Excalibur/Sword Worlds             124-1125  

Received 124-1125

After over a year’s worth of evaluation, the Imperial Interstellar Scout Service and the government of Excalibur announced the preliminary findings of the excavations on the third moon of Excalibur. Baron Arvin Hault-Devros, IISS liaison to Excalibur's government was quoted in a press release accompanying the publication of the first report on the excavation: "The excavations have revealed evidence of an interstellar intelligence in the sector, predating the arrival of Humaniti. Their physical remains indicate that they were unrelated to any known sophonts in the region, but their technology was barely capable of interplanetary travel – they do not appear to have developed the jump drive in any form."

"We are not sure how they came to be in the Excalibur system, " Hault-Devros continued, "but the remains excavated so far do not preclude a sublight colony ship of some sort."

Hault-Devros re-emphasized that no Ancient artifacts have been located at the site.

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