Mystery system
Names: Mystery systemalien system
First appears in Book 5: Not Till We Are Lost, chapter 5 (Chapter Five: Mystery System)
Appearances
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What you know
Book 5: Not Till We Are Lost
- Ch 5The system holds a large interplanetary civilization that appears tidily shut down and abandoned, with no inhabitants or bodies.
- Ch 5The civilization's cities are dominated by towers averaging over two hundred stories, kept clean by apparently automated maintenance.
Connections
- containsWormhole
Key moments
- Book 5 · Ch 5Discovery of the wormhole
Approaching the radiation sources, Daedalus notices the stars within a ring of empty space are seen from a different angle. Icarus realizes it is a wormhole held open by the two flanking stations.
- Book 5 · Ch 5The abandoned civilization
Spy drones and then a powered fly-in reveal an inhabited-looking system that ignores them completely. Drones landed on the home planet find spotless, empty cities, as if the inhabitants packed up and left.