The wreckage had been lying at the bottom of the lake for months. And a month or so had also passed since Hao Ren issued the "lost and found" notice. The owner, who had just been found did not belong to any civilisation sphere. Instead, the owner was from an exploration and mercantile consortium. They were not related to any government and they were situated in a remote corner of the universe, where transportation and communication were inconvenient. That explained the slow response.
Hao Ren took the opportunity to scout more information about them and learned that they were a unique phenomenon in interstellar expansion.
