I don't post much on any of the sites I am on, and I am fairly sure this is my first time posting on this one. When I first saw this section in DWS-2
I just wondered which song Doug used at that point for FTL flight, since I find it inconceivable that "I'm A Pioneer" (or at least Tenchi Muyo) could have even been conceived of by the Japanese of Doug's Homeline. But then:
So, I was wondering if he did actually have another FTL flight song, one that would be more apropos of the culture shown in Homeline? Or is this a case of parralel development where "I'm a Pioneer" was written by someone else for some other purpose. Or for that matter, I suppose I could be mistaken about the origin of the song.
Quote:Safely out of sight between featureless concrete on one side and a brick wall with only a couple windows on the other, I murmured, "System. Load song, 'I'm A Pioneer'. Play song." As the first few piano notes sounded my metagift engaged, and I took off. I accelerated to a couple hundred kph almost immediately, but waited until I was at least two kilometers up before flooring it. I was in hard vacuum within a minute. I aimed myself at the full moon overhead, then blinked in and out of FTL.
Using FTL to get to something as close as the moon would normally be overkill, but I only had five minutes and seven seconds of flight and — more importantly — life support. I'd already used a minute of both just getting into space. Trying to fly to the moon at my atmospheric maximum of Mach 6 would have left me stranded somewhere in LEO when the song ran out. But outside of the atmosphere, I could "shift gears" and instead of Mach 6, I could hit 6c. And at 6c, the moon was easily reachable.
Besides, this was far from my first rodeo; I'd perfected the quarter-second FTL hop to the moon back when Homeline had been threatened by an alien invasion staging there. I'd gotten into the habit of dropping by once a day to fuck their shit up until we finally blew the hell out of them. (Hyperflight plus several big bags of ball bearings can make for one nasty anti-personnel and anti-materiel weapon.)
I just wondered which song Doug used at that point for FTL flight, since I find it inconceivable that "I'm A Pioneer" (or at least Tenchi Muyo) could have even been conceived of by the Japanese of Doug's Homeline. But then:
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(06-02-2018, 04:10 PM)DeputyJones Wrote: Ya know, I kind of hope he goes back to the old palace, with or without the Senshi. Give the soldiers, nobles, and subjects there their long overdue burials/pyres somehow. Maybe shortly before the Battle of D-Point.
Well, now that he's actually been there, he can teleport there and not have to use his one out-of-atmosphere flight song to get there and back. So it's entirely possible. And as you've seen in DW8, he has at least one song which creates a teleport gate.
And there's a bit in canon where the Senshi go to the moon and interact with a recording of the Queen (which she made when in between everything else going on in those last fifteen to thirty minutes?); I will be doing a version of that if unexpected plot developments don't obviate it.
So, I was wondering if he did actually have another FTL flight song, one that would be more apropos of the culture shown in Homeline? Or is this a case of parralel development where "I'm a Pioneer" was written by someone else for some other purpose. Or for that matter, I suppose I could be mistaken about the origin of the song.