Rimember was a strange month.
It was added to the twelve that had been used on planet Earth when it was still inhabited. This was prior to the system becoming defunct on the basis that other planets had very different heavenly motions.
All this was around the time when Earth became the first Holiday Resort of its kind. By its origins, Riminy was the name given to a small hopping creature called a cricket. Riminy Cricket was a character that featured in something that was referred to much later as the Disney Time, but this was all so long ago!
The entity, had spent a lot of time researching the period. It had always found it amazing that beings actually used physical bodies in order to survive. That whole era when the male and female system was in place had always fascinated it. However, so few decent records of the time were accurately converted to thought-banks during the Great Gathering that took place in the thirty-fifth millennia, and as a consequence a great deal of interpolation took place. Because these old cultures go back so far, it was difficult to determine how valid any of the records really are.
During that time the monthly cycles had been either named after Roman rulers, the Gods they worshiped, or the numerical sequence of each month. Tradition was broken quite unexpectedly by naming the thirteenth month after this one specific insect. Ever since the entity had learnt about this, while undergoing its second Schooling Period in the Fifteenth Galactic Era, it had become consumed with a desire to know more. It felt that it was such a pity that there are no pictures left, and would love to know what Riminy Cricket looked like.
Although Riminy was known to be green, wore a blue hat and had large eyes, no images remained. The creature had been famous for a peculiar song about the strange activity of wishing on a star. Records showed that the word wish was a verb in that era’s language that meant request.
However, it was not until more than three millennia later that the planet Urgonis5 was discovered. This was the first of many such planets, sometimes referred to as wish-stars, where the atmosphere allowed entities to both deposit and withdraw thoughts, in what would eventually become a vast network of thought-banks. These events finally culminated in the creation of the Intergalactic Knowledge Fund.
The question raised was could wishing on a star be a direct reference to these planets? If so, was Disney a prophet not recognised at the time? Speculation about this was strife but didn’t help. Sadly, it became apparent to the entity that without sufficiently preserved records of the events that took place during that ancient period… the truth of it would never be known.
