Worldview

Every reading from Kepler-942c was perfect, too good to be true. Seven hours after arrival the advance team began to feel that something was off — a forest with no insect noise in it, plants swaying in too neat an order.

In 2297 AD, humanity's first interstellar colony ship, the Daedalus, reached Kepler-942c, 41 light-years away. The seed of an entire civilization, packed into a single ship.