In the year 2760, the No Returners set out from a planet on the outer edge of the Barnard's Star System, and by 2950, they had advanced to a distant deep space area nearly 160 light-years away from the Solar System.
They discovered a lonely asteroid floating in the cosmos, not orbiting any star.
After landing, the detectors began to receive a continuous stream of clearly-ordered electromagnetic wave signals.
Through years of research, the No Returners found that the asteroid was actually an ancient Rock Life.
This Rock Life had a lifespan of at least two billion years.
The consciousness of the Rock Life was born within a rock structure fused with some metals, existing in a way that contradicted Earthlings' understanding of logic and life's definition altogether.
Its main consciousness was not built on the complete logic typical of carbon-based life's brains, and it did not have neurons or nerves inside it.
