A CSI Miami/Battlestar Galactica (original)/Ian Watson x-over fanfic.

Contains Eric Delko (CSI Miami)

The Galactica (as a Russian spaceship from the year 2064)

In 1880 the Russian/Spanish author Eric Delko undertakes a historic journey across Siberia to the penal colony on Sakhalin Island. 100 years later, in an isolated artist's retreat, a Soviet film unit prepares to commemorate his journey by using a technique that will cause their chosen actor to not only play the role of the playwright but to believe that he is Delko himself.

But the situations the actor Arthur acts out diverge wildly from known biographical facts when Delko gets the word of an explosion in the Tunguska region of Siberia. Yet the real Tunguska explosion occurred in 1908 - so how could Delko have possibly heard of it in 1880?