However, the researchers found themselves with a lucky break, as team member Wolfgang Gieren from Universidad de Concepción explained: 'Very recently we found the double star system we had hoped for among the stars of the Large Magellanic Cloud.
After a four-year mission, Magellan, as planned, plunged into the atmosphere on October 11, 1994, and partly vaporized; some sections are thought to have hit the planet's surface.
A new Infrared Survey Facility completed its first year of activity in 2001, observing the Magellanic Clouds and the central regions of the Milky Way galaxy.
Having left Rotterdam with four ships Van Noort now had just lost two ships to terrible Straits of Magellan storms yet Van Noort was determined to press on across the Pacific.
This news prompts the Puppeteer Exodus, where the Fleet of Worlds flee the galaxy at just under light speed for the Magellanic Clouds, in the hope that by the time the explosion reaches the Fleet of Worlds, the Puppeteers will have found a way to protect their civilization.
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