The Stochastic Genesis

A decade after a man walked out of a Himalayan cave, the empire he never set out to build is everywhere.
From the boardrooms of Singapore he pushes outward in every direction at once — an elevator to orbit, a colony on Mars, a fleet that pays no flag, a network of artificial minds that answer only to him.
The Vatican signs treaties no one has read. The triads stop speaking his name.
And on the rim of Saturn, three astronomers find a pattern that should not exist — and realize, too late, that it has been finding them.
The Solar Empire is expanding, but may find its match !