The GalTech and Shadow Warrior series combines science fiction, business, humor, military special team tactics, symbionts, space fleet warfare, and an occasional splash of romance. Constant action and humor are the foundations this series is built on. Book One, Growth of a Star Empire, introduces main characters. Some of them manage to survive to the end of this multi book series. Some do not. The discovery of cheap, faster-than-light-travel saw millions flee Terra to find homes among the stars. Some planets combined into empires. Some empires became more. The Teaman Empire has a few things that keep its Alliance partners from gobbling it up. Their banking system, the massive Teaman University, the military and industrial research sold to Alliance partners were barely enough to deter takeover. Then came a discovery that became the Shadow Warriors. We join the story after the assassination of the newly crowned Emperor's parents. Himself a recipient of the microbial community that makes him a Shadow, he creates a company that will use Shadow tactics in business to unify a troubled alliance. In the science fiction wild west setting that is the Galaxy at the time, protecting a small Empire and growing the company that could unify an Alliance is anything but peaceful.