"A perfect planet!"
The Yellow-Clothed Apostle could not help praising it as he looked at the information collected by the probe. "Aside from the temperature being a little low, this place is practically perfect."
"Abundant mineral resources, as well as vast reserves of gold. I believe a divine war must have once taken place on this planet—a war that involved two, or even three, divine races."
"Otherwise, it wouldn't possess so many gold veins!"
The scientists of the Earth Star Civilization had already studied gold and determined that it was not native to Earth Star.
Although no one knew how they had verified the truth of this claim, most scholars and experts had accepted their view. They believed that gold was an extraterrestrial substance that had come to Earth Star from other planets, rather than a naturally occurring local mineral.
Based on the knowledge scientists had possessed in the past, gold had reached Earth Star from elsewhere through asteroid impacts during the planet's formation, becoming part of the process by which Earth Star took shape.
Ultimately, during Earth Star's formation, it had either been buried deep underground by crustal movements and other causes or exposed on the surface.
The people of the Federation—and indeed people throughout the world—had a blind faith in experts. This unverified rumor concerning gold was quietly spreading among the public, becoming a truth that people were willing to believe.
But in reality, that was not how it had appeared.
If it had truly come from an alien planet or outer space, it might have been captured by an extraterrestrial civilization before it even reached Blue Star.
Gold was not merely an important and rare resource on Earth Star. It was one throughout the entire universe.
That was because it was a crystallization of divinity! Only when