![]() ![]() ![]() Tuf's ship, the Cornucopia of Excellent Goods at Low Prices, is damaged by the seedship's automated defenses, and three of the occupants, Nevis, Anittas, and Dawnstar, board the seedship by means of pressure suits, leaving the others to await eventual death through asphyxiation. It turns out to be an enormous, abandoned seedship of the long-defunct Federal Empire's Ecological Engineering Corps, developed by the Corps to rewrite genetic coding for entire planets, for good or for ill. Their destination is a so-called "plague star," known to inflict disease and pestilence on every third generation of a small, remote world. They hire Rica Dawnstar, a mercenary bodyguard, and acquire the services of Haviland Tuf, a not-very-successful trader. The story begins with four people requiring interstellar transport: Celise Waan, a scholar of anthropology Jefri Lion, a scholar and retired soldier Anittas, a cybertech and Kaj Nevis, the leader of the expedition. ![]() Plot Summary - WARNING: THIS SECTION CONTAINS SPOILERS - "The Plague Star" 7 Connections to the "Thousand Worlds" Universe. ![]()
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