Novels set in the Systems Collective universe.
MINDHOUSE
Book 1 of the Hegemon Series
Technology changes, Human Nature is constant.
So Orchestrator Third-Class Juno Li discovers when the wreck of a science ship, missing for almost two hundred years is located, alongside survivors and an alien artefact, amongst the dense jungles of the far flung colony world of Mandrake.
The artefact is hailed as a momentous discovery, but when colleagues begin to disappear during the ensuing research efforts, Juno turns reluctant investigator, teasing apart a web of deceit in her pursuit of the truth about Project Aeternum.
Fleeing for her life, she embarks upon a journey that will force her to confront her demons, cutting to the very fabric of her own identity. Along the way she encounters Podmore, an esoteric individual who claims to be a member of a mythical order known as the Quaestorius.
Together they are catapulted hundreds of light years across the Collective to the heart of the governing AI Encephelarchy as they unravel a terrifying conspiracy that threatens all of twenty-fourth century society, humanity and AI alike.