You are the captain of a 750 person starship that has found itself catapulted 479 years back in time through no fault of your own. While you were surveying stellar anomalies in the Feyran system, a portal opened up and the ship was sucked through it, where it was forced to crash-land on Feyran VII.
In the time you came from, Feyran VII is a dry, dead planet, a hub for mineral resource mining, with numerous settlements and installations, new ones cropping up every month. It has also become an important Starfleet outpost, as it sits at the intersection of several trade routes and near a border checkpoint with the Hemsae Heptagony, a 200-year old loose alliance of seven powers that frequently infight over territory and commit illicit activities.
In the past, Feyran VII is a lush garden of a world, filled with creatures and plants of every kind and description, but it is completely uninhabited by intelligent life (except for your crew).
Your chief engineer informs you that the ship and its shuttles will not be starworthy for several years, due to the inability to perform much-needed repairs without the required materials. Your communications officer explains that although the comms systems are functioning, they're picking up no signals in the immediate vicinity of the planet. Your science officer has analyzed readings taken shortly before the incident and determined that there is no way to know when or if the portal will re-occur.
You realize that anything you do now may change the lives of the many who will call this planet and system home in the future. In the meantime, you have the lives of your crew to consider. There's no guarantee you can make a life for yourselves here, and some of your crew are ill-suited to the planet's environment, by reason of species or other medical needs.
What would you prioritize: seeking rescue and a possible return to your home era quickly, regardless of the consequences, or surviving as best as you can, remaining undetected, and preserving the timeline?
In the time you came from, Feyran VII is a dry, dead planet, a hub for mineral resource mining, with numerous settlements and installations, new ones cropping up every month. It has also become an important Starfleet outpost, as it sits at the intersection of several trade routes and near a border checkpoint with the Hemsae Heptagony, a 200-year old loose alliance of seven powers that frequently infight over territory and commit illicit activities.
In the past, Feyran VII is a lush garden of a world, filled with creatures and plants of every kind and description, but it is completely uninhabited by intelligent life (except for your crew).
Your chief engineer informs you that the ship and its shuttles will not be starworthy for several years, due to the inability to perform much-needed repairs without the required materials. Your communications officer explains that although the comms systems are functioning, they're picking up no signals in the immediate vicinity of the planet. Your science officer has analyzed readings taken shortly before the incident and determined that there is no way to know when or if the portal will re-occur.
You realize that anything you do now may change the lives of the many who will call this planet and system home in the future. In the meantime, you have the lives of your crew to consider. There's no guarantee you can make a life for yourselves here, and some of your crew are ill-suited to the planet's environment, by reason of species or other medical needs.
What would you prioritize: seeking rescue and a possible return to your home era quickly, regardless of the consequences, or surviving as best as you can, remaining undetected, and preserving the timeline?
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And then, like Molly O'Brien's feral older self, it will promptly disappear once you're free and clear. (Unless you protect it somehow for posterity.)