Its suspicious X-ray emissions are subjected to noise removal algorithms, revealing the voice message recorded aboard a fictional future Voyager spacecraft, still in the Solar System.
With a tunnel dug into Titan's depths, and a prototype Inflation Drive on board, two astronauts make the first crewed faster-than-light voyage, traveling almost three parsecs.
Further exploration of Inflation Holes finds a planet 10 parsecs away with a wormhole core similar to Titan's, formerly inhabited by an extinct alien species.
In 2275, Alchemy objects to the use of human guinea pigs, and officially shuts the project down—but not before at least one test subject and one of the only successful Human/Ghoul hybrids is removed by persons unknown.
Divergence Eve takes place on Watcher's Nest, now effectively a giant space station built inside the planet halves with a population of ten million.