Philip the Bard's Harappan Blog: Meeting Max Gavaskar

Welcome helpful readers. Thanks for being here.

Last week I was fortunate to get an audience with Max Gavaskar, the Mother of the Galaxy herself. It was her insight about the spinning nature of the Universe and its Gavaskar Field that opened up the Milky Way Galaxy to faster than light travel. Ambassador Gulleem of the Fordians said of Max during “First Contact”, “She is the mother of a new paradigm.” and the name took.

She has always held some contempt for the name but has acknowledge her role in the Milky Way. She stepped into her leadership position when she called for peace during the Galactic War. Her call for peace established a new era of peace and cooperation that still exists.

Sadly her health is very weak. She is not expected to live much longer. All the space miles she has traveled at FTL has weakened her cell structure.

My friend Dorian Thain and I went to see her and I will begin sharing my conversation with her in my next post. My last post recalled a brief conversation I had the the Fordian Ambassador about their Andromeda Mission. Bad news there, but I won’t loose any sleep over a possible war three hundred thousand years away.

We found Max in her “throne room”. Not really a throne but more of a sitting bed. When she became too weak to travel her husband, Dallas, set up a room with a sitting bet where she could greet visitors. It has become known as the “Throne Room” but I doubt that Max has been told this. She would not approve. She has never approved of her being elevated to deity or royal status.

She looked very weak and her skin has an ashen quality that does not look healthy. She spoke softly and I had to listen closely to hear what she was saying.

The next post: What Max Gavaskar said to me.

Never mix red wine and Oodo.

Philip Normer

Kushan Year 89

Earth Year 2481

Philip the Bard's Harappan Blog: The coming end of the Universe.

Welcome proud readers. Thanks for being here.

This past week I was fortunate to get an audience with Max Gavaskar, “The Mother of the Galaxy” herself. I will get to my conversation with her, but before I get to that I also had a conversation with Fordian Ambassador Fromnol.

If you haven’t met a Fordian you aren’t missing very much. I am not trying to be insulting but the Fordians are pretty dull people. They would probably agree with me. They wear veils so we don’t get to see their faces. Amongst them selves they “chimo” which is some sort of ESP that they use to communicate. They are smallish, being a little more than a meter tall. They waddle when they walk and their voice is a monotone drone.

However Ambassador Fromnol had some VERY interesting news from their Andromeda Mission. 

Many generations ago the Fordians sent one of their massive star ships on a mission to what they called “Galaxy 2”, that we now all call Andromeda. Max Gavaskar’s insight that the Universe is spinning allowed the Fordians to fully engage their faster than light drives and make it to Andromeda and they are now on their way back and close enough to communicate via their Quantum Empathy (what we call the quick quack) communicators.

The news from the Fordian mission is not good. It appears that the Milky Way galaxy is on the axis of the Universe and very near the center. We were the last Galaxy in the Universe to discover this spinning of the Universe. At the outer edge of the Universe the centrifugal forces are becoming so strong that matter and the Gavaskar Field (the foundation for the Universe) are breaking up.

As the very outer Galaxies began crumbling, space faring civilizations began moving in towards the center of the Universe. Many of these civilizations have found new un-populated worlds that they could occupy but others have taken worlds by force. The outer Universe is a mess of war and destruction. The Fordians calculate that this war will reach us in two to three-hundred thousand years. We should start preparing they say. Hmmm.

This week: My conversation with Max Gavaskar

Never mix red wine and Oodo.

Philip Normer

Kushan Year 89

Earth Year 2481

Philip the Bard's Harappan Blog: Meeting the Mother of the Galaxy

Welcome great readers. Thanks for being here.

This past weekend I spent some time with Max Gavaskar the Mother of the Galaxy, herself. She is very frail and weak but the light within her still shines bright.

I met up with my friend Dorian Thain and we drove the short distance north of Harappa City to Yahvi, Max and her families’ compound. The landscaping is colorful and cheery. Max’s husband and my friend Dorian’s son Dallas has become a fine gardner. Of course gardening on the “Garden World” is easier than in some places.

We were escorted by one of the volunteer aids to the reception room. The reception room is where Max has greeted dignitaries for almost two years now. Ever since she became too weak to travel. Many windows open out to the surrounding garden courtyard. Max was not yet in her sitting bed. Dorian and I sat on two of the easy chairs and chatted about non consequential issues waiting for the aids to bring the Mother in.

The compound has always been a place of peace. Max’s life since she orchestrated the era of peace that now bears her name (The Pax Gavaskar) has been a whirlwind. Dallas has made sure that her home was a respite from her political life. He has worked hard to make the place as beautiful and serene as humanly possible.

In the next few days I will offer you some details from my conversation with the Mother, but tomorrow I will discuss a short conversation I had with the Fordian Ambassador Fromnol. He had word from their Galaxy Two mission, some very interesting stuff.

Never mix red wine and Oodo.

Philip Normer

Kushan Year 89

Earth Year 2481

Notes from the author: Who is Philip the Bard?

Welcome beloved readers. Thanks for being here.

It has been some time since I’ve posted regularly on this blog. Look for more action here soon.

But, I am aware that some new readers here may not be totally aware about how this Philip the Bard character is.

Philip was one of the main characters in the back story to the Max Gavaskar series. He was in the tales that began the Harappan HIstory Project. They included;

The Harappan Secret

The Harappan Curse

The Last Secret of the Founder

These stories detailed the journey of Dorian Thain who became the leader of the Harappan people. The Harappans were folks from Earth led by charismatic leader Marcus Johnson. Fleeing an Earth that was in the throes of a series of environmental disasters they found planet Harappa, a barely habitable world but with a strange secret.

Humans on planet Earth eventually solved their environmental problems and eventually discovered a way to travel faster than light. They found Marcus’s Johnson's colony and conflict between the two worlds led to “Harvest Day”.

Harappa was loaded with the mineral illumaphane which was important to the Earther FTL (faster than light) program. In an effort to stop an Earther mining project, freedom fighter Paladain Thain blew up a vein of the precious mineral. Unfortunately, the blast ignited more illumaphane that anticipated and the explosion blew the planet off it’s orbit sending it on a  spiral towards its sun.

Philip was there for all of this.

When he moved to planet Kusha with the other refugee Harappans be started writing down the history of his people. He now comments on life on the Garden World while he compiles stories from Harappans about their time on their homeworld.

His blogs will return tomorrow where he will start detailing his visit with the Mother of the Galaxy, Max Gavaskar herself.

Never mix red wine with Oodo, but cider is fine.

Earth Year 2014

Philip the Bard's Harappan Blog: Visiting the Mother of the Galaxy

Welcome festive readers. Thanks for being here.

It has been a while since I’ve posted here on the blog. I apologize but when you hear what I’ve been doing you may not mind.

I have secured an appointment to visit with the Mother of the Galaxy herself. My friend Dorian and I will be visiting with her just before she visits with a Fordian Ambassador who is on his way here to visit with Max as well. Apparently he has information on their mission to the Andromeda Galaxy. Very exciting stuff.

If things work out we will visit with the Fordian Ambassador too.

It was Max’s insight that has allowed the Fordians to complete their mission to our closest galactic neighbor in one generation. They have not yet returned but the Fordians are now receiving signals and messages from them. The Milky Way anxiously awaits word from the neighbors.

In the mean time we worry about Max’s health. She is getting weaker by the day and she is not expected to live long. I will beging reporting on my visit with her as soon as I return from her compound.

Never mix red wine and Oodo.

Philip Normer

Kushan Year 89

Earth Year 2481