Dang it!
The ONE time I don't post my crazy, outlandish theory in exchange for a more boring (but more likely) one, it turns out the first part of the crazy one was correct.
I should have known I was correct from the last line of the 7th verse: (
http://www.elyrics.net/read/n/nena-lyrics/99-red-balloons-lyrics.html )
I'll take it from here, fellas.
99 Luftballons is a song by Nena about the Nuclear Holocaust, an event that probably happened a long time ago in the Guns of Icarus world.
There is an English version here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14IRDDnEPR4 The second and third verses are the only ones with the word "Float," and is followed by "ing the the Summer sky."
Summer, obviously in the season we are in.
The fourth verse talks about a "war machine" and "Focusing it on the sky." And here we have Ducks. On a Galleon. If there isn't at least one Lumberjack on that ship, I'll eat my hat.
Now, I should probably say where I'm going with this: We're eliminating verses one by one, until we're left with a hint about what's to come in the remaining verses.
Next we have "worry, worry, decision-scurry" in the fifth verse. If we have a looksie in the top-left, we can see that the A.I. is on repair, even though we have 4 people (presumably) on the ship. I only set an all-A.I. to repair when I "worry, worry."
The 6th verse is one of the verses where I have nothing relating to our picture to eliminate it with, and it ties in with my final theory at the end.
7th verse is an either/or. We have talk of "super high-tech jet fighters," which COULD be our A.I. planes, but I'm not sure those are ever showing up in skirmish, and I don't think this is the event that's coming up.
This 8th verse, I'm excited for. I'm saving this theory until the end, because I think it's most likely.
In the second to last verse we can see "In this dust that was a city"
Our friend "Float..." here is on the Paritan Rumble (what used to be a city) in the DUST Rider costume.
Float... here is holding a single red balloon, also knocking out the last verse.
Now, for my final verdict. A compilation of previous Crack-Pot theory, thought too crazy, even by me, to be posted as a serious guess. However, with Calico Jack confirming the first part of my theory, things seeming to fit together a little
too well, and my name being mentioned in the song, I present it to you now.
The third to last verse, one of the the only that can't be eliminated from knowledge of the picture contains the line:
"With orders to identify, to clarify and classify" this MIGHT imply we finally have a distinction between Captain's Chat, Crew Chat, and Party Chat, confirmed for the patch date, the 19-24th!
Anti-climatic, I know, but it's the best I got.
