Folks got to hear roughly 20 to 25 minutes of your Squadron 42 score [in Hold the Line]. Was that just created expressly for the video, or is it actually representative of what you've done for the game? And a supplemental question: bagpipes?

Yes. Bagpipes. I'm going to answer your questions in reverse order, because bagpipes is the order of the day. So it's funny. Okay. Actually, that sequence, which you do see, the opening, it's a cinematic in-game, so that music was written very specifically for that sequence. And everything, obviously, is still a work in progress, but believe me, we're keeping the bagpipes. We experimented quite a lot with different instrumentation for that, for the fleet reveal. Let me back it up, actually. Initially, that piece of music is written as a UEE theme. It actually functions sort of like... most of the world's navies have a theme song, right? The U.S. Navy, I think it's Eternal Father, Strong to Save. It's a hymn. And so we started there. It was something Chris Roberts and I talked about. What if we had a hymn for the UEE Navy? What would their theme be? And in fact, there are even very wide variations of this piece of music already getting used in various parts of the game. We only showed one little glimpse of it for Hold the Line. But that is a theme for the UEE, for the Navy as a whole. And it works in all sorts of ways. It can be very emotional. It can be very somber. It can be triumphant, it can be officious, it can be used as score; there's a set of lyrics actually written for it. So that's a piece of music that's going to be heard many, many times throughout the game. But the fleet reveal is one of the first times you hear it. And I thought, well, what needs to happen here is it needs to be a piece of music that represents that the UEE is not one country or one ethnicity or one nation's purpose. It's the purpose of Earth. I mean, it's in the title, UEE. So the piece of music could represent really any culture and all cultures from anywhere on Earth, because here we are united in defense of our planet. So it meant we could go exploring instrumentation, anything really, anything that has the right grandeur for the moment. And so there was an orchestral version of that sequence that played nicely, but maybe felt, I don't know, not bespoke enough to the sequence. And once we got to the bagpipes, and there are also taiko drums from Japan and there are some drums from South America, so it actually is a combination of many cultures, to represent: this is our fleet. This is the gathering that we have put together to defend the planet. I realize that's a lofty goal for a 10-second piece of music, but this is the type of ambition.

So you confirmed that this is music that people would hear in the game. It's the UEE theme.

That one is indeed thematic. Then the rest of the Hold the Line video is also Squadron music, but not necessarily being used thematically. It's more like, especially because of the way it's cut, we're going from location to location and event to event, and we're not necessarily showing it in linear order. So you're getting a sense of what some of the soundscape of the score will be, but I think there's a lot more than bagpipes that is going to stand out, I think, to make the score feel special for all of the different, especially places, but all of the different story arcs that we're telling with this. I mean, it's a huge story.