“I thought it was over.
I thought I was alone.
Floating endlessly through the infinite.
But I know now...
I know...we...we are the infinite.
We could supernova...
We...we could eclipse the sun

My feet will never touch the ground
As long as you are still around
Through the firmament and overhead
We’ll overcome this sense of dread:

‘We are small...but are we powerless?
We’re as infinitesimal
As a tiny decimal
Floating in an infinite sea’

But through the black
With orbits intertwined
We shine
Shine through the darkness
That forbids our luminescence

‘We...we aren’t small...
WE AREN’T SMALL AFTER ALL’

Through space and time forever roam
Each galaxy we’ll call our home
An interstellar distance crossed
Wandering but never lost

‘We are small...BUT WE’RE NOT POWERLESS!!!’

Though we’re infinitesimal
As a tiny decimal
We can eclipse the sun
We could supernova, baby
We could supernova, baby
We can eclipse the sun
WE CAN ECLIPSE THE SUN”

Through the Eyes of the Tesseract

Supernova, Baby

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(the copilot regains “consciousness” in an unknowable plane of existence, inadvertently folded through spacetime. She realizes that she is literally being reborn by her discovery of her own consciousness, as she reassembles her corporeal existence in four dimensions. Thrilled by the possibilities of her new form, she sets off through the universe in search of her lover, creating passages through spacetime at will.)

(FOURTH WALL BREAKING TIME: In math that I can barely begin to understand, a five-dimensional hypercube is represented by Schläfli symbol {4,3,3,3}, and this is relevant to our story because the dimensional drive in our ship works by folding our own three dimensional space through higher dimensions in order to move nigh-instantaneously through the third dimension. I guess if you think about the idea of the ant on a string in the following wiki link as a point (1D) being folded through three dimensional space to move along a line (2D), it’s analogous to folding our three dimensional selves through the fifth dimension to move fourth dimensionally, i.e., at a right angle to three dimensional space? Whatever, it’s science fiction. SO the fourth dimensional Chthonic threat is eradicated by being explode-folded through the fifth dimension by the emergency drive sequence (imagine moving a two dimensional line segment through three dimensional space, it just becomes a huge smear), but our protagonist is actually extruded out into the fourth dimension.)

Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schl%C3%A4fli_symbol

DEAT{4,3,3,3}LATION

It’s back. The malevolent fourth dimensional being has found them. It seems to surround the ship, fill their visual field, fill their lungs and thoughts. The lovers realize there is no escape. Unless...

The 4D drive has a self destruct sequence, which will trigger an uncontrolled dimensional shift, fold everything in close proximity through fifth dimensional spacetime, and send the ship randomly careening through the cosmos, but the trigger can only be reached from the outside. The pilot is strapped in, and can’t be immediately separated from the control bubble without ejecting. The lovers tearfully argue:

“We can’t escape!”

“What about the emergency sequence? “We’re both dead otherwise!”

“But that’s probably going to kill you! There’s no way to know what’ll happen!”

“I can’t lose you, I have to try to save you!”

They look tearfully at each other for a moment as klaxons blare. The copilot rushes out through the airlock and crawls onto a catwalk along the engine housing. She disengages the safety mechanisms and thinks of her love one last time before slamming a fist into the self destruct trigger...

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A MAELSTROM OF GREEN LIGHT

DIMENSIONAL VORTEX

COSMIC HELLFIRE

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The ship shudders as it ceases to occupy any sort of rational point in existence. All the pilot knows is unceasing sickening motion as she is forcefully jettisoned further and further away from her lover, who is likely dead. Loneliness, grief, and dread beyond reckoning squeeze her heart until she mercifully blacks out from the turbulence.

-O R B I T I N G-

“Far beyond the sounds of city life
Fly amongst the stars
Interstellar endless night
The darkness gets me down
But this young sun shines a little light

Every star will fall in aeon’s time
Constellations fade
Disappearing into night
The darkness gets me down
My heart will always hold a little light”

Shine On, Little Light!

The lovers have inadvertently dropped back into 3D spacetime in orbit around a planet harboring a hostile armada. In a desperate attempt at evasion, they scream through the atmosphere of the unknown planet. Dusty, pyramidal monoliths abound, and the lovers eventually lose their pursuers among them.

Elorgian Sandstone

WHO ARE WE

WHAT IS LIFE

WHAT IS REALITY

WHAT HAVE WE DONE

WHERE ARE WE GOING

WAS THIS A MISTAKE

RESTART

It’s the morning of launch. The lovers prep the ship, fly through the atmosphere, and engage the 4D drive. A wormhole through spacetime crackles open in front of the starship, and the lovers nervously fly through. Everything they thought they knew about the nature of the universe warps and twists as their limited perceptual faculties strain to interpret their surroundings. While in 4D spacetime, their ship attracts the attention of an malevolent eldritch extradimensional entity. They panic, and narrowly avoid its multifarious tentacled grasp by dropping back into 3D spacetime.

(“Crossing the rubicon” = passing the point of no return)

Rubicon

The lovers gaze up at the sky on their home planet, dreaming of the places they want to go, and the experiences they want to share. In their minds’ eye, they see themselves cavorting through crystalline caverns with large eyed furry extraterrestrials, darting through meteor showers and planetary rings, being silhouetted in embrace against the flaming tendrils of a distant sun’s solar flares...

Celestial Panorama

"Vacation" by the Go-Go's. Background vox and hand claps by Luli Menna, additional clapping by Local Woman

Covers

Vacation (Kissy Face Version)

Luli Menna: composer, lyricist, lead vocals
moltenglassheart: lead/harmony vocals, guitars, bass, midi stuff

Recorded at Chonk-Key Studios