Brave Saint Saturn - Saturn 5 Trilogy

Saturn 5 Trilogy

Brave Saint Saturn published their first three albums as "The Saturn 5 Trilogy".

The Saturn 5 Trilogy tells the story of a fictional NASA "Saturn 5 Mission," where the crew of the spacecraft "Gloria" is sent to map the rings of Saturn. While in orbit around Saturn's moon, Titan, the Gloria suffers a crippling disaster that leaves the craft stranded in geosynchronous orbit on the dark side of the moon. The crew is cut off from radio contact with Earth and the light of the sun, and both the crew and their families fear they are lost forever.

The final album of the trilogy, Anti-Meridian, chronicles the return of the crew of the U.S.S. Gloria in an escape pod called the "Starling." "Lieutenant Hoerig" saves the mission at the cost of his own life. The rest of the crew returns to Earth in one of the Starling's escape pods. Several of the songs deal with the crew's thoughts and remembrances in the aftermath of their safe return.

The Saturn 5 Trilogy uses the loss and subsequent rescue of the crew as a metaphor for several ancient themes common to secular and non-secular stories (such as the popular Literature, Pagan, non-Christian and Christian themes of death, resurrection, redemption, and self-sacrifice.