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Monday, February 17

The Lost Colony of Bringloid

The Enterprise arrived in the first intended colony system of the Ficus sector today, only to discover that the sun was undergoing a period of severe flare activity – enough to disrupt our electronic systems. We managed to cope with these disruptions, and scanned two class-M planets. The fourth planet from the sun was mostly desert, and had never seen any habitation. The fifth planet, though arid and warm, showed clear signs of Human colonization.

After scanning this fifth planet, we discovered localized roads and a small cluster of settlements. Most of the population, however, appeared to be living in the caves and caverns of a nearby mountain range. The warming of the planet had, apparently, driven them underground.

A Beta Shift away team, led by Lieutenant Commander Winona Tallili, took a shuttle down to the planet’s surface, and opened a dialogue with the colonists. There were 225 inhabitants in the colony, and all of them had chosen to live a simple no-tech existence. The Away team reported that they were largely traditional Irish in lifestyle.

The colonists had named their planet, “Bringloid”, and referred to themselves as “Bringloidi”.

Later in the afternoon, the colony leader, Danilo O’Dell, invited Captain Picard and our senior staff down to the planet for dinner. Reports indicate that discussions -- during a fire-cooked meal -- ranged from the state of Bringloid and its unstable sun, to a potential husband for Danilo’s daughter, Brenna. After dinner, and with the sun activity causing increased damage to our ship’s systems, Captain Picard ordered the Enterprise to find safety outside the star system. Before leaving the surface of Bringloid, however, he promised to update the Federation colony records, and send a relief ship to reinforce the needs of the colony.

With the day’s discovery recorded, the colony inhabitants’ desire to remain on Bringloid, and our need to stay out of range of the star’s current disruptive effects, the Enterprise left the Bringloid system about an hour ago. Our new target is the recorded destination of the second colony in the Ficus Sector. This system is roughly five light years away, and was registered as an eventual science colony. It is our hope that we will find a thriving colony of Humans there as well, and can finally put to rest the fate of the SS Mariposa and its forgotten crew.

-Lieutenant Sam Archer

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February 17, 2365 -- (Original Devron Timeline)