Well this is what i think [hide] BH and that Kevin chap are setting up there own saga here, that being the final battle with the returning AI, the clue came in the butlerian jihad hen the Gedi Prime overmind launched all those probe's. And its the returning AI hordes that the Navigator sensed. bear in mind that these returning AL's would not foldspace tech and it could (i suppose) take them many 1000's of years to complete the journey, just in time for book 7. [/hide] So there:) ;D