#and thus the base was also home to the seventh fleet band

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I am in such a Sleigh Ride mood today

#you know what I miss most from growing up on base overseas is the band #we were in yokosuka which is where the flagship/staff for the seventh fleet is based #and thus the base was also home to the seventh fleet band #so on holidays and for special events and heck for my dad's change of command the seventh fleet band would play #and not only concert or ceremonial stuff: they had really great rock and country groups too #and this is like really high quality professional music #that in most communities you'd have to pay to see or at least it is nowhere near as accessible #but I got to grow up hearing professional musicians play great music of every style and genre at every community event #because that is just what the military bands do #they came and did master classes with our high school band too #I dunno when I'm homesick for something it's not Japan really #it's that base culture that I can't explain quite right to anyone who hasn't lived on base overseas

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The Revenant Collectives Trilogy Part 1 - Across The Starry Sea (Official Video)

This is the third song from my seventh album “E-bliss”, a musical about a band of space pirates that I’ve written numerous times here on Tumblr, a backstory of sort tracing their conception. Enjoy!

Part 1 - Across The Starry Sea

“The Revenant Collectives are a band of space pirates that roam the lawless expanse of the Milky Way Galaxy between the Galactic Union and the Synod. Rumored to be based in the cosmically chaotic heliopause several light years outside the Outer Rim, they habitually target commercial ships owned by multinational companies that are connected to elite government officials, springing a trap at various trans-warp portals along major trade routes.

Having gained prominent notoriety from galactic law enforcement agencies for the past thirty years, their penchant for commandeering ships but leaving crews unharmed on nearby habitable planets after every raid had garnered respect and praises from both Non-Aligned Planetary Governments and other space pirates, as if they've observed some form of chivalrous code of ethics or the like! Nevertheless, there is a huge reward being put out by both the Galactic Union and the Synod for any information leading to their capture.

From rumor-choked websites all over the Galactic Interweb, The Revenant Collectives are said to have been founded by two humanoids: New Hesperion cyborg Rembrandt Roswell and his mysterious mentor Proscotra "Patrick" Escula, a Human/Pibian Hybrid said to be a hundred and fifty years old. Regarding the latter, the Pibian Planetary Government denied his existence, though he was responsible for most of the attacks on their commercial ships.

After years of sifting through various unsolicited sources, it is known that Rembrandt Roswell was born to be one of the high priests of a cybernetic religion centering around the worship of one (out of five) galactic super computer called "Mother Matrix", but he was also reported to have perished in a solar flare accident five years prior to the formation of the Revenant Collectives! And the deeper one digs for truth the more outlandish stories concerning this space pirate would surface!

According to the Galactic Information Broker "The Watchers," Rembrandt Roswell was also a Psi-Borg, a psychic cyborg unique to new Hesperion capable of doing miraculous things like reading people's mind to blowing it up. Alas his kind had been long hunted down by "The Peacekeepers" (New Hesperion's security elite led by its infamous cyborg General Edwards) by then—a sanctioned genocide unknown to the rest of the galactic public.

Through either karmic luck or sheer chance the wayward nineteen-year-old Rembrandt and the then deep-space miner Patrick Escula met for the first time on a far-flung slum of a planet, moments before he almost got arrested for blowing up the heads of dozens of anti-cyborg thugs in a local racial scuffle! Knowing his dangerous potential must be tempered with Patrick sent him to be cared for by "The Order of the Blessed", a pacifist organization specialized in training psychic youths.

Rembrandt trained under the Order and came to serve the Galactic Union for a while, before he was allegedly defrocked after the Order discovered his involvement with a similar but darker organization called "Brotherhood Of The Mind-Benders". From here the chronology got a little unclear, all up to the point where he reunited with Patrick Escula to begin a life of crime. They became very good at it and thus the Revenant Collectives was born!

Apart from the usual galactic buccaneering, the Revenant Collectives also offer their deep-space expertise to those in need of dirty deeds done quickly and clean at any price, where their high efficiency and cunningness is legendary among the denizens of the galactic underworld. And among their many clients is one high ranking military man from the Terran System known simply as "The Admiral", the one that Rembrandt seems to have established a connection of sort.

And this relationship of theirs proved to be invaluable when a dark ancient fleet from the beginning of time, a compendium of monsters called the "Shudwa Dumanta Legion," led by a masked humanoid in black wielding a glowing blood-red sword going by the name of Shaik The Fallen One, began making their clandestine existence known to the galactic public, bent on preventing some strange prophesy from being realized in the already divided galaxy!”

Read more about the Revenant Collectives and other tales of galaxy spanning adventures in my official, ongoing, science-fiction/fantasy short-story Tumblr weblog called "THE LONG WAY HOME."

Fair Days Eternal!

Yours Truly Saiful Nizam Shukor @ The Silenced Minstrel

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