This is what a planet on fire looks like. In time, the flames will burn themselves out, and the smoke will dissipate. The environment will recover, the climate will warm, and a new arid surface will be born. Nine years from now, Tessa, Cassie and David Brown will set foot on this planet (when they arrived in the future). Ten years from now, we may build a colony here. This is not the end. It is merely the beginning of a new stage in this planet’s history.
This planet will rise again. Of that I am certain.
-Lieutenant Sam Archer
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March 30, 2365 -- (Original Devron Timeline)