About
Welcome to the Outpost.
Gravity's a little funny out here. Wi-Fi's iffy. The vending machine takes alien currency. Glad you made it.
About the name.
In astronomy, the apsis is the most extreme point of an orbit — the farthest you get from whatever you're circling. We figured that's where the good stuff happens. Weirder neighbors. Better stargazing. No HOA.
Welcome to Apsion Outpost. Wipe your boots, and watch out for the dog — she runs the place.
Who we make this for.
If you're scrolling and thinking what does this shirt even mean — relax. These shirts are secret handshakes disguised as t-shirts: references to sci-fi films, paperbacks you read once and never forgot, replicants, time loops, and the specific moments that make one person whisper "I felt that" while everyone else stares blankly. Others are funny existential observations about being a person in space.
If you catch a design, you catch it — and the right stranger in the airport is going to clock you immediately. If you don't, we think the art still holds up on its own. Either way, you're in the right place.
The far-out crowd.
Patient astronauts. Lost gardeners. Dogs running operations. Bookworms who are also, technically, space worms. The friend who keeps a "what if I'm an alien?" list in their phone.
We're not just for the hardcore canon-defenders. We're for the people who like the bit too.
About the rabbit.
Some of what we make is a joke. Some of it started as a rabbit hole we fell down and never quite climbed out of.
So every so often, while you're moving around the Outpost, you'll run into it. Click it and it opens the actual material behind a design — declassified documents and the odd corners we went digging through before anybody designed anything.
Fair warning. It is a rabbit hole. You will come out of it with more questions than you went in with, and we're not going to apologise for that.
How we make the shirts.
Original artwork on Gildan Softstyle 64000 — 4.5 oz ring-spun cotton, soft and light, cut unisex. Heather colors run a cotton/poly blend. Built to be worn, faded, hauled through dimensions, and kept.
The mission.
The cosmos is enormous, slightly haunted, and frankly hilarious. We're just out here making merch about it.
T-shirts or bust.
— transmitting from the apsis, the crew at Apsion Outpost

