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History is bleeding out.
In the 24th century, the crew of the Starship Sarajevo documented the planet Chalara—a world of incredible promise, led by two massive, pre-industrial nation-states poised on the brink of a golden age. Now, decades later, the Enterprise arrives to observe their progress, expecting to find a society ready to take its first steps toward the stars.
Instead, they find a slaughterhouse.
Chalara has been plunged into a devastating, global conflict. But this is no primitive war; the battlefields are choked with advanced, high-tech weaponry that the Chalarans should not even be capable of understanding, let alone building.
The horrifying truth quickly centers on their own history: evidence suggests the Sarajevo itself may have contaminated the culture, inadvertently sparking this rapid, blood-soaked industrialization. Bound by the strict laws of the Prime Directive, yet crushed by the weight of Starfleet's historical guilt, the crew faces an agonizing choice.
Do they intervene to fix a catastrophe of Earth's own making, risking further corruption of the timeline? Or do they step back, honor the law, and leave an innocent world to bleed itself into extinction? |