Back in December (last year, 2367) one of the mysterious locations discovered on Earth 2, was a long-abandoned Klingon colony. Our Enterprise teams exploring that region of the planet, have not found any inhabitants, Klingon or otherwise, however, we have learned more about what may have happened to them, courtesy of written documents found preserved in the colony ruins.
Apparently, there was once a Klingon scientist living there named K’Tok. For nearly thirty years, he gathered data about this mysterious copy of Earth. He watched the sun’s activity, he charted the movement of the stars in the sky, he explored older ruins near the colony, and he developed theories to explain his findings.
One theory, of particular interest to us, is that this planet has randomly shifted between alternate realities, a process that – based upon artifact dating from various abandonment sites – has likely been happening for centuries, perhaps even since the beginning of time. In many of those alternate realities, local space-faring cultures landed on the surface of Earth 2, set up small outposts, stations, colonies, lived here for a while, and then vanished at the moment the planet shifted to a new reality. Where they went, we do not know. This is why we found evidence of non-Human habitation – the Klingon colony, alien starships, even a Romulan outpost that predates the Klingon colony, but no people. In fact, just last week, one of our science teams even discovered an abandoned science outpost that appears to have been established by Starfleet personnel, during the 2260s. No records of that outpost, or past discovery of Earth 2, exist in our current reality.
Based upon K’Tok’s work, we also know that the sun in this duplicate star system has never exhibited the abundant flares and associated stellar phenomena that we have experienced during our time here. K’Tok recorded a rather stable sun, much like in the real Sol System, so it may very well be that the current solar activity is a result of Earth 2 being forcibly stabilized within our current reality. Based upon the very recent abandonment of the “old west” town in the Rocky Mountains (the previous base camp that I was working from), the final reality shift may actually coincide with our second visit to the Devron Anomaly.
If so, the Devron Anomaly, our time travel, and this copy of Earth may have more in common than we realize. We, aboard the USS Enterprise, are aware of our current timeline resetting itself, however, no one else in the Federation has reported experiencing a reset. What if, when this timeline – this reality – was reset, Earth 2 stopped shifting across alternate realities, and the solar activity we see now, is the gravitational constant keeping the entire solar system in place?
It's a theory that warrants pondering.
In addition, all of this presents another interesting question. If space-faring visitors were able to land on this planet (and then were lost to time when the planet shifted realities), how did an old Earth 1800’s pioneer wood-frame town come to exist in these Rocky Mountains? How did the remains of a 21st century Earth fright train derailment (with no sign of train tracks) find its way into “Montana”? How about the old Earth Russian military submarine that ran aground off the Pacific coast of “California”? Or the recently discovered ruins of an Ancient Roman military encampment in “northern Europe” – that appears to be no more than 50 years old? What about the countless other small pre-warp Earth ruins still being found across the surface of Earth 2?
I (and others working with me) did some digging into history databases, and discovered some interesting connections. In the mid-1800’s, a group of American settlers set out to establish a town in the Rocky Mountains, on the real Earth. They intended to name their new settlement, “Grove City”. Unfortunately, those settlers mysteriously vanished, and the town was never established. The pioneer town that we found -- recently abandoned, here on Earth 2, appears to have been named, “Grove City”.
A similar thing can be said about the derailed train in “Montana”. A freight train mysteriously disappeared while traveling through the real Montana, on the real Earth, in 1992. Neither the train, nor anyone aboard was ever found. The remains of the train we found, here, on this planet, seem to match the records of that missing train.
A Russian military submarine was also reported missing, on the real Earth, during the cultural events of the early 2020s. That submarine was, supposedly, never found. We may have found that submarine, here, on Earth 2, although, we have not yet been able to conclusively identify the vessel as the one missing from Earth.
Other similar examples of historical disappearances, on the real Earth, seem to match discoveries found here on Earth 2 as well. Could there have been some sort of unknown temporal anomaly on the real Earth, that deposited missing people and objects here, on Earth 2? Is – was – Earth 2 some sort of temporal nexus, drifting through time and space, while maintaining a mysterious connection to the real Earth…. until the timeline reset of last year? And, one theory I recently developed – could any of this be related to the ancient “Iconian gateway” connections we’ve discovered, that, according to the Adamoi, originated on the real Earth?
These are the mysteries we’re uncovering here on Earth 2. If this planet really is, now, tethered in our current reality, and if it really is here to stay, I can only imagine the archeological digs yet to come. Earth 2 is, by all accounts, abandoned today – except for our science teams, of course. But, if these discoveries really are grounded in truth – however astounding they may seem at the moment – perhaps Earth 2 has never, actually, been abandoned.
-Lieutenant Sam Archer
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February 15, 2368 – (Devron Timeline w/ Temporal War Reset)
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