The Sky Is Filled With Ships

Description for THE SKY IS FILLED WITH SHIPS by Richard C Meredith:

Starship Captain Robert L Janas had only one loyalty---to the firm he worked for---the Stellar Trading Company. And with good reason, for STC was not just a merchant corporation.

For 1200 years the vast complex of companies that called itself STC had maintained contact between Earth and the multifarious worlds peopled with its colonies, giving help, support, financing and protection whenever and wherever these were needed, without regard to politics.

Inevitably, and precisely because it was neutral, STC had come to play a powerful role in intergalactic affairs---more powerful, indeed, than Earth itself.

Now that neutrality was threatened---from within the firm.

And Janas knew they would all be destroyed in the holocaust.