OCEANA: “Good afternoon good friends of Earth! I’m Oceana of the Earthnauts. And I’m so very happy today!”
UNION: “Yes! And I am too! I’m Union of the Engedian House of Gimel! And today we celebrate our 2nd Earth holiday called Thanksgiving! But this is a special announcement . . . actually 3 announcements!”
OCEANA: “The first announcement is this. Union and I are officially a ‘couple’ as you Humans put it! If you saw our last story, you will know the details!”
Union saving Oceana at the Battle of Sirius 9 years ago with the IFS Thunder (just after Captain Echo was given command). He was 19 and she was 12.
UNION: “Basically I once saved her and her school class from our space-faring enemy the Agagans. She has had feelings for me since then, even though she was 12 and I was 19. But 12-year-olds have to grow older sometime and over time, I got to know her better thanks to her brother and my best friend Sneak and once we both got older, we BOTH felt differently!”
OCEANA: “I’m proud of my soldier! 🙂 But something else we are grateful for but also sad about is the Colorado Springs area. This is our Second Announcement.”
We have lived for 18 Earth months, or 1 1/2 Earth-Sun revolutions here. But we must leave soon due to our increased presence on Earth, our actions defending children in the land of Israel, and our own security along with Mr. Ben’s new Space Exploration efforts!”
UNION: “Indeed. Right now, as the Elder of Sol and Colony Chief among other things, I have our friends Captain Echo and more launching repeat flights and scouting missions in a land called Arizona. Our activities on Earth are beginning to build and we may have MORE Earthnauts coming before long!”
OCEANA: “Arizona is a beautiful region. It has the wettest desert in on Planet Earth called the Sonoran Desert. It gets VERY HOT in the summer, but still, things grow and people live here without much of a problem other than having to go to the mountains and ocean 6 Earth hours away!”
UNION: “Mr. Ben has considered living here for some years now. He felt the call of the Great Imm Leader to at least look at it. And finally, he felt the Imm Leader giving him provision to do so! And our Earthnaut colleague Oracle Medallion confirmed that we should ALSO accompany Mr. Ben’s family.”
OCEANA: “But there is something great coming with our new Colony. Tell them, Sweetie!”
UNION: “I love being called that! I’ve earned 56 doctorates, but they pale compared to you and me! Anyway, I am working on my 57th doctorate in spacecraft/saucer pilot training! My former commanding officer Captain Echo is being my Ph.D. advisor and trainer. Meanwhile, Corporal Eli is working on his Ph.D. which is called the Phoenix Project. We determined that our Earthnaut Colony now needs TWO saucers so we’re going to build a Second One, with molecular cloned alloys/armor from the famous WWII battleship, the USS Arizona!”
UNION: “Recently, Mr. Ben took Oceana and I to a Memorial Park in Phoenix that had relics of the great battleship. I carefully scanned the armor and alloys of molecular coding, similar to a modern Earth-computer program. Eli collected them and we have applied quantum-quark modifications to the atomic structure which our 5D ship printer drones (stored on the IFS Thunder) will use to construct this new vessel!”
The Earthnaut Saucers: IFS Thunder on the left (under Captain Echo’s command) and the new IFS Noble (under Commodore Union’s command).
OCEANA: “Union is going to take command of the IFS Noble shortly, as part of a small expeditionary force in the making to help with Sol-System research and to defend Earth from the Agagan realms and other disasters! We are already looking at building more saucers and getting more Earthnauts for the colony!”
UNION: “Finally there’s the Third Announcement. The Earthnaut Journals first book, The Earthnauts from Space, is closing. But our story continues with The Earthnaut Colony. It’s the story of everything coming next, in our new home in Arizona!”
OCEANA: “Please keep coming to read our stories and Mr. Ben’s space articles . . . !”
OCEANA: “Well Union, what should we do next?”
UNION: Let’s go ride on the swings near Mr. Ben’s house! We don’t have much time left before the winter cold sets in. But I know that in Arizona we don’t have to worry so much there!”
UNION: “We should not be far from the West Coast and Sea World, where they have many sea creatures, including the Manna-Nannatees!”
OCEANA: “We should let Mr. Ben and his family settle in first, then we can look at visiting those places!”
UNION: “I understand, dear Girlfriend! I love saying that! 🙂 Well, much to be grateful and thankful for. We hope and ask the Great Imm Leader to help you think of what you’re grateful for this year . . . ”
OCEANA & UNION <together>: “Happy Thanksgiving, Planet Earth!”
For the Great Galactic Space Gimmick, we’re the Earthnauts Oceana and Union . . . along with help from Gimmick Commander Mr. Ben! :).
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