Kinetic Cut and Run

After one hundred years of universal peace, witness the downfall of a galactic civilization, Kinetica, a corporation that rules over humanity's twenty-seven worlds... Shelden Renn discovers, at last, intelligent alien life, and witnesses the birth of the greatest threat: the Chromic Mass, a war machine controlled by terrorists from within Kinetica itself. Ida Kaufman, broken and emotionally compromised from one of the first attacks, risks everything on a hunch, pinning all of her hopes and dreams and the very future of humanity, on Shelden Renn, grooming him to be the next figurehead and the next CEO of Kinetica Corporation. But is she doing this for her own desires or for the good of all? And what will happen when the hammer falls and Kinetica and her new CEO are the only ones preventing the annihilation of all?