The quiet of the primordial world was shattered by a sonic boom high in the atmosphere.  Has any creatures been on the surface of the planet, they would have observed a streak of fire shooting across the sky like a comet.  However it became quickly apparent that this was no comet.  The flames quickly receded to reveal a small, silver shuttlecraft, which slowly began to descend to the ground below.   It hovered for a few minutes before finally locating a small clearing that it could set down in.  It sat there quietly for a few moments before a door on one side cracked open.  Through it stepped a moderately sized woman.....<br/><br/>Andrea Devane had fought long and hard with the ship's captain to let her come down to the uninhabited planet.   She had a bit of a fetish for exploring new worlds, and this one had just been too good to pass us as she was sure no human had ever set foot on it before.  The ship was in the process of mining some of the mineral rich moonlets which circled the planet, and as science officer, her work in finding the deposits was pretty much complete.   So after much cajoling, she had finally prevailed upon him to let her do a little exploring.   But not without a hard warning that he would not hesitate to leave her behind if she was late returning....AND he would take the cost of the shuttlecraft out of her share.   So it was that she stepped out of the small vessel and began to catalogue some of the strange flora that existed on the planet.