Horizon of a Burning Star: Book Four: The Burning Star Series

Something unusual is found at the remote outpost of T Station, and specialist alien-life researcher Parry Langdon is called in to investigate. He finds the only survivor of a newly docked ship wildly talking of strange and dangerous creatures, but for Parry it sounds like his chance for stardom.
Jupe Beggs, newly crowned as the hero of the newly terraformed world Harax Pras and despising the spotlight he lives under, is given the chance to lead his own deep-space exploration mission. He must decide if he wants to work under the controlling Calp family, with influences in the form of friend and foe, and people with strange stories about what might lie out in the deep.