The 40.000 colonists on Gehenna are abandoned for political reasons.
When the re-supply ships fail to arrive, the colony begins to collapse. But the real story is yet to come.
Over a period of 200 years,
the descendants of the colonists who couldn't impost Terran conditions
on Gehenna became a part of Gehennan ecology themselves, by entering a
partnership with the planet's native intelligence – the lizardlike,
burrowing calibans.
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