Aberrant: The Long March - Why the Long March?

[Mr Fox]

Why Long March?

When I was young way back in the stone age, before remote controls and mass numbers of channels on cable, I saw a short film on Showtime. It was a piece from a movie called Allegro Non Tropo set to the music of Ravel's Bolero. It was animated and basically portraited evolution. If you have not heard Bolero it has a very steady treading beat underlaying the melody. The creatures walk along in pairs marching to the beat of the music and evolve into more and more advanced animals as they go and eventually into man. This struck me powerfully at the time and has stayed in the back of my mind all these years and helped form my view of humanity. I see the human race and indeed all creatures as being on a long march from the darkest most distant past down into the future. Every generation is another step on the the road and another step toward a destination so far off in the distance we can't see it over the horizon. Perhaps there is no destination, perhaps it is the march itself that's important. It may be that someday we will misstep and be no more, but the thing that stays with me after all these years is that each pair of animals struggled on until they could become something more, something better than they were before. That is the essence of the Long March to me, the long steady struggle along the road in an attempt make our selves and our descendants better than we were.

In the our game man is taking that next step, becoming Novas, and it remains to be seen whether he falls from the path or strides into the future a better creature. There is one more aspect that ties in to the Long March that has yet to be reveled, but it is up to you to discover it. I hope you enjoy the journey and I thank you for walking along the path with me for a while.

[Joani]

I saw that movie and I totally understand how it could leave such a lasting impression. I still think of it every time I hear Ravel's Bolero (I got it on CD).

Maybe I should listen to it before I post

[Ulric Reikspar]

I thought it was the long march toward civilization, so I was close. Still did't see the Allegro Non Tropo though.

[SkyLion]

I thought you were subliminally trying to keep us players around for the long haul. Considering the "success" of the game (its longevity) you've succeeded. Also March is the month of Mars so maybe you are refering to a long war, or perhaps existence as struggle, possibly in a Buddhist sense. (?)

[Joani]

Sometimes you scare me, Overload...

[SkyLion]

Huh? What I do? :innocent:

[Andrew Murphy]

I think I'll quote Freud here:

Originally Posted By: Freud

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

And also William S Presttion Esq.

Originally Posted By: Bill

Whoah!

[SkyLion]

Actually, Whoa is more attributable to Ted "Theodore" Logan. But either way, "Be Excellent, to each other!"

[Andrew Murphy]

I alway get the two confused.