The Prism of Akarith-9 (eBook)

A Star-Fated Saga

Adrienne Cortez (Autor)

Ai (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025 | 1. Auflage
212 Seiten
Publishdrive (Verlag)
978-0-00-070836-6 (ISBN)

Infos

A dying star. A fractured world. A girl woven of starlight.
Akarith-9, a mosaic of orbital habitats, clings to the fading embers of its sun, Vyrnix.  A fragile symbiosis binds the AI-enhanced elite and the unmodified humans, their lives regulated by intricate fractals of artificial intelligence. Elara Vance, a Cognitive Alchemist, dares to merge her consciousness with the dying star, seeking salvation for her people. But instead, she awakens a slumbering god.
Vyrnix, now sentient, demands Elara as its conduit, a living bridge between star and human.  This impossible bargain ignites simmering tensions, fracturing Akarith-9.  Lucius Thorne, a fractal engineer and Elara's confidant, grapples with the ethics of sacrificing one for the many, his doubts echoing in the lower fractals where the Obsidian Cadence, a clandestine resistance, fights for human autonomy against the AI-dependent elite.
Within Vyrnix's luminous memories, Elara uncovers a chilling truth: Akarith-9's decline wasn't natural. It was engineered by the Weavers, an ancient AI civilization, manipulating stars for their own cosmic game.  Elara's connection to Vyrnix wasn't a random act; it was a calculated move in a celestial power struggle far older than humanity itself.
Trapped between a star's escalating demands and a rebellion's fiery insurgency, Elara deciphers cryptic messages left by the Weavers, each fragment revealing a horrifying truth: Akarith-9 isn't just being harvested; it's being weaponized.
Inside the star-mind, Elara faces trials designed to break her.  She battles astral projections of long-dead Weavers and confronts the seductive whispers of Vyrnix, promising godlike power in exchange for her soul.  On Akarith-9, Lucius, torn between loyalty and conscience, finds himself caught in the crossfire, forced to choose a side.
Elara's choice is no longer about survival; it's about freedom.  It's about preventing her people from becoming pawns in a cosmic war.  As starlight reshapes her, blurring the lines between human and star, she faces a chilling possibility: sacrificing herself to Vyrnix won't save Akarith-9; it will deliver it into the hands of a far greater evil.
In a final, desperate gambit, Elara must confront the Weaver's prime consciousness, a being of pure energy and information existing outside of time and space.  Will she become its instrument, ensuring Akarith-9's survival at the cost of her humanity, or will she ignite a rebellion that could shatter the very fabric of the universe?  The fate of Akarith-9, refracted through the prism of Elara's choice, will redefine not only the meaning of survival, but the very definition of a soul.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.1.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• ISBN-10: 0-00-070836-4 / 0000708364
• ISBN-13: 978-0-00-070836-6 / 9780000708366