Electronic Space Music #05

The 5th volume of Electronic Space Music.

Over 90 minutes of dark, atmospheric cyberpunk ambient tracks constructed with layers of evolving synth pads, deep sub-bass, metallic textures, and distant, processed vocal samples. Harmonic drones and glitchy effects weave in and out, creating tension while maintaining a spacious, beatless flow throughout.

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Commander Liam Stone of the Union Marine Corps had spent the first two years of his military career buried in the monotony of garrison duty - guarding supply depots, patrolling trade hubs, and overseeing colonial checkpoints on backwater planets that rarely saw conflict. He had grown accustomed to the quiet tension of peacekeeping, the slow erosion of discipline that came with routine. But all that changed when he was deployed to Eldain IV - a remote, frost-laced moon on the edge of Union space, where the war against the Xar'Keth had erupted with terrifying ferocity.
The Xar'Keth were not merely invaders. They were annihilators - an ancient, hive-minded species whose motives were as alien as their biology. They descended from orbit in biomechanical drop-pods, their soldiers encased in chitinous armour and wielding weapons that pulsed with organic energy. Their goal was clear: eradicate the colonists, consume the biosphere, and claim Eldain IV as a forward bastion for their expansion into Union territory. The initial wave of attacks had shattered the moon’s primary settlements, leaving only scattered pockets of resistance among the ice fields and cratered mining zones.
Stone’s unit had been dispatched as part of Operation Iron Veil, a last-ditch effort to stabilise the colony and prevent total collapse. But what they found on arrival was far worse than anticipated. The Xar'Keth had already embedded themselves deep into the infrastructure, using twisted bio-tech to corrupt power grids and terraform the moon’s surface into something grotesque and unrecognisable. The colonists - miners, engineers, and homesteaders - had taken up arms in desperation, forming ragtag militias and barricading themselves inside the ruins of their own homes.
It was in this crucible that Stone proved himself - not as a garrison officer, but as a battlefield commander. He rallied the survivors, coordinated with independent Operators—mercenaries and ex-special forces who had answered the distress call - and forged an alliance with a retired Sobek Commando named Vex Talmar, whose reputation as a ghost operative from the Sobek War still carried weight. Talmar brought not only tactical brilliance but a deep understanding of asymmetric warfare, helping Stone turn the tide through sabotage, infiltration, and precision strikes.
Together, they launched a counteroffensive that became legend among the surviving colonists. They reclaimed the geothermal core at Frostspire Ridge, severed the Xar'Keth’s neural relay network in the Hollow Basin, and detonated the bio-forge growing beneath the moon’s crust. Each victory came at a cost - Stone lost half his unit in the first month alone - but the momentum shifted. The Xar'Keth began to retreat, their ground forces fractured, their command structure disrupted.
But the war was not yet won.
Above Eldain IV, the Xar'Keth mothership loomed - a vast, cathedral-like construct of living metal and pulsating voidlight. It was the source of their invasion, the hive queen’s throne, and the anchor point for their planetary corruption. Stone knew that unless it was destroyed, the Xar'Keth would regroup, adapt, and return stronger than before.
The final phase of Operation Iron Veil was clear: ascend to the mothership, breach its inner sanctum, and eliminate the queen.
Stone assembled a strike team composed of his remaining Marines, Talmar, and a handful of Operators who had survived the ground war. They would launch from the orbital platform at Dawnspire Crater, using retrofitted mining shuttles to pierce the mothership’s outer shell. The mission was suicidal, but necessary. There would be no reinforcements, no fallback. Only fire, steel, and resolve.
As the team prepared for launch, Stone stood beneath the fractured sky of Eldain IV, watching the auroras dance across the atmosphere—tainted now with the residual glow of Xar'Keth energy. He thought of the colonists who had fought beside him, of the lives lost, and of the legacy they were trying to preserve. This moon, once forgotten, had become a crucible of resistance. And he, once a garrison officer, had become its sword.
The ascent would be the final chapter. And Liam Stone intended to write it in fire...
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