Ronan's interest wasn't piqued by gossip alone. He still had learning tasks to complete.
Learning Ceremonial Ancient Script was a given. Beyond that, he could also attend to something else—another discovery of his own: once he had a basic grasp of Ceremonial Ancient Script and absorbed a certain amount of specialized historical texts, the knowledge gained from them became the best supplementary material for cosmology and astronomy, bar none.
The Sky Abyss Empire was already the highest-level interstellar civilization Ronan could access. Yet limited by the innate senses of Genetic Species and the constraints of cosmic observation technology, even when facing the deep, endless Starry Sky, layered and nested planes, and extraterritorial reflections that seemed to originate from other universes, it was impossible to observe and understand everything.
Not to mention studying the structures, movements, and evolutionary processes corresponding to each of them, and examining their complex interactions.
For Genetic Species, no matter how precise a theoretical system they established, how many observational results they obtained, or how many corroborating experiments they performed, large-scale time-space still evolved rapidly at a pace far beyond their speed of understanding.
The past could not be remonstrated with; the future could not be pursued.
Once civilization reached a certain level, this became a deeply despairing situation. At such times, textual records in Ceremonial Ancient Script specifically describing and simulating the perspective of Ancient Gods became the best reference.
Even after several obvious rounds of dimensional reduction, understanding from the level of Ancient Gods remained the highest-grade intuitive experience of cosmic time-space. In most cases, it was not clear-cut knowledge, but if one followed the clues, astonishing discoveries often emerged.
Leaving aside ultimate questions like the evolution of cosmic time-space, just in astronomy: with no direct experience at all and not much observational data, Ronan