Edicts from the Emperor's Council

Complementing the sale of the mothership, the chief ministerial spokesperson from the Emperor's Council has advanced a proposed series of economic reforms to the Intergalactic Trade and Commerce Act. These reforms would substantially amend the regulatory environment in which the mothership and its adversaries conduct their transactions with the intergalactic populace. Meanwhile, the mothership technicians remain in a state of mindful and open awareness, and the underpants gnomes seem increasingly resigned to the likelihood that the auspicious diamond will not be divided.

Astronomic projections

Suited astronauts within the media, upon considering the sale of the mothership, suggest the alignment of the various planets and planetoids throughout the galaxy are conducive to a floating of the mothership to all interest parties within the intergalactic populace. As Herman George von Dorkius demonstrates on his blackboard, growth in speculation is expected to rise over coming days.

Tails of the intergalactic sausage

Deep inside the mothership, the inner sanctum of the brains trust giddily postulate the implications of the emperor's recent edict. From remote locations the lords of the mothership communicate telepathically on secure ether-channels to ensure their philosophical musings and postulations are not intercepted by alien forces or any lowly technicians. Surreptitious random gatherings of technicians who formed post-broadcast, have identified a definitive lack of substance in the barbecue message and perceive it to be of negligable value or significance to either the intergalactic populace, the technicians or the underpants gnomes. Rather like a burnt sausage, it has been willingly offered around, rejected, and given to the dog.

The first transmission from the mothership

"The world remains what it is and what it has always been. There is still pleasure and pain, both intense and mediocre. There's still injustice and struggle, disappointment, joy, delight and happiness. But when we see with clarity that all of this comes and goes, when we see with awareness all of experience arising and ceasing, we no longer, from conditioned preference, invest ourselves in any experience in particular. We invest instead in understanding the nature of experience."

... and thus it was said by the Mothership on the auspicious occasion of the arising of Friday afternoon. Receiving devices from various outposts across the galactic empire received the signal and it was relayed onwards, to be broadcast to the masses. At this juncture, the intent of the transmission remains unknown, but media speculation suggests that it signifies the Mothership's awareness of its impermance. The underpants gnomes disagree with great aplomb.

In praise of the mothership

A recent survey of the intergalactic populace identified that only 1 out of every 7 members of the glorious empire are in favour of the emperor's proposal to sell the people's favourite asset, The Mothership. In spite of this remarkable revelation, the convictions and ideology of the emperor appear stern and resolute.

What does the future hold for the auspicious diamond? Shall it be smashed and splintered under order of the underpants gnomes, or do other celestial and other-worldly forces hold sway in the saga of The Mothership?