Thanking Mickey

The Pre Astro Terran Cartoon Figure Mickey Mouse was more or less forgotten or unknown. During archeological digs in the former California region of the North American Continent of Earth, a series of buildings and artifacts were unearthed and the archaeologists believed they had found a religious site of some sort. Among other things a cache of strange costumes was found. One such item was tagged "Donald Ducks Hat".

The scholars believed this was the hat of a priest. Immediately a sect sprang up claiming to know all about this religion and founded the Church of Mickey Mouse and the priests were called Donald Ducks.

They wanted to be taken seriously and because it was an "Pre-astro" cult from Earth, their church promising feel good emotions and accepted everyone. They gained a following of about 50 Million Union wide (around 4100).

When Admiral McElligott was shown the site he told them that it was not a church but ruins of a site called Disney Land, an amusement park. it was destroyed in the big Earthquake of 2102 and never rebuilt as theSecond Exodus was in full swing and Earth Humans had other priorities. The Disney Company relocated to their own planet and had forgotten about these characters.

The Church of Mickey called McElligott a liar and religious zealot who wanted to disband the church of true believers. But when a reporter in a rare interview with Stahl asked if he was a member of the Mickey Church and Stahl started laughing and confirmed what McElligott said, the Church of Mickey faded away. After all no one could call Stahl a liar. Other Immortals confirmed the story and Disney claimed copyrights to these characters.

But to this day some of the phrases, prayers and sayings of that church have percolated into Union language and culture.