Pavn's expression sours. "As in who gets to publish their findings about the rifts first. Granted, it's not as if heptarchate journals are going to accept foreign papers for publication, but...it's making everyone jittery just out of reflex.

"But pardon me, I didn't address your question. They claim to be from some sort of divergent future, and are clearly not of the heptarchate, but we haven't been able to extract much in the way of specifics. Bokali has been trying to consult with linguistic and cultural experts to guess at the point of divergence, but..." He shrugs.