On the surface, the small village appeared to be like any other community in a stable, high-status civilization populated by human life forms. It consisted of narrow, straight streets flanked by dwellings of various sizes with plots of corresponding dimensions. That similar communities had existed in large numbers for thousands of years throughout world history was an indisputable fact. However, this small-town idyll differed from its predecessors in one conspicuously striking respect. It was not located on the beautiful and lush blue planet known as Earth. The individuals in the village were instead on an unknown celestial body, unimaginably far from the evolutionary primordiality where their astonishing life story had once begun - but what were the original catalysts that caused all that would happen unspeakably long later at that extraordinarily distant and enigmatic destination?
