good Officer season 1 episodes

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code
1	1	"Black Sun Down"	Freddie Goodwin	Freddie Goodwin	November 2024	101
A Soviet Aether experiment gone wrong resurfaces in the present as Jason Hawke, Amara Javed, Kai Richter, and Elara Stone are deployed to investigate a Cold War research base that suddenly reactivated after nearly four decades, only for them to find the entire facility frozen in time and infested with crystalline corpses animated by Aether corruption. The team discovers that the base had attempted to contain an entity born from the earliest rupture — an obsidian-armored Aetherborn crowned with the sigil of the Black Sun — which awakens and effortlessly tears through the ruins while declaring that the world has already been marked for collapse. Forced to retreat through the snow as Aetherborn pour from fractures in reality, the strike team barely escapes aboard a VTOL, where Hawke uncovers a Soviet keycard labeled “Project Eclipse” and Elara reluctantly reveals that Eclipse was an abandoned international operation tied to a threat her old unit failed to destroy. As an Aether rift opens beside the aircraft and the Black Sun Entity reaches through it to proclaim that “the Night Sentinel must awaken,” the team realizes the breach they witnessed is only the beginning of a far greater catastrophe tied directly to Hawke himself.
2	2	"IRON VEIL COMPLEX"	Freddie Goodwin	Freddie Goodwin	December 2024	102
The team descends into the long-buried Iron Veil Complex after Hawke’s recovered Eclipse Key reactivates the Cold War installation, only to find the underwater base still alive, its halls warped by Aether corruption and filled with reanimated thralls birthed from failed experiments. As they push deeper into Ring Gamma — the same wing that fell during the 1994 breach — Amara discovers that the Eclipse Key controls the entire facility and uses it to freeze and shatter a horde, revealing that Iron Veil wasn’t researching Aetherborn at all but manufacturing them in cryo-pods that still hold crystal-fused human remains. Their search is cut short when the Black Sun Entity appears in the Archive, confirming the scientists tried to contain “his kind” and cryptically identifying Hawke as “the last Sentinel” moments before a massive Aether beast tears through the lower levels, forcing the team into a desperate escape as Kai collapses the tunnels behind them. Fleeing in the VTOL, Amara confronts Hawke about the Entity’s accusation, only for Elara to reveal the truth she’s hidden for years — Hawke wasn’t merely exposed to the Aether, he was born from it — leaving the team reeling as the implications of Project Eclipse grow darker than ever.
3	3	"THE SLEEPER VAULT"	Freddie Goodwin	Freddie Goodwin	March 2024	103
The team travels to a ruined Alpine monastery after NATO detects escalating Aether anomalies, only to discover the site was the birthplace of the first Aether tear in 1624 and the burial ground of ancient Sentinels who once tried—and failed—to seal it. Hawke feels an inexplicable familiarity with the place, and when the floor collapses, the team finds a vast underground Vault filled with sarcophagi inscribed with runes matching the Eclipse Key and a glowing central sigil that reacts violently to Hawke’s presence. As Amara realizes Hawke isn’t merely enhanced but a Sleeper—an engineered Sentinel created from Aether DNA—the sarcophagi open, unleashing Aetherbound warriors who recognize Hawke as “the Last Light,” forcing the team into a brutal fight through the catacombs. During the battle, Hawke triggers an ancient monolith and is pulled into a vision showing the first Aether tear, the original Sentinels, and a prophecy foretelling that a final Sentinel will seal what the first opened, only for the Black Sun Entity to reveal Hawke was designed not to destroy the Aetherborn but to contain them. Shocked back into reality, Hawke unleashes dormant Sentinel power—obliterating the Aetherbound and awakening the sealed Vault door, behind which an Aether Titan, “the Sleeper,” begins to stir. Terrified by what Hawke’s awakening implies, the team escapes the collapsing monastery as the entity’s growl rises from the depths, and Hawke vows to stop the Sleeper before its emergence ends the world.
4	4	"FORT DUSK"	Air Studios	Air Studios	June 2025	104
After seismic surges from the Alps reveal the Sleeper Titan waking beneath the earth, the team is dragged back under NATO command as Rourke accuses Elara of unleashing forces she was never meant to confront and exposes that Hawke’s awakening is synchronizing with the Titan’s rise. Sent to the condemned fortress of Fort Dusk—the last site with functioning Aether inhibitors—they find the stronghold rotting under Titan bleed: frozen soldiers fused into crystal, melted armor, and walls pulsing with violet veins. Inside, a mutated Aetherborn assassin known only as the Hunter stalks them through collapsing battlements, forcing brutal combat that exposes the creature can speak Sentinel dialect and recognizes Hawke as a threat to the rising Titan. Beneath the fortress, the team reaches the great Aether reactor and attempts to re-ignite its inhibitor field to slow the awakening, only for the ancient machinery to overload the moment it comes online, unleashing a catastrophic pulse that accelerates the Titan’s emergence instead of halting it. As Fort Dusk crumbles around them and Aether thralls pour in, Hawke unlocks a new Sentinel instinct while Amara realizes the Titan’s energy signature predates even the first recorded Sentinels. The team barely escapes as the tundra splits apart and a colossal violet eye opens beneath the earth—something older and more powerful than the Titan itself—fixing directly on Hawke as if recognizing him, confirming that whatever lies below the Alps has fully awakened and knows exactly who has returned.
5	5	TBA	Air Studios	Air Studios	August 2025	105
6	6	TBA	Air Studios	Air Studios	September 2025	106

Game Two (2027/28)

The Good Officer season 1 episodes

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code
1	1	"CITY OF LOST EPOCHS"	Freddie Goodwin	Freddie Goodwin	November 2024	101
In an ancient extradimensional archive known as the Archive of Echoes, Scarlett Rhodes is drawn into a vast subterranean library filled with relics and living tomes, where she encounters an otherworldly Guardian claiming knowledge of all timelines and warning that the Dark Aether is awakening once more. Joined by Bruno Delacroix, Diego Necalli, and Stanton Shaw, she learns that the Warden’s actions have revived the “First Breach,” prompting the Guardian to insist that the Chaos team must enter a newly forming portal to confront a threat emerging from the origin point of the Aether incursion. The group steps through and arrives in a collapsed, reality-fractured metropolis called the City of Lost Epochs, where Aether-corrupted undead converge around them. As a massive Dark Aether titan known as the First Lord materializes above the city, the Chaos crew prepares for a renewed conflict, signaling the beginning of a second chapter in their struggle.
2	2	"THE SENTINEL PARADOX"	Freddie Goodwin	Freddie Goodwin	December 2024	102
In the City of Lost Epochs, the Chaos crew pursues an unstable energy signature to a dimension-torn cathedral where they discover the Sentinel Artifact—an ancient Chaos relic fused with Dark Aether power and on the verge of triggering a multiversal collapse. As Scarlett attempts to stabilize it, a portal opens and Collins, Reyes, Owen, and Kim arrive, having followed the Warden into this realm. After a brief standoff, the two groups recognize they are fighting the same threat and join forces as the Artifact begins to fracture. The Warden announces the start of a new “Sentinel Paradox,” prompting both crews to push deeper into the Paradox Cathedral, a shifting hybrid environment born from Chaos, Aether, and broken timelines. Inside, they confront memory echoes, corrupted versions of themselves, ancient visions, and manifestations of the Warden’s evolving power while learning that the Artifact once anchored entire realities and chose both Scarlett and Collins as its successors. By activating three fusion pylons aligned with Aether, Chaos, and human energy, they briefly stabilize the Artifact before it shatters and transforms the cathedral into a cosmic gateway. The Warden appears and challenges them to enter his domain, leading the combined eight-person roster to step through the newly formed portal together.
3	3	"THE WARDEN OF THE DEEP"	Freddie Goodwin	Freddie Goodwin	March 2024	103
4	4	"THE SKY BLEEDS"	Air Studios	Air Studios	June 2025	104
5	5	"THE LEVIATHAN’S FALL"	Air Studios	Air Studios	August 2025	105
6	6	"THE ENDLESS CITY"	Air Studios	Air Studios	September 2025	106