Destination: Ficus Sector

The Enterprise left Earth today, bound for our next assignment. Last month, Federation researchers discovered records of an unknown 2163 Earth colony mission, aboard a ship known as the SS Mariposa. It left Earth with passengers seeking to establish two new colonies in the Ficus sector – Irish farmers for one, and a high-tech research group for the other. Sadly, records of the mission were either lost or forgotten at the time, and no one has heard from the SS Mariposa, or it’s passengers since.

We’ve been ordered to head out to the Ficus sector and investigate the fate of that mission. If the colonists did make it to their destinations 201 years ago, we are to open communication with their descendants and offer any assistance they may need. If they didn’t survive the trip, we are tasked with determining their fate, and updating the history books.

When the SS Mariposa left Earth on November 27, 2163, it faced a three-month journey, traveling at warp 5. We’ll arrive out there in 12 days – at warp 9. The registered colony planets are about 50 light years from Earth.

We don’t really know what to expect, but it would be nice to find descendants of the original colonists. I’d hate to think that all those intrepid Humans were lost to history two hundred years ago, and no one cared about their fate until now.

-Lieutenant Sam Archer

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February 5, 2365 -- (Original Devron Timeline)