518 Hunting With The Hunters

As they passed by the various star systems, Max noticed something odd in how the planets were arranged. Over a dozen of them appeared to have no inhabitants at all, but their layouts were exactly the same, mimicking the mythical Sol, the homeworld of humanity, in that the third and fourth planets of the system were inhabitable, as well as one moon around a gas giant. 

It was clear that so many nearby systems consisting of identical planetary arrangements, right down to the atmospheric composition, could not possibly be natural, but the sensors said that all of them had been extracted from their major natural resources and abandoned, leaving behind only nonsentient life.

Some planets still had living flora and fauna, but some were completely barren, destroyed by whatever force or industry had caused the architects of their design to abandon them.