Where did you get it? If this is the result of that media library, I’m glad I didn’t get one. Tell me this isn’t the music favoured on your planet, Noh-Varr, I’ll be so disappointed in you.
[ For a moment there's silence, and it's almost like he's going to say something touching.
Then: ]
FROM: sturmhond@cdc.org
My condolences. I do hope it's not anyone I know. My impression of your culture was something rather more serious than what I heard in that song, if you must know.
[Imagine if E.S. Posthumus (minus the orchestration, convert most of that into beep boop noises) and Verdi had a shitty, less-exciting lovechild and you basically have Kree war operas. If Sturmhond decides to give it a listen with his earpiece on--not advisable--it's all about the defeat of the Skrulls and the capture of the garden planet Aks'lo for the glory of the Kree empire. It's also like, six hours long? And about as interesting as drying paint.]
[ He listens to maybe five minutes of this - though his ears ring after the first second, and he pulls his earpiece out to hold it a distance away from his ears.
After a few minutes, he mutes it again. ]
FROM: sturmhond@cdc.org
I see why you went for the human mix instead. It doesn't make for easy listening.
Interesting subject matter. Sounds bracing. A celebration?
A celebration of conquest. Aks'lo is a garden planet tended by the Skrull--a favorite of their Empress, at the time--and so taking it from them was something of a symbol. They eventually won it back, and it's been passed between the empires since. Last I knew it in our hands.
Then the celebration is as much propaganda as fact. That's often the case for the songs of war. Do you have music beyond the triumphal, or is this typical of what the Kree use it for?
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That's your defense for that tragedy? You must let me know who composed it, for future reference. Just in case anyone thinks of playing them again.
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How do I know you're not planning to use it for your own nefarious ends?
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Such as losing them in Ajna's snowy wasteland? Perish the thought.
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It's a file, Sturmhond; you can't lose it in the wilderness, as appealing as the thought may be.
FROM: varr.noh@cdc.org
Unless you're planning on kidnapping Rick Astley, in which case I wish you good luck.
[Sometimes Sturmhond is a qt.]
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FROM: sturmhond@cdc.org
Where did you get it? If this is the result of that media library, I’m glad I didn’t get one. Tell me this isn’t the music favoured on your planet, Noh-Varr, I’ll be so disappointed in you.
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wait for it.
T.]
FROM: varr.noh@cdc.org
It was on my music player before coming here. The media library is incredible; there's Ravkan music in it, too.
FROM: varr.noh@cdc.org
What's your impression of the Kree? Because I can assure you, ours isn't a culture that makes things like this.
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Ravkan music?
[ For a moment there's silence, and it's almost like he's going to say something touching.
Then: ]
FROM: sturmhond@cdc.org
My condolences. I do hope it's not anyone I know. My impression of your culture was something rather more serious than what I heard in that song, if you must know.
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Not a fan?
FROM: varr.noh@cdc.org
I understand. Kree art is an oxymoron.
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Some of it's tolerable. I generally associate music with the kind of official events that I never want to be anywhere near.
FROM: sturmhond@cdc.org
What music do the Kree make? I'd rather hear an example of that.
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I wish I didn't know that feeling.
FROM: varr.noh@cdc.org
Don't say I didn't warn you.
Attachment: TheBattleofAkslo.mp3
[Imagine if E.S. Posthumus (minus the orchestration, convert most of that into beep boop noises) and Verdi had a shitty, less-exciting lovechild and you basically have Kree war operas. If Sturmhond decides to give it a listen with his earpiece on--not advisable--it's all about the defeat of the Skrulls and the capture of the garden planet Aks'lo for the glory of the Kree empire. It's also like, six hours long? And about as interesting as drying paint.]
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After a few minutes, he mutes it again. ]
FROM: sturmhond@cdc.org
I see why you went for the human mix instead. It doesn't make for easy listening.
Interesting subject matter. Sounds bracing. A celebration?
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A celebration of conquest. Aks'lo is a garden planet tended by the Skrull--a favorite of their Empress, at the time--and so taking it from them was something of a symbol. They eventually won it back, and it's been passed between the empires since. Last I knew it in our hands.
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Then the celebration is as much propaganda as fact. That's often the case for the songs of war. Do you have music beyond the triumphal, or is this typical of what the Kree use it for?