Earthly year: 2834. Planet: Icarus, under the influence of First Federation. First human crew descending to identify the best area for the basic colonization camp. It appears to be just a routine mission on a hospitable planet where only plant life has been identified, very similar to the lost Earth. “...The first to step outside the ship, as protocol required, was Ioanide. The landing site had been chosen by himself, based on the data received. Valsin, one of his oldest friends who had reached an impressive forty-eight prepared planets, had told him more jokingly than seriously that while it was probably one of the easiest missions he could have received, he was firmly convinced that he would choose his initial landing space in such a way that his back was covered. Which Ioanide indeed had done.Behind them was an entrance dug into the base of the mountain, continued outward by a small range of sharp cliffs of a black rock, in stark contrast to the green of the vegetation that seemed to be ubiquitous on this planet. From one of the slopes to their left flowed a stream of clear water about two meters wide and a maximum of half a meter deep, which almost perfectly enclosed the landing zone. Otherwise, he had considered that after they study the terrain, the proposal for the future starting point of the colony should be this very one. He would have had to discover something quite extraordinary to change his mind....”