Ryk, One of my hobbies is making music video's for myself. I take pictures and video's I have taken and, using iMovie, make a video that, with the music, is just so much better to watch. When I read your book, my overactive imagination pictures scenes as a video set to appropriate music. Kinda like a movie trailer. You have done so much work with your concept art that it is not too much of a stretch to picture the battles. I'm sure costs of such a video would be outrageous, but with a little imagination, it's not too big a stretch to listen to the music while picturing the action.
There is a group called Two Steps From Hell, based in California, that compose music for the movie industry and other medias. I have used their music in several of my video's. They have one song called Protectors of the Earth that, when I heard it, I pictured a battle between the Aurora and the Jung (or Dusahn) If you get a chance, take 3 minutes and listen to this and see if you agree that it fits perfectly.
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I posted it in my original post and for some reason it didn't come through. Let's try again.
Protectors of the Earth isn't bad, but Heart of Courage could work well too. Heart of Courage would work well if you're setting the end of Head of the Dragon (Episode Six) to music, the courageous crew of the Aurora and the Corinari coming together to topple Caius.
Now you're thinking! Most of Two Steps From Hell's music has been written for dramatic scenes with a military bent. There are several video's out there where their music is added to scenes from the video game Halo. Could you imagine how much work it would involve to produce something like this only in the Frontier Universe?
