vvv
The year approached. The clustership returned, drawn to the remote epicycle by a conjunction of its system axis with the galactic center that occurred once every 117.894 triadic cycles. Not that the clustership visited every system in conjunction with the galactic central axis, far from it, but this one was special. It took many, many orbits of a mid-range system about the galactic core for the cluster to traverse the entire galactic disk, even at relativistic velocities. But the self-sustaining information ecosystem that governed the orbs had no expectation of travel at a different pace. It continued brooding, and breeding more of itself, and creating, morphing, transmuting, and shedding internal information cultures by the thousands…