An Account of Discovery, Unity, and the Human Spirit in a Frontier Settlement on an Alien World. Previously, in the far future, humankind has attained interstellar travel. The brave explorers from Earth had set their eyes on colonizing unknown planets, and one of those planets was given the name "Novus Terra." On an exotic planet, it was a frontier village that was illuminated by two delicate moonlight. A varied population of settlers had assembled in this brave new globe to create a new existence. They included visionary artist Zara, who had the unusual ability to recognize beauty in even the most bizarre of settings. She had a favorite area where the moonlight twinkled off the multicolored rocks in an old canyon.