[Venturer Twelve 02] • Seed of Stars

The thinly-spread starships of the Space Corps were all the protection Earth's galactic colonies had. Yet the colonies fought, lied and cheated, to win independence of even this slender thread of control.

Kepler III was one such colony. It was approaching its centenary. On the way was Venturer Twelve , Commander Tom Bruce, sent out to investigate and establish whether or not the colony was progressing sufficiently well to be freed and declared independent of the commercial company which had founded and financed it. And on Kepler, President Shanon Kido was dtermined the investigation would turn up nothing - absolutely nothing - to endanger that independence.

Even if it meant endangering the planet...