Hebo's Plan

For Love And Glory, XXXIX.

At last we learn what Hebo had realized in XXX (see here):

it is known that the Forerunners were active in the period between five and three million years ago;

they probably had computing power way beyond ours;

thus, they might have predicted the black hole collision;

if so, then they would have wanted to observe the collision from close by;

their probes, if any, would be small and undetectable;

they would have established a base at a nearby star;

the star would have to be more massive than Sol or Sunniva so that its trajectory could be predicted that far in advance;

there is in fact a giant star fifteen light years from the site of the collision;

however, Hebo needs expensive new radiation screening etc if he is to approach such a star;

the purpose of his business on Freydis is to make enough money to fund such an expedition.

Hebo's deduction of a possible nearby working Forerunner base resembles David Falkayn's deduction of a possible source of supermetals.