While following the faint signal of the P7E, the R1C encountered a spiral nebula which trapped the craft in its extreme gravity. They soon discovered that the P7E had been similarly ensnared and was now sitting at the heart of a "planet" that had coalesced around it. Unable to regenerate, the crew of the P7E had instead survived though progenitation. The beings the crew met on the "P7E planet" — "Trogs", Seers, and Guards — were in fact the descendants of the original P7E craft.