Long, long ago, there was Earth.
It revolved around its humble, but young sun, in a humble solar system at the further ends of a humble spiral galaxy.
Based on the information that he had gathered, this was not the Earth of the twenty-first century. In fact, this was Earth that was a few centuries ahead of the era in which he, John Falken, had lived.
Their technology was greater. Their weapons were greater. They had reached a stage where mechs could roam the streets without disrupting society. They had also evolved their language to the point that even Rui no longer recognized it. He recalled seeing some texts when he went searching for the Shepherd, and he couldn't decipher the language, even if it was clearly Anglo-Saxon.
This Earth in the 23rd or 24th century was the 'civilization of unparalleled prosperity' that the Shepherd had referred to.
It was what the six civilizations of the true world referred to as the ancestral or primordial civilization.
