A espaçonave não veio da Terra. Veio de outro planeta completamente.
But it isn’t a star at all. Its a small unmanned spacecraft that set out toward Earth more than two hundred years ago, after an astronomer named Hoyt McCoy, who lived in a town called Yonwood, made the first contact between the human race and beings on another world.
The Diamond of Darkhold
Eles não buscam aprender com os erros da Terra, mas apenas relatá-los ao seu planeta.
A série Ember é de fato dita em uma versão pós-apocalíptica da Terra, como está implícito no fato de que a espaçonave partiu em direção à Terra. Os alienígenas simplesmente vêm de outro planeta, e nós não sabemos muito sobre isso. .But the spacecraft continued its journey, and those who had sent it continued to monitor its progress over the many decades of its flight. Finally, a few months before Lina and Doon made their trip back to Ember, it arrived. It has been collecting data to send back to its home planet. It will report that the magnificent and powerful civilization it had expected to find seems to have disappeared and that a much smaller and humbler one has taken its place. It will observe that a great part of this world lies in darkness during the night, but not all. In some places, sparks of light shine, not fires, but electric lights, bright gleaming spots like diamonds in the darkness. The people here seem not to have lost everything that came before, the little craft will report. Some of them have survived; some of their learning has, too. It seems clear that they are making a new start.
The Diamond of Darkhold