The Hornet Bay Anthem: our own march on endless loop, a burner-lit bow shot, and the go-fast shoots back ac81351
The bay flies its own colours now, bow to stern:
- Our own anthem. The borrowed Star-Spangled chiptune is struck. In its place: the Hornet Bay Anthem — an original sixteen-bar march written for the bay, square-wave lead over a root-and-fifth bass, looped forever with zero silence at the seam — the final note releases exactly as the downbeat of the next lap attacks. Same player, top-right: play, pause, stop.
- The cat shot, restaged. Night on the waist cat: it opens astern of the Hornet, burner lit, and the camera swings a wide right-hand orbit around the launch until it’s dead on the nose — looking straight back down his pipe with the Enterprise island glowing in the background.
- The go-fast shoots back. The gun-run scene cuts to a chase view from astern of the charging boat — and she’s not running silent anymore: a mounted machine gun hammers back at the Seahawk, tracer rising past the lens while the helo’s own bursts walk down the other way.
- Shipboard launches whoosh. When the Klakring lets an SM-1 or a Harpoon off the rail you hear it leave — the same whoosh the VLS and the shoulder-launched shots always had.
- The Hog gets the right voice. The A-10’s twin TF34s are turbofans, and now they sound like it — the Hawg scene and any A-10 you spectate in-game sing the high turbofan whine instead of the fighter howl.
One click wakes the sound, as ever — then the march plays the bay in, and it never bumps at the loop.