Bio Rescue — S.L. Viehl

Commander Dair mu T'resa heads up a squadron of SEAL (surgically enhanced/altered life-form) pilots. They provide planetary patrol for the Pmoc Quadrant, including Dair's home planet, Kevarzangia Two--a world populated by the underwater-dwelling 'Zangians. Saved at birth by a radical surgical procedure that introduced human DNA into her body, Dair has been able to survive for brief periods of time outside her aquatic habitat--opening her mind to the universe's other races and cultures, yet closing her off from her own people.

She finds a true home when her SEAL squadron teams up with medical personnel as a Bio Rescue unit, formed to respond to off-planet emergencies. But the altruism Dair embraces finds opposition among her fellow 'Zangians--and the Skartesh, a lupine alien species who fled their own dying world to settle in the dry land colony of Kevar ngia Two....