I didn't go to the disaster site, though. On a hunch, I decided to look for the Anomaly itself instead. My usual assignment is to search out uncontacted human civilizations in the Near Spiral Arm. Not that we've ever found any sort besides human ones, of course, at all levels of societal development from primitive tribes to starflight-capable. I'm rather good at it, if I do say so myself.
Old habits die hard.
On the tenth day of my search, I found a world. Big as life, gloriously lit on its night side by huge cities. My machinery translated it in under a second. Their world was named Tranquility. It was a world none of us had ever seen before.