Chapter 7
The Planet of Riches by Gregory Lama, chapter three:
(Professor Gregory Lama is a world renown Ancients’ historian who has won awards such as the Founder’s International Honor, the Best Ancient Historian Award, and the Klempentine Prize. When not teaching at his alma mater of Purple Stone University, he regularly guest hosts the very popular tv shows, The Original Ancients and Aliens amongst the Ancients, on the Ancients channel.)
“After years of studying the ancient tomes left by the Ancients, I am certain the location of the Planet of Riches, or Planeta Divitiarum as they would have called it, is in an uncharted planetary system centrillions of light years away from the Lar System.
“But if this planet is so far away, how were the Ancients able to reach it or even know of its existence?
“In conjunction with the other documents by not only the Ancients but other early inhabitants, I’ve found numerous references of intergalactic spacecraft. In recent years, experts have debated their ability to travel amongst the stars and to what extent. While most still believe they could go no farther than the Queen Galaxy, which is about eight light years from our galaxy, I believe differently.
“Through the descriptions I’ve translated, I believe they could travel much farther than even we can today. In one particular passage of the Ancients Iter Illustratio, it states that the Ancients, ‘Traveled beyond the known heavens on celestial ships.’
“While other so-called experts believe this passage refers to their travel across large oceans to uncharted lands, I believe this passage means that they traveled away from their home on intergalactic ships and traveled through space.
“Once the Ancients visited the nearest planetary systems and colonized them, they made their way into deep space, stumbling upon the Planet of Riches.
“After consulting with experts in the fields of intergalactic travel, I believe they would have found the Planet of Riches sometime in the last few hundred years of the Empire’s formal existence, thus explaining why the exact location of the planet was not written down and why we have such a limited knowledge as to what is actually on the planet itself.
“For those of you not familiar with this time period in the Ancients’ history, the last two hundred years were fraught with civil war, rioting, assassinations, and a constant stream of petty magistrates, each more short lived than the one they replaced. (Things got so bad that at times it was hard to even get a chief magistrate because everyone knew what would happen to them and nobody wanted the job.)
“When the Ancients tasked with reporting their findings returned to Earth, they would have seen the chaos and realized telling anyone of the riches they’d found would plunge their people into even deeper chaos. Also, had they revealed the location to the Anarchists even accidentally, the Anarchists would have had enough resources to retrieve the riches and finance their remaining armies as well as allowing them to purchase outright some of the politicians who were tired of war and willing to do anything to end the years of bloodshed.
“(Upon realization that such magistrates and magistrate aids existed, the chief magistrate cleaned house, appointing only those who he trusted to be on the council. The irony is, however, that even amongst his friends there were corrupt officials which were in the pocket of the Anarchists.)
“These reasons, amongst many others that can be found in any history of the Ancients, are why these space faring Ancients kept the secret of the Planet of Riches, telling nobody what they had found, only writing down vague references to the fabulous wealth they had found all those light years away. They feared the Anarchists and what they’d do with this valuable information.
“Even generations after the Anarchist movement was beaten down, the remaining Ancients with knowledge of this great planet feared that if the planet was revealed, someone unworthy would strip it of its riches.
“Thankfully, such a fear was never realized for nobody other than those early Ancients every laid eyes on the beautiful planet.”
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