'Imperial Culture' (non-canonista)

[Hans Rancke-Madsen]

Originally Posted by jason taylor

Ride of the Valkyries:

Traditionally used for General Quarters aboard Sword World ships. Assumed to be because of it's appeal to the Germanic spirit. There is however a mischeivious rumor that it was derived from an ancient terran epic about a female admiral psionically linked to a sophant cat.

Not that I can't figure out who you are referring to[*], but I was unaware that there had been any narrative versions of her story with a musical component.

[*] Unless there is another heroine that fits the description of whom I am unaware.

(Also, of course, in any universe where a single encyclopedia from anywhere on Earth, original or copy, survives people would be able to debunk that rumor. Though I admit that that doesn't mean the rumor wouldn't exist. As Stella Maynyard says in Anne of the Islands, "facts are stubborn things, but not half as stubborn as fallacies".)


Hans