TIME 4 LUCY

Planet Gaea relies economically on the mining of the hallucinogenic black dust fromthe adjacent planet Mavrokon.When it disappears from storage and in transit. Director of Operations onMavrokon Krell Zorgman warns Gaea that the reason for the disappearance may bedue to the sublimation of the dust and its adherent surroundings when reaching a'Critical Mass'The Central Consortium on Gaea insists that mining continue.Zorgman complies but waking one day finds that the once black planet has nowbecome green and luxuriant in another dimension and all contact with Gaea - lost.Desperate to regain their source of supply Cornelius Bok leader of the CentralConsortium engages brilliant scientist Saffron Tor to locate and enable access to themissing planet.Zorgman finds that they are not alone. A different species Dendroids that he hasonly encountered before in his 'Halucinator' experiments use part of this planet as bothnursery and cemetery.They welcome the newcomers should they wish to stay but would repel anyfurther attempt to intrude and degrade their planet with mining activity.