Yonderverse

There will be billions and billions of sophonts who lived before present day, but there are some that are more important than others. The Kavaari were an important group of people who for thousands of years lived on their home planet, but eventually ran out of space there and so they fled in spacecrafts to find a new planet to call home.

They had adapted to their native planet too much, and so they combed through thousands upon thousands of planets for a new home, but none were suitable enough for them. Every time they landed on a new planet, they left a giant statue of one of their leaders to remember them by. These statues have survived to modern day, and have influenced countless civilisations.