NOTE: The following story was originally posted in January 2018, but is reposted here to celebrate the Holidays 2018! ???? ?
“Hi, it’s Captain Echo (top left in the picture below in camo coat and grey hat). It’s Seasons Greetings from us, the Earthnauts!!! We were so busy posting on Instagram that we forgot to post our holiday messages to you our faithful readers on Mr. Ben’s blog, The Great Galactic Space Gimmick! We’re really sorry about that, but better late than ever!”
UNION (top middle): “It’s been an eventful “Festival of Lights” for Mr. Ben’s household. They celebrate this holiday every year to celebrate a miracle of some oil burning for 8 days instead of one in this Temple in Ancient Israel!”
LAGRANGE (second from the left on the bottom): “Indeed, my most esteemed student! I know that us Engedians are able to modify oil at the quantum level and make it so it burns longer. Our ancestors brought some of this oil to earth once for some reason, and brought it to a structure much like this Temple was!”
MEDALLION (far right on the bottom): “The Great Imm Leader had his legions of Imm instruct our ancestors to do this, and said it was his way of letting his Earth people in Israel know that he was still there even though it didn’t seem like he was! Maybe our people might have had a hand in this miracle long ago . . . ”
UNION (top): “Then there’s Christmas. We heard that there were at least 3 Wise Men who saw a star that pointed them to this young little boy from Israel. These Wise Men read these stars saying that a Great Leader had come to Israel!”
LAGRANGE (bottom right): “It was a star that has never been seen by Earth before . . . or since! I know that 777 Earth-Sun orbits, or years before this, the Great Imm legions gave the message to our ancestors to pull back clouds of a nebula that blocks our sun from being seen by Earth.”
MEDALLION (bottom left): “Our people did this for some time but even after we were told to put back the nebula clouds, the light of the star took that long to get to Earth, and the Wise Men saw it. Perhaps the Imm Leader was behind the instruction, the Wise Men’s actions, and perhaps this Great young Leader . . . ”
UNION (far left, third from bottom): “And now Earth’s New Year!!! They call it “2018”. The earth has rotated 365 1/4 times while making a complete circle-orbit around the sun!”
MEDALLION (on the right, second from the bottom): “They give their years this number, based off of how many Earth-Sun orbits have occurred since our Star was seen by Earth and the Wise Men went to find this Young Leader. So it has been 2,018 times the Earth has circled the sun since our Star’s light arrived on Earth. So much seems to relate to this around this event. We need to investigate”
GRAND ELDER NOMAD (lower center, in silver robe): “Quite true, Medallion! Meanwhile, celebrations around the Earth are ringing in a New period of making resolutions, making peace, and striving to do great things to help all of mankind!”
LADY TIA (top in purple robe): “You are right, Husband! I want to see Mr. Ben’s world become happier and peaceful again, and I want them all to have a great New Year!”
ELI (bottom left): “Well, I’m sure going to do that! I’m visiting Earth, and I want to learn about Earth as much as Mr. Sneak and Mr. Chance so I can pass my dissertations!”
SNEAK (small one right behind Eli): “You’ll be fine, my ambitious student! You have great promise and you’ll do just fine!”
CHANCE (top right in blue hat): “You’ll do fine Eli. We’ll give you advice and you’ll do well, sir!”
ALL THE EARTHNAUTS TOGETHER: “SEASONS GREETINGS TO ALL, AND TO ALL A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!”
For The Great Galactic Space Gimmick, we’re the Earthnauts . . . with some help from Gimmick Commander Ben Faltinowski. 🙂
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