Startide Rising

Plot

The Terran exploration vessel 'Streaker' has crashed on the uncharted water-world of Kithrup, bearing one of the most important discoveries in galactic history. Above, in space, armadas of alien races clash in a titanic struggle to claim her. Below, a handful of her human and dolphin crew battles armed rebellion and a hostile planet to safeguard her secret, the fate of the Progenitors, the fabled First Race who seeded wisdom throughout the stars.