The Isu storyline's cosmic dimension — the civilization that existed before Greece, that seeded human development, that left artifacts that still function millennia after its end. The stars as memory is the game's most poetic statement about deep time: the light reaching us from the past is the past still present, the record of what was there still visible to anyone who knows how to look.

What humans have forgotten is the full context of their own origin — the Isu, the Pieces of Eden, the specific history that the myths are encoding. The stars remember because the Isu were there when the pattern was set, and what they built persists in the light reaching the present from a past that the present does not recognize.