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Before we get into the questions, for the folks who may not know you, tell us how you got started with Chris.

TL;DRZanelli first met Chris Roberts while scoring the film Outlander, was invited to the narrative campaign for Star Citizen, and had grown up playing Wing Commander.

Geoff ZanelliComposer, Squadron 42

Okay, with Chris, I met him actually scoring a film that he was producing called Outlander. And I think probably because he had heard music that I had written for the Pirates of the Caribbean, the first one, Curse of the Black Pearl, with Hans, and I think took a meeting, looked at his movie, and I mean, we had a monster destroying a Viking village, and I thought, I have to do this. I'm raised on fantasy movies and sci-fi and adventure, and actually my first experience with Chris was as a film composer. So when Star Citizen came around he said, look, we're doing this narrative, story-driven campaign that's part of the universe, would you like to take a look at it? And of course I came and I saw his early ambitions and goals. This would have been, I don't know, a couple of years ago. And sign me up, because, well, the other thing is I knew Chris even before Outlander, not personally, but I knew him because I played his games. I played Wing Commander. That was the exact time in my life when I was in high school when I had that perfect moment when you can game all the time. And so Wing Commanders 1 and 2 were those years for me, actually.

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Published on this date.19 Jan 2018
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