Saturday, January 10, 2009

Elemental Quark Music - special post!

This post is about Elemental Quark music. Although,and I must confess, I haven't understood it completely myself, I can give you a basic picture of what it really is.

Here is where my explanation begins -
The note middle C is supposed to be a sound wave having frequency 256Hz.The higher C is of frequency 512Hz and it goes on in powers of 2. The notes in between middle C and the higher octave C consist of all the frequencies between 256hz and 512Hz. These are usually equally spaced(you do the math cause I've already done it!) and so you get the notes C#,D,D#,E,F,F#,G,G#,A,A# and B.

Elemental Quark is without divisions and equal spacing. What you end up getting is the complete frequency spectrum.So, you get notes that are not only C,C#,but also everything between C and C#.

Of course, you'll probably be wondering how things aren't discordant in such a form of music. The answer to this question is 2 words - "Acquired taste."

If you've noticed, Earthlings have already started using a rudimentary form of this music. Pitch bending is a technology that gives you access to all the notes. Apart from this, a technique of hitting the right notes at the right time (although, it may seem arbit) is shown with great precision in many forms of Jazz.

Some of the popular Elemental Quark bands are -
a) Ked Lepellin - I've already mentioned them before. These guys play hard core Elemental Quark and are by far the most popular of all.Their most listened to song is called Star Cruiser.

b) Death, Soul and Dark Lords - They play dark core elemental quark. They're good if you're into that kind of stuff. Their most listened to song is called "Die! All creatures of the universe."

c) Scaling time - They play Smooth core elemental quark music. Listening to this kind of music reminds most species of silk (we're not the only one's who have silk!).
Their most listened to song is called "worm my way into the black hole."

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Thief of luck - Targets can never be missed

This was it. One ship was all it took. She just needed to shoot down one ship. The one ship that had the neon-mercury chip on it. The one that stayed the furthest away from her...too scared to come close to her ship knowing that she never missed her targets. This was too easy. She made a sudden dive to confuse the target ship's pilot. She flew as fast as possible through the chaos of the battle and came out behind her target. This pilot was an amateur and taking him down was going to make her feel sorry for him. But, she had no choice. She got her target on lock and fired a ballistic missile at the ship. It missed. She looked at it in shock."OK.Relax.So I missed. I'll just try again." Her heart pounded. "MISSED! She had never ever missed a target in her entire life. And this was too easy a target to miss." The pilot swerved around to face her and fired a viper at her. Vipers? the enemy had vipers. This was definitely not good. Vipers tracked their targets. They were smart missiles. An inbuilt chip helped the viper identify the target at a radius of 100 metres and change it's course. This was very high technology. Too high for amateurs like these to possess.
Anyway, Ishnaa was an incredible pilot and had faced more challenging situations than this. She flew around in circles increasing her speed and radius till she got out of the 100 metres range. She swerved around and fired a laser at the viper to set it off once she was out of range.She swooped down after spotting the pilot and this time fired a laser at the ship. Lasers were too fast to get away from,even though,the damage was minimal. The laser seemed to unusually miss. She didn't think she saw it wrong. The laser missed. It didn't get deflected. It actually missed. This was absurd. A top officer like her did not miss so often.Something was terribly wrong here. It was like bad luck.
"Okay. No time to think about what's wrong."
"Ishnaa to Braze."
"Braze here. what's the problem?"
"Something very strange is happening here.I need you to try and take out the ship next to me.Do you see it?"
"I see it. I'm coming."
Braze was a pilot she could trust.Brilliance and modesty. They worked very well for him. He came at the ship from above and fired a bomb at the ship. Meanwhile, she kept firing lasers at him that kept missing him but managed to distract him a little, even though he seemed least bothered about the lasers, like he knew they were all going to miss. But, the distraction was insignificant. He dodged the bomb as easy as pie.(yes, they did have pies then in outer space. Btw, this was more than an era ago). As easy as pie. The pilot was definitely not an amateur like she thought. He tilted the ship while he curved and turned it upside down from where he unexpectedly fired a ballistic missle at Braze who had seconds to maneuvre his ship. The right wing got hit and Braze's ship was no longer good enough to be controlled. Ishnaa dived down and opened the canopy to let braze fall in as he ejected out of the ship. "phew! That was close. What in the world is going on here?"
Ishnaa looked up at the pilot above who gave her a thumbs up and warped out of the area. The rest of the enemy troops warped themselves out as well.
This mission was definitely not a success.
She clenched her fists. Something strange was going on here. And she was going to get to the bottom of this....