Playing God
by Sarah Zettel

Description:
Bioverse Inc. executive Dr. Lynn Nussbaumer has just been handed the project of her career and the challenge of a lifetime: to save an entire planet. After millennia of constant war on All-Cradle, one of the Great Families of the Dedelphi launched a viral weapon that mutated into a universal plague. Desperate, an unprecedented Confederation of Dedelphi leaders asked for Earth's help. The only solution: Evacuate more than a billion Dedelphi to vast orbital enclaves for decades, while Bioverse's environmental engineers cleanse and rebuild All-Cradle's entire ecosphere. The truce declared by the fragile Confederation can't control the tangled mass of Dedelphi feuds and vendettas; factions in each clan fear that relocation is a deadly ploy by their enemies. Still other Dedelphi - panicked by Terran sociologist Arron Hagopian's revelations of past Earth abuses - are convinced the city-ships are internment camps controlled by aliens who have conquered All-Cradle in a bloodless coup.