While still in Vellari space Shadow and it's crew sniffed-out several more worlds touched by Vellari, one of them being of particular interest as it appeared to have held a large and quite advanced civilization over a century ago. With the aid of her droids and probes Polaris discovered millions of humanoid skeletons and destroyed robots scattered among the ruins. From one of the buildings, likely a library, she also managed to recover some historic data which spoke of a war where the robots struggled to protect the population against alien invaders but did not succeed. Before heading home Polaris received a call from Dorothy, "Polaris, on your way back can you stop by that colony visited by Vellari 2 weeks ago. And be careful, something there seems off." ------------------ (AI input, PSP and manual postwork)