Rui was only aware of the immediate star systems in the surroundings of the Sol, and that too only because of the twenty missions that the Panamic Space Organization had prepared for over the past six years.
"That's a good question, Your Majesty," Director Brenner remarked, zooming into the Orion Arm to a hundred light-years around Sol. "And I feel bad to say this a second time, but unfortunately, even within the Orion Arm, we are still country bumpkins."
BZZZT
The image featured a circle with a large number of shining spots—stars—that circled one star at the very center.
It was Sol, their solar system.
Rui frowned as he immediately understood why the Director had said what he had said. "Why is our locality strangely empty?"
There was no denying it.
Everybody could see that the interstellar neighborhood, when stretched out over a large distance, was more sparse than the rest of the Orion Star Strand.
