Chaldinor

All contact with the ACES installation on distant Boreaster has been lost.  Perhaps one of the planet's spectacular storms is to blame, but as Boreaster is on the edge of Civitas space the Company persuades Earth Government to send in a small military force to investigate.  The only non-military personnel on the expeditionary force are two ACES experts on alien life forms.  Only one has any first-...