Great start!
This song is an awesome foundation for an impression-based song. This would make awesome game music, which would be great for just about any game, cause it's got a kind of lost, frantic but epic feeling.
In the intro (0:00 - 0:25), maybe the percussion stands out a little too much, but what's perfect about this intro is that it sets up the mood of the song perfectly. Most important, it paves the way for the solo synth.
From 0:25 - 0:31, I really started to like this, and it was download-worthy. The synth, with its distant sound and good use of reverb, carries on the mood of distance, desperation and epicness very well.
i was disappointed when I got past 0:31 and saw that the solo synth wasn't the main idea for the song, cause in my opinion, it should be. The strings are just too dramatic and upfront, so they kill the mood you set up so well before. That's why this song is only an 8 instead of a 10.
My advice - keep the mood alive. An awesome name for this song would be "The Dark Between the Stars" cause it fits the last-stand-struggle epicness it has, and the way to keep this mood alive would be to continue using the solo synth instrument as the main voice of the song.
What would make this song *perfect* would be: The synth being the main voice of the song with a solid but progressive melody; some distant-sounding, high-pithced strings (in the background) to help hold up the mood; and some cool percussion/sound effects that suit the mood.
This would make all the difference, and it wouldn't be surprising to see this song hit the tops of charts on newgrounds. It would be worth downloading to use in games, but also just to listen to.