Alien scientists discover how to transfer minds, but this is illegal on their home planet. They sneak their technology onto a colonisation 'egg' space ship.In the new solar system they wake up in new bodies and desperate. They must terra-form a new planet to survive. They pick the best world and start to re-build it to suit their needs. The planet already has life, but how much can they change their new world, and which of the existing life forms should be saved in their ark? The planet may be unsuitable for their alien bodies, so must they develop mutants? Can they survive with their old 'pride' social system, especially when personality differences split their group? They must innovate and they must be daring. This is the story of the birth of something new, eternal and irrepressible. You should identify with it. Nothing is sacred. First book in a trilogy.