Chapter 7: Elvez Pt 2 (History)

There was only one fatal attack on an aircraft about three months after landing. The communications and sensor satellites deployed by the Everest before landing identified the energy signature when a weapon was powering up so pilots were able to avoid possible hostile attcks.

Earth crops and animals thrived in the temperate conditions, as well, a number of local plants were identified as safe to eat. The data provided by the "space essence" was accurate up to a point. Comparisions with current sensor details eventually established that the pressence had visited this planet more than 5000 years ago. The emerging civilization that were the Elvi had completly vanished by the time of landing.

At the end of the first year the military handed overall control of the colony to an elected council of settlers. The military kept to themselves providing protection for the settlement and support for expeditions into the surrounding forests. A number of sites had been reported from space as likely cities, long deserted, and now overgrown. The hope was that one of these cities could be made habital again thereby speeding up the colony process and possibly some advanced technology could be found that may be used to make contact with Earth.