sentences:  They wonder between them if anybody could have survived within the swarm of machine-tended bio-domes.Eventually they detect a message emanating from the swarm, parsed in an ancient human format, tight-beamed directly at them.The message is from Remontoire, who has managed to survive with a small group of Conjoiners orbiting a pulsar (the Greenflies do not attack pulsars, which lack the light to sustain vegetation and usually the mass to build domes).