TROLLI Rediscovered

Trolli is a world rediscovered.
Originally a genetic engineering laboratory for developing new races of being to "seed" potential colonization planets it was abandoned and left to the wilds of space.
Instead of crumbling to ruins Trolli instead thrived and the experimental races developed entire communities and became a world unto itself.
When spacefarers chanced upon the planet sized laboratory, thinking it was an asteroid for the taking, they discovered a highly interactive civilization with a developed political and theological foundation and ..... Magic.
The captain and his crew stumble into the midst of romance and war on their journey to ascertain the value of the planetoid.