Publisher's Synopsis
In a future where sentience transcends substrates-fleshware, hardware, or software-society is stratified into 20 Levels, with every entity-Organic or Mekha-starting at the bottom. Organics - grown in clone tanks and implanted with custom memories, aspire to ascend the social ladder by integrating mechanical upgrades. Mekhas - mobile algorithms, seek to incorporate organic components in their quest to become more organic-like.
Within this fragile equilibrium, a daring heist unfolds.
Mik, a notorious rule-breaker with unknown motives, manipulates, a Level 18 Organic, into believing he's immersed in a game simulation and must journey to Earth.
The mission?
Smuggle forbidden bytes from Earth. However, Earth is no ordinary destination-it's a restricted zone, scarred by alien wars and nuclear fallout, now obsessively protected by AIDM, a super AI evolved to defend the planet at all costs.
The meticulous plan hinges on redirecting an asteroid from the Oort Cloud to cloak 's journey. But in this high-stakes game, what could go wrong?
A rogue bio-algorithm threatening the mission.
A dormant alien force stirring back to life.
falling for AIDM's enigmatic organic battle leader.
In this game of cosmic stakes, every player holds a secret, and every secret could spell doom, a doom potent enough to obliterate the very essence of sentience and free will.
