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When the [[Earth Federation]] outlawed genetic engineering circa [[2434]], [[Stewart Ransom]] organised the escape from Federation [[space]] of the [[Tyrenians]], [[Genetic engineering|genetically-modified]] [[human]] super-[[soldier]]s with [[Dog|canine]] features created by his colleague [[Gustav Tyren]]. The [[spacecraft|vessel]] took the Tyrenians to the uninhabited Axista Four, where they established their own settlement.

In that [[year]], Axista Four was also chosen by Ransom an as ideal planet to establish an [[Independent Earth Colony]]. The colonisation was part of the ''[[Back to Basics]]'' movement, which argued that humans had grown too reliant on technology since the [[20th century]]. 5,000 human colonists travelled to the planet in ''[[The Big Bang (ship)|The Big Bang]]''. Ransom did not know the Tyrenians had already settled there, having mistakenly used the same raw data to select the planet that he had used to program the Tyrenian escape vessel.

As a result of the mix-up, initial probes of the planet by the Federation discovered the Tyrenian presence and Ransom was instructed to wipe them out. Overcome with guilt, Ransom allowed his ship to be shot down by Tyrenian defence satellites. The ship crashed on arrival after it was shot down, [[Death|killing]] many of the colonists, including Ransom, and leaving others, like [[Kirann Ransom|his daughter Kirann]], trapped in [[suspended animation]] without the [[Medic|medical experts]] to safely release them. While much of the details surrounding the crash were unknown to future generations of the colonists, the event became remembered as [[Planet Fall Day]].

In the early [[26th century]], [[Tam Kartryte]] was elected [[Acting Leader of the Colony]]. A proponent of the [[Loyalist (The Colony of Lies)|Loyalist faction]]', he resisted calls from the [[Realist]] faction to abandon the principles of the ''Back to Basics'' movement on which the colony was built, while the Realists argued that the colony was slowly dying as a result of adherence to these principles. In practise, the ''Back to Basics'' intentions had been taken to the extremes; the movement's intention was to build a settlement less reliant on technology but not one completely devoid of it.

Despite the colony's independent status, in [[2534]], [[Earth]] forces intended to resettle 80,000 [[refugee]]s who had been displaced by the [[Dalek Wars|wars]] against the [[Dalek]]s, which the underdeveloped colony could scarcely accommodate. The [[Second Doctor]], [[Jamie McCrimmon]], and [[Zoe Heriot]] visited this colony during the crisis and discovered the Tyrenians had claimed the planet first. The Doctor revived Kirann Ransom from suspended animation and she became the new leader of the colony, uniting Loyalists and Realists behind her and clarifying the ''Back to Basics'' philosophy.