Love this song, but it’s such a shame the company man got named the union man. Really feel like it’s doing Unions dirty

Kipling would approve.

Why does this go so hard

"the programming that made you real, taught me right from wrong" since the azi are taught off tapes, is the narrator getting total recalled?

Literally reading Merchanter's Luck right now, great stuff.

Helldiver's 2 lore

I haven’t docked a ship for a while with my good buddy gene leach. But when the wind blows and the ropes slither I think of him

I want to serve on Captain Mallory's ship too!

brainz

We need a version of this for Captain Kathryn Janeway (put a little half-syllable in the middle to keep the meter). It would really fit, particularly with stills from the episode "Night".

I really should read the books

This needs A Space Engineer Mod

Why why why do i always listen to this song when i can't afford 3 hours of ugly crying

Cap'n Mallory to you, you dock rats . Raise 'em, Cap'n MALLORY!

What is Human? Even Enki that planned our species, cannot answer that. If a genius of a god does not know, how would we ? We're just making it up as we go brother.

They abandoned 40.000 people on a dead world, The hell did they expect, an open armed welcome? Union idiots ! Scientific communism! Different from regular communism, only in the ways it causes death and famine.

You want some context to this ...Apart from reading the whole series By C.J Cheryl, there 's a playlist under the name Finity's end. It explains things, in some measure.

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I just love this song.Just wish i have my own cargo ship to fly into the Black.

I would love to see this as a scifi series.

I'm HX. I think? ;~;7

Yep! its exactly what you think! Cat Girls In space! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Break my still heart once more, why not? Remind my i'm still human. Hell of a choice!

C J Cherryh 's stories sung by Leslie Fish.. You can't ask for more.

Oh, I have seen the madness gleaming in the serpent's eye and that is what I've come to you to tell. For the queen of blue hive told me, When I called to her to die When I made her send my enemies to hell. There's a price for too much cleverness, a price for too much change, the mah'jat(?) learned too much from man And they have grown too strange. That was the lesson that she had to teach. The hives have grown too large to hear, flown beyond her range, and madness is the queen of serpent's reach. And the oldest human said it while I stood to hear my fate With slow death all that I could see ahead. There is a thing not on our tapes, a thing you'll learn too late. Too many killed, yet not enough are dead. There's a price for too much arrogance, a price for too much greed, and in complacent ignorance we've sown the whirlwind seed. But nobody else there listened to his speech. We contrin(?) outlive all we love forgetting all we need, and we are all gone mad in serpent's reach. And so I'm here to show you, in the way you understand, we have more things to learn, more debts to pay. And for all the easy murders, all the victories you planned, your foolishness has thrown it all away. There's a price for all the men we mold a price for all the tapes. The betas and their aziz-clones(?) we treat as clever apes. And a tidal wave is rising, as we dance upon the beach. Sneering at our own reflections, laughing at our shadows' shapes. Til madness drowns us all in serpent's reach. I've thrown the wands to often, played too many games of sedge(?), and hoped you thought I gambled for a lark. You've won the ships, you've won the stars, you think you've all the edge. But now at last we're dicing for the dark. There's a price for too much sadness, and a price for too much pain, too much time in the singing darkness of the hive-folks' brain, but I have found someone to love, someone to trust and teach, and maybe, in the darkness, we can learn how to be sane. When morning comes again to serpent's reach.

This is Leslie Fish isn't it.

Underrated song

ah what a cool name, I just can't get over how well this song/ship is named. Another sign of the brilliance of the great filk bards :) Hopefully one day I'll somewhere in the same universe as these titans

I’m pretty sure this is what inspired grunt in mass effect 2

Whoever defends reddit

just finished the audio book, the writing is so good no wonder it spawned such amazing music

this ones for gene leech

I always imagine "Twinkle twinkle little star" at the end. Gives me the creeps

Is that the guitar that Leslie calls "Monster"? Incredible range, radiant tone, unbelievable sustention. Coupled with that piping, the melody alone raises goosebumps.

"Hell what are the guys like on this world?" That is my favorite line

I can't believe four entire people disliked this lol

We fought your fight and we died in droves In a rearguard action with no reward We spilled our guts to cover your butts Spending ships and lives we could ill-afford And now Earth-side says we can't win Well we could have won if we'd gotten support Now they say pull back Now they say pull out Now they say the war is over, mission abort But they're not here and they do not care Our dead are just numbers on a page They only see how the money rolls out And that war is a costly thing to wage So the Union sneers, and Union laughs And the Merchanters turn and run away And the stations where, we fought and died If they could would throw us out of their bays Give up, give in says Earth-side now And the Merchanters sing the same refrain But we won't stand this kind of defeat and knowing our people died in vain It was our blood spilled on the stars Do you think you can deal it away? Well you merchant-hogs better think again- Mazian will make the Union pay You decry our fights, you deny our dues Well we can learn from every mistake You'll repay what we spent in blood What you won't give us freely we'll take We'll contest each star Union wants This is war not some bureaucrats game So we hear you're calling us pirates now Then screw you all we'll earn the motherless name

nice song but really sucks as a classical lullaby :'D

Le Cygne

I remember buying this at a con in 85. 36 years... has it really been so long? Lo these many decades down the road, there's a new facet to this. The mother feels the weight of the years. Heavy time indeed. I have an inkling now, a prospective I couldn't begin to comprehend back then.

Just found sci fi folk songs and I am so sad I haven't sooner

Down Below Station. "...And no sun can hold us and keep us for long,...."

WoW!!!

Wanton games, played in the dark The oldest call, we do not hark The tunnels dark and sweet with soil Detain us from your human toil This is our world The pattern that must be This is our world The pattern makes us free Though once you came from far away This world is ours, by new rules we play This is our world You hunt us through the rocks and rills But cannot breach the hollow hills You fear us for we've lost your way It's better that you stay away Chorus And now the ships have come again To impose on us the rules of men But we're not human anymore No reckoning of common lore Chorus The Calibans are masters still Beware of we who work their will The pattern growing day by day Molds soil and stone and human clay Chorus

This song fucks me up

So true, good riends are too few.

I first heard this song over 5 years ago and still remember the whole lyrics. Truly a lost diamond

From the first time to the most recent time of me listening to this song, I still would fight demons out of hell for Captain Mallory!!

I’m not crying, my faceplate just gone to mist.

We fought your fight and we died in troves In a rear guard action with no reward We spilled our guts to cover your butts Spending ships and lives we could ill afford And now earthside says we couldnt win And we couldve won if we got support Now they say pull back Now they sell pull out They say the war is over, mission abort But theyre not here and they dont care Our dead are just numbers on a page For they only see how the money rolls out And that war is a costly thing to wage So the union sneers and the union laughs and the merchanters turn and run away And the stations where We fought and died If they could would throw us out of their base Give out give in says Earthside now You merchanters sing the same refrain But we wont stand this kind of defeat And knowing our people died in vain It was our blood spilled on the stars Do you think that you can peel it away? Well you merchant hogs Better think again Mazian will make the union pay You deny our fights You deny our doom Well we can learn from every mistake Youll repay what we spent in blood What you wont give us freely we'll take We'll contest each star Union wants This is war! Not some beaurecrats game So we hear your calling us pirates now Then screw you all! We learn the motherless name