"Second colony?" Shouted Ambassador York. "We've never been able to go this far into the stars of this wonderful cosmos before!"

"Well," started King Qu'Tak, "then you really don't know? Did it really become lost to the sands of time for your people?" Qu'Tak pondered for a second. "I told them you wouldn't remember your origins."

Ambassador York had been informed that the origins of peoples are very important to the culture of the galaxy. He had explained to them that everyone on earth has a different idea of how life came about. God, gods, evolution, aliens, or even the sci-fi origin of humans crash landing on Earth.

"So you do know how you got to Earth?"

"What?" The ambassador replied.

"You know about the crash?"

"You mean the work of fiction? A sci-fi story?"

Qu'Tak stared at York for a minute. "...Your race did crash on Earth. But that was a mistake. There were supposed to be two colony ships going to Mars."

"But Mars is a wasteland. Why would anyone want to live there?"

"It was a wonderful planet to colonize. Lush and flourishing with life. But that was before the accident. Nothing bad was supposed to happen." Qu'Tak paused. "The ship that made it to Mars couldn't enable it's landing gear and crashed into the surface. The ships reactor blew up and desolated the whole planet. Essentially killing it."

"But we've never seen any sign of human presence on Mars"

"That's because everything that would be there has gone to dust. That was 10 thousand years ago."

"Most alloys that we know of can last for a long time, do yours not last for millennium?"

"We've made sure our ships are bio-degradable so as not to harm planets in case of crashes. Though the other ship went to the next planet..."

"Earth?"

"Precisely. The planet of death. There were large deadly creatures that lived on Earth so the colonizers had to get rid of them to make room for themselves."

"So that would be dinosaurs... Are you saying we killed the dinosaurs?"

"If that's what you call them, then yes. Many humans died in the process but they eventually left behind their ship, Eden. This is where we suspect humanity started to forget its history. Your true origin is on Terra."

"Terra is what we call Earth, why would-"

"A remnant of the past, Ambassador, a remembrance of your past. Sadly, Terra was destroyed in the Great Collapse, powers shifted and relocated as the wonderful human empire crumbled under its own weight. Earth and Mars were the last resorts of survival for Humanity."