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. Muted arpeggiated synth sequence in steady sixteenths like a scanning routine, dry filtered pulse on quarters, radar-blip clicks, cold pad, one bass note anchoring each bar.