Ti flew by, a thousand years, ten thousand years, a hundred thousand years passed, and the Green Star Civilization had long since left this starry sky, running off to wreak havoc elsewhere. During this phase, Humans entered the Old Stone Age.
On Karena Star, in the Second Epoch, a new intelligent species, the Half-sphere Civilization, was born!
A planet suitable for the evolution of life successively developed two different intelligent species, which was not unusual.
Just like on tiny Earth, Intelligent People, also known as Humans, were a rather clear-cut example of an intelligent species.
But Humans were not the only intelligent species.
Just as with the Thai Macaque, West African chimpanzees, Black-belted Wavy-tailed Monkeys, and White-faced Tailed Monkeys, these species might also have progressed into the Old Stone Age; in the distant future, if not for the intervention of man, they also had a certain probability of becoming intelligent species.
These clever monkeys could use stones as tools, cracking nuts, digging dirt, and holding things. They also possessed a certain learning ability. Using tools was not innate, but rather learned through social factors.
These monkeys also had their own languages, and the final step to becoming intelligent species was rely the use of fire.
Given enough ti and the right opportunities, it was entirely possible that after hundreds of thousands of years, monkeys could develop a genuine civilization.
However, if Humans on Earth did not beco extinct, monkeys would never have the chance.
Because their ecological environnt was completely controlled by Humans, they could only live in the sa habitat, with no possibility of surviving outside their natural hos. In a stable environnt, the lack of mobility ant lack of variability, and societies of monkeys would inevitably end up overly competitive with themselves, aning their society would stop progressing.
The theory of diocrity in the Universe was universal, applicable to interstellar civilizations as well as to the most primitive aboriginal monkeys.
The developnt of a civilization required internal factors as well as changes in the external environnt; without change, one must seek it out, which was also the main reason the New Human Fleet constantly wandered the Universe.
Returning to our main discussion, in the Second Epoch, a new intelligent creature called the Half-sphere people appeared in this world, who were close relatives of the Duoball people.
Now that the Duoball people had gone extinct, the Half-sphere people, after more than a hundred thousand years in the Stone Age, were very fortunate to ascend to prominence. They developed a dazzling civilization, created their own languages, and established various Feudal Dynasties.
But they faced a big predicant—there were no fossil fuels.
There was no oil, coal, or natural gas, not even combustible ice from the bottom of the sea.
Nothing at all.
The fossil fuels had been completely depleted by the Duoball people of the First Epoch, and in just a re hundred thousand years, it was simply impossible for any oil or coal to form.
Without coal and oil, the Half-sphere people were in dire straits. No matter how intelligent they were, they could not enter the Industrial Age. Relying on plants as a source of energy was far too costly. Producing charcoal required a lot of manpower for extraction, and the annual productivity was limited, for after all, plants could grow only through photosynthesis, which could not be extracted at will like coal.
Under these circumstances, capital accumulated too slowly, and technology naturally could not develop.
Unable to enter the Industrial Age, the Half-sphere people slowly beca an Ordinary Civilization...
They always stayed in the traditional handicraft era, capable of using charcoal to slt so tals, but, limited by the high cost, large-scale steelmaking was very difficult.
And steelmaking was a very important condition for industrialization.
This era lasted for at least fifty thousand years, much of the historical data were lost, and compared to the contemporaneous Human civilization, it seed excessively prolonged.
But long explorations could eventually cumulate a dazzling culture, and amidst the continuous separations and unions, the idle upper class began to favor spiritual enjoynts—mathematics, arts, and... archaeology.
Archaeology, the biggest variable for Karena Star.
In fact, the Half-sphere people often dug up odd and ancient artifacts in their daily lives, also known as "ancestral inheritance."
Things like rusty rebar, concrete blocks, and other very strange items. The befuddled Half-sphere people always thought they were traces left by their ancestors and collected them.
Karena Star was a planet rich in oxygen. Over the long passage of ti, oxygen corroded the majority of the artifacts from the First Epoch, so the Half-sphere people, who largely stayed in the Feudal Era, never really recognized their value.
Ordinary people who found interesting trash, if tallic, would directly lt it down; those that looked sowhat valuable, would be sold to antique dealers.
The dealers, in turn, sold the collectible antiques to the Great Nobles.
The Nobles compared the antiques collected among themselves and were suddenly struck by the realization that the modern arts and crafts seed less exquisite than the antiquities, a fact that baffled them.
How could the current handicraft industry still not match the ancient one? They knew what ancient life was like.
Especially the various ancient texts, which they could not decipher—there were a large number of these texts, entirely different from those they used today. Driven by curiosity, so idle Nobles began organizing manpower to decode these texts.
It was not until an archaeological expert made a preliminary deciphernt of the "super-ancient civilization" language that the entire upper echelon had an epiphany!
"It’s not our ancestors!"
"It’s... there was a super-ancient civilization in the world, far more advanced than us!"
"We live on a Planet, which is round! And outside there is the Universe!"
The discovery of this fact astonished the Half-sphere people.
Soon after, the news spread throughout the entire kingdom, and all the Great Nobles began frantically hoarding antiques, collecting those of value.
A grand archaeological movent arose on Karena Star, the passionate Half-sphere people almost dug three feet into the ground of their entire planet; only in such a high-oxygen environnt, so underground shelters could have possibly been preserved.
Like tomb raiding, each ti they uncovered one, it was a huge find. Everywhere you could hear news of soone striking it rich overnight by finding treasure.
Although a lot of the planet’s inheritance was lost, the various antiques, when combined together, were indeed significant. These frantic Great Nobles even went overseas to purchase extensively and even initiated wars of aggression to plunder the wealth of other nations.
But it was these archaeological records that provided a solid foundation for the great developnt to co.
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