When the energy vortex completely subsided, the starlight across the entire galaxy returned to order. Xavier's spaceship drifted slowly through space. As he gazed through the porthole at the gradually dissipating turbulent energy, he suddenly noticed a point of light approaching the fleet at a speed exceeding the speed of light.
"What is that?" Ava's voice carried a hint of vigilance.
Xavier activated the full-spectrum scan, and a silver sphere about three hundred meters in diameter appeared in the holographic projection, its surface covered with lines resembling neuronal synapses. "It's mimicking our quantum communication protocol." He discovered with surprise that the sphere was changing its surface patterns at a frequency of a trillion times per second. "This is some kind of living information carrier."
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