VIMANA — Prologue A Novel of Lost Civilizations & Time VIMANA an excerpt from the prologue Yosuke Kaida · Shinsōsha Prologue This excerpt is taken from VIMANA , published independently on Kindle. Nichinan City, in Miyazaki Prefecture, sits in the southwestern reaches of the island that forms the main body of the Japanese archipelago — tucked into a corner just above and to the right of its lowest point. Facing the Pacific, it is a small town of perhaps fifty thousand people. And it was there, in the skies above Nichinan, that the object suddenly appeared. Its shape was a perfect equilateral triangle, black as deep night. The hull bore no windows of any kind; it was sheathed entirely in smooth, lusterless metal that looked impossibly sturdy. In size it was roughly equivalent to two tanks set side by side. From its underside came a faint pulse of pale blue light — perhaps the glow of some unseen power source. The s...