BETELGEUSE TP (2025)

"Mark and Kim are sent to Betelgeuse to look for survivors of the spacecraft crash that killed 3,000 people seven years earlier. Two survivors tell them the colonists had been divided over whether the indigenous Lums are as intelligent as humans. If they are, the humans would have been forced by law to abandon their colony. Kim and her team enter Betelgeuse's deepest canyons to investigate the controversy."

"A wounded Kim has been rescued by Hector, but they are stuck inside the planet's vast network of caves. Steve and Inge leave the expedition behind to look for them. All of them make their way through multiple, winding tunnels, trying to avoid particularly hostile and dangerous fauna in order to meet up. But the nightmare creatures aren't the only ones down there. A strange technology reveals itself, and the Iums come and go in large flocks. Soon, an alien yet hauntingly familiar sight will put Kim on the track of Betelgeuse's hidden secret."

"In this conclusion to the second cycle, Kim, Inge, Mai Lan, and Hector have been camping for weeks in Betelgeuse's canyons, waiting for Hector's ankle to heal. As they prepare to return to the settlement, the mantris sends Kim an invitation! What follows is an extraordinary encounter that will decide the future of Betelgeuse and change the course of Kim's life forever."