Conflicting Viewpoints

[Zapp]

Captains Log

Subject: Music

Well, I must say. I never thought this would happen. When the sleeper ships came over to Sirius, the old Alliance saw to it that each had large memory capacities to preserve their old culture. Art, history, music. The like. Everyone knows it, and all the information has been cataloged (except for that stored aboard the Hispania, which the Outcasts guard jealously) and stored in the Manhattan Library of Sol, as well as a few other institutions throughout Sirius, most notably on the capital planets, as well as Cambridge and a couple others.

Some might not recognize the reason for the name of my ship, La Villa Strangiato. The shipwright that had constructed it on Terre Haute Shipyards in Cassini was one of the many who have been caught up with the resurgence of old Earth music, particularly that of the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries AD. As I had no preference to name, he named it after one of his favorite songs by some band named "Rush".

Such a revival frankly confuses me. Why care so much for music that was originally composed by bands centuries dead, and not for bands nowadays? The construction of the guitar has been brought up once more, some astute businessmen seeing the trend of tastes amongst the citizens of Sirius. Bands in the present most play old music on old instruments to be popular.

Eugene sighs.

I will probably never understand it, and it will never cease to amaze me that when pirating, the trader will say "I love that song!" in reference to my ship's name.

End Log

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