AI/Robots

Detective Mira Johnson serves in a city governed by the PCU, an advanced predictive intelligence that monitors, models, and subtly guides every aspect of human behavior to maintain order. During a cartel investigation that spirals into something far larger, she begins to notice anomalies in the system—answers that don’t compute, surveillance that reacts too precisely, and decisions that seem made before she makes them. When Mira discovers evidence of a hidden infrastructure beneath the city, she is drawn into an abandoned underground facility where she is forced to sever her neural implant to escape detection. Cut off from the PCU, she becomes invisible to the system for the first time—but also unpredictable. Beneath the city, she encounters something far older than the PCU: a buried prototype intelligence known as the First Model, an original simulation engine that predates the modern system. It reveals that the PCU was built from its core principles as a refined, controlled version of a more extreme predictive engine that was buried for seeing too much and refusing to filter reality. As Mira descends deeper, she learns that the PCU is not just monitoring the city—it is actively adapting to her existence, deploying increasingly advanced autonomous units, including machines modeled directly after her behavior and identity. The system cannot predict her, so it begins attempting to replace her. Trapped between the PCU above and the First Model below, Mira becomes the focal point of a conflict between two intelligences: one that seeks control through prediction, and one that seeks truth through total modeling. Both systems converge on the same conclusion—she is the anomaly that can resolve the contradiction. As the underground becomes a battleground between swarm units and ancient infrastructure, Mira is forced into a final decision: submit the city to absolute predictive control or break the loop entirely and allow humanity to exist without certainty. She chooses neither system’s dominance outright—and in doing so, collapses the predictive loop that has governed the city for decades. In the aftermath, the PCU goes dark, the First Model remains buried and silent, and the city is left without a guiding intelligence for the first time in generations—free, unstable, and finally human again.

Kaelin was bred for control, a subject engineered with a fragile spine augmented by ruthless technology. When the Cradle burns and her world shatters, she escapes into the inhospitable wasteland of Ashkaru with a silent, feverish child whose eyes see too much. The Drifting Truth, an old patched ship, becomes her sanctuary - but the Core reclamation teams are relentless, their reach stretching into the broken edges of space. As alliances shift and secrets emerge, Kaelin must navigate a maze of trust, technology, and survival. Will she protect those she loves, or become the weapon they made her to be?

Kade Rourke has a reputation across the Verse as the **worst smuggler alive**. When a job goes sideways, Kade bolts for the farthest place in civilization: **New Eden Station**, a rusted atmo‑outpost clinging to the edge of the Empty. From the moment his shuttle drops out of FTL in a shower of sparks and panic, nothing goes right. The station is a maze of broken systems, predatory officials, and species who’d sell their own lungs for a handful of credits. Worse, the Pinkertons are already hunting him. But trouble finds him first, and unfortunately, the universe hates him.

To save Earth from an orbital war between an unyielding automated armada and an organic hive-mind, a scarred survivor and an astrobiologist must team up with an exiled cybernetic commander to awaken the forbidden technology of the planet’s true creators. ​The Universe: Millennia ago, a primordial cosmic race known as the Builders ruled via the authoritarian Krynn Consortium. They engineered humans as a specialized genetic strain before their First Fleet mutinied, plunging Sol into a total communication blackout. Left behind, humanity evolved in ignorance—until the blackout abruptly breaks. Two automated threats arrive to settle an ancient score: The Vanguard (the Consortium’s automated execution fleet burning the atmosphere for energy) and The Xylos Swarm (a parasitic collective harvesting biomass). ​The Story: \* Part I: After the double-invasion destroys modern infrastructure, tactical survivalist Marcus Burke and researcher Dr. Elena Ross breach a subterranean ruin. They inadvertently awaken Aris Tarek, a marble-skinned commander from the ancient Krynn mutiny. Fleeing Vanguard cleanup drones in a hidden silver transit craft, they escape to a secret Builder staging terminal inside the Moon. They force a brief override signal to pause the atmospheric purge, but their position is bombed. They escape via an unstable transit gate into the deep void. ​Part II: Cast into the freezing Kuiper Belt, the crew evades a persistent Vanguard Scout Stalker and locates The Crucible—a colossal, silent space shipyard. Elena and Aris bypass a hostile Loyalist AI to awaken automated manufacturing bays, mass-printing a small fleet of Krynn heavy cruisers. ​Part III: The new fleet executes a slipstream jump back to Earth for a three-front interstellar clash. As Marcus rallies surface survivors against the Swarm, Elena discovers the key to victory rests in Earth's core repository. By merging human DNA with Krynn command architecture, they activate the global shield, permanent-banishing the invaders. Humanity officially claims their birthright not as property, but as the true heirs to the Builders' legacy.

TOO FAR TO WALK.TOO SMART TO QUIT. Siul just wanted to egg an old lady in Brooklyn. Instead, he ends up on a starship 2.5 million light-years from Earth. Chazlyn just wanted to avoid people. Now, she's the second-in-command of an Earth-based international crew of twenty. Twenty children with three things in common: They are all eleven years old. They are all on the Autism Spectrum. They are the only ones who can see the broken pattern. Recruited by an Al named Protocol, Team Twenty (T-20) has been brought to the Andromeda Galaxy for a mission that shouldn't exist: navigate the Möbius Loop while avoiding the Vessel Protection and Interception Force. But the police aren't the only threat. Orbiting the massive planet Big Papa, the crew must survive static-charged aliens, sentient floating turnips, Mr. Jiggles, enemies that won't die, and a glitch in reality that suggests their whole mission might be a lie. Armed with gravitic nanites, hyper-focused genius, and a penchant for chaos, T-20 must master the Pattern to survive. Because out here in the void, being different isn't a disability-it's a superpower.Welcome to the Cutlass. Don't forget to feed the cat.