I’d been doing some light astronomy while waiting for the autofactory to build things and for the drones to find things. I had already identified six planets, the second of which was in the habitable zone. I’d also identified a gap between the second and third planets, which was where the infrared signature was coming from. I couldn’t resolve anything in that zone, and the signature was coming from all the way around the star, so my money was on some kind of swarm—possibly the beginnings of a Dyson Swarm, but concentrated in the ecliptic. If that was the case, and the swarm consisted of something in the order of O’Neill cylinders, it would make sense that I wouldn’t be able to make out any detail yet.