After The First Jump

Copied from Poul Anderson's Cosmic Environments. See here.

Poul Anderson, The Avatar, XXVII.

The spaceship, Chinook, has jumped by T machine to another region of space:

the bearings of nearby galaxies show that Chinook is now about 500 light years from Sol towards Hercules;

the position is defined more precisely when, e.g., Deneb and the Orion Nebula have been identified;

Chinook has been transported to the system of a red dwarf with five planets, none terrestroid;

the ship orbits a Jovoid planet with twelve moons;

the holothetes, a woman and a Betan linked to the ship's computer, detect artificial radio transmissions in the planet's atmosphere.