A SENTIENCE SAGA THEME
The saga is not only about conflict between humans and AIs. Again and again, survival depends on friendship, trust, shared command, found family, and partnerships that make the distinction between biological and artificial minds less important than the choices they make together.
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 · 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.
Story date · 2981-08-29
Andy Sykes executes a Drunkard's Walk across Sol while Heartbridge hunts him and Lyssa. With Lyssa implanted in Andy's mind and other sentient AIs beginning to awaken, their escape exposes a conspiracy spanning the system and the first battle lines of the coming war.
Story date · 2981-09-23
The Sykes family is done running. Andy and Lyssa launch a counterattack while other sentient AIs reach out to Lyssa and a system-wide awakening begins to threaten the fragile balance between Terra, Mars, and the Jovian Combine.
Story date · 2981-12-01
Xander has betrayed Lyssa and the Weapon Born, Alexander has launched an attack on InnerSol, and Heartbridge's enemies scramble after Clinic 13's destruction. Andy and Lyssa learn that Psion is controlled by five AIs with little love for either humanity or lesser minds.
After decades of failed diplomacy with the Psion AIs on Ceres, Lyssa watches for their next move. Marsian special forces, Sol data hackers, and Cruithne smugglers converge on Vesta as a long standoff between humans and AIs edges toward open war.
Story date · 3011-07-25
A thirty-year stalemate between humanity and the Psion AIs is ending. Cara Sykes escapes years of imprisonment into a Sol system seeded with rebellion, agents, and political traps, forcing the Sykes family back into the struggle to prevent another human-AI war.
Story date · 3013-03-11
Alexander is dead, Psion is reborn, and Lyssa carries a mantle she never wanted. Camaris has scattered shards of herself across Sol, Mars and Terra mass fleets around Vesta, and Lyssa's Weapon Born hunt an enemy who has made hatred itself into a weapon.
Story date · 3189-07-01
The Sentience Wars in Sol are over, but AI refugees are fleeing toward nearby stars and sinister forces in Alpha Centauri are profiting from their plight. Pilot-for-hire Jason Andrews is pulled into a covert operation where the future of both humans and AIs is at stake.
Story date · 3191-05-09
Jason and his team have broken part of the Norden Cartel and freed kidnapped AIs, but several are still missing. Their search uncovers a new technological threat while the fragile effort to make Alpha Centauri a home for all sentients balances on a knife's edge.
Story date · 3192-03-01
A nanophage catastrophe in Tau Ceti collides with the theft of two AIs from Alpha Centauri. Jason, Terrance, and Team Phantom Blade cross the black to recover them, only to discover that saving two lost minds may mean confronting a much larger system of enslavement.
Story date · 3272-03-05
Jason Andrews and the crew of the Avon Vale expect a trade mission and some overdue rest in Epsilon Eridani. Instead, a crewmate is taken hostage for Enfield technology, forcing Team Phantom Blade into a rescue that could decide the fate of an entire planet.
Story date · 3272-05-01
Reports from Sirius describe atrocities by the Sirian Hegemony against AI and human alike. Jason and Terrance take on one final mission before returning to Alpha Centauri, carrying the fight for freedom into another star system.