Centaurus Relic

The Centaurus Relic is an ancient, alien contact probe found in the Alpha Centauri system. Judging from the choice of target system, its distance from its home, trajectory, and age, it is believed to be from the same tlorai civilization that gave the dyrajt their technology.

Dating isotopes and exotics breakdowns leads to an estimated age of thirteen hunded solar cycles, or roughly 150,000 years of age, much of it spent en route to its target system. It is estimated, though much less certain, that the artifact arrived at Alpha Centauri approximately fifteen thousand years ago.

Despite the advanced data-storage methods that the species possessed, they relic contains frustratingly little information. It is clear that they possess some understanding of the local stellar neighborhood, and were aware of how nearby the Solar System was, but chose Alpha Centauri due to a higher probability of finding sapient life around multiple suitable stars, or so the tlorai thought.

Little about the tlorai can be devised from the data they sent. There are some audio samples of their voices, and some simple drawings of their masculine and feminine forms. They appear to have been an aquatic, sexually non-dimorphic species, with several mamillian characteristics including live birth. They had an extensive, nearly complete (99.5%) map of stars within a thousand light-years of Alpha Centauri, several of which were also marked for exploration. Coincidentally (or not really), a few of the nearest ones already have human probes underway as well.