Genesis Device

The Genesis Device pioneered by Dr Carol Marcus, her son David and their team on board the Regula 9 research station was intended to be a rapid terraforming device which could form new colonies out of uninhabitable planets. This would have the dual effects of opening up new areas for colonisation or even the creation of dedicated farming planets solving all food problems.

The project was ambitious and it was tested underground in the planet which the Regula station orbitted. In an underground cave which took the Starfleet Corps of Engineers 6 months in spacesuits to carve out, the Genesis test device changed everything in a day.

The larger scale device needed a planet with absolutely no indigenous life, and therefore the USS Reliant was loaned to the research team for the purpose of scouting for a suitable planet. Unfortunately the Reliant came upon Khan Noonien Singh and the survivors of his enforced exile. Seeing the possibility upon scanning the Reliants data banks, Khan seized the Genesis device after disabling the USS Enterprise. The research team was for the most part dead, except for Carol and David Marcus who had hidden the Genesis torpedo.

The device itself was intended to be fired from a starship in the same way as a photon torpedo, impacting the surface the new cell matrix would take effect almost immediately. There were obvious ethical concerns with the device, but the possibilities were endless.

After the device was detonated by the dying Khan, a new planet was formed which seemed to show how worthwhile the project was, but months later it was observed that the new landscape was starting to almost self destruct. The destruction of the planet that was the testbed for the full Genesis device also spelled an end for the project.

Record 1088 - technology - Last update 28 Mar 2007, 23:12:48

Entry written by: Jadefalcon

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