The DNA Factor
(2027)(The third book in the Merchants of Light series)
A novel by Craig Martelle and Robert G Williscroft
The biome collection wasn’t what it seemed.
It’s a new race against time, not to build the faster-than-light drive, but to improve it until it matters as much as the biomatter collected from Earth. Value for value. It was the oldest trading principle among all sentient species.Earth would earn the right for Humanity to be treated as equal trading partners.
Not stooges, like they had been, as they realized.
Have a good laugh, Capans, but this isn’t the end of it. It’s not a fait accompli.
Humanity is going to dictate the terms and that starts with leaning forward.
But first, the FTL engine, the Heim-Dröscher drive needed to improve from n=412 to n=10,000. Improve upon the speed of light by orders of magnitude. Turn a forty-two-day trip into forty-two hours.
Audacious. Technically challenging. At a scope never before contemplated.
That’s what it would take to turn the tables on their Capan trading partners.
To even the odds, Humanity had to do what had never been done before.
Will Human exceptionalism change Capan law?
Read Merchants of Light #3 today, a hard science fiction novel where math and engineering merge with interstellar commerce. Written completely by Humans who continue to fight the good fight for all Human authors.
Genre: Science Fiction