The search pattern that Sylvie used to maximize the abilities of the sensors was a set of expanding rings, with each ring having slightly lower resolution as the limits of the sensors were reached. Then she went back over everything with a narrow beam sweep and began to compile the data that she had amassed, in hopes of finding some reference to their location, or other missing vessels that would give her a clue as to where they were and what happened to the other AI minds that she had been in battle with.
All contact with them had been lost not long after the self-destruct had been set, as the commands put her into stasis mode, but she still held out hope that there were other AI minds left in the universe for her to interact with.