MUTINY ON THE OMAHA  -  Book 1         available on Amazon 

  Approximately 7 generations after their futuristic minded multi-billionaire founder died the scientists that collectively referred to themselves as the scientists of Dora, a closely integrated association in the star cluster known at El-Dorra had begun to fragment. A subgroup experimenting with various theories of human behavior gain power and then precipitate an interstellar war that lasts 28 years.  This War revealed the existence of superior technologies and these that developed them are dubbed the ‘Mad Scientists’. The length of this war was mostly due to the large volume of space involved, the large numbers of planets and the extended times it took to travel between planets circling different stars. 

  Mutiny on the Omaha starts on the eve of the war. William K Middleton the third (Will) introduced Son of a physicist who modified a space ship to increase its speed but went missing, is a teenage computer genius. He qualifies but is too young to go to OCS so he goes to computer school and because of those skills is promoted, and because of that promotion is sent to investigate a ship, the UFS Omaha, carrying top secret hardware of which rumors abound.