Editing Terra Nova (section)

==Rediscovery==
 
In 2151, a landing party from Enterprise discovered the irradiated remains of the colony, and it was determined that the colony had been destroyed by a [[meteor]] strike, scattering toxic debris over the region. 

However, the children of the original colonists had survived the meteor strike, and had taken refuge in underground caverns in order to avoid the radioactive surface. The original colonists believed that Earth had attacked them because of the hostile nature of their last transmissions, an impression shared by their 22nd century descendants still living on the planet. 

The Novans, as they called themselves, subsequently took members of the landing party hostage. Eventually the Enterprise crew was able to gain the trust of the Novans, convincing them that Earth was not responsible for destroying the original colony. As the underground water supply the Novans used to survive had slowly become contaminated by the surface radiation, the Novan population was eventually relocated to a region unaffected by the meteor strike. (ENT: "Terra Nova") 

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