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When the compilers stopped spinning, the name they provided was one I didn’t recognize. That wasn’t a surprise. There were hundreds of rock-hoppers I had still never heard of. What was surprising was that after giving the name they had to spin almost twice as long—so long I was worried light would fade and I would have to pause the compilation for morning—before they gave a location as well. This particular hopper had apparently taken some trouble not to be found. I clicked back through half-a-dozen iterations of EU maps before I found what I was looking for, a semi-autonomous