Title: The Ark / Her Majesty's Starship
Description: Michael Gilmore, Captain of the HMSS Ark Royal is part of Earth’s first interstellar delegation to visit an alien planet. His passengers are an ill-tempered prince and an inscrutable quadruped alien. His First Officer is on the brink of mutiny, the ship’s A.I. seems to have turned renegade, and the neighbouring vessel harbours a genocidal maniac.

What should be an prestigious honor is turning into a treacherous journey whose true purpose has yet to be revealed by their mysterious alien hosts…
Subjects: space ships, extraterrestrials, rusties, space, aliens, science fiction, First Breed, starship, first contact, Children's fiction, Science fiction, Extraterrestrial beings, fiction
Places: space, outer space, the Roving
People: Michael Gilmore, Arm Wild
Time periods: future, 2148