One of them is the sole surviving Ram Odin. In the control room of the starship, there are either four men, or three, or two, or one, depending on how you count them. This starship is in the middle of the wallfold called Vadeshfold. Nineteen colonies were created, each separated from the others by a psychoactive field called “the Wall.” Protected by anti-inertial and anti-collision fields, all the starships and their colonists survived. The simultaneous impact slowed the rotation of the planet, lengthening the day.

All those ships contained a duplicate of Ram Odin, along with all the other humans lying in stasis, waiting to arrive at the world they would colonize.Īll nineteen ships were deliberately crashed into the surface of the planet Garden. In the process, it divided into nineteen ships, one for each of the onboard computers that calculated the jump. It was instantaneous to Ram Odin, the pilot of the starship-the only living person awake on the starship.īut compared to the surrounding universe, the ship arrived 11,191 years before it made the jump. It journeyed seven years, then made the jump that was meant to create an anomaly in spacetime and appear near Garden instantaneously. Yet the starship was launched from near-Earth orbit only nineteen years ago. It crashed into the planet Garden 11,203 years ago. But from space, it is plain that the plateau is a huge crater, and the mountain is its center point.īuried deep beneath that central mountain is a starship. From the surface of the planet Garden, it looks like a plateau surrounded by a steep cliff, with a mountain in the middle.

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