Book 1 “The 7” - description Book One of 4%c unfolds in the year 2154, in a world where space travel has become as routine as international flight once was. Humanity moves constantly between Earth, the Moon, Mars, and the asteroid belt, exploring, mining, settling, driven by ambition, survival, and the promise of extraordinary wealth. That wealth is controlled by two legendary dynasties. For generations, the Remington’s have ruled the rocket-building industry with ruthless precision, their empire so powerful that no government has ever dared to challenge it. Their ships carry nearly all of humanity’s traffic beyond Earth, and their influence reaches into every level of politics, finance, and military command. But the Remington monopoly is finally cracking. A rival has emerged: the Barsakova family, whose revolutionary engine technology threatens to unseat the Remington’s and reshape the balance of power across the solar system. What begins as a corporate war of contracts, sabotage, and espionage soon escalates into something far more dangerous. Because while these titans clash, a government scientist named Sasha makes a discovery that no one on Earth is prepared to confront an event on a distant world beyond the solar system that challenges the very foundation of human belief. The revelation threatens to collapse the fragile separation between church and state, igniting conflict between religious extremists and global political leaders. As the government scrambles to contain the fallout, its intelligence agency uncovers an even darker truth: the Remingtons are no longer content with influence. They are preparing to overthrow the world government itself. Behind the scenes, another force moves quietly into place, a secret order of extraordinarily gifted individuals who have sworn an oath to protect humanity, no matter the cost. Operating beyond politics, beyond nations, and beyond law, they begin a covert campaign to stop the coming catastrophe. The struggle remains hidden… until it doesn’t. What begins in shadow explodes into open war hundreds of miles above Earth, where fleets collide in the cold vacuum of space and the fate of civilization is decided in fire and silence. When the smoke clears, no faction, corporate, religious, political, or secret , will escape unscathed. And the human raced will never be the same again. The Speed of Light No object with mass can travel faster than or at the speed of light. On the other hand, massless particles such as photons, which are packets of light energy, move only at the speed of light. It is interesting to note that when a photon of light is created by an atomic transition, that is to say when an electron moves from a higher atomic orbit to a lower one, it moves at the speed of light instantaneously. Thus, the photon does not accelerate but it immediately begins its flight at c. C is equal to 670,616,629 miles per hour. By the way, 4%c = 26,824,665 miles per hour, which is indeed fast . . . and the name of this book.