Look at those lights, children.

This is the first picture we ever took from beyond the sky. Renfield took only one picture of Canopy, this shot from the night side.

You can see three continents: Alos, Kothos, and Ren. The yellow dots are cities at night. You can see how Alos is dense everywhere but the northeast tundra, Kothos has a great expanse in the middle and a vibrant eastern seaboard, and Ren is all concentrated cities along the coast.

That was our world as we understood it before this photograph. You see that cluster of lights, deep, deep in the middle of Ren? Can you imagine our surprise when we saw that?

You have to understand: we didn’t know. We truly didn’t. Our world had been explored, centuries before. Nobody went to inner Ren. We didn’t think there was a reason. We didn’t think we could.

Once upon a time, we went there.