Quasar — Philip R Benge

Many brave men had died fighting against Quasar, Admiral Amundsen, Captain Olsen led the list, but many others aided them, but only at the very end did they come to realise just what kind of enemy they were up against. Even his creators had not envisaged the mental power that their creation would attain, and use, when it began to draw upon the technology of the advanced organic civilization, it was awesome to the extreme. Unfortunately, for the Mechanoids and the rest of the universe, Quasar soon developed a personality and outgrew his limited programming, so he reprogrammed himself, and then he began on his relentless quest to rule over an empire. Unfortunately for him something kept on getting in his way, finally it was four people from the planet of Earth who were drawn into one man's desperate battle to rid the universe of Quasar for ever, but how could they succeed when three empires had tried and failed.