Murphy already knew quite a lot about the ship called the Scarlet Dawn.
Especially with the Lord's memories restored and old Edward recovering aboard the Lightchaser during this time, Murphy had learned a great deal about the vampires' past from these two ancients.
Well, by "past," he meant their time on their homeworld.
Those were old stories from thousands of years ago, and their homeworld had long since crumbled into stardust among the stars. There was little point in reminiscing. They were just tales of home to pass the time. Still, the Scarlet Dawn featured prominently in those stories.
According to the Lord, vampire civilization on their homeworld hadn't been all that advanced before its destruction.
From his description, they had been on the brink of the Industrial Revolution. They could build some machines, but starships were little more than a dream. The only reason they had managed to build a "small refugee ark" before the "Great Extinction" arrived was that "aliens" had shared their technology with them.
When the old universe faced the disaster of the Great Extinction, the survivors had instinctively banded together. The Lord could no longer remember which group had come to their aid, but the result was that the vampire homeworld had indeed built the Scarlet Dawn before extinction arrived, cramming the elite of vampire civilization aboard.
They drifted among the stars for years, with no idea where to go.
But just when the ancients had fallen into despair, good fortune arrived through the Creator's hand. The great data deletion swept them up, placing the vampire starship and its interstellar refugees among Eden's earliest settlers.
Eden's first residents had all been similar interstellar refugees, but few had started out better off than the vampires. The other races hadn't brought starships with them, while the vampires