"They run the gamut," Vostock says.  "We've accumulated reports for some time but haven't had the resources to investigate adequately.  That's what your little branch company is going to handle, one at a time.  Now, in general I can say is that each of these reported ruins is in an out-of-the-way spot, usually on an unsettled and incompletely explored world.  If they were closer in, we'd be able to get our other people in to have a look without as much trouble."<br/><br/>Scratching the nose it doesn't have, Vostock continues.<br/><br/>"What we have is a collection of sites that ought not exist.  Stepped pyramids on an airless moon, for example.  Or a vast city complex on a planet too young to have evolved life, let alone intelligent life.  That sort of thing.  You understand?"