Oh yeah, I never explained after Cantata came out—the setting I had in my head when these lines originally got written was the interstellar departure lounge at Ninoy Aquino International Aerospaceport in Manila. The joke in the studio during construction was that the simplest way of getting offworld would be to hammerspace the ships, get Ōyodo and Akashi to forge some docs, and just catch Flight 1446 to Mega Tokyo, then switch IDs and make the connecting flight to New Avalon. Surely no one would notice. After all, no one in that crew would stand out at all on a busy spaceport concourse. Except the skinny blonde in hardly any clothes. Or the kyūdō shrine maiden. Or the eyepatched school delinquent with the sword. Or the seven-foot-tall girl with the umbrella. Or well OK this isn't gonna work we need a new plan.

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