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The '''Genesis Planet''' was created from gaseous matter in the [[Mutara Nebula]] when [[Khan Noonien Singh]] detonated the [[Genesis Device]] during a fierce battle with his old adversary, [[Admiral]] [[James T. Kirk|Kirk]]. |
The '''Genesis Planet''' was created from gaseous matter in the [[Mutara Nebula]] when [[Khan Noonien Singh]] detonated the [[Genesis Device]] during a fierce battle with his old adversary, [[Admiral]] [[James T. Kirk|Kirk]]. |
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| − | The Genesis Planet immediately became a galactic controversy, and [[Starfleet]] declared it off limits until the [[Federation Council]] could decide what to do. In the meantime, the [[USS Grissom|USS ''Grissom'']] was dispatched with a scientific team that included the planet's co-creator, Dr. [[David Marcus]], to carry out a thorough investigation. |
+ | The Genesis Planet immediately became a galactic controversy, and [[Starfleet]] declared it off limits until the [[Federation Council]] could decide what to do. In the meantime, the [[USS Grissom (NCC-638)|USS ''Grissom'']] was dispatched with a scientific team that included the planet's co-creator, Dr. [[David Marcus]], to carry out a thorough investigation. |
Initial scans of the new planet indicated that sector 1 had foliage in a fully developed state of growth and that the temperature was 22.2 degrees celsius. Sector 2 had desert terrain, with minimal vegetation and a temperature of 39.4. Sector 3 was made up of subtropical vegetation, although when they arrived the temperature was rapidly decreasing below 4.7 degrees celsius, leading to snow in the same sector. All varieties of land and weather known to [[Earth]] were detected - all within a few hours walk of one another. The same effect that hyper-evolved the plant life on the planet seemed to have the same effect on microbes on the surface of a burial [[photon torpedo]] that soft landed on the planet shortly after it was created. The microbes evoled in to mulitcellular organisms in just a matter of weeks (see table). |
Initial scans of the new planet indicated that sector 1 had foliage in a fully developed state of growth and that the temperature was 22.2 degrees celsius. Sector 2 had desert terrain, with minimal vegetation and a temperature of 39.4. Sector 3 was made up of subtropical vegetation, although when they arrived the temperature was rapidly decreasing below 4.7 degrees celsius, leading to snow in the same sector. All varieties of land and weather known to [[Earth]] were detected - all within a few hours walk of one another. The same effect that hyper-evolved the plant life on the planet seemed to have the same effect on microbes on the surface of a burial [[photon torpedo]] that soft landed on the planet shortly after it was created. The microbes evoled in to mulitcellular organisms in just a matter of weeks (see table). |
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Revision as of 15:52, 26 January 2007
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| Primary: | N/A |
| Class: | M (unstable) |
| Surface Temperature: | ca. 15° Celsius (mean) |
The Genesis Planet was created from gaseous matter in the Mutara Nebula when Khan Noonien Singh detonated the Genesis Device during a fierce battle with his old adversary, Admiral Kirk.
The Genesis Planet immediately became a galactic controversy, and Starfleet declared it off limits until the Federation Council could decide what to do. In the meantime, the USS Grissom was dispatched with a scientific team that included the planet's co-creator, Dr. David Marcus, to carry out a thorough investigation.
Initial scans of the new planet indicated that sector 1 had foliage in a fully developed state of growth and that the temperature was 22.2 degrees celsius. Sector 2 had desert terrain, with minimal vegetation and a temperature of 39.4. Sector 3 was made up of subtropical vegetation, although when they arrived the temperature was rapidly decreasing below 4.7 degrees celsius, leading to snow in the same sector. All varieties of land and weather known to Earth were detected - all within a few hours walk of one another. The same effect that hyper-evolved the plant life on the planet seemed to have the same effect on microbes on the surface of a burial photon torpedo that soft landed on the planet shortly after it was created. The microbes evoled in to mulitcellular organisms in just a matter of weeks (see table).
Unstable protomatter, used in the matrix's construction by David Marcus in his haste to complete the Genesis Project, caused the ecosystems it had created to become dangerously erratic. This instability manifested itself first in an accelerated rate of growth, then in microclimatic upheavals. Instead of flourishing, the planet began to experience heavy geologic activity that resulted in the entire surface becoming molten.
A minor skirmish occured in orbit during the final degradation of the planet where both the USS Grissom and the USS Enterprise were destroyed, and a Klingon Bird of Prey was coopted by Admiral James T. Kirk and his remaining crew.
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| Leeches | Giant Worms |