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The location of the Homeworld

While the Guidestone map is crude, it does allow us to make certain assumptions and correlate them with our knowledge of stellar cartography.

Galactic Co-ordinates: Kharak is situated on the outer edge of our Spiral galaxy, along a secondary arm populated mainly by stars in the latter stages of the main sequence. While our galaxy's core is obscured by dark interstellar dust clouds, our position allows for clear study of neighboring galaxies. From these studies we can infer the structure of our own. From what we can observe, our galaxy is a standard spiral type A, with a series of stellar arms radiating out in a curved fashion from a central hub of stars. This galactic core is home to an ultra-massive black hole.

The Guidestone map seems to indicate that the Homeworld lies in the resource-rich inner galactic sphere, where the star systems are younger and closer together. If there are other species of sentient star-faring life out in the greater galactic neighborhood, then it follows that our odds of encountering them will climb as we approach the central hub. This should be taken into strategic account.

Guidestone Origins: While the map gives a crude indication that we seek a star system on the edge of the galactic hub, the inner sphere is so massive and dense that we must look to the makeup of the stone itself for clues to narrow our search to realistic proportions.

The black stone seems to bear the unmistakable characteristics of being formed in a vacuum. Most theorists think this indicates that it may be an artifact of a moon, instead of a planet. Analysis of its atomic structure indicates a rock formed by slow accumulation of layers; some of these layers are composed of high-energy isotopes, which could only have been created with bombardment by extremely high-energy photons. These are produced only in the most violent of galactic phenomena. In observing other galaxies, we have noted periodic flarings of high-energy particles generated when the central galactic black hole swallows a particularly massive star. If we apply this knowledge to our own galaxy, we can roughly calculate the distance of the Homeworld system from the galactic core based on isotope density per layer in the Guidestone. This calculation, combined with the map itself and the vector provided, should narrow the search to less than 350 star systems once we arrive in the general area indicated.

Decades of effort and the entire economic and industrial output of our planet have been dedicated to this mission. Mounting this fleet has stripped our planet of essential materials and drained our energy reserves. Those of us who will remain behind will suffer many hardships, but so long as our people have a fighting chance of returning home, our sacrifices will not have been in vain.

Good luck.