Starian Union Theme Songs

The various theme songs for the Starian Union's various members...

Rems Thames ~ "Transmission" - Joy Division
Reky Thames ~ "Another Morning Stoner" - ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead

Chapter 1 ~ Cupid Rhymes With Stupid!

"...that sorry little...!"

"Ralf" Florian said, exasperated as usual. "Calm down. What happened to our little American blogbrat?"

"She went to a Madonna costume party--" Ralf started.

"And she's a sorry little what!?" Florian interrupted.

"Nein, nein und nein!" Ralf answered. "She was on her way home from the party, she had a great time and all, and then guess who felt they needed to talk."

Florian raised both eyebrows. "...oh no... don't tell me he..."

His best friend sighed and shook his head. "You know, there's gotta be something I can do for that girl. Except she's so far away, and you know we're no airplane sort. Yet still... armer Sonnenschein. Diese arme junge Dame."

Fritz's voice echoed from another office--"OH MEIN GOTT! Ralf!!" He then ran into the office where Ralf and Florian were. "Did you read Sonnen's blog--she... her boyfriend..."

Ralf sighed. "You mean her exboyfriend, Fritz?"

Henning then arrived into the building--"Hallo folks, I've returned..." But he quieted down when he looked at his fellow Mensch-Maschinen. "Er, was geschah gerade hier?"

Florian sighed and glanced up at Henning. "Sonnen muss die Verwirrung des Seins aushalten einzeln, wieder."

Henning shook his head. "Sheesh... when is Cupid ever gonna stop being a sorry little..."

"Henning, let. it. go..." Fritz chimed in.

""Ja but, how many times has this happened..."

Ralf simply shook his head and finished reading the blogpost, unamused as Fritz and Henning got into a heated debate, and Florian simply watched on.



"Aww, but Miss Sunshine! c'mon! It'll be fun!"

"No, there ain't no chance in hell I'm going to this thing."

"Hey, I'm going. I don't wanna go to this alone--I want you to come with me."

Jenn sighed as she cleaned another tray while talking with her coworker Nicole. The grill worker wanted to attend a Singles Night at a local club, and she wanted her favorite Crew Trainer to go with her. Except, said Crew Trainer wanted nothing to do with. She was only 36 hours into her single life, and was still a bit upset about the whole mess that ensued. The last thing she needed was to be thrown into a drama with a Singles Night!

"Nicole, if it makes you happy, then fine. I'll go" she finally said after a moment of thought.

"Yay!!" the grill worker cheered as she hugged Jenn. "You're the best, Miss Sunshine!!"

Jenn sighed with a laugh, and shook her head. In the back of mind she felt it was only a set-up for another relationship failure, and she'd just gone through one mess and didn't need to end up in another.

"And anyway, it'll help take your mind off things" Nicole added, slightly disrupting Jenn's train of thought as she returned to the grill area. But Jenn simply looked at the stack of clean trays, lined and ready to go. Maybe Nicole was right--it could take her mind off of things.

Yet just because she would accompany one of her good gal-pals to a Singles Night didn't mean that she herself would be properly busy trying to play the flirt. She still had to sort everything out with her ex, and she wanted to focus more on her work and the few, strong friends she had that were by her side in all of this.

*DING!!*

The Crew Trainer blinked, snapping out of her train of thought. She had an order to take and, as she began inputting the order into the system, she was unaware that in Germany, meanwhile, four German musicians were about to embark on a surprise mission to the States to cheer her up...

The Prelude ~ A Fool for Lesser Things

"Ralf, stop reading the damn blog already."

Florian's deadpan voice was heard from the other side of one of the offices in the KlingKlang studio. Kraftwerk had been busy with moving their equipment and what-not from the old KlingKlang studio to the new one, and not a lot of time to spare for resting. Ralf however took to surfing the net one day and, coming across a blog titled [Trans-Underground Express] he was amused at its title and started to read the blog. He kept reading the blog, curious about the writer and what could've gone on across that great ocean.

Of course, he started reading that a couple of months ago.

"Oh, don't discourage him, Florian" Fritz sighed in grief. "Let him have his updating of whatever's going on with that girl's life."

"She is a fan, after all" Henning chimed in. "I wouldn't mind cheering the girl on myself."

Suddenly--

"--was dachte er, dieser Ruck!?" Ralf exclaimed. "Her boyfriend's becoming more of an annoyance than I'd have guessed." He sighed and shook his head as he resumed reading the latest blogpost.

"I'm guessing Sonnen's got more guy trouble, Ralf?" Fritz asked cautiously, raising a brow at him.

Ralf shrugged. "I don't know--she loves him, she wonders if he still feels the same for her. They haven't talked in so long--if one could call a week so long. And then he looks at her AIM status and asks, 'What I do?'! Wenn nur ich irgendein verfluchtes klopfen könnte, fragen Sie in seinen Kopf ab."

"Has she figured out what to do about it?" Henning asked.

"Nein, not that I know of, Henning" Ralf replied.

"Maybe she'll realize she's better off...?" Fritz said. "The way this relationship seems to sound."

"That's another problem--she feels as if she's wasting her emotions" Ralf sighed. "She's got her friends to rely on, but that's about it. And she could just gush about her German electronic crush all she wants to. But there's not much else she could do to calm this wretched storm."

Florian rolled his eyes--he knew the blogger's "German electronic crush" was his own best friend Ralf. But, the bald Mensch-Maschine couldn't help but notice the honesty about her. He had read some of her blogposts from time to time since Ralf first crossed upon it.

"Maybe she just needs time to think it over?" said Henning.

"Maybe she needs a girl's night out with Kit again?" Fritz suggested.

"Maybe she should just break up with him, plain and simple" Florian chided.

"Or maybe she just needs a better boyfriend?" Ralf sighed exasperatedly.



Jenn sighed and sat down outside her apartment building, looking up at the stars. She hadn't really talked with her boyfriend in a while, mostly because his phone kept roaming. Yet the only way she could cheer him on was to send him a text every morning, except his phone had been off. He hadn't been using it. He never knew.

Maybe I'm just wasting my time she thought to herself as she wiped a few tears from her eyes. Perhaps she was. But then again, knowing her boyfriend had liked her for the better part of the two years they'd been friends. Yet, even now as he was so far away, what was she to do?

She had her friends to console her, coworkers to help her though the day, and her best friend Kit to cheer her up and keep her company. Jenn however, inasmuch as she was thankful for her friends, knew they couldn't fully understand the tears she'd cried up to now.

"Dear God" she whispered beneath her tears, "there has to be some way to pull through this..."



Ralf sat outside KlingKlang and looked up at the starry sky. He couldn't get what she'd written out of his head, knowing that another minute would pass and nothing would change. She'd still struggle to make the relationship work, knowing her efforts were all in vain. It wasn't fair to her--it wasn't fair.

Sonnen he thought to himself as he saw the stars twinkling above, I wonder if... your eyes are seeing what I'm seeing right now, just to ease the pain a little...