120 BPM, 4/4, instrumental, no vocals with words. LOOP STRUCTURE: one self-contained 16-bar phrase that repeats over and over, returning to exactly the same material each cycle — a strategy-layer map theme on endless repeat. Movement WITHIN the phrase is wanted: moving inner voices, a real motif with an answer. But the FULL arrangement is present from the very first bar and stays: no thin intro, no gradual layering, no build-up, no crescendo to a climax, no breakdown, no final chord, no ritardando, no fade. Energy and density identical at the start and at the end. XCOM geoscape strategy-layer theme, Michael McCann style: cold hybrid of orchestra and electronics, the sound of watching a darkened globe while an alien threat spreads. Restrained, analytical, foreboding — tension held at a constant simmer, never released. Tremolo low strings holding tension, distorted sub bass pulse, metallic industrial hits on the offbeat, military snare rolls kept quiet, dissonant brass cluster answering every four bars.