11.22 Terra Ten Colony Relocated

TERRA TEN COLONY RELOCATED 2264 UBC WORLD NEWS – 16 FEBRUARY

Nina Blakely, UBC News. Today I am standing in a small, wellprotected valley about a hundred meters from the main scientific search station on Verdanis. It is an area that is off-limits to re the general public for research purposes. Sitting about a dozen meters or so from my feet inside a specially prepared protective area is what appears to be a model city. Elegant spires and domes rise up from a metroplex that would measure several kilometers across in normal scale. This was built by human hands, but not the same as yours and mine. It was built by miniaturized humans, shrunken in size due to constant bombardment of spiroid epsilon radiation from the star Cepheus. The people that built this fantastic city are the descendants of the long-lost Terra Ten space colony, one of only two of the Space Ark program of the 21st century known to have survived. The Mendant of the Terratins, leader of his people, explained their situation to us.

We – they were too small to ever be found again unless someone came upon us by chance. They were too small even to use the small craft that the space ark had carried. They had no choice but to come to terms with their new size and build new things and a new place to live on a harsh and hostile planet. Only by doing this could they survive.

The city is built from materials salvaged from the wreck of that craft, which crashed on the only habitable satellite of Cepheus. They were recently rescued by the starship Enterprise and transplanted here to Verdanis, where they can live in peace, free from the constant volcanic eruptions that plagued their former home. There is no chance of reversing the mutations that generation of exposure to spiroid epsilon radiation have brought about in the humans of Terratin. It is possible, though, for normal humans to be temporarily downsized to Terratin scale via exposure to Terratin’s defensive beam network, which is based on spiroid epsilon bombardment, after which the process can be reversed via previously stored transporter patterns. Both Verdantis and Terratin scientists are working on a project to restore the Terratins to normal size by artificially creating pattern maps of the Terratins in regular human scale. The process is quite complex and is expected to take years to complete. THE WANDERER WANDERS NO MORE UFP INFONET – 9 FEBRUARY 2265

In a breaking story, the starship Enterprise has discovered the long-lost Terran L-5 space city Wanderer near the Klingon border. It was adrift in space, more than 20 years out at space normal speed from the nearest Federation colony, and headed straight for Polo’s Bolos, a binary black hole pair also known as the Galactic Maelstrom. Starfleet spokesmen report that conditions aboard the Wanderer over the past two centuries had deteriorated to the point that large portions of it were no longer functional and the descendants of the original inhabitants were locked in a deadly civil war. Captain Kirk and his crew, who are already famous for their many other exploits, managed to do the impossible in both stopping the civil war and re-igniting the Wanderer’s fusion engines. It is now on course to slingshot around Polo’s Bolos and back into Federation space, where it will e guided into a safe orbit around the first available Class M b planet on its new trajectory.

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