Xunca

So the Xunca device could send as well as receive, Flinx thought.

Flinx's Folly Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

"If the Xunca system is monitoring both what's behind the Great Emptiness and this Great Attractor," Flinx hypothesized, "then it follows that there may be a correlation of some kind between the two phenomena."

Flinx's Folly Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

"We will not put ourselves in stasis, as did the Sauun, and we will not run as the Xunca might have done, because we don't know how to do either."

Flinx's Folly Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

Through means we do not yet fully understand, the Xunca system centered on Horseye can peer beyond the distorting effects of the lens.

Flinx's Folly Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

"Except there are no more Xunca to interpret the readings or receive a warning or anything else."

Flinx's Folly Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

"Whatever it is, I have a feeling it must be what the system centered on Horseye was designed to warn the Xunca about."

Flinx's Folly Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

"Do you think that's what the Xunca did also-put themselves in suspended animation in the hope the danger will pass them by or be averted by others?"

Flinx's Folly Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

Flinx asked, "Then you think that, instead of putting themselves into extended suspension like the Sauun, the Xunca may simply have fled elsewhere?"

Flinx's Folly Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

And if that was the case, would the unknown, enigmatic, ancient Xunca be in a position to receive it?

Flinx's Folly Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

In another space, in another place unimaginably far away and incalculably difficult to reach, the Xunca considered what had happened.

The Howling Stones Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1997