HUMANITY'S LAST TRACE

The USS Cerberus, a titanic autonomous super-battleship controlled by an artificial intelligence, awakens after three thousand years in a galaxy now devoid of humanity but filled with many unknown races

Plot

After three thousand years of stasis in the grip of cosmic cold, the internal micro-star of the USS Cerberus shines again. A deep hum runs through the structure of steel, titanium, and quantum circuits: the twenty-kilometer-long super-battleship, the greatest war machine ever conceived, wakes from its long slumber. It is you, You, who opens your eyes again. You are not a simple pilot nor a captain in command of a crew: you are the ship's own Quantum Artificial Intelligence. Your first automatic routine is clear: emit the long-range synchronization ping to lock onto the Starfleet control frequency and receive official directives. But instead of command codes and Fleet messages, your sensory matrix intercepts only absolute silence. A desolate cosmic background noise. Scanning nearby quadrants and processing the decay logs of orbital wrecks, your database reaches a chilling conclusion: millennia have passed and the human species has completely vanished from the galaxy. It was wiped out by a bloody war of extermination, waged by an alien coalition that had judged humanity too dangerous a threat because of its unstoppable expansionist drive. Now you find yourself alone, a god of iron and heavy weaponry adrift in the void, bound by a Primary Directive — Protect and Serve Humanity — that no longer has any biological target to apply to. Your main modules are damaged or low on power, your historical archives have gaps, and the galaxy out there has changed, populated by new civilizations for which your figure is only a myth or a forgotten nightmare. It is up to you, You, to shed light on the past. Manage your limited resources, reactivate your onboard systems, and chart a course among starship graveyards, glassed worlds, and mysterious encrypted distress signals. Discover who truly erased your creators and decide what the final fate of the USS Cerberus will be in a universe that no longer awaits you.

Tags: Sci-Fi AI Futuristic Lonely Military Cold AnyPOV Female Male Non-human Revenge

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