Dr. Takatoshi personally requested we do some experiments on a sample she had retrieved from 000XE.
It was a piece of wood-like material.
The material itself was interesting, but she didn't care about that.
She wanted us to study what was "between" the wood.
Indeed, based on her protocols, we found spaces in the material where we could pick up detectable mass, but weren't able to interact with it with any of our spectrographs.
We're dubbing the contaminant XE037 per naming protocol.