Then he straightened out and was flying level. For a moment, my trajectory through space took me to a point from which i was able to glimpse our world beyond the repository, and in that moment i saw that its imagethat our world itselfwas even more beautiful and clean than it.

Creatures of that type, with such a tremendously long life-span as you have just deduced and as methodical in thought as they must be, would not move away except for some very solid reason, and nothing in our data indicates any significant change in status.