Chaos Theory

> "This is an S.O.S. from the Grand Horizon/Don't leave us in the dark!"
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## Synopsis

Chaos Theory is the thirty-sixth I Remember 2006 album, and is the third album in Era Seven. It was heavily inspired by Pink Floyd, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Rush, and Car Seat Headrest, as well as scientific studies about Venus, Mars, and the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. The lead single, Grand Horizon, was inspired sonically by "Echoes" by Pink Floyd, off of Meddle. This album is arguably one of IR06's most psychedelic release. It is a literal space rock album in context and sound. To put the album's concept in one sentence, it would be "an album all about colonization, disaster, and surviving hostile and difficult locations."

This album has proven really important to the IR06 lore, and also the RonZak lore, with stories being continued in the follow-up album, The Rifts Take Over. Aerostats of Venus is continued on that album, where it shows the Venusians point of view of Leaflets Sunshire. The kid from The Chaotic Red and Blue Inferno also gets two songs about him on said album as well. The story of Konstantin and the Underground Race of Mars is further explored in the RonZak album, The Terraformer, and another is planned.

## Tracklist

Aerostats of Venus

Konstantin and the Underground Race of Mars

Grand Horizon

The Chaotic Red

Ligeia Mare

Jovian System

Hyperspace Rescue

Blue Inferno

## Lore Notes

This album was designed to have each track be a pair of two, where each track is either a response to the previous, have a similar concept, or are continuing stories. The first pair is Aerostats of Venus and Konstantin and the Underground Race of Mars. Leaflet Sunshire is a collective of people who invaded Venus by filling its clouds with aerostats, of which Konstantin points out this hypocrisy. In the song Bubble Invaders, on the album, The Rifts Take Over, we see the Venusians are terrified by these balloons. Leaflets Sunshire leaders love to mock Konstantin for wanting to go to Mars instead of Venus.

Now, for Konstantin and the Underground Race of Mars. Konstantin Abakumov is a cosmonaut who went on a solo mission to Mars to terraform the planet. He didn't want to terraform the planet for Humanity, but to see Mars thrive again. After spending months on Mars all alone, he discovers that there are underground tunnels around Valles Marineris, where a race of Martians known as Rasacáz have taken sanctuary in, for they can't survive on the Martian surface unless it gets terraformed, of which they are struggling to do so. So, Konstantin helps out the Razacázi people terraform their home planet, and they are successful in doing so. Konstantin calls out Leaflets Sunshire's hypocrisy for invading a planet and not helping the terrestrial inhabitants of said planet.

Ligeia Mare and Jovian System is about people colonizing the moons of Saturn and Jupiter. The former track is about people living on Titan, the biggest moon of Saturn. An unknown protagonist talks about the state of everything, about how cold it is on [Titan], of how weak the children grow because of gravity, of geysers launching out of mountains, of having to sit under heat lamps, of being test subjects to governments on Earth, and of constantly see Saturn, saying that it's "their light." It seems that Saturn is the only thing that this protagonist likes about living on Titan. Either than that, they are not happy of being where they are.

The Mentor of Jovian System is more positive than the protagonist of Ligeia Mare. Jovian System is about people trying to decide which moon to terraform, bar Io, which they would later use as an energy source. They were struggling to decide between Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, but in the end they terraformed all three to see how they could manage. The last few minutes of the song are narrated by a character only known as The Mentor. The Mentor explains his life on Ganymede. He states he's been living there for fifteen Jovaki, which is a system of years the Ganymedean settlers settled on. He talks about how being a Ganymede explorer is fun but weird. He mentions how he sometimes watches children play on Perrine, a region on Ganymede of which he lives on. He is sad over the fact that the children can't ever live on a better place than Ganymede, like Earth or Mars. He also states his knowledge on Konstantin and the Razacázi people. He compares space and dimensional travel as "a never-ending storm."

Grand Horizon and The Chaotic Red are disaster stories. They also have a song that responds to each other of which continue their stories. Hyperspace Rescue and Blue Inferno are those said songs respectively. Grand Horizon is about a story of the remaining crew of the Grand Horizon after the space shuttle breached from a comet hitting in. Only four crew mates survived the breach; the commander, Ypkal, the dimension recorder, Quantona, the pilot, Dantarian, and the guide, Carisio. Three other crew mates' names were revealed in Hyperspace Rescue; the resercher, Ypsolakol, the defense, Rakalat, and the offense, Uloka. There are more deaths said to have happen. Dantarian managed to stop a nebulae, where the four found an abandoned structure inside. Quantona broke into the structure, and this is where the first mention of the Astra Federation Convention comes into play, which is a canon set of space and dimension rules dealing with visiting planets, invasion of ships and worlds, trading of goods and services, etc. Because the structure was abandoned, the survivors were not breaking the rules. Ypkal found a broadcasting camera, so he used it to send out an S.O.S. This would caught by the unknown crew of Hyperspace Rescue, who would later managed to find the stranded survivors and rescue them from the nebulae.

The Chaotic Red is about a Crelek boy named Darai trying to stay alive in a nightmarish dimension known as The Chaotic Red, a world where storms wreak havoc, and nothing really makes sense. It's also full of the color red. He is absolutely terrified of living in The Chaotic Red, crying about a storm know as the Blue Inferno, a fire tornado that is a dark blue, a stark contrast to all of the red. Darai says that the storm is never-ending, and that it appears every one in a while. However, things take a turn for the worse for Darai. During the song, Blue Inferno, the titular storm ravages through his village and careens towards his house. Before he's torn to shreds, however, a rift is opened by a being known as Zakorn. He takes Darai out of The Chaotic Red dimension, and sends him to the Trilight (dimension), where Darai is being watched by someone. It is said that I'll Be Back Soon off of The Rifts Take Over was from the perspective of Darai's father before they died.

## Important Characters

Leaflets Sunshire

Konstantin Abakumov

The Razacáz

Ypkal

Dantarian

Quantona

Carisio

Ypsolakol

Rakalat

Ulova

The Unknown Rescuers [Wait for names to be revealed before making pages]

Darai

The Mentor

The Unknown Narrator of Ligeia Mare [Wait for name to be revealed before making pages]

Zakorn

## Trivia

* Grand Horizon and Hyperspace Rescue are both split up into four parts. The Chaotic Red and Blue Inferno are both split up into three parts.
* The idea of sampling the broadcast section of Grand Horizon into Hyperspace Rescue was inspired by Famous Prophets (Stars) by Car Seat Headrest.
* While Grand Horizon was sonically inspired by Echoes, it was inspired story-wise by the song 2112 by Rush.
* The Chaotic Red interpolates an older I Remember 2006 song, As Long As We're Together, by implementing the drum solo at the end of said song.
* Grand Horizon, The Chaotic Red, and Blue Inferno have their own artwork.
* The background instrumental of Jovian System was of an unreleased Wilbur Bullara song, "Winged Wind".
* Ligeia Mare and The Chaotic Red are the only songs where both members are the lead singers. Grand Horizon had Wilbur as a backing vocalist, however. Those two songs are also the only ones on the album that the lyrics were improvised on.
* All stories on this album have been continued, but not all said songs have been currently released. They are said to release on the next IR06 album.

1. ↑ https://iremember2006.bandcamp.com/album/chaos-theory
2. ↑ https://iremember2006.bandcamp.com/track/jovian-system