Motherland?

My relationship to India and Indians is something that has always made me… uncomfortable, mostly because I don’t really have one.

The Happy Stone

Like most of the developed civilizations in the universe, the Manuan race rose up out of the jungles of their home planet, Yortha, through the formation of a society whose members held specialized functions.  To put it into plainer terms, some Manuans farmed, some hunted, others worked metal and stone, and some sought and preserved knowledge for the advancement of Manuan civilization.

Now obviously, keeping knowledge is a useful task for the advancement of any primitive civilization.  If nothing else, it allows a society to learn which things are good to eat and which things are not.  But Manuans valued knowledge for it’s own sake, drawn by insatiable curiosity to store it up in large houses, built solely for holding knowledge, in all of the central cities, next to their stores of grain.