Planet Song

Teracia is a member of the aquatic Fahr, the oldest and most powerful sapient species in the galaxy.   The Fahr are addicted to the song, so much so that they create large corporate entities to travel the galaxy in search of pets that can sing.   It's a lucrative business and one that often tramples on other sapient species.   Teracia, who has a deep concern for the fate of such species, talks her way onboard one of the Fahr corporate ships.   She hopes to protect whatever sapient species they might encounter.

She's on the Fahr ship when it arrives on the Earth in the middle of the 14thcentury.  There's an immediate buzz on board with the realization that Earth's oceans are teaming with aquatic singers.  But there is also a problem.  The planet has a sapient species, a stagnant and plague ravished humanity. Teresita lobbies for the human race but to no avail.  Commander Prostallen decides to collect the pets.  They land in the Pacific Ocean where they discover humpback whales, singers of the most powerful song the Fahr have ever encountered.   The ship they have arrived in, however, is too small to transport a breeding population of these animals. 

Humanity gets a reprieve when Prostallen decides to return to their home planet and get a bigger ship, a round trip journey that will take 650 years.  No one in the Fahr leadership believes humanity will present much of a challenge.  They expect to be able to land in the Pacific Ocean and collect the whales with minimal fuss.  When they return to the Earth 650 years later, at the beginning of the 21st-century, the human race has evolved into a different beast.  This one is capable of much stiffer resistance to Fahr corporate plans, but the Fahr now have too much invested to turn back. Against all odds, Teracia must try and protect humanity from a war they can't possibly win.