Plundering a Distant Planet

Queen Aelia has formed an exploratory crew to investigate the planet of Sinuosa and find inhabitants that can return with them and alleviate the issue of her planets dwindling population and the fragile fertility of cycles of their females. The forecast for their journey was to land on the temperate climate of Sinuosa, and search out the dominant life forms, to determine if they are willing to help with the problem on Aelia's planet or as a last resort ensure the planet can support the Ceti Alpha VI population as a last resort.
Dressed as the locals, the crew battles its way across the planet in search of anything that will help her troubled planet. Discovering the Sinuosa planet is not a temperate climate, and the population is a matriarchal society, Aelia and her crew find themselves arriving in a barren wasteland of mostly desert, and the locals are not as hospitable as she had hoped. The final solution Aelia arrives at is to have the crew take concubines and convince them to return to Ceti Alpha VI on their space craft.