The solar ship was a term that appeared in almost every story about the Sangha people. In a sense, it could even be seen as a symbol of Sangha civilization.
The blue, humanoid beings who had been born and raised in the Land of Origins made no attempt to hide that this technological marvel had come directly from the Creator. In their biographies, they wrote, "The Creator bestowed the solar ship upon us, sheltering the Sangha people through the apocalypse of the old age and carrying us into the rebirth of the future," expressing their devotion to the Creator.
They also took pride in being "the Creator's most beloved children."
Of course, the details in some of the "prehistoric records" Murphy had uncovered so far had already thoroughly debunked the Sangha people's self-congratulatory accounts. But that was merely a new definition of civilization from the special perspective of Alpha, the administrator. In the eyes of the other civilizations on the continent, the Sangha Empire was still a force to be reckoned with.
Its strength was evident not only in its exclusive control of the Land of Origins, a territory nearly half the size of the continent, but also in its advanced civilization and the vitality it had maintained over the years. Even if you considered only the simplest measure—population—the people of a single Sangha nation outnumbered the humans of all the other countries on the continent combined.
Naturally, that figure didn't include the ancient nation of Callum in the Far East.
Though they were all human, even the people of the continent were careful to exclude the Dragon Emperor's realm from such discussions. It seemed the Xilanese, Nordlanders, and Catians knew perfectly well that they and the Dragon Emperor's people weren't even in the same league.
In any case, there