Jack of Harts

The Voice of Altair was a surprise of course.  Talking plants are not the norm.  Whoever built it obviously considered our ability and willingness to terraform Altair a strong qualification for making Contact with though.  The message included directions to a star system, but when we arrived we found only rubble.  Whatever planets were there are long gone.  The Peloran will say little except that many systems died in the last Great War.