Lotera was conceptualized in early 2020 as a series of altered book installments that told the story of a failed extraplanetary Earth colony. Installments would have included an altered recipe book, an altered children’s book, and more.

Lotera Cultural Artifact #B-0211 is the final result of those efforts: an altered farmer’s almanac with a handwritten short story and additional in-world supplements so that it appears like an artifact from a dead world.