To think, if the comet hadn’t killed them, our species might have coexisted in this solar system. So that’s how the Nomai died? That’s… really sad, isn’t it? I know it was a long time ago, but still… Stars above, it’s lucky we hadn’t evolved to live on land yet. Maybe once a Nomai journeyed to the Quantum Moon, they were considered an adult?” And um, special enough to make a trip there by themselves! It sounds like a coming-of-age ritual, like how hatchlings stay hatchlings until their stomachs are strong enough to drink sap wine.
“A pilgrimage to the Quantum Moon? The Nomai mentioned the Quantum Moon in a lot of their writing, so it was clearly special to them.>I found Nomai writing about a quantum pilgrimage.But they must have traveled around the solar system, since Nomai writing can be found on other planets, too.”
Wow! That means there were two groups of Nomai - one that lived on Ember Twin, and one that lived here on Brittle Hollow. Gosh, the Nomai were ingenious, building an entire settlement underground. “You mean there’s another Nomai city inside of Ember Twin? That’s incredible! A whole city, and I had no idea it existed! This is great! How did they keep the sand out? If it were me, I’d be nervous about getting buried in the caves by that awful river of sand.>I saw the Sunless City on the Ember Twin.Maybe that kind of thing makes sense to a Nomai, though.Maybe they needed the black hole for something?” It was their most advanced settlement here! Why they chose to build their most advanced settlement so close to a you-know-what is beyond me. Was it scary? The Hanging City is where the Nomai settled permanently on Brittle Hollow. “You visited the Hanging City? Oh gosh, how was it? Was it amazing? Was it beautiful?.>I saw the Hanging City on Brittle Hollow.Haha, yes! I knew it! But that creates so many new questions! If they didn’t come from our solar system, where did they come from? Are they from our galaxy, or somewhere even farther? What were their lives like before they came here? And why did they come here? Hey, I… I might not be much of an astronaut, but I’m really glad I came out here to see the Nomai’s artifacts for myself. “You did?! That, that’s incredible, congratulations! That means they really were from far outside our solar system.I hope we can find out more about how and why the Nomai arrived here!” And they must have been in trouble when they launched their escape pod… but what kind of trouble? And where did the escape pod launch from? I’m so curious! This is an amazing discovery. “Wow! So then, the Nomai probably came here from somewhere outside the solar system.>I found the Nomai escape pod on Brittle Hollow.You didn’t come all this way to listen to me blather, did you! Heh, that’d be… yeah.” I’ve been gauging the stability of the ground around me using my Little Scout, and this seems to be the place with the best surface integrity, so I’m just going to stay here until I’m ready to move on.But that’s enough about me and my problems. It’s dumb luck that I landed somewhere my Little Scout says is halfway stable, instead of being sucked into… what’s below. Do you want to know how I even got this far? I fell. Seriously, I’m more surprised than anybody that I’m out here. An alien race lived in this solar system long before our species even existed! How could I not want to see what their civilization was like? Only… You’ve… probably heard the others say it, right? I’m afraid of space. It’s always been my dream to see it with my own four eyes, ever since I was a hatchling. Wow, I guess that means I’ve been out here a while, huh.
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