Come face to face with the breakaway science that spreads humanity throughout the solar system in record time, from its humble beginnings as a means to rescue one man from locked-in syndrome, so he could pursue his lady love. The Printed People technology rapidly finds many other applications, all alarming. But none so much as the birth of a solar system empire and war machine-as much the greatest purveyor of peace and enlightenment ever, as of wanton death and destruction. Meet Elektra, a product of CRISPR engineering with a four-digit IQ, the general in command of the space fleet that goes toe-to-toe with far more evolved alien empires-even as the solar system infrastructure is still being set up. Meet the Printed People and androids who will hold both the Athenian, peace-loving, and the Spartan, war-loving factions together. And meet the detectives who unravel the mysteries whose hidden truths neither side wants found out. Elektra: "Printed People" is a stand-alone novel with a full story arc. *** "A pageant of poignant characters painted on a canvas of epic scope-not unlike those Napoleonic paintings that fill an entire wall in a museum, with just one chair in the room from which to sit a while and take it all in." -anonymous reviewer Note: Due to the limitations of print-on-demand, at this time, Elektra 1, Book 1, "Printed People," has been divided into three parts, and labeled accordingly.