Nolan’s Observations

A vast, silvery space entity—it looked like it had been in that position for many, many years. Its ellipsoidal shell featured many accessories of different styles, old and new. Many small lights wove through them like swarms of bees circling around a hive.

When Nolan zoomed in, Hao Ren saw that the swarms were actually various types of flying machines, which had been dwarfed by the space station's size.

Hao Ren thought of the materials he had seen on the reliefs in the city ruins. At the end of the cataclysm, which swept over the planet, the people built a gigantic spaceship that launched less than a tenth of its population and vast resources into space. The picture depicted a spaceship that looked like a giant egg although the details were different. This could be explained by thousands of years of continuous renovation and construction.

The space station that Nolan found was the exiled spacecraft—how did it stay in high orbit instead of going into deep space?