Do you really think that if a civilization spent billions of dollars and a huge amount of resources to build a starship, that it would be a warship. I don't think so. Aggression between civilizations happens over limited resources. If a species is able to travel the stars, they have access to basically unlimited resources. For every one star system that has sentient life, there are thousands upon thousands of systems that have no sentient life but an abundant amount of resources. Why should a species go to war for an other's resources if resources were readily available without conflict in those thousand upon thousands of other systems. That is the premise of my stories. I do include a few aggressive aliens to make life interesting and there are always pirates! Earth Station is the first in a series of books. After its initial printing, suggestions were made and I being a new author took them to heart. The revised edition is 25 pages longer and hopefully addresses some of the criticisms received. A summary of the tale follows:Jake is a self made trillionaire that doesn't like the way things are going on earth. He is determined to allow mankind to reach its full potential. To that end, he creates a new country, devoted to the betterment of mankind without all the hindrances of the bureaucracy of earth's governments. Jake, quickly surrounds himself with some of the best minds the earth has to offer and creates a country that is years ahead of any of the others on earth. And that is just the beginning.