Today I hacked a whole garden of branches into a mindmap – a map intended to give me a visual overview about all the aspects of the Mothership Gaia project. I felt frustrated because I couldn’t focus on the next required main action within all the complexity of the project which has been growing enormous almost 2 years now in it’s sprouting/R&D/incubator state.

The current web development platform, the tiny and visible tip of the iceberg of the explored material is pretty fragmented and looks like a chaotic lab with stuff flying around everywhere on the 6 sub systems. It sure shows something - but it’s also sure that it doesn’t give a coherent insight about what Mothership Gaia is really about. Is it about the 3 OMMS, the philosophical Meta Models ? Is it about a fancy media platform - a showcase of various Open Source web platforms ? Is it about local training programs in media literacy and Community/Content Management Systems, etc. ?

“Damn, what’s the real main focus of the project, holy shit ?” I echoed in my smoking mind and couldn’t find the answer - until 5 minutes ago.

“Mothership Gaia - a blank new world” is a Rram RPG for Integral Sustainable Development, Media- and Eco-literacy.

What’s a Rram RPG ? An edutaining Realtime Reality All Media Role Playing Game! Uh?!

: A culture myth being told in multiple mediums (electronic and body based) - produced by a planetary community of people. A Role Playing Game that at the same time plays in fiction fantasy and the real world. A playful Game with real impact that deals with the Real stuff of our time in Realtime. Uh?!

: Our Media Society loves to hang out a lot in entertaining media environments: Video Games, TV, Movies and all that, right ? How many stories of the dominant media content really deal with the requirements of this time: The quest for a just, peaceful and integral sustainable world ? Not to many – almost none, right ? Do we have to wait for Mass Media to step up into it’s responsibility to produce media that inspires the quest for integral sustainable development ? Luckily NO! Thanks to New Media we are able to be Media producer as common people and can broadcast world wide without Big corporate structures.

So why not co-creating a powerful culture myth about our confused and fu**ed up humanity on it’s quest to a just, peaceful and integral sustainable world in the tradition of The Matrix, Star-Wars and Lord of the Rings: 3 famous Myth being told in multiple mediums ?

We would have to produce the music, graphics, movies, video game platforms, MMORPGs, scripts, online communities, sounds, texts (well everything that such an endeavor requires and would burst this blog if listed) by our growing selfs. We would have to come together locally and in the web to build production teams (I prefer Creation Circles) On the course of doing this many of us would have to learn the required skills and enhance our media literacy. We would even have to be actors and play our scenes in the local and distant nature scapes.

The fun doesn’t arise when the Media myth is being “finished” and released (which might take years).The fun, the RPG (Role Playing Game), the myth does already begin while we co-produce together.

Enough of short glimpses. Now that I finally found the true focus I can re-arrange my strategy and get into action. Check out http://www.mothership-gaia.org/wiki/en/Mothership_Gaia_-_a_blank_new_world if you want to see some concept art and a brief story of the beginnig Myth.