Earthbound
3 StoriesThe Earthbound Series is a set of science-fiction novels set on two worlds: Planet Floran (or one of its colony planets) and Earth. Floran was colonized when a 23rd century interstellar mission from Earth aboard the starship Floran experienced a warp drive anomoly and was thrown off-course by 200 lightyears and 5,000 years in the past. The one thousand crew located a hospitable planet and formed a colony which, over five millenia, grew into a thriving galactic hegemony that enjoys interstellar travel. However, their people dare not reveal their existence to present-day Earth out of fear of disrupting the timeline leading to their formation, at least until after the Floran mision is launched 200 years in the future. They do, however, need contact with Earth to gather plant material to support their agriculture, so they send specially trained ExoAgents covertly to Earth for that purpose.