In 1977, humans placed a Golden Record aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft and sent it off into what was then uncharted space. Several hundred years later, when mankind had settled in Oikos, it was finally returned. Voyager 1, as it turns out, found its way to a planet inhabited entirely by apes. The delegation that returned the record told the humans they brought it back in hopes of trading it for another. "They had grown bored with this one."