An Uncharted Planet

With our activities on Mariposa at an end, we have left the planet for a new mission. Since we don’t have any orders at the present time, Captain Picard has chosen to take the Enterprise to an uncharted star system 5 light years away. Our telescopic sensors detected what may be an Earth-like, class-M planet located there, and many of us are curious to investigate. Class-M planets are comparatively rare in the known galaxy, and previously uncharted class-M planets are even more tantalizing.

Naturally, the images our sensors captured are from five years ago (since it takes light, five light years away, five years to reach our present location), but we anticipate finding the system and planet much the same now, as our telescopic sensors show it to be five years ago. The anticipation at what we may find, though, is high, since the planet could be populated, or, like most class-M planets, it could be devoid of any sentient life, and nothing more than a wilderness of vegetation and animal life. We just won’t know until we get there.

We’ve sent off the commship, that arrived earlier this morning, to alert the nearest Starfleet facility of our relocation, and have set course for this mysterious planet. We will arrive in its star system by sometime tomorrow afternoon.

-Lieutenant Sam Archer

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February 23, 2365 -- (Original Devron Timeline)