Faster Than Light (Rock Cover) – Piano Arrangement

Stellaris is a 4X grand strategy video game developed by Paradox Development Studio and published by Paradox Interactive. The game, which was released in 2016 on Steam, sees players take control of an interstellar civilization and get tasked with colonizing and exploring galactic regions. The goal is to expand the player's galactic empire by diplomacy, trade, and warfare. The game's music was composed by Andreas Waldetoft and Bert Meyer, with Mia Stegmar (lead singer of Pagan Fury) contributing to two songs on the soundtrack. I first discovered "Faster Than Light" not via Stellaris, but instead via a 2018 update to Cities: Skylines (another Paradox game) which added the ability to have "radio stations" in the game. This was a really nice addition to the game's soundtrack as it helps players encourage city building. In addition, this song is also useful when playing spaceflight games such as Star Citizen, Elite Dangerous, and Eve Online. I began playing Eve as an alpha clone in January 2024 after being recruited by one of Nighthaven Enclave's administrators, having seen her streams of the other spaceflight games she plays in the past. This rock-style piano arrangement of Faster Than Light is planned to be the first in a series of tracks that, when blended together, will help form a rock cover of this song. As the original song lasts almost seven minutes, certain parts of it were edited out to account for the length of the planned rock cover, which will be less than five minutes. This video is dedicated in memory of Eve Online capsular Matthew Otto (also known by his handle Dthwalker), who passed away from brain cancer on June 25, 2025 at the age of 48. This video contains an element that was created by ChatGPT's Sora website. All images from Sora are credited to OpenAI. The original version of the song can be found at:    • Stellaris OST - Faster Than Light Feat. Mi...   Nighthaven Enclave on Discord: http://neaura.net/nighthaven/ Serenity Rune on Bluesky: serenityrune.bsky.social