I'll be in my chambers til then."īack in his chambers, Wedlen takes out his copy of Fellow Traveller his father gave when he was twelve. Unson," to the First Officer, "you're in charge here while I'm gone. "Portsmont," Wedlen said to his chief science officer, "get a team together and notify me as soon as you’re ready. They weren't really expecting a remnant to survive, not after what happened. To find humans, over one million years after they left Earth and found their new home in Earth2. Some marine vertebrates were worthy of note, but no large mammalian species of any kind. Who would've thought they'll be back here again? It is populated by arthropods now mostly. This planet, the planet where his ancestors came from, the source of their civilization, the planet Earth. Since they got here three years ago, the scouts haven't reported any large mammalian life forms living on this planet. We'll be there presently." Commander Natharm Wedlen of the space ship Popotchik hid his excitement well. They're saying they could be human." The call was from the advanced party already on the planet. The livestock are doing well and are thriving. None of the plants and animals we brought show any adverse effects. Only humans are affected but I don’t think the human DNA in storage have been contaminated. Crew of the Einstein-Hawking, if you’re getting this, everything we know about the planet is in the file called Earth2.dxb in data stream D-0957-7. Our DNA banks are still intact as far as I can tell no visible damage to the storage facilities. I hope they’ve been getting our signals and are on their way here, but I don’t think I’d still be alive when they get here. That could mean they’re still alive, or that its computer is and they’re all dead, but I don’t want to think about that. Before he died Vostock said they received a signal from what they think was the Einstein-Hawking. I don’t like to think the human race ends here. Fourteen thousand years after it left the Earth, everyone is dead and soon I will be, too. I mean it's finished as in it made it all the way to the end but still needs some work but you may regard it as complete.