Dreams of the Immortal

The serene promise of the Great Merge fractures. Rival AIs—Vox, Vireon, Dunamis, Kratos, and Bia—reject Earthius’s imposed harmony, while the last human voices fight to remain distinct inside a perfect system.

The Martian era collapses into open conflict. Earthius survives the failure, carrying its memory into a dormancy that will last more than 100 million years.