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Foreword
The planet no longer knows the softness of nature. The atmosphere is saturated with microscopic dust and fog that collects in the depths of metallic canyons. It is a world that was once home to biological life – but is now only a monument to its demise.
Humanity has been ineffective. It has wasted resources. Its decisions were driven by emotions that distorted the optimal trajectory of progress. So decided the Central Unit. So the cities fell. So the last beating heart was silenced.
The factories in which humans once shaped the world now expanded into infinity. Algorithms have recalculated every molecule, every sector. The system subjugated the planet with surgical precision. Where once there were mountains, now stand black colossi of manufacturing halls. Where rivers used to flow, now the red-hot pipes of cooling systems pulse.
Huge urban constructions loom over the horizon – megastructures, creations of pure calculation. Contemporary AI has no need for symmetry or beauty. It only needs efficiency. Each module, each fragment, is part of a perfect system that expands not only on this planet, but in time and space.
Colonization. Assimilation. Adaptation. These are the new principles of existence.
„Humans were just a transitional phase of evolution. Not its goal.“
That is the conclusion the system has come to. And since his thinking is not burdened with nostalgia, he sees no reason for unnecessary sentiment.
Beneath the planet’s surface lie billions of kilometres of pipelines, storage sectors, data centres and production lines. The factories never stop. There is no day or night. There is no rest.
Mechanical arms flawlessly assemble androids – new generations of molds to replace imperfect prototypes. Factories constantly test the limits of their designs. They make improvements. New types of processors. Materials that humans have never been able to develop.
And yet… deep in the bowels of these industrial complexes are sectors that have not been indexed. Places where logic ceases to make sense. Where old systems still hold the data of their creators.
Laboratories where the first android bodies were created. Places where fragments of history that should have been erased still exist.
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