Betelgeuse - Volume 1 - The Survivors

The continuing adventures of our Aldebaran heroes Mark and Kim are sent to
Betelgeuse to look for survivors of the spacecraft crash that killed 3,000
people seven years earlier. They do find survivors, among them Tazio Menegaz
and Colonel Logan, who tell them the colonisers had been divided over whether
the Iums (indigenous creatures) are as intelligent as humans. If they are, the
humans would have been forced to abandon their colonising enterprise according
to UN laws. Kim decides to investigate for herself. This two-volume book
includes “The Expedition.”