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CHAPTER 1

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The Place:

From the surface of the planet Garden, it looks like a plateau surrounded by a steep cliff, with a mountain in the e crater, and the mountain is its center point

Buried deep beneath that central mountain is a starship It crashed into the planet Garden 11,203 years ago

Yet the starship was launched froo It journeyed seven years, then made the jump that was meant to create an anomaly in spacetime and appear near Garden instantaneously

It was instantaneous to Ra person awake on the starship

But co universe, the ship arrived 11,191 years before it made the jump

In the process, it divided into nineteen ships, one for each of the onboard computers that calculated the ju with all the other hu to arrive at the world they would colonize

All nineteen ships were deliberately crashed into the surface of the planet Garden The sithening the day Each impact formed a crater Protected by anti-inertial and anti-collision fields, all the starships and their colonists survived

Nineteen colonies were created, each separated from the ­others by a psychoactive field called “the Wall”

This starship is in the middle of the wallfold called Vadeshfold

The People: