Quote Originally Posted by Raiya View Post
I'd bet money at this stage on Solution 9 being from another shard originally, likely a destroyed one. It's not only the most logical explanation of how an advanced civilization would be on the source that's NOT Allag in origin and not already destroyed after 7 Calamities but also the only one that would have any reasonable sense
You're assuming that an advanced civilisation has to be ancient. It does not.

For that matter, we still don't even definitely know whether it is actually "advanced" or just suited to its location in a way that reads as advanced to us but might just look mystical to the characters.