Artist's commentary
Mobile Infantry, HTT squad - mission to touch down onto the Klendathu
Our own section was doing all right. It was in the wrong pew and out of touch with the other section -- the platoon leader and sergeant were dead and we never re-formed. But we had staked out a claim, our special-weapons squad had set up a strong point, and we were ready to turn our real estate over to fresh troops as soon as they showed up.
Only they didn't. ---
--- while we ran low on ammo and jump juice and even power to keep keep the suits moving. This seemed to go on for a couple of thousand years. ---
--- Then I heard an all-hands call in my helmet that I never want to hear again. "Sauve qui peut! Home! Home! Pickup and home! Any beacon you can hear. Six minutes! ---"
--- Then I heard recall, not the recall it should have been: "Fuwafuwa Time"(if it had been a boat from the Valley Forge) --- but ”Tanabi-Time,” a tune I didn't know. No matter, it was a beacon; I headed for it, using the last of my jump juice lavishly --- got aboard just as they were about to button up and shortly thereafter was in the Voortrek, in such a state of shock that I couldn't remember my matriculation number. ---
From Starship Students by Robert G. Heinlein ---
"Tanabi-Time" is a name for mashup remixes of Chargeman Ken! and K-on! musics.