The Lost Colony of Mariposa

We arrived at the destination planet of the second half of the SS Mariposa colonists, and found no habitation. We did locate the debris from a crashed starship – likely the SS Mariposa, and some of that debris had been moved to a nearby settlement site, but there are no current signs of Human life. If there were survivors from the crash 200 years ago, they did not live long. The science colony that was intended here, was never established.

We did find a few makeshift buildings, and a small cemetery near the crash site, but most of it was overgrown with vegetation. Those who survived the crash did try to build a new life for themselves, but they appear to have succumbed to the wilderness around them.

There was no indication of how many colonists survived the crash, although, the partial structures and the inscribed cemetery stones suggest that it may have been less than a dozen. Most of the original cargo manifest appears to have been destroyed in the crash.

The Enterprise will be remaining in orbit as we continue to search the area for more information about this failed colony, and as we pay our respects to the forgotten colonists who died here.

-Lieutenant Sam Archer

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February 18, 2365 -- (Original Devron Timeline)