Rui was grateful when he heard those words. That was right; the Orion Star Strand may have been the smallest star strand, but it was still a star strand that occupied a visible, if small, portion of the volume of the entire Milky Way.
Searching it for an entity the traits of which they had no idea about was something that would too either too many resources or too much time. Having gained an intricate understanding of the Arakai Web Civilization, Rui understood that large civilizations did indeed have extraordinary capacities, but they also tended to have even greater commitments for those capacities.
