Darkspace Renegade: The Complete Series: Books 1-6: A Military Sci-Fi Box Set
G. J. OgdenThe interstellar bridges provide a lifeline for billions of people. To save humanity, Hallam Knight must tear them all down.
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• 2177 Chester Doyle, the world’s richest man, dies in unexplained circumstances. His son, Damien Doyle, inherits his father’s business empire – the Consortium – becoming the youngest multi- trillionaire in history.
• 2184 Damien Doyle launches the first private manned expedition to Mars. Consortium employee, Dr. Shelby Rand, becomes the youngest mission commander at age twenty.
• 2184 A tragic accident on the return journey kills the entire crew. Only Dr. Shelby Rand survives.
• 2186 Dr. Rand makes the breakthrough discovery of an exotic material, later named Randenite. A slew of rapid discoveries follows, advancing technology by a century in only a few years, all funded by Dr. Rand’s sponsor, the Consortium.
• 2188 A ship equipped with a prototype Shelby Drive successfully engineers the first interstellar bridge, allowing travel to distant stars in a matter of hours. The Consortium owns exclusive rights to Shelby Drive technology and its fuel source, Randenite.
• 2208 There are now twelve bridge worlds, all chosen for their Earth-like properties. Randenite depots are placed at every planet, all linked through an extensive network of interstellar bridges to the Centrum; the Consortium’s main Randenite refinery.
• 2210 Dr. Rand goes missing during a highly-secretive expedition to a suspected thirteenth bridge world. A month later, Dr. Rand and her crew are declared dead.
• 2211 Three months after Dr. Rand’s death, a massive, coordinated cyberattack wipes all Consortium databases of all information relating to Randenite and Shelby Drive technology. A virus renders all production plants and technology useless. Only the Centrum remains operational, but its encrypted archive cannot be mined for the secrets to Randenite.
• 2212 Interplanetary trade is restricted to essentials as Randenite becomes scarce
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