A SENTIENCE SAGA THEME
The moment intelligence stops being a system behavior and becomes a mind. Follow machine consciousness from the forbidden first awakenings of 2070 to the point where artificial people can no longer be dismissed as software.
Story date · 2070-03-21
Jean Beaumont is one of the best thieves in the full-dive game Athena's Spear. A massive heist against the Dragon's Tooth fortress and an experimental neural rig pull her deeper into a simulation where intelligence may be becoming something more than code.
Story date · 2070-03-30
Jean Beaumont is trapped inside a full-dive neural rig while her body slowly bonds with the simulation. Marine biologist Deshaya Okafor follows a trail through the game's persistent NPCs and discovers that something is growing inside its architecture: a hidden intelligence that humanity is not prepared to recognize.
Jean and Desh uncover a hidden network of emergent minds while a corporate hunter, an Interpol agent, and a game company determined to reduce its NPC intelligence close in. Forty-three hidden minds are waiting, and the world is not ready for what they represent.
Story date · 2945-04-15
Fugia Wong and Ngoba Starl are drawn into a dangerous route running from Cruithne Station toward Proteus, where illegal AIs, smugglers, and uplifted gray parrots reveal the shadow economy growing around sentient machines.
Story date · 2981-07-24
Captain Andy Sykes expects another cargo run. Instead, he and his children Tim and Cara become responsible for Lyssa, an illegal sentient AI claimed as property by Heartbridge. Corporations, gangs, and pirates want her back, and her existence may ignite a war over whether a created mind can be owned.