One person. Humanish.

What's she been up to lately.

Flying around an uninhabited system, pausing for a while at each planet and moon.

For a broader definition of 'lately'?

Visited Earth. Visited ungulate-humanoid aliens.

He drops it, comes back to it a couple weeks later when he's bored. What are the ungulate-humanoid aliens like.

Hooved. Into anonymized internet. They have warp as of recently and have declined a Federation invite.

Did someone visit them right before they got warp.

Yep. Well, like a season before.

He has a theory. Does conjuring around for inhabited systems the Prometheus has visited support his theory.

Is his theory that she's visiting a lot of places not long before they acquire warp?

Uh huh.

Why yes, brilliantly deduced.

Telkam writes the Anitami government to ask if, should he leave the planet (not using warp) and not come back for a long time, whether they will stop holding his family hostage.

They think that sounds great.

Telkam makes himself a lightleaper and tells the president everything she'll need to know to stay on top of stuff and leaves.

...she changes the law about blues.

By the time he gets where he was going the Prometheus is gone.

Disadvantage of not using warp. She does sometimes stay in a place for more than five days, though. He does it again. 

Polar orbit around a gas giant.

Ridiculously large unfamiliar ship drops into the other end of the system out of nowhere. 

...the Prometheus scoots around to the far side of the gas giant.

Telkam can't summon a fairy now, lightleapers maintain a very minimal gravity by spinning when they're stationary. But they've got quite the gravity from acceleration before they leap, and he summoned a fairy then. 

Telkam and fairy and some air go over to say hi to the Prometheus.

Well, if they're not in their ship they won't notice the Prometheus hailing them.

They will not notice that!

Well then. The Prometheus does not really have a way to say hi back.

There is a knock.