It felt familiar because the star system before him, like the Solar System that Dragon City's people dreamed of day and night, possessed a yellow dwarf star in its main-sequence phase.
Slowly orbiting this star were eight or nine planets.
The third planet here likewise possessed an atmosphere and liquid water, shining like a glittering sapphire.
This star system even possessed a gaseous giant planet far larger than the third planet and rich in high-energy matter, capable of providing an endless supply of fuel for the civilization born on the third planet to break free of this star system.
It felt unfamiliar because the third planet of this star system, the only habitable planet with an atmosphere and liquid water, actually had three satellites.
These three satellites appeared to be far larger and more massive than the Moon.
They orbited the planet much faster than the Moon did.
This created tidal forces and mass exchange between them and the planet that were a hundred times stronger than those of the Earth-Moon System.
It also made the planet's crustal movements and climate changes far more violent than Earth's.
No, "before him" was not an accurate description.
Meng Chao was not "seeing" this star system.
The scale of the universe far exceeded the limits of observation and imagination of Carbon-Based Intelligent Life born upon any given planet.
Meng Chao could not directly "see" the edge of a star system from its center.
But neither was he "reading," "hearing," "feeling," or using any of an Earthling's sensory organs to gather all the information about this place.
Rather, all information about this star system surged into his brain as a torrent of data.
It was as though enlightenment had been poured straight into his head, and in an instant, he understood that this was