When starfighter pilot Simon Dodds is enrolled in a top secret military project, he and his wingmates begin to suspect that there is a lot more to the theft of a legendary battleship and an Imperial nation's civil war than either the Confederation Stellar Navy or the government are willing to let on.Within weeks of being reassigned to the Confederate border system of Temper, the five would begin to untangle a web of lies and a cover-up that seemed to span the entire galaxy. And it would not be long before they would come face to face with that which destroyed an empire: an unforgiving, unstoppable, and totally unrelenting foe.There seemed to exist only one glimmer of hope of driving back the darkness: The ATAF Project - a secretly developed set of starfighters that well may just harbour some terrible secrets of their own... To discover more, visit battleforthesolarsystem.com~ ~ ~Also by Stephen J Sweeney:THE BATTLE FOR THE SOLAR SYSTEM TRILOGYThe Honour of the Knights (Second Edition)The Third SideThe Attribute of the StrongH1NZ SeriesH1NZ-0 (Abby and Phil's Stories)H1NZSTANDALONE NOVELSThe Red RoadFirmware