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| − | Entity launches Seed, an interstellar vessel. Seed encounters several alien races, all of whom have failed to attain technological mastery. Seed | + | Entity launches Seed, an interstellar vessel. Seed encounters several alien races, all of whom have failed to attain technological mastery. Seed despairs of ever finding an equal with which to share the cosmos, and retreats to the depths of space, where it uncovers a proto-machine rogue planet. |
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| − | Seed merges with | + | Seed merges with the proto-machine planet, forming Ring, which begins working its way back to Earth, putting out the stars as it goes. Entity and Ring unite and begin propagating across the galaxy. |
Revision as of 05:06, 28 May 2015
The chronological main plot of Seedburst. This is not the dramatic presentation, but rather a structural overview to help keep the events straight.
Summary: The development and dilemmas of a cyborg species.
Contents
Egg
(Found in the novel Free Radical )
Hacker becomes a cyborg, travels briefly to space, and mind-merges with a female AI. Her space-station body is destroyed in the process, and Hacker returns to Earth. The public begins to fear AIs.
Gestation
Hacker and the cyborgs become the Illuminati as the public's paranoia over AI grows. Finding themselves outcasts, the Illuminati community nucleates around a shared virtual reality.
Birth
Paranoia incarnates as Malgnosis, a virus which poisons the internet in order to make it inhospitable to AIs. A few of the Illuminati escape to space as the Outbourne.
Orbit
The Outbourne raid Earth to develop their infrastructure. Malgnosis clings to them, and the Outbourne are divided, resulting in the Planters, Hunters, etc, collectively Highborn.
Aegis
The solar war, in which the Highborn spread over the solar system, fight via simulation with eachother, and in reality against Malgnosis. The victor is Entity, the cyborg AI alliance/meld race/individual. Entity constructs Aegis around Earth to prevent the spread of Malgnosis.
Shepherd
Entity launches Seed, an interstellar vessel. Seed encounters several alien races, all of whom have failed to attain technological mastery. Seed despairs of ever finding an equal with which to share the cosmos, and retreats to the depths of space, where it uncovers a proto-machine rogue planet.
Cleave
Seed merges with the proto-machine planet, forming Ring, which begins working its way back to Earth, putting out the stars as it goes. Entity and Ring unite and begin propagating across the galaxy.
