My friends, I can't tell you how happy I am right now. You have made it possible for us to embark on volume 2 of this amazing legacy you have granted me. I am humbled, ecstatic, inspired and energized all at the same time!

SO! We have 5 days to go and we've already met the goal for phase 1. That means we have time during this phase to pursue some of the goals for phase 2. I'd like to start with a goal of funding the conductor, Allan Wilson, for the orchestral recordings. He is one of the premiere conductors in the world (London Symphony, etc.) and conducted our very well received and reviewed volume 1! That goal is $3000. So, if we meet a total goal of $18K by the end of Kickstarter phase 1 that would be covered!

To help with that, I'm creating another 3 seats for the recording session in Austin (looking like early December of this year) at the $300 pledge level!

Again, I am SO humbled by this, and am SO looking forward to bringing you amazing fans more music from the Wing Commander Universe!

Musically yours,

George

Unfortunately, poetry correspondent Toni Cowey reports, as he was the only one there.

Alas! 'Tis a day of woe for the sorry folk of Hephaestus. Suffering has cast its shady hand upon the brow of many, while foul misunderstanding has bereft the common man of sight. The cause? The cause? Bewail the man, bewail the foe, whose fellows he has blighted so. It was the day of the eclipse, an event on men and women's lips, when foul Misfortune did conspire, the TV computers to miswire. And thus, instead of smoked glass, the order now did come to pass, that Magnifiers should be used, an act which retinas abused. Now men are blind and cannot see, and Optic Nerves are of rarity. I thank you.