PALISADE 46: A Palette of Colors Pt. 1

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It is the year 1430 of the Perfect Millennium, and in the center of the Milky Way galaxy, Perennial tries to shut out the noise, to focus in on only one place, one voice.
But it is too loud on Palisade.
This week on PALISADE: A Palette of Colors Pt. 1
It's going to be soon, babe / I've made up my mind^{[Note 1]}

Contents[edit | edit source]

Opening[edit | edit source]

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Narrator: It is the year 1430 of the Perfect Millennium, and in the center of the galaxy, Perennial tries to shut out the noise to focus in on only one place.

But it is too loud on Palisade.

Particular Emphasis:
You already know what it is, know who it be, Particular E on Palisade.
Under violet skies with violent eyes, one final reprise, Palisade.

Ships in the sky. (Palisade.) Nowhere to hide. (Palisade.)
Bilats on the run, they under the gun, we promised we'd come. (On Palisade.)

Mourning ain't crying. It's righteous where I am.
Got a palette of colors that move in big numbers and knock down they walls.
Like a battering ram. (Palisade.) Got 'em saying "god damn". (Palisade.)
Fuck a name, we the Cause, and we winnin' them brawls. And history's in our hands.

Layer Luxurious: Rival pilots, daring heists, divine companionship, war. These are the sorts of the topics we've covered this season on Perfect Imperfect, a podcast about the end of the Perfect Millennium. I'm your host, Layer Luxurious, and there's really only one place we could end this season: on the pearlescent, peripheral world of Palisade itself, in the moment that these outsiders who oppose the Bilateral Intercession's invasion fully join forces not only with the indigenous resistance from groups like Reunion and the Concrete Front, but also with General Mourning and her Qui Err Coalition fleet.

The Bilats were cut off. The Mirage was all around them. And beyond, the Divine Principality, the Perfect Millennium was coming to an end. The only question was: what would come next? Let's jump in.

[voices overlapping]

[background audio: excerpt of intro to City City from "Today Is a Monday"]

Narrator: It is the year 1430 of the Perfect Millennium, and in the center of the Milky Way galaxy,

Unknown voice 1: It isn't a wheel, it's a top, spinning, faltering, reapplying spin with careful hands that…

Narrator: Perennial tries to shut out the noise, to focus in on only one place, one voice.

Future: You stole my power, so I stole your voice.

Unknown voice 1: It's not as if we just keep spinning…

Gur Sevraq: Dying.

Narrator: But it is too loud on Palisade.

Future: You lived as a tool, and so treated me like one.

Gur Sevraq: Falling.

Unknown voice 1: We need new words for old feelings, and new feelings for—

Gur Sevraq: Where is it?

Future: No more visions of tomorrow for you.

Gur Sevraq: Slipping.

Future: Now, simply recollect.

Gur Sevraq: I hate her.

Coriolis Sunset: Who are you again?

Levitation Cascabel-Gardner: Oh, I just got here yesterday. My name's Levitation, but you can call me Levi.

Gur Sevraq: I hate you. You betrayed me.

Eclectic Opposition: Took long enough.

Hunting Tomorrow: Who are you? How'd you get on board the ship?

Gur Sevraq: I took advantage.

Eclectic Opposition: Eclectic, and easily.

Coriolis Sunset: I'm Coriolis Sunset, pilot of a Chariot Mk II unit.

Gur Sevraq: It's fine.

Thisbe: I'm most commonly called Thisbe.

Gur Sevraq: It's fine.

Kalvin Brnine: My name is Kalvin Brnine, and I am an agent of Millennium Break.

Gur Sevraq: Valence will handle it.

Dre: He is a humanoid man who is covered in rainbow crystals, and in fact, his head is just one giant rainbow, like, crystalloid.

Eclectic Opposition: Uh… Figure's—Figure's not coming back. I don't think.

Gur Sevraq: Motion.

Partial Palisade: Did Figure have people?

Gur Sevraq: Perennial.

Kalvin Brnine: No. Um…

Coriolis Sunset: We were Figure's people.

Gur Sevraq: Autonomy Itself.

Keith: Wires and cables ripple and snap, sympathetically vibrating with the noises around them, contained within a buttoned white shirt and a tailored velvet jacket. The dancing components make an altogether convincing face.

Kalvin Brnine: Yeah, I, um… couldn't have done it without Phrygian. But it's a good thing. It's a good thing that things are better.

Gur Sevraq: Perennial. Her melody. Her eye.

Thisbe: I will miss their cereals.

Janine: "Fighting is not my purpose, but there is nowhere else for me until the fight is over."

Gur Sevraq: Perennial.

Keith: "Leap says trust him number one, trust myself number two, and trust the Blue Channel crew number three, then trust no one."

Gur Sevraq: I can't bear to look.

Sylvi: "I need to find something to fight for other than revenge."

Gur Sevraq: I can't.

Ali: "I'm living on borrowed time. Keep up their fight."

Gur Sevraq: Don't show me!

Keith: "I am a scientist who is meant to be researching a god, but instead I am fighting a war, which is a worse job."

Gur Sevraq: There's too much.

Dre: "I've lived two lives, I would happily die for the truth."

Gur Sevraq: You've seen all of this… Don't!

Unknown voice 2: Do you miss home?”

Plot[edit | edit source]

The cast sets up the game of Questlandia that they will play for the season's finale, including the state of the world, the characters, and the relationships between the characters.

Cast[edit | edit source]

Notes[edit | edit source]

↑ Lyrics from the song It's Gonna Be Soon by Rocketship

[1] Lyrics from the song It's Gonna Be Soon by Rocketship

[Note 1]