ocr: FOR SEVENTEEN YEARS UHE RENEGADE PFHOR SCOUTSHIP JUMPED BETWEEN THE CLOSELY PACKED PIARP DF THE GALACTIC CORE: CHARTING AND DIELARDINS NEARLY SEVEN THOUSAND SYSTEMS BEFORE FINALLY FALLINS INTE A SLOW RBIT AROUND THE SECOND PLANET DF A DIM STAR NINEIIEEVEN LISHT YEARE FROM THE SRAVITATUNAL CENTER OF UHE MILKY WAY. PROBES WERE CONSTRUCTED AND LAUNCHED: WUTH ENGINES AND INEIRUMENIS WHOSE EUPHIETILATIUN WOULD HAVE ABIDUNDED BOTH UHE PFHOR FROM VHUM IELANULULST HAD BEEN STOLENTAND THE HUMAN PROGRAMMERS DF THE AI WHOSE MAD GENIUS HAD DIRECTED THEIR FABRILATIUN: THE OUTSNES OF CUNTINENIS WERE MAPPED, ...
