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quick algorithm that will only return hits that are the size and shape of what we are looking for. Come on, let's get on with it."
    Scans of the surrounding plains yielded one hundred thirty-six helmet shaped items. After further discussion, our list was narrowed to eight possible candidates. Four were of a species similar in size to the Igari. One was Hatcha, and the remaining two were unrecognized.
    I returned to my seat on the Jess after our final dig. "We are done. While being here is fascinating, it doesn't serve our purpose. I suggest we return to see Mollis. If he has no better leads, we return to Effica and make alternate plans."
    Garrett raised Kerba on the comm. "Kerba, we appreciate you bringing us out here. I would suggest you tell no one of this place until you have fully documented all that you can. Once word gets out, the treasure hunters will swarm this place. This is a big piece of all of our histories you have found here today. You should be proud of what you have discovered."
    Kerba replied, "I take it that you were unable to find what you were looking for? And thank you for funding this excursion, I will gladly give you credit when the time comes to let everyone know this place actually exists."
    Garrett held up his hand. "We would rather not be involved. And if I were you, I would set up the Pockna to give you an alert should any other ships approach. You wouldn't want to get caught out in one of those fields by yourself. There are still plenty of those around who would do you in, if only to steal your ship. And as far as finding what we were looking for, we didn't. If you happen to come across a Human helmet, like you have in your collection, only intact, we would be extremely eager to either purchase it or perhaps lease it from you. For now, we'll be heading back to continue our search elsewhere."
    Kerba Skol smiled and waved as we lifted off. The ride back to Novesta would take five days.

   Chapter 4
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    Garrett looked over the scan of the Tantric object. "I'm not a scientist, but I would have to guess this material would be extremely hard to penetrate. And I ran a few calculations using that aquamarine. It seems it would work wonders toward bleeding off the charge from an ion bolt. This looks like the forward section of a ship's wing. I have to believe this was once armor on a fighting ship."
    I replied, "Would we be able to reproduce it? And would it be better than what we have?"
    Garrett nodded. "Oh yeah. I have to think this would be far superior to what we have. You probably wouldn't even need the gravity shield riding in front of the ship to protect you from debris strikes. And I would love to have some body armor made from this stuff. As far as reproducing it? I don't know how it was processed to get it in this form, but if somebody figured that out before, someone can do it again."
    As we continued our flight back to Novesta I picked up the android forearm and hand. "I'm eager to let Go have a look at this. I have to wonder about how powerful the android was that this belonged to. The mechanisms that make up this arm are intricate in design."
    Garrett replied, "Autonomous robots walking around that are far stronger than us doesn't sound like an ideal world to me."
    I froze. "Garrett, this forearm has writing on some of the parts."
    Garrett edged closer. "And?"
    I turned the open end of the forearm toward him. "It's in AMP standard English."
    Garrett took the arm for a closer look. "This is one of ours? We had androids? I wonder why there was no mention of that in the history texts?"
    I replied, "Would you want to admit to future generations what your biggest mistakes were? What if the Duke was Human made?"
    Garrett laughed. "No. Not likely. The texts tell us that he had been running things, or at least around, for nearly a million years. Neither of our species go back that far. You take Human history back ten thousand years and we had barely evolved from using rocks and clubs. We might