Star Wars Shanty #8 - Hydian Way

Описание: The Star Wars Shanty Project: Shanties and other songs from the Star Wars Universe.

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Of all known hyper routes, none has been more crucial to galactic history than the Hydian Way, the only route to run almost completely from one rim to the other. Discovered 3000 years before the Imperial Era by Freia Kallea, a human from Brentaal IV, and her colleague, the Duros Banu Hydia, this route effectively tripled the amount of easily traversable space. Needless to say, the discovery had a profound impact on galactic commerce, culture, and warfare.

Many tributes to the work of these explorers have been written, most notably a five hour, three part opera entitled 'The Kallea Cycle.' But a more simple offering was penned, shortly before the Galactic Civil War, by fellow Brentaalian and smuggler-turned-folk-artist Gerross Tan. The tune is now considered the unofficial anthem of Brentaal IV, and has been sung by countless spacers as they traverse the lanes, while they watch the stars and ponder those who came before.

LYRICS:
Give me sure, strong sign. Give me clear, steady sight.
With a heart that aims for home, give me wisdom not to stray.
May my stars align as I sail through this dark night,
And chart the course of my own Hydian Way.

In the age of exploration, many souls sought to devise
A swifter means to reach the worlds that lay beyond the Slice.
A hyper route was founded, and for Hydia was named,
And the galaxy would never be the same.

Three millennia thereafter, making passage through the void,
In this beaten old YT, with this rusted astro droid,
I think of those explorers, now centuries long dead,
And how a million pilots have followed in their stead.

How a hauler's life depends on old Kallea's restless whim
To venture forth all in the hope of connecting rim to rim.
To crack the hidden cyphers in the wells of gravity,
And to carve the hyperlanes now shown to me.

Now out here among the stars not much remains for me to chart,
Save the twisting lanes that wind within the boundaries of my heart.
What shadows lurk in those dark paths, I hardly dare explore.
It's a long and lonely journey to go seeking your own core.

But still I find my guidance in those wanderers of old,
Who left waypoints for the rest of us to navigate the cold.
So when I sail into my future, I'll remember as I go,
To chart the path for pilots whose names I'll never know.