Eden Drift: The Ghost Ship

In 1967, during the space agencies' scramble to seed new worlds, the salvage tug Harrier is sent to recover a drifting terraformer—Eden Drift—now a ghost ship beneath a spreading green canopy. The recovery uncovers mutiny: alien flora that thinks and colonists who have joined it, claiming terraforming as theft. As radio silence and government directives close around them, the salvors face a moral revolt and a living planet's cunning. Their retrieval mission becomes a courtroom of conscience for a new epoch.