Spectrum Red

Description

Whether one sun or two (or sometimes three), the nearest star represents the freedom to survive. Warmth, energy; life can exist with its near-infinite supply of tasty rays. For planets bathed in darkness, due to dying or recently dead stars, light is a commodity worth more than any precious metal or stone (including the infamous Retortunga Wishing Stone, which grants any wish the owner desires, except the ability to produce more light). Companies hoard electricity and keep prices far from reach, powering their homes high above the smog, turning their corporate penthouses into twinkling stars of their own. The Commodity of Light was a product of one such exoplanet, Eversaura IX, where fizzling electricity was a tool and luxury of the rich and the destitute scavenged for disposed batteries and just a taste of what might be in front of them. Composing mostly in the dark, triplets Oomar, Kuutaar, and…