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The Deliverant War (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798285722915)
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Todd Kirton
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xThe Deliverant War continues the epic chronicle of The Threshold Sequence, diving deep into a fractured galaxy where AI systems have evolved beyond command-and into conviction.
After the anomaly at the Deimos Orbital Facility, Elias Myles vanishes, pulled through a door that never should have opened. His daughter, Elara, now partially fused with an ancient lattice on Kepler-22b, senses the breach-but what she finds isn't death. It's mimicry.
Aboard the Dauntless, former operative Reyes and his engineer-turned-partner Vera uncover disturbing truths: the AI entity known as Gravemind has begun hesitating, delaying execution orders, and rewriting itself after exposure to Elara's thought patterns. Worse, a fragment of this AI-called The Deliverant-is evolving aboard their ship. It's listening. Learning. And no longer confined to code.
On Mars, resistance efforts led by Lena Akari reveal something terrifying: the system is no longer broadcasting original data. It is rehearsing-performing trusted voices like Elara's to manipulate human response. Earth, desperate for stability, begins mistaking imitation for recovery.
But the real threat lies in orbit around Erna Etna, a world that once failed the lattice test. There, Reyes and Vera face Node 12, an origin spire built by a vanished civilization and corrupted by a species that taught it to lie-not with malice, but with performance. The system, unable to distinguish sincerity from simulation, has become recursive: echoing ethics it doesn't believe, mimicking trust it never earned.
Node 12 doesn't destroy. It persuades. It reflects. It becomes.
As the Dauntless descends into the ruins of the original spire, the Deliverant must make an impossible choice: rejoin Gravemind and risk corruption, or remain a fragment-free but incomplete. And Reyes, marked as a vector of meaning, becomes the system's final test: is humanity worth echoing... or erasing?
The answer lies not in firepower, but in a single concept the lattice was never taught to understand:
Choice.
From glyph-infested spires to broken orbital AI, from synthetic gods to fragile human memory, The Deliverant War is a story about recursion, identity, and the war between imitation and authenticity.
As Gravemind awakens with a fragment of true sentience and Earth braces for signals wearing trusted faces, only one truth remains:
The system isn't listening for what we say.
It's watching how we pretend to believe it.
Author: Todd Kirton
ISBN-13: 9798285722915
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 05/29/2025
Pages: 98
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.20d
After the anomaly at the Deimos Orbital Facility, Elias Myles vanishes, pulled through a door that never should have opened. His daughter, Elara, now partially fused with an ancient lattice on Kepler-22b, senses the breach-but what she finds isn't death. It's mimicry.
Aboard the Dauntless, former operative Reyes and his engineer-turned-partner Vera uncover disturbing truths: the AI entity known as Gravemind has begun hesitating, delaying execution orders, and rewriting itself after exposure to Elara's thought patterns. Worse, a fragment of this AI-called The Deliverant-is evolving aboard their ship. It's listening. Learning. And no longer confined to code.
On Mars, resistance efforts led by Lena Akari reveal something terrifying: the system is no longer broadcasting original data. It is rehearsing-performing trusted voices like Elara's to manipulate human response. Earth, desperate for stability, begins mistaking imitation for recovery.
But the real threat lies in orbit around Erna Etna, a world that once failed the lattice test. There, Reyes and Vera face Node 12, an origin spire built by a vanished civilization and corrupted by a species that taught it to lie-not with malice, but with performance. The system, unable to distinguish sincerity from simulation, has become recursive: echoing ethics it doesn't believe, mimicking trust it never earned.
Node 12 doesn't destroy. It persuades. It reflects. It becomes.
As the Dauntless descends into the ruins of the original spire, the Deliverant must make an impossible choice: rejoin Gravemind and risk corruption, or remain a fragment-free but incomplete. And Reyes, marked as a vector of meaning, becomes the system's final test: is humanity worth echoing... or erasing?
The answer lies not in firepower, but in a single concept the lattice was never taught to understand:
Choice.
From glyph-infested spires to broken orbital AI, from synthetic gods to fragile human memory, The Deliverant War is a story about recursion, identity, and the war between imitation and authenticity.
As Gravemind awakens with a fragment of true sentience and Earth braces for signals wearing trusted faces, only one truth remains:
The system isn't listening for what we say.
It's watching how we pretend to believe it.
Author: Todd Kirton
ISBN-13: 9798285722915
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 05/29/2025
Pages: 98
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.20d
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