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3077-DA-43-1/01 This Planet Has Crazy Sunrises :

Landing on a new planet always gets my blood flowing, but this one seems almost too good to be true. Maybe I should have the scanners checked again…

Sunrises and sunsets that don’t burn you where you stand? That you actually get to look at? Natural, breathable air?! After months of living in a flying tin can, this is more than any man or woman could wish for.

They call me Lazy Laser, they do. On account that I solve most of my problems with gun upgrades, and damn do I hate shooting twice at the same target…

I agreed to be part of a scouting expedition, charged with finding a new world where we could grow old. They say we fucked the last one beyond repair - I take their word for it - it sure sounds like something we’d do…

Everyone thinks I’m in it for the credits - I’ll admit; my cyborg horse could use some maintenance. But really, I just wanna feel the sun on my skin again, and breathe non-recycled fucking air…So damn these scanners to hell! I choose to believe them!

Open the hatch!

01 This Planet Has Crazy Sunrises

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3077-DA-43-2/02 Ride On Cyborg Horse :

I have to give it to them, the air feels heavy around here. But at least it doesn’t have that stench we’re so used to.

All in all, this place already feels more like home than our damned spaceship. Mostly deserts and rocks, as far as our augmented vision goggles can see, but it looks like there may be tall buildings way, way over yonder.

Clear sky, vast open spaces - time for a ride. I stare into my trusty steed glowing eye as I activate it from its cyborg slumber - happy to see me, girl?

As I get on, rider mode changes my view of this world to 3D lines and grids. The familiar sound of energy building up inside my horse’s cores may just be my favorite thing in the world. One moment, I’m here.

The next, I’m gone.

02 Ride On Cyborg Horse

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3077-DA-44-1/ 03 Exploring This Ruined City :

I am speechless. Good thing I made it there before the rest of the expedition and their fancy rovers, I get some time to wrap my head around this.

This city is huge! And very dead - my neural implant reckons no living things, except for us, and I intend to keep it that way.

The desert is slowly reclaiming this place, burying entire stories in the sand. From the looks of it, this once used to be a great civilization. I wonder if these guys also had expeditions to look for new worlds.

Looks like we can still enter some buildings and go to the lower floors beneath the sand. If the scientists would move their slow asses and get here, maybe we could piece together what happened to this place.

03 Exploring This Ruined City

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3077-AF-03-1/04 A Tale From A Dead World:

I’m getting a little claustrophobic, and that’s coming from a guy who spent the last few months in a floating space container. We have been exploring for days – making our way inside vast underground networks of covered passages that connect the buried skyscrapers together.

I don’t know who these people were, but they sure knew how to build something that lasts. Sure, some rooms and halls seem to have been blasted to pieces and are flooded with sand, but most parts are accessible with a little willpower and elbow grease. I can almost imagine what this place used to be like!

Burn marks everywhere, half-disintegrated skeletons, and torn-off mech parts: sure looks like a war to me. The weirdest thing is that there’s only remains of one side, like their attacker vanished. Maybe they were fighting each other?

One of the scientist can’t shut up about how a city this size would have drained the planet’s theoretical potential energy in 50 years or some crap like that - maybe causing folks to turn on each other. That guy, what a fucking hippy!

On the upside, I did find a dead woman that looked like she put on one hell of a fight, standing alone against many. Her guns are all damaged and burned. In her pocket, I found a small translucent orb that looks pretty damn cool. Maybe that thing is worth something somewhere.

Anyway, we’re exhausted, and we’ve gathered most of what we can use. Time to climb back up and get some fresh air. Wish it were that easy in space.

04 A Tale From A Dead World

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3077-AF-03-2/05 Gunspinning By The Fire :

Well, it was almost sunset when we finally emerged from that underground labyrinth. We set up camp at the outskirt of the city and found some large dried up wooden roots that one of the scientist built fires with. Pretty neat.

We got drunk on something close enough to booze we found underground. It was good to finally unwind and have a few laughs. I think I’m starting to like these people, even that fucking hippy.

With most folks passed out or asleep, I drew my revolvers and started gunspinning by the fire. These hybrid little guys pack a punch – the precision of laser and the impact of good ol’ fucking metal.

Their weight in my hands, the momentum of their spinning motion, and the subtle breeze of fresh air, all of it feels really nice. Good thing I came to this planet.

05 Gunspinning By The Fire

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3077-AF-03-3/06 Sunset Raiders :

Fuck. One of the guys had said he heard a distant roar earlier, and we all said he drank too much. But now we all hear it, you’d have to be fucking deaf not to hear it - and it’s getting louder.

Sounds like old gas powered vehicles, like we used to see in those goddam “old times were good times” late-night propaganda neural link programs.

Guess they saw the fire? How did we not pick them up with our scanners? I should have checked those fucking scanners.

I confess, I hoped they would be friendly right until the moment I saw the first guy jumping above the hills on a motocross donned with human skulls, holding a machine gun above his head.

At first I cursed that we let our guard down, and then I saw how many followed. There’s no way we could have been ready for that. At least I’ll fucking die without regrets.

To whomever salvages my neural implant and gets this journal: fuck you asshole.

06 Sunset Raiders

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3077-AF-03-4/07 Outgunned :

*Neural link unstable*
*Malfunction*
No journal entry.

07 Outgunned

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3077-AF-04-1/08 Alone:

I fled. I had to. We tried to put on a fight, but there were just too many, circling around us on motorbikes and crazy looking cars - shooting at us from all sides.

My crew. They’re all dead.

Once again, I ride alone. Save for visions of my dead mates haunting my head. And you, girl, looks like you saved my ass once more. I promise I’ll get you that maintenance! Just you and me now, riding in the sand and the mist.

Gotta keep riding.
Keep riding.
Just ride on.
Just keep - they did not even try to speak to us - riding.
Just - could have been survivors from that city - ride on.
Just keep - would leave them with innate distrust of people - riding.
Just - we clearly were not a threat to them - ride on.
Just - I couldn’t save them - keep riding.
Just - can’t focus on my - keep riding - neural implant - ride on.
Ride on - Where the hell am I? – space cowboy.

08 Alone

Lazy Laser has a passion for creating songs that trigger the imagination. Reformatting elements of synthwave, outrun, darksynth, spaghetti western guitars and an occasional touch of metal, his colorful compositions seek to make one feel like a space cowboy riding a cyborg horse into groovy alien landscapes with a post-apocalyptic cyberpunk feel. Support on bandcamp :D lazylaser.bandcamp.com/

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