I kapitel 37 hittade jag:
Old Earth had been depopulated four times. Without the existence of the daughter worlds, the human race would have gone extinct there long ago. What lived on Earth was strange now. None of their kind had been this far out from the center of Human Space before. But now, as fleets made their final approach into the Namqem system, the Old Earth ships were barely ten light-seconds from Pham’s flag.
Så jorden är fortfarande befolket, och jag tror av människor. Men jag kan inte hitta mer om skepp från jorden eller vad som gjorde dem konstigt .