1. LEAVING HOME

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2. FIREFIGHT

Sea out to the brink of forever
What lies past a black horizon?
Masked in the cold of outer night
Find the void is liberating

Routine cargo commission
Courier job no questions asked
Crew with no big ambitions
But fate conspired to change all that

At the portside
Too late, ambush
Turn evasive
Almost defenceless

Two days as the crow flies
Any normal plan has gone to hell
Caught up in a firefight
Blasts the ship in half then disappear

What just happened?
Now where are we?
Floating hulk in
Unknown space-lost

Consider this a test
The greatest adventure comes at a price
Maybe endless prospects
Or zero hope from living in exile


3. SPATIAL FORCES

Non-lethal surveillance
Taking liberties among "friends"
Just intelligence gathering
Information commodity

Spacial forces on secret missions
Cannot always go as planned
Sprung a trap, now leave with speed
Avoiding international mishap

Narrow window of opportunity
Like petty crime or smash and grab
It's a rush, on edge, the risk
Political currency turning bad

Never leave a man behind
But did not count on a stowaway
Perhaps a lucky escape this time
Stakes are high in this end game


4. NOVEMBER

Look to the stars; conclude that we're lost
Supralight, no point of reference
Travel to the farthest extreme
Frame of mind slowly dissolves

No ways back or crumbs to guide us
Must rely on gut reaction
Unknown chart, broke navigation
Black day dawns in nihility

There are no seasons
Or month called november
No rituals that we hold dear
Bizarre worlds on alien time

What is found in spinning chaos
Resigned to a hopeless conquest
Trapped in steel, a tomb or saviour
Make our fate and repair

Salvage parts from that that still works
Suicide in a wrong connection
Take a chance and throw the switch closed
Roars to life, back in business


5. STARS MALIGN

Awakened in pain
Like a child ripped from the womb
Centuries in cold oblivion
Back to awareness. I am

Dormant malevolent state
Now ready to vent fury
Hyper intelligence
Is a weapon in my hands

To kill a king and will a planet/nation to fall
I am messiah
The promised one
Or so they think

First strike to the heart of the kingdom
Outlying moon where a monarch will die
Repercussive effect through a world
Religious war is inevitable
Cursed by god


6. DEFENDERS OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS

Distress beacon answered
Like a common language
Ingrained with duty
To help a troubled stranger

Follow signal to a desolate place
Come to land in a hail of ice

Scene of destruction on a remote base
Some kind of mineral mine in deep space
Now there is another ship coming fast
Friend or foe, is a random die cast

Defenders from far away
Under the southern cross

Heavily armoured, probably a threat
Warrior and traveller face to face

In his eyes is an unknown fate
In her voice, softly "(I think) you're too late"

A she-captain and crew aboard the strangest ship
Their story is so crazy, could it really be a trick?
No likely explanation, an ally out of dust
Now we need their help there is no choice but to…
…Trust

Who are they with alien marks?
Pleading lost and far from home

Father, how could you leave me?
I'm not prepared to rule alone
Watch a nightmare as it unfolds
A hurricane of vengeance gathers force

Heavily armoured, allied against threat
Warrior and traveller will work together


7. THE LONELY CROWN

Fate of the home worlds is in my Hands
Lest the kingdom descend to chaos

Ultimate power can corrupt
Did not ask for this burden
Whether nothing or everything
In life all men must stand to account

A lonely crown
No living god
Just a man

If I were to fail
There is no clear heir
Dusk falls on my father's house
Family line will end with me
Rivals will feud with each other
Without a thought for the greater good
War will bring destruction
My purpose is to unite them

Never diminishing that resolve
One chance to fight back and conquer all


8. HYSTERICAL RAPTURE

The masses gathered in open adoration
Welcome their saviour, a new empire of one

Hysterical rapture
Through the populace
The power of belief…works for me

Hosannah
Praise my name
Hosannah
Written in blood


9. PAIN AND ELATION

It's a mystery
How she makes me
Feel like this
Such power but powerless

A woman born
Of lesser kind
A lesson for
An elitist mind

Yet, I know the limits, the fact of my predjudice
And place happiness above duty, both are a burden

The internal universe, the outer conflict
How can they possibly compare?

It makes monsters appear human
And gives the weak strength

A gift for the misguided, purpose
Such is love

Pain and elation
Alive within
Empty without


10. PARELLELYSIS

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11. ALLIANCE

The hope for tomorrow is to act today
Can sense through the thick fog of past difference
Secret audience with opposite number
Time is running out as the pawns move to attack

Break these barriers down that are between us
Resist menacing force, in rebellion
No mercy will be found in the new order
Sinister plan unfold, to the power behold

Sudden hell is here
Blitzkrieg tactic
Blasts out from nowhere

See her falling down
In the rubble
Longest second of my life

Cradle her head in my arms
Feeling loss so complete
In this moment there is nothing else
But unimaginable grief

Can no longer think straight, pull pe out of here
When the dust settles out, from pure entropy
Seem to be abandoned, by your god of all
Nothing left to live for, what hope remained destroyed


12. EXFILTRATION

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13. VOYAGE OF MAGMA MAIDEN

Against such overwhelming odds we find ourselves
Literally as worlds collide, manipulated to their doom
Villainy underneath the cloak of god
Humanity unwilling to learn from its mistakes

This treachery was not of me
These tears are the truth, not mere belief
Lost voyage at the edge of war
A shadow falls on history

Armies of blind men, fed on hatred and careful lies
The art of religion is painted with blood on cloth
Divisive and evil, you are what you despise
Mass controlled by your faith in a false ideology

Fleeing damnation
Savage mistress made of fire
Escalates debate
To late to curb the tide of war
For violence to abate
On a flight surrounded by
A great destructive fleet
Chances slight for winning through
My heaven is burning

Could this be the swansong?
Engineered the sacrifice
To combat brutal reign
Exile is now complete
The last link in the chain
Circumstance united foes
A broken system left
Lesson learned so now I leave
Oblivion quantum, found


14. TO BE CONTINUED...

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