"Ok, I have revived the data and I think it is time for a preliminary report and summary:
The Anomaly:
The anomaly appears to have originated here"
BCC points to a screen showing the star that flared before, where it points a black sphere starts growing from where he points on the star, gobbling it up and then soon thereafter the planets.
"There is nothing of any kind escaping this sphere, not even gravity, which suggests the objects are destroyed. However, later data as we will see indicates that there likely at least exist exceptions to that."
The view on the screen zooms out, and the stars are dimmed while the the background galaxies are enchanted, resulting in an uniform speckled grey. a perfect circle of pure blackness spreads out from the anomalous stars, darkening everything ominously. Then, suddenly, it stops, and the only thing that lets you tell the recording wasn't simply paused is the time stamp in the corner. Then, suddenly, the blackness pops to about 1/5th bigger, and then is motionless again. then the entire screen turns black as the ship entered hyperspace.
"over the course of 6 days the anomaly grew to a radius of 132 lightyears, then it stopped instantly for about 24 hours, after which it grew to 158 lightyears in radius over the source of 20 minutes.
It goes without saying that things of this nature almost certainly are caused by an intelligence. And the way in which it stopped and then resumed indicates whoever created it are still alive inside and can control the process.
However, as the anomaly was observed by visible light, it would have occurred over a millennia ago. FTL communications on record show no reports of any anomaly. This apparent paradox will be my next area of inquiry. " BCC turns the window away from the rest of the subprocceses indicating the end of the presentation, and goes back to study.
it brings up windows showing:
- all known FTL phenomena.
- search for any data on life arising in stars.
- search for anything known about time travel technology.