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Corsairs of Callisto

by Prototype:AT

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1.
Welcome all ye scalawags Me fine and fortuned crew I hope you are ready for the Venture I've got for you We've sailed across the whole system From Venus to Pluto To plunder all around We're the Corsairs of Callisto Here I've got a treasure map The likes you've never seen It leads us to a wealth That's even greater than the Queen We'll all be set for life No matter where we wanna go They'll sing of the riches Of the Corsairs of Callisto Oh hey ho c'mon let's go We ride among the stars And pillage underneath their glow Hey ho let the rockets blow We sail through space and time As the Corsairs of Callisto This is where the map I've got It becomes quite unique It also shows the way To a mysterious antique They say it holds a great power But no one seems to know We'll uncover it for We're the Corsairs of Callisto Oh hey ho c'mon let's go We ride among the stars And pillage underneath their glow Hey ho let the rockets blow We sail through space and time As the Corsairs of Callisto This is where I ask of you Which path you want to take We'll put it to a vote A true democracy we'll make The map acts as a key There's only one road to follow We'll do it together As the Corsairs of Callisto So hey ho c'mon let's go We ride among the stars And pillage underneath their glow Hey ho let the rockets blow We sail through space and time As the Corsairs of Callisto
2.
CHORUS: You have chosen the antique of power Prepare for a deadly quest Time to see if you have what it takes First you must go to the empire Find the nearest outpost to you now Don't back down Once there hack into their system Find the location of the lost piece The missing key The key will come with coordinates Of the supreme treasure you desire Must acquire With the missing piece in your grasp You'll be able to use the antique Of power you seek "The nearest empire outpost is on Ganymede How will we enter With stealth or with force"
3.
under the cover of darkness we ride our smallest cruiser from the radar hides get to the outpost crack open the door once in the hangar don't know what's in store there's still so little we know of this power perhaps the answer will lie in this tower no matter what we face we will not cower we are the corsairs and this is our hour enter the hangar totally empty find the terminal and search for the key but we can't find it don't know what to search instead there's a lab for secret research there's still so little we know of this power perhaps the answer will lie in this tower no matter what we face we will not cower we are the corsairs and this is our hour this secret lab on the moon has two things that might help us the gradient optimizer or the quantum valve of flux there's still so little we know of this power perhaps the answer will lie in this tower no matter what we face we will not cower we are the corsairs and this is our hour
4.
Well I'm just a systems engineer on a shuttle to Luna Delivering anomalous materials to the Omega lab We're almost to the Martian Queen's gate After that it's just a straight shot to Earthen Empire space We're on a good pace To make it by Christmas time As long as nothing crazy happens Like a spontaneous asteroid field Or an attack from the Queen's robot army Or a raid by some awful stinky pirates Everything will be just fine Oh no, it's pirates Oh God, not pirates I had the strangest dream We were raided by pirates That wasn't a dream? Well what do you want? The lab on the moon? There's no way you pirates can get in It's top secret for a reason Spaced?! Wait, hold on, c'mon on There's gotta be something we can help with Clearance? Access codes? This ship may get you to the moon But once there how will you get to the lab I happen to have top secret clearance you need on Luna Which means I can get all of you to the thing you need in the Omega lab Oh please I'll do anything that you ask I know I can help out with any task Just do not space me please I'm down on my knees Oh terrifying pirates
5.
Lunar Heist 03:30
here's the plan we'll take you and your shuttle crew to get us to the moon we'll put on your uniforms and you'll take us to the room with the quantum flux valve we need to unlock our antique we'll nab that tech real quick back to the shuttle we will sneak and if you're good we'll let you live to see another day while we escape from the empire and use your ship as a getaway the plan goes off without a hitch until cyan tist turns into a snitch he blows the alarm, guards everywhere looks like its the end for the Corsairs now hold on if you take a closer look at the valve still in the lab you'll see that it's just a fake the real one we did grab the crew you captured in uniform were the shuttle engineers only the sneakiest pirate was hidden amongst your peers we knew that you would turn us in so we planned a switcheroo now we got the quantum flux valve and we bid y'all a toodaloo just as we depart empire space thousands of robots begin to chase the queen's army is too fast to evade do we surrender or fight the brigade
6.
Hello Corsairs And welcome to my Martian palace Please do relax I hope my robots were not callous I'd hate if Any first impressions of Mars were bad Now that you're here I will reclaim the key that I seek For centuries my ancestors coveted the antique It will open a powerful gateway To the land where magic is doled out by the fae And I will use this to conquer the system And ensure my enemies forever condemned Bow down to your queen As the Corsairs You only hold greed and not malice I knew you'd make a fake of the key and escape Now that you're gone I'll track you to the true thing I seek For centuries my ancestors coveted the antique It will open a powerful gateway To the land where magic is doled out by the fae And I will use this to conquer the system And ensure my enemies forever condemned Bow down to your queen
7.
Search ship for tracker Crawl through every inch Look for clues in drive Taken from the queen Instead we find the truth Vision of the antique Back when Mars tried to steal A gateway built by Earth It ripped out the poor souls Ne'er to be seen again Is this the fate for us To die for this treasure
8.
Corsairs you have reached the concluding test I am an AI guarding this lost lab I've contacted the Spirit of your quest They have kept me up to date on your tab I only require a certain code That answers a riddle I have prepared If you are incorrect I will explode From the treasure's power you will be spared "Through all the journey's ventures you did reach Seven keys you cannot see smell or touch The steps you have taken from start to each Is the code to release the entrance clutch" You have a week to gather your insight Only one of you needs to get it right
9.
T'Apeworm P'Stachio You are our hero Your genius paid the toll We will achieve our goal Finally we can see What can the treasure be? The wormhole generator Never fully completed Always missing the last piece To control supreme power The quantum flux valve we have Can regulate energy As it rips open spacetime To anywhere and when we want Think of all the lost treasures Ancient antiques to plunder Now within our grasp Now within my grasp Now you see It's all for me Don't take it Personally Less butts means less cuts In the pie to eat Did you think we'd all drink In the mink captain's seat Hell no I'm in control Those polls were a fake Just a ruse to get you Get me to my big break This key this machine Let's me rule all affairs It is time to say goodbye To all my dearest Corsairs
10.
[I - INTRO/DRIFTING] Here, at the end of time, I approach the last wormhole Though, not really time, just matter Time will go on until the very fabric of space erodes with it But matter will seize to exist from here on out Once I pass through I will vanish from this timeline And all that I have experienced, my eternity, will never happen Once an indisputable reality soon just a lost memory But you will hear my tale and it will live on For what is a life if not a story [II - OVERTURE/WORMHOLE] [III - SEIZE THE ANTIQUE] Six months from now I revealed my treachery Some of my crew fled, some groveled beneath me It did not matter, the gateway claimed them all There was one Corsair that stood out He claimed my actions were not my own There was an overseer controlling all of us I did not believe him but there were records Ancient accounts of all our tales In the end it did not save him All my crew were ripped from that time Flung towards some unknown future I doubt most would survive But now and forever more The power of time is mine Through the universe I soar An eternity divine One hundred years ago I stole countless treasures At the peak of wealth within the system I singlehandedly plundered fortunes And brought empires to their knees I lived out the richest fantasies I built an entire lunar paradise I jumped forward to the point of completion Lived countless lifetimes in pure bliss In the end I felt nothing With every obstacle out of my way There was nothing to strive for No reason to continue living But now and forever more The power of time is mine Through the universe I soar An eternity divine [IV - ATTACK AND DETHRONE GOD] This emptiness inside That I cannot abide It must have some reason For it's permeation Maybe that overseer Who's records plague my ear I'll prove that he's no god Only a long dead fraud He cannot control me This is my destiny Once I am truly free I will rule all I see I track these records to one thousand years ago To a time before man barely left the Earth Before the great empires A prophet forsees the Corsairs He is no god, no supreme force of control Just a man interpreting things beyond his understanding But still anxiety stirs within I know that while he exists I will not be free This emptiness inside Continues to reside Even though he is gone The hollowing goes on I meaninglessly kill To enact my free will Though he was just a man I now have a new plan He cannot control me This is my destiny Now I am truly free I will rule all I see [V - MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE] In fifty years from now I began my conquest I amassed great armies From civilizations All across the vast intelligent universe A cosmic empire All under my control With the generator I was unstoppable And still it wasn't enough to fill the fucking void [VI - END OF ALL] What is time What is mine What is the reason or rhyme Cannot find My own mind Lost within the cosmic bind You are nothing Have done nothing Will do nothing Sum of nothing You are chaos Bringing chaos Life in chaos Death in chaos A tredecillion years from now I venture forth to find out how The universe comes to a close What are the sounds of time's death throes It is nothing but black holes Swallowed up all the poor souls Every bit of matter gone Nothing that I do lives on Cannot fight entropy It erodes all legacy Even with the power of time I cannot escape my crime [VII - WAR WITH THE INEVITABLE] [VIII - FORGOING THE ANTIQUE] Three months from now I was sailing with my crew Though the times were tough our spirits were vigorous They were so focused and determined Doing anything to accomplish their goal I have explored all variations of time Made every decision except for one Where the crew goes on their adventure Without me to guide or manipulate them I cannot help them succeed But I will not betray them Their struggles give their lives meaning But it will give my death meaning as well And now and forever more The power of time too steep Through the universe I soar An eternity asleep [IX - OUTRO/DRIFTING (REPRISE)] This is the moment In ten seconds I will die To ensure I do not harm the crew I must kill my past self Though in my eternity I know that the universe Does not like paradoxes So I will likely disappear Never to have existed at all Perhaps except for you Should time be so generous To keep me in your memory Even though I'm about to vanish For the first time in forever I am excited for my Corsairs To do what I could not

about

The Corsairs of Callisto are a menacing space pirate crew, sailing the solar system for treasure and adventure. Led by the ferocious Captain Hieronymus Comet, they pillage and plunder whoever comes across their path, regardless if they're part of the Earthen Empire or a servant of the Martian Queen. This album tells the tale of a particular escapade after the captain obtains an interesting map...

This album was written during the Painting a Song challenge in 2021, where my roommate Andy got together a group of people to write and record a song every week for the entire year. After writing one off songs for a couple weeks, I knew I wanted to venture into something more. I wrote the opening track and presented the group with a fun roleplaying game: each week the Corsairs would be given a choice and each member of the group voted as a member of the crew, determining how the story played along. Over the course of two months, I wrote the story and its music, guided by input from the group and I am so incredibly happy with how it came out.

At first I thought the demos I recorded would be the finished product, but flash forward another year, I realized these songs were too good to stay as demos. I reached out to my friend Joey to record the album the way we did the past two Dreamscape projects and as usual, he did a great job adding new life to these songs.

This is the longest I've ever spent on a musical project and I'm extremely proud of the finished product. Thank you to everyone who helped me put it together and supported me over the past two years. I hope you enjoy this fun and wacky album as much as I do!

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released July 21, 2023

Music and lyrics by Stan Mikuta
Story guided by Painting a Song 2021
Additional vocals on track 1 by Joey Papa, Spencer Daniele, Andy Wiggins, and Sean Creedon

Engineered, mixed, and mastered by Joey Papa
Artwork by Pipe (RedTeaTango)

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