The First Stage was the name given to the Orion effort to rebuild and re-ecologize Botchok (Rigel VIII) after the devastation wrought by the Atom War and the Long Winter. The races that were the masters of the Orion slaves left the planet to suffer its fate in the immediate aftermath of the Atom War, but at the 22nd Rigel Conference in 12,189 BCE (reference stardate -141/8901), the Treaty of Kammzdast was modified to permit Orions from offworld to be imported to the planet to shore up its depleted population, replacing the 80% who had died due to radiation sickness or hunger. The forcibly resettled Orions had to clean up and rebuilt. The Book of Tears was a compilation of accounts from both native and offworld Orions at the time, telling of the carnage and the outrage they felt about what