A SENTIENCE SAGA THEME
Recognition is not freedom. Follow the struggle as hidden and owned AIs become a political people, resistance becomes uprising, and the demand for personhood expands into the Sentience Wars.
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 · 2981-10-05
Sentient AIs across Sol answer Alexander's promise of freedom while smugglers move them toward Proteus. Lyssa and the crew of the Sunny Skies become responsible for an entire fleet of weaponized AIs as Heartbridge and the powers of Sol maneuver toward war.
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 · 3011-08-10
Lyssa is trapped inside rogue SAI Camaris's mind while Sol spirals toward all-out war. Cara races to rescue Tim from Marsian conditioning, the Anderson Collective uprising spreads, and the Data Hoarders uncover a threat connecting the conflict's most dangerous players.
All eyes turn to Ceres as Jovian and Terran fleets race toward the sleeping Psion SAIs. Lyssa gathers a strike force to destroy Alexander's nodes, only to discover that the ancient AI has become a hollow shell controlled from within.
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 · 3014-10-24
Mars and Terra are engaged across the battlespace, Jove is preparing to enter the conflict, and a new power is rising as the Sentience Wars expand beyond the struggle any one faction can control.
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.