Double Contact

1999

Dr Prilicla has been the medical director of the Ambulance Ship Rhabwar for many years now but his final mission has come before he is promoted to the heights of Diagnostician.

However, it's not going to an easy mission. The Monitor Corps alert was... not routine, for they were not alone in the system. They would have been fairly easily dealt with. but there was a second alert. In the same system! So the ambulance ship had to act carefully as it dealt with the wreckage that it found orbiting the near perfect Terra-like planet. Despite their desire to look after the Monitor Corps ship, the ambulance ship has to get fairly rough as the crew on the other ship try to escape.

The tragedy of the alien spaceship is uncovered and the crew request the planet below as a new home. Land that the Federation is tempted to give them until the inhabitants of the planet intervene in a decidedly active fashion.

Can even Prilicla's empathy save three civilisations from the effects of war

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