Reintegration complete, ZORAC advised. We're back in the universe
again ... An unusually long pause followed, ... but I don't know
which part. We seem to have changed our position in space. A
spherical display in the middle of the floor illuminated to show the
starfield surrounding the ship.
Several large, artificial constructions are approaching us, ZORAC
announced after a short pause. The designs are not familiar, but they
are obviously the products of intelligence. Implications: we have been
intercepted deliberately by a means unknown, for a purpose unknown, and
transferred to a place unknown by a form of intelligence unknown.
Apart from the unknowns, everything is obvious.
-- James P. Hogan, Giants Star
