Romfartyg kom inte från jorden. Det kom från en annan planet helt och hållet.
But it isn’t a star at all. Its a small unmanned spacecraft that set out toward Earth more than two hundred years ago, after an astronomer named Hoyt McCoy, who lived in a town called Yonwood, made the first contact between the human race and beings on another world.
The Diamond of Darkhold
De försöker inte lära sig från jordens misstag, utan bara att rapportera om det till sin hemplanet.
Ember-serien är faktiskt sagt på en post-apokalyptisk version av jorden, vilket antyds av det faktum att rymdfarkosten sätter sig "mot jorden". Utlänningarna kommer helt enkelt från en annan planet, och vi vet inte mycket om det .But the spacecraft continued its journey, and those who had sent it continued to monitor its progress over the many decades of its flight. Finally, a few months before Lina and Doon made their trip back to Ember, it arrived. It has been collecting data to send back to its home planet. It will report that the magnificent and powerful civilization it had expected to find seems to have disappeared and that a much smaller and humbler one has taken its place. It will observe that a great part of this world lies in darkness during the night, but not all. In some places, sparks of light shine, not fires, but electric lights, bright gleaming spots like diamonds in the darkness. The people here seem not to have lost everything that came before, the little craft will report. Some of them have survived; some of their learning has, too. It seems clear that they are making a new start.
The Diamond of Darkhold