Axor's Clues

In the chronological order of fictitious events, Dominic Flandry and Dragoika, the latter a female Starkadian land-dweller or Tigery, are introduced in Ensign Flandry. Eight volumes later, in The Game of Empire, CHAPTER ONE features Flandry's daughter, Diana Crowfeather, on the fourth Patrician planet, Imhotep, and CHAPTER TWO features Dragoika's son, Targovi, on the third Patrician planet, Daedalus. Targovi lives on Imhotep and trades on Daedalus. On a leisurely rereading of The Game of Empire, we, or at least I, resent this abrupt transition between planets. We, editorially speaking, want to linger in the old quarter of Olga's Landing on Imhotep with its market place and Hassan's inn, the Sign of the Golden Beetle, where, because of his size, Axor the Wodenite must sprawl on the floor.

We notice that, despite his Christianity, Axor has bought into a set of ideas that we encountered on Aeneas in The Day Of Their Return:

that the Builders would not have been wiped out by any material cause;

that they would have been too widespread, numerous, powerful, knowledgeable and wise for such a thing to happen;

that their long history would have been enough to make them wise;

that instead, they must have turned away from childish things and advanced to a higher plane of existence;

but that they would have wanted to help their successors.

However, Axor does not subscribe to Aenean millenarianism. He thinks not that the Builders will help others by returning soon but that they have already helped others by leaving messages in inscriptions. One such message, if that is what it was, has led him the Patrician System. 

"'...clues of this kind...appeared to me to whisper of the sun Patricius.'"

-The Game of Empire, CHAPTER ONE, p. 211.

I find this language intolerably vague. How can an inscription "whisper"? It hints that something can be found at Patricius?

On Imhotep, Tigery explorers have seen things that they cannot account for. Some islands have either natural formations or ruined walls although Imhotep has never had native inhabitants. On Daedalus, there are reports of what sounds like Ancient ruins in the jungle to the south of the Donarrian settlement, Ghundrung. Axor and Diana set out to explore on both planets. Unfortunately, we do not know of any eventual outcomes.

Where Axor finds his "clues":

"'...enigmatic remains of occasional records.'" (p. 211);

diagrams etched on walls or slabs that are now nearly blank;

electronically evocable, although badly blurred, molecular or crystal codings;

some incomprehensible;

some possibly signs for pulsars, hydrogen atoms, periods and spatial relationships.

Estimating how the pulsars have slowed and moved helps to identify them and thus the suns to which the records maybe point.

Sounds vague. And how does it help Axor's quest for the Universal Incarnation?