Altamid Altamid was an M - class planet located near the Necro Cloud nebula . It was once inhabited by an advanced , space - faring civilization , later called the Ancient Ones . Altamid was characterized by massive subterranean development with little - to - no life form s detectable from orbit . However , it had forest s and other plant life . History . In 2164 , the Federation starship crash - landed on Altamid . Only three crew members survived , including Captain Balthazar Edison and his officers Anderson Le and Jessica Wolff . Unable to contact Starfleet and seeing no sign of rescue , Edison and his crew came to embrace an anti - Federation ideology . Discovering a cache of technology left behind by the planet ' s former inhabitants – including advanced mining technology , a drone workforce , thousands of ship s and a device capable of extending life by draining energy from victims – the three survivors resolved to make humanity strong again through war . They began to use the technology on the planet to raid unsuspecting ships and drain their crews , becoming Krall , Manas , and Kalara in the process and seeking out the Abronath , a lost weapon native to Altamid . ( ) Alternate reality . In 2263 , Krall learned that the missing half of the Abronath had been discovered by the and was currently being transported aboard that ship . He instructed Kalara to pose as an alien whose ship had crashed on Altamid , luring the " Enterprise " to the planet ' s system , where it was attacked and destroyed by Krall ' s swarm . While the remains of the " Enterprise " crashed onto the surface of Altamid , many of the survivors were captured by Krall and imprisoned in his compound . Most of the " Enterprise " senior staff managed to elude capture and soon rescued their shipmates using the transporter aboard the long hidden USS " Franklin " . The " Enterprise " crew eventually escaped the planet aboard the hastily repaired " Franklin " , pursuing Krall to prevent him from releasing the Abronath on Starbase Yorktown and the Federation at large . ( ) Planetary features . Altamid featured a diverse topology ranging from craggy canyons to lush forests . Extremely tall tree s marked the landscape in one location . Another location was distinguished by golden yellow rocks , another – the area later held by Krall – by blue quarries . The planet was also host to an array of insect life , including flying insects that reflected the swarm - like nature of Altamid ' s indigenous spacecraft . ( ) Appendices . Background information . Altamid was named after the daughter of " Star Trek Beyond " actor and co - writer Simon Pegg . The planet ' s name is an anagram of her name , " Matilda " . " Star Trek Beyond " co - writer Doug Jung once noted of Altamid , " " We had loftier ambitions about that planet from early on . " " According to Jung , Altamid was intended to be " essentially a mining colony , " rather than a home planet . On , Pegg News – a Twitter account moderated on behalf of Simon Pegg – provided a brief description of Abronath which mentioned Altamid , describing it as " an M - class planet in the southern spiral arm of the Andromeda Galaxy . " According to the tweet , Altamid was the only planet where the metal known as Abronath could be found . The tweet concluded , " " Altamid has endured several mass extinctions due to the presence of Abronath in its asthenospheric crust . " "