Music of the 'Verse - The Cutlass Blue

Here at the Monocle Times we often end up dealing with the more existential questions of the 'Verse. Fortunately we are not alone in this pursuit of the ultimate truth.

Just the other day a few of the chaps and me ended up talking in the club about a topic that I am sure many of our readers have pulled their hairs out about: What classical music best represents the ships in my fleet.

Many here are fans of the classical music of the 20th century and while much of what can only be describe as one of the heights of humanities achievement in the fine arts of music is lost today there are still many records remaining.

To simplify the matter we have focused on a single artist a kind of music that in it's time was called 'Rock' performed by some rather apeish looking fellers called 'The Who'.

As this matter, just as many of our fleets, is rather extensive I have decided to just feature a single song and ship per article.

Now without further ado let me introduce the first ship in this series:

The Cutlass Blue by Drake Interplanetary. Perhaps one of the most misunderstood ships in the 'Verse. Marketed as a, wink-wink-nudge-nudge, police craft this craft is manufactured by a company widely known as the premier supplier for pirate groups.

While being a rather low end craft no other ship in the Universe will confuse a smuggler more. Never knowing weather he'll be boarded by pirates planing to steal is fright or a local police force wanting to confiscate his contraband.

And what song better do characterize this ship as 'Behind Blue Eyes'. A emotionally deep ballade exploring the emotional struggles of a young pirate who just learned that his first own vessel reads 'POLICE' on the outside.

The artists do a wonderful job at expressing the forth and back going on inside the young man. Constantly torn between eagerness to start robbing and the worries of rejection from his peers.

"No one knows what it's like to be hated, to be fated to tell only lies", they sing giving us the deep inside in what trauma it must be to arrive at your first raid on a unsuspecting freighter in a shit featuring police sirens. 

Before ending this article, and well knowing that not many cutlass blue pilots will be amongst our readership I want to say one more thing. It is OK to seek professional help, if you went through a trauma like this it isn't a sign of weakness if you desire council.

by Sir Quentin Reginald Watson