15. OmnThe recorded image of a spinning planet filled the transparent globe. White clouds swirled over a red-brown surface, peppered with azure oceans.
“What planet is that?” asked Lilith, wonder clear in her voice.
Selene shook her head. “I have no idea. If these images are millions of years old it will obviously be very different now. It might not exist anymore.”
There had to be a way of getting more data from the bead. If the aliens had devoted themselves to capturing galactic information, they wouldn't have travelled to each system simply to take pictures. There would be sensor readings, maps, galactic positioning data, profiles of any lifeforms.
Without thinking, Selene sent instructions from her fleck to display an index of all the available data, just as she would have done on t
