[Brian Swartz]

Crew mutinied and shoved him out an airlock. Didn't you get the memo?

Ok, serious answer -- he's still out there doing his thing, but there often isn't a whole lot worth reporting. Back in the first couple decades or so when we only knew about a dozen systems, surveying a new one was a big deal. Now we've surveyed well over 100(exact count unknown). It would be really tedious(for both me and those reading) to report on each one. A lot of anomalies are very routine and not all that noteworthy for the same reason. The work of Survey Captains is important but also pretty repetitive.

At the moment, Dr. Tarc just kicked out of the territory of the recently-discovered Buhavilaa Ascendancy and is now taking a very long -- probably at least a year -- trip back to the core worlds and then to the outer arm which is basically the only place left where there are new systems to be surveyed right now.