He left the family mothership over three decades ago to chart his own successful course and is currently resident in London.

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Unlike the single-player game, a mobile mothership, variations in maps, game types, starting forces and rules only make the game more intense.

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Surprised when the interior of the mothership turns out to closely resemble a General Motors motorhome, Mr Shermer consents to lying down.

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"The mothership is now completed, finished and flying and doing its testing, whilst the spaceship will be completed at the end of the year, " added Branson.

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The service mothership would dip into an orbital area called the "graveyard", grabbing pre-chosen cadavers and picking off usable parts, especially valuable antenna arrays, with its robo-limbs.

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"Our strength comes from being part of Schlumberger, " says Rostand, 46, who manages his own profit and loss line and has to land his own clients--no piggybacking on the mothership.

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She says the cast of the Broadway mothership have been warm since she made her debut Feb. 12, hosting a small party in her honor and handing over that champagne, which she plans to open after her run concludes.

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Mr. Moreland produced a couple of special occasion crystal glasses and the mothership itself: a solid crystal decanter made by Asprey of London, jeweler to the Prince of Wales, and boasting a stopper depicting a sterling silver butterfly alighting on a sugarcane frond.

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