OP THEME: Big City Rock - Human
(NOTE: Live version decidedly different in sequence than my playlist version)
<center>Rather than the standard opening sequence, we have what is best described as a 'lukewarm open'. The title card shows: 'Star Fortress Pisces'. We have external shots of the half-completed station, and we pan around it, ST:TMP style. Many technicians, mostly KFY, are working on the station's construction, and its various parts are seen. As the station shows, we have an acoustic version of the OP song, and the credits show overtop the action.
Soon, the station is shown from afar, in orbit, and the OP fades...and so does the picture.</center>
<center>* * *</center>
<center>A song is heard muffled as we get a first-person view from a swimmer, in a large, mostly empty pool room. The huge window, a strange sight in a space station, shows empty space filled with stars, and a blue planet below. The sounds of splashing are heard as the swimmer continues her laps.
The camera changes, and we see her from the outside view. A long-haired woman, like a goddess of the water, clearly an accomplished swimmer by her body type and technique, wearing a two-piece white swimsuit with blue trim. She is listening to music through headphones (waterproof, apparantly), and wears the rank pin of a Taisa of the 5th Expeditionary Fleet.
The song is now completely audible, and it is apparant that it is her theme. She is smiling - it seems that she enjoys this activity, and this song.</center>
MARINA'S THEME: Belanova - Tus Ojos
Taisa Marina Arisa...it had a good ring to it. Quite possibly because of the vowel-filled name she bore...but it mattered little. Like Tiberius before her, she now had her command, and even if it wasn't exactly what she expected, not even the KFY would dare to install a pool in a warship.
Pisces? It had three. One public, one for crew use...and she requested one, a small one, for her own personal use. This was the public one, and the largest, with a view of the cosmic blue outside...it was a pity that she wouldn't get to use it more.
Pisces Star Fortress, the newest initiative by the 1st Standard Fleet, was to be a haven for peace, even at a time of war. Diplomacy and civilian travel would be utmost here...for this reason, she gave the station the motto "Serenity in Chaos". It seemed appropriate.
The crew would be arriving soon...and without a KAMI unit, she would have nothing to announce it to her. She left the pool and grabbed her towel and hair dryer, and soon enough, she was dressed and out on the empty civilian section of Pisces, complete yet uninhabited. With her manner of dress, so exotic and fantastical, more fitting into some kind of fantasy anime than any kind of reality, she didn't seem to look at home in the station, or even the armed forces, let alone worthy to wear the rank of 'Taisa'.
Marina's smile, though and her shining violet eyes, said that she felt she was home. And she walked towards the airlock, soon expecting the first arrivals at the station...
<center>STAR FORTRESS PISCES - EPISODE 01
~UNDER A BLIND GOD~</center>
(NOTE: Live version decidedly different in sequence than my playlist version)
<center>Rather than the standard opening sequence, we have what is best described as a 'lukewarm open'. The title card shows: 'Star Fortress Pisces'. We have external shots of the half-completed station, and we pan around it, ST:TMP style. Many technicians, mostly KFY, are working on the station's construction, and its various parts are seen. As the station shows, we have an acoustic version of the OP song, and the credits show overtop the action.
Soon, the station is shown from afar, in orbit, and the OP fades...and so does the picture.</center>
<center>* * *</center>
<center>A song is heard muffled as we get a first-person view from a swimmer, in a large, mostly empty pool room. The huge window, a strange sight in a space station, shows empty space filled with stars, and a blue planet below. The sounds of splashing are heard as the swimmer continues her laps.
The camera changes, and we see her from the outside view. A long-haired woman, like a goddess of the water, clearly an accomplished swimmer by her body type and technique, wearing a two-piece white swimsuit with blue trim. She is listening to music through headphones (waterproof, apparantly), and wears the rank pin of a Taisa of the 5th Expeditionary Fleet.
The song is now completely audible, and it is apparant that it is her theme. She is smiling - it seems that she enjoys this activity, and this song.</center>
MARINA'S THEME: Belanova - Tus Ojos
Taisa Marina Arisa...it had a good ring to it. Quite possibly because of the vowel-filled name she bore...but it mattered little. Like Tiberius before her, she now had her command, and even if it wasn't exactly what she expected, not even the KFY would dare to install a pool in a warship.
Pisces? It had three. One public, one for crew use...and she requested one, a small one, for her own personal use. This was the public one, and the largest, with a view of the cosmic blue outside...it was a pity that she wouldn't get to use it more.
Pisces Star Fortress, the newest initiative by the 1st Standard Fleet, was to be a haven for peace, even at a time of war. Diplomacy and civilian travel would be utmost here...for this reason, she gave the station the motto "Serenity in Chaos". It seemed appropriate.
The crew would be arriving soon...and without a KAMI unit, she would have nothing to announce it to her. She left the pool and grabbed her towel and hair dryer, and soon enough, she was dressed and out on the empty civilian section of Pisces, complete yet uninhabited. With her manner of dress, so exotic and fantastical, more fitting into some kind of fantasy anime than any kind of reality, she didn't seem to look at home in the station, or even the armed forces, let alone worthy to wear the rank of 'Taisa'.
Marina's smile, though and her shining violet eyes, said that she felt she was home. And she walked towards the airlock, soon expecting the first arrivals at the station...
<center>STAR FORTRESS PISCES - EPISODE 01
~UNDER A BLIND GOD~</center>