Daban Urnud

Daban Urnud is a starship built by engineers on Urnud; its name translates as “Second Urnud.” According to the Laterran linguist Jules Verne Durand, it was the last and largest of a series of atomic‑bomb‑propelled craft, first intended to send a colony to a neighboring star system only a quarter of a light‑year away.

Durand relates that a mutiny and change of command redirected the ship onto a geometrodynamic trajectory meant to reach Urnud’s own past. Instead, it arrived in a different cosmos, orbiting an Urnud‑like world later known as Tro, beginning a prolonged “Advent.” In time the vessel was rebuilt to support peoples of both worlds and launched again, reaching Laterre (known on Arbre as Antarct).

From this testimony, a pattern emerges in which the ship is rebuilt at each stop before moving on, with upheaval accompanying these Advents. Durand warns that the Urnud/Tro bloc—self‑styled the Pedestal—seeks to assess Arbre’s capabilities and may act pre‑emptively if it believes extraordinary powers are real. He also notes practical constraints, such as incompatible food biology between worlds, that drove the ship’s mixed provisioning and refits.

Current accounts do not report the vessel’s precise configuration or position; statements about its history and the intentions of those associated with it are presented here as Durand’s account rather than established fact.