The Minstrel's Song (StarFlight poem)

[Guest DRL]

                  Through the windless night we sail

                  To watch the timeless dance unfold.

                  Out of joy we share the tale

                  To any who would have it told.

                  Time, it seems, doesn't flow...

                  For some it's fast, for others slow.

                  In what to one race is no time at all

                  Another race may rise and fall.

                  The virus spread like burning fire...

                  The sea of dread rose higher and higher.

                  The crystal ones had to fight

                  By causing suns to ignite.

                  ...self defense. It is their right.

                  Back when all the stars were young,

                  Before the Minstrel songs were sung,

                  When this galaxy was new

                  There came from far the crystal few.

                  Gradually they spread through space.

                  They were the first...the only race.

                  And harder still to recognize

                  That which lies before one's eyes.

                  So many races have believed

                  In only what was preconceived.

                  That which is ancient may be new...

                  It all depends on point of view.

                  From inward out the races flee

                  Searching for a place to hide...

                  Ever in a wave of war

                  And on the crest the strongest ride.

                  We are the watchers of the dance.

                  Many wonder at us...

                  But how could there not be an audience

                  For the greatest of all comedies?

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If you have played StarFlight,

you will understand that this does

make sense in the game.

I will later explain each verse.

After all... I need every sentence...  .

No really, I am going to, but later.

[Kursed]

playing starflight I see?

[Guest DRL]

playing starflight I see?

Finished I & II, althrough I liked StarFlight's I

story better...

When I was younger I used to... *gulp*

Fear the Spemmin  ...

*Hides*.

...

The Mintrel's did add something

to it. Basically every verse has a meaning...

I will start:

                  Through the windless night we sail

                  To watch the timeless dance unfold.

This is about the Minstrel's themselves,

and their song. The 'Windless night' is the

space, and 'sail' means travel.

The 'timeless dance unfold' reffers to the

flow of time and the events that happen during it's

course.

                  Out of joy we share the tale

                  To any who would have it told

This (duh) means that they will sing their song

if you are willing to stay and 'listen' to it.

O-Kay, that was the first one.

Quite easy, I think. Next ones, you need

to play the game (or read the book) to

understand them.

[Kursed]

Finished I & II, althrough I liked StarFlight's I

story better...

When I was younger I used to... *gulp*

Fear the Spemmin  ...

*Hides*.

...

The Mintrel's did add something

to it. Basically every verse has a meaning...

I will start:This is about the Minstrel's themselves,

and their song. The 'Windless night' is the

space, and 'sail' means travel.

The 'timeless dance unfold' reffers to the

flow of time and the events that happen during it's

course.

This (duh) means that they will sing their song

if you are willing to stay and 'listen' to it.

O-Kay, that was the first one.

Quite easy, I think. Next ones, you need

to play the game (or read the book) to

understand them.

I never played 2 is it good?

[Guest DRL]

I never played 2 is it good?

Well, first of all there are few things

to point out.

*Minor, manual-level spoilers*:

° Endirium has been banned,

  you now use a new fuel which

  can only be brought at certain

  worlds (well, anyone inhabited

  by a sentient race).

° There is a trade system.

  Basically the Starport offers

  you the materials you need

  for repairs, nothing else.

° The Spemmin, yes, those

  literall blue-fat-**ses got

  Ultra-Tech and are the new

  bosses around. You are in a

  relatively-undercover mission

  to find out how they got it,

  and how to defeat it.

° You can travel between present

  and 200,000 years to the past.

| You can no longer keep a Captain's Log

  (althrough I never used it).

Well, I say that you give it a try. To me

it did not have the 'epic' factor of SF I, but

it was still quite cool.

During the course of the game, you fight

a group called Dweell Umanu or like that...

You may be surprised, at the end, who they

are...

[Kursed]

What does it play on?

[Guest DRL]

What does it play on?

PC.

It's graphics quite improve over

the original one, but it is still the

same complicated controls...

You might get trouble if you got used

to the Genesis/Megadrive version.

...

Now another verse!

                  Time, it seems, doesn't flow...

                  For some it's fast, for others slow./i]

This refers to the one of the Ancients/Other races problem.

The Ancients (or Cristal ones, if you prefer) had a different

sense of time; to them, many years went by as days, where other

races felt it like we feel it now.

                  In what to one race is no time at all

                  Another race may rise and fall.[

Indeed. While other races flew around in their ships, the

Ancients had barely time to react. According to the other races,

the Ancients (who left their structures intact, ect.) had 'banished',

where the truth is discovered in the next verse...