The Third Garden of Eden

A mass of stars, a Dark Matter Star Cluster (DARC), was ripped off the outer edge of Andromeda by small neighboring galaxies and was racing toward Galacos. The United Alliance Science Board gathered predominant scientists from all 2800 member planets and decided to build protective web shields around each of the member planets. They also issued a secondary survival agenda, ordering thirty-one federations to develop new intelligent species throughout Galacos.
Not all planet nations chose to participate in The Galactic Protective, believing efforts should go toward evacuating all planets in the path of DARC. Rebel factions banded together to create the Anakim Army. Disregarding UA laws, the rebels plundered material to build huge artificial orbs called Dark Matter Colonies intending to escape DARC and leave the galaxy. Perpetual war erupted between the two sides over rare Tackium ore and gold, which both sides needed to realize their survival goals.
The Heofon Federation awarded the Teene Family Unit mineral rights to a quadrant of stars that included the ten-planet star system 1473. The Teene family was an aquatic shape-shifting Nommo species from planet nation Bairuth, orbiting the binary star system of Sirius/Sothis.
Primate life forms were discovered in the equatorial latitudes of Planet 3 orbiting 1473. A Nommo Terriprimia Team has gone to Planet 3 to analyze the potential of the new species, and Nommo scientists began genetically coding the primates on Planet 3. During four million years of helix editing, the new Planet 3 species was ready for the final Glial editing.
Commander Kris Teene has now approached the White Exit of the wormhole that brought her research ship NEO-4 to solar system 1473 on Mission 106.8. This is the final mission of the four million year evolution program her mother initiated. The new species will either be given approval to join the United Alliance, or they will be abandoned by the Nommo and left to be crushed by DARC.
As the NEO-4 enters the star system, the ship scrapes against an unregistered artificial orb, which forces the research ship to divert to an orbit around Planet 4 while repairs are initiated. Fight Director Bods Lisha Ahott and bio-computer Aurora-7 put the ship into Planet 4 orbit and adjust coordinates for Planet 3, while Commander Teene, Adjutant Commander Whitt Nee and mission Program Manager Eei Rey discuss the mission assignments.
While orbiting Planet 3, PM Eei Rey requests a private meeting with Commander Teene. The PM feels obligated to inform Kris of secret instructions given to her just before they left Base C on planet Bairuth. When Kris reaches the PM’s private cove, she finds Eei dead. The PM was the only crewmember trained to analyze the evolution of the new species. The commander faces failure on her very first Heofon mission.
Kris attempts to reorganize the mission on the surface of the planet to achieve a successful conclusion; however, her Number 2, Whitt Nee, and Lieutenant A’tumn work with Admiral Cellmar to stop the commander from helping the planet’s citizens while secretly continuing to mine Tackium below the surface of Planet 3. Admiral Cellmar had never stopped illegal mining on the planet and has almost completed the undetectable dark matter Sothis 2 hiding in the asteroid belt beyond Planet 1473-8.
Dr. Peter Hinge, a Nommo Insert who has been embedded with the general population of the planet for hundreds of years, has chosen astronomer Colt Canyon as the first contact before revealing to the An-Ki species the true history of their four million year evolutional path. Colt’s love, Dawn Lo, insists she has found the true location of Plato’s Atlantis in the mountains of Bolivia.
With her adjutant and a lieutenant working against her, Kris finds it almost impossible to successfully complete her mission. The planet is erupting into nuclear war as Major Kukula Teene arrives to help his sister save the planet and the An-Ki species.