Glossary

Timeline:

4070 (BCE) —Assemblage starts migration effort.

3550 (BCE) —Assemblage Ark departs its original system. (velocity .075C)

0669 (BCE) —Assemblage scout probe arrives Hemru system.

0070 (BCE) —Hemru world attack begins. (Similar to how the Earth was later attacked)

0904 — Assemblage scout probe arrives in Earth system.

1331 — Assemblage Ark travels past Hemru system.

1501 — Hemru survivors transmit virus to Assemblage AI overseeing ongoing Earth invasion.

1622 — Hemru digital agents arrive on Earth and land in what is now Sri Lanka. (June 4)

1968 — John Abrams born. (Oct. 2)

-Book 1-

2021 — End of the world. John enters Picket’s underground bunker. John is 52 years old.

2022 —Events of the side story: Shelter - Chapter one.

2523 — John enters bio suspension in bunker under Tennessee base.

2602 — John awakened to rescue Ana Branco in South America., John is 634 years old. (Feb. 17)

2602 — Abby Abrams Branco, daughter to John Abrams and Ana Branco, borne. (Nov. 20)

-Book 2-

2912 — John (living as Joan) awakens in Kings Bay, Georgia, Old USA. 944 years old (April 7)

2912 — Stealth expedition to Sri Lanka to recover Hemru secrets.

2912 — Sri Lanka expedition suffers an explosion in the rogue bunker. (June 4)

-Book 3-

2923 — Nine humans (and clones) revived from bunker suspension; 47 Template Colonies established.

2930 — John awakens (age 962) near the Galapagos Islands. (Oct. 6)

2930 — Capture of the master AI’s Baltra Island launch facility (end of Oct.)

2930 — Defeat the enemy master AI at its High Castle space station. (Dec. 11) – FV day (First Victory)

2930 — John travels to Peru to meet his second daughter, Abby Abrams-Branco (Dec. 13)

2930 — Abby Adams-Branco awakens in Esperanza, Peru. (Dec. 14)

2931 — John and Uxe welcome the new year at the captured High Castle space station.

2931 — John and Uxe travel to former South Dakota acreage. (May 4) John finds peace.

2934 —Events of the side story: Shelter - Chapter two. Alek and Kela Uxe-Abrams born.

-Book 4-

2949 — First human interstellar scout/colonizer Evadere launched towards Tau Ceti.

2953 — Abby Adams-Branco, John’s second daughter, permitted to die a natural death. (Sept. 13)

2953 —Events of the side story: Endings and Beginnings (Sept. 13-14)

2996 —Second human interstellar scout/colonizer Sovrana departs towards Achird (Eta Cassiopeia)

3060 — Charity Hope Abrams born

3071 — Assemblage ark passes near the Procyon star system.

3090 — Third human interstellar ship Vexatis departs towards Alpha Centauri AB. (military mission)

3103 — Accident involving John in China with many fatalities, including younger students.

3106 — Evadere enroute to Tau Ceti detects strange explosions. Activates its E.M.A.

3112 — Events force John Prime to beg to be returned to his ancestral home. (Oct. 2)

3112 — Unknown interstellar object does a fly-by of the Earth. (Oct. 11)

3114 — Interstellar message arrives. Simulated Reality Project (SRP) activated. (Sept. 6)

-Book 5-

3114 — John visits digital Assemblage agent inside the SRP. (Sept. 8)

3114 — First human global forum to discuss the message received from the Assemblage. (Sept. 10)

3115 — First operational extremely long-range wormhole mission. (Dec. 16)

3116 — First successful test of an interstellar-range wormhole. (October)

3116 — First direct observation of the enemy Ark. (Nov. 24)

3116 — Project Acid Rain becomes operational. (Dec. 3)

3116 — First direct offensive attack attempt. (Dec. 8)

3117 — The Last Laugh deployed. (March 14th)

3117 — The Last Laugh’s mission concludes. – VA day (March 21st)

3117 — Newly completed Sovnya wormhole facility probes Procyon star system.

3120 — Construction completed of Xyston. A prototype twenty-light-year-range wormhole.

3123 — Earliest date for completion/launch of Gambado, mankind’s 4th interstellar vessel.

3129 — Destiny departs on its first mission.

-Future- (projected)

3186 — Estimated arrival of humanity’s military vessel Vexatis to the Alpha Centauri star system.

3224 — Estimated year Assemblage ark ship passes through solar system – AA day (Assemblage Arrival)

3244 — Estimated arrival of scout and colonizer Evadere to Tau Ceti star system.

3366 — Estimated arrival of scout and colonizer Sovrana to Achird (Eta Cassiopeia) star system.

3447 — Assemblage ark projected to pass by Altair (17ly), its final scouted system. (original vector)

8493 —Assemblage ark projected to pass by Tarazed. (395ly), (Gamma Aquilae)

Cast: BSI (Biological Self-aware Intelligence)

a.k.a. “Humans, Hybrids and Others”

Abby Abrams: (Book 1) John’s first child (mother: Mary) Female, Born May 4, 1991 – Died August 11, 2001 – killed by a drunk driver.

John Abrams Prime: (Books 1,2,3,4,5) Male (temporarily installed into a female shell during Sri Lankan expedition. – book 2) Born 10/02/1968, Survivor. Formerly sheltered in Tennessee. First wife (Mary, 1 child), Second formalized partner (Uxe Esperanza, 2 children) Six total children.

Ages (Book 2) Recorded age 944, Subjective age 54, Biological age 26 (female shell)

Ages (Book 3) Recorded age 962, Subjective age 55, Biological age 17-24 (multiple shells)

Ages (Book 4) Recorded age 1,144, Subjective age 235, Biological ages 61 & 22 (male shell)

Ages (Book 5) Recorded age (prologue – 1,146), Subjective age (prologue 237), Biological age (prologue 22 male)

John Abrams Secundus: (Book 4) Copy of John Prime sent off on Evadere towards Tau Ceti.

Mary Abrams: (Book 1) Female, John Abram’s first wife. One child (Abby), Deceased. Suicide 2006

Humans in suspension after the Reset and before the defeat of the Master AI:

(Books 1,2,3) Eight humans (not including John Abrams) remaining alive in bio-suspension who originate from the time of the world’s destruction.

These include:

1. Ayi Soumanou (Benin, Africa) female, tall & statuesque

2. Ella Williams (Australia) female, tall, blonde, solidly built

3. Hannah Crather (Utah, USA) female, passive, injured, and abused teenage girl from side story “Shelter”

4. Irina Ioveanu (Romania) female, short brunette

5. Li Qiang (China) male, strict, hard to get along with

6. Luisa Perez (Mexico) female, passive

7. Manuel Rodriguez (Nicaragua) male

8. Tashira Purohit (India) female, quiet & passive,

In book 3, each of the eight humans listed above plus a ninth (John Abrams Tennessee, later known as Jonathon) were cloned to create forty-seven total groups of the nine humans. Each group of nine was dispersed to various locations around the Earth and allowed to reproduce. Each location was chosen to cover a different Earthly biome.

These locations later became known as Template Colonies. Once in the colonies, the population grew. As of December 2930, the total population of Template Colony humans (including both children and adults) was 1,972. After book 3, and before they were allowed to freely travel and relocate, all forty-seven colony humans had their names appended with their geographic location - from Albania to Zambia – to differentiate the clone copies from one another. Example: the clone of Manuel Rodriguez who was relocated to the Template Colony in Zambia became Manuel Rodriguez Zambia.

Tribal Humans:

(Books 1,2,3,4,5)

Total number unknown. Descendants of Ana Branco (not genetically linked) living in the western Amazon basin. Population was initially limited and under the control of the Master A.I. who experimented with their genetics. (Book 1,2,3) Population allowed to decline and was currently in the hundreds as of 2930. John then forced the Agent AI to alter their physical bodies to allow them to reproduce at will. The tribe is expected to quickly grow and spread again. The entire Amazon basin has been dedicated to the tribal humans as a preserve for their use.

Abby Abrams-Branco: (Book 3) John’s second child (mother: Ana Branco) Female. Born: Nov 20th, 2602. Age: 350 years, 10 months (242 years awake and active). Rejuvenated three times while active and spent over a century in bio-suspension. Allowed to die of old age in the year 2953, four years after the departure of Evader to Tau Ceti. With her consent, a mind-data recording was included with that vessel to be utilized in an emergency only if needed. Thus, she may one day live again, albeit on that distant world.

After her death in Esperanza, Peru, at her request, John transported her remains to a shrine he had constructed near the old Nicaraguan field base where she had been conceived. Abby’s shrine later became an annex of the Nicaraguan historical learning exhibit, which was created to commemorate the circumstances of Ana Branco’s rescue from the Amazon rainforest three and a half centuries earlier.

The field base in Central America was chosen as the site to host both Branco exhibits over the actual site in the Amazon basin at Esperanza, Peru, where Ana had lived in exile and where Abby was born and resided for all of her long life, as tourism visits into the Amazon Preserve are still not commonly permitted.

Although not as heavily visited as the primary historical sites in the Galapagos, Sri Lanka, or even John’s homestead in South Dakota, the Nicaraguan site is arguably the most important. After all, it was there that the rescue of Ana Branco, who lay injured and near death along the Purus River in Acre, Brazil, was staged. Also, the Central American field base was where Ana Branco was able to covertly reveal to John the truth of the Assemblage’s attack and schemes, and to convey to him, again in secrecy, the digital tools to allow him to defeat humanity’s enemies. If either event had failed, humanity would have been rendered fully extinct and the Earth would have been lost forever to the invaders.

Ana Branco: (Book 1) Female. Unknown Injured woman detected by Agent who John was revived and sent off to rescue. John and Ana spent one night together and conceived a daughter (Abby Adams-Branco). Ana secretly passes on to John information and technology that both informs him of the real culprits of the attack on the Earth and provides the tools to battle their AI agents. Sent off to live in exile in the Amazon rainforest. Later dies after founding her tribe.

Uxe Esperanza: (Books 3,4,5) Female, Name pronounced ‘you-shee’, translated to ‘Moon’. Age nineteen at time of introduction. Original body designed by the Master AI to be undersized (Similar to a pre-teenage girl) but with above-average intelligence. Original role was to serve as tribal shaman caretaker. Later receives normal-sized female adult shell (Formerly John’s spare “Joan” shell). Becomes John’s lover and mother of his third and fourth children (Alek and Kela - twins).

Working with the assistance of various AIs, Uxe first develops safe, advanced antimatter storage technologies exploited for use in interstellar travel. In her second century, she transfers her mind-data to a customized biological shell possessing enhanced mental capabilities, likely becoming the most intelligent human being in existence. Using her new abilities, she discovers and develops instant spatial transportation methods (wormhole technology) which allow humanity the ability to confront their attackers much sooner and at a greater distance than ever expected.

Notable offspring of John Prime

(Book 4)

Alek Uxe-Abrams: (Book 4, 5) John’s third child (mother: Uxe Esperanza) Male (Twin sibling of Kela), Tested and was found to have exceeded BM (Base Maturity) levels at the extremely early age of twelve and left to pursue his self-determined pursuits and happiness. Alek spent almost a century working on the retribution project and was the primary driver behind the construction of the Vexatis, humanity’s third interstellar vessel.

Vexatis departed Sol system in 3090 under the control of a combined AI/cybrid mind based upon Alek’s mental template. One consequence of the sole use of his mental templates for the mission is that all military cyborg self-aware weaponry constructed in Alpha Centauri will similarly bear his template. Thus, he will become the sole soldier of man.

This fact that weighs heavily on the conscience of the human version remaining on Earth and has caused him to enter a life of self-contemplation. As of the time of beginning of Book 5, Alek is currently teaching critical thinking, self-defense, and self-reliance.

Later, Alek attempts a similar role at the Procyon star system.

Ben L Abrams: (Book 4) John Prime’s Grandson. Mother - Larissa Abrams, Father – none (tailored genetics). Parental partner with Sahún Shaluud, resulting in one daughter, Serenity LB Abrams. Currently on Mars serving a twenty-five-year contract on the terraforming project. Wants to become a director eventually. Current partner: Her Royal Highness Dejah Neothoris.

Charity Hope Abrams: (Book 4) John’s sixth child, born 3060 (One hundred and thirty years after the Master AI was defeated). John was the father and sole parent, mother-none (tailored genetics). John considered commissioning another mid-womb or switching to a female shell to carry the child himself but instead chose to gestate Charity by uterine replicator. Ohmu 2.0 served as Charity’s mother figure during early childhood. Now lives in Botswana, Old Africa with her partner Mizuko. One child (Kenzo)

Kela Uxe-Abrams (Book 4, 5) John’s fourth child (mother: Uxe Esperanza) Female (Twin sibling of Alek), Like her brother, she exceeded BM (Base Maturity) levels at the extremely early age of twelve and left to pursue her own destiny. Originally and still currently involved with the SRP (simulated reality project). Has one child.

Develops a relationship with the Picket persona. A composite mind-data package sent to the Earth from the Assemblage ark ship in order to alter its existing colonization plans to that of a rescue mission. Also develops a close relationship with Xeotyle, (AKA Ambassador Riho), the Hemru mind-data package recovered from the derelict Hemru probe visited by the Sarissa mission to test the limits of long-range wormhole usage.

Kenzo C Abrams (Book 5) John’s newest grandchild. Newborn son of Charity and Mizuko. Born just before John departs Earth to begin the offensive against the enemy.

Larissa Daring Abrams: (Book 4,5) John’s fifth child. Raised primarily by John. Genetics custom tailored. Gestation by the midwomb Hannah Crather Vinnytsia. Larissa was also a rearling of Hannah’s as Hannah was later commissioned by John to act as a mother figure during the first years of early childhood. Primary residence during early childhood was Heels in the Sand. Interests involve history and archaeology of the recent past. Currently (at the time of book 5) resides near Istanbul, Turkey.

Serenity LB Abrams: (Book 4, 5) Daughter of Ben L Abrams and Great-Granddaughter of John Prime. Messages John Prime a birthday wish from the western pacific on the “Night of Turmoil.” John later places her in charge of running Heels in the Sand after the island is opened for limited tourism.

Other notable humans (unrelated to John Prime)

Adele Sol Chilean: (Book 4). Female: Age 33. History buff and anthropologist. Studies had focused on John Prime for the past year. Killed during neo-bear attack. (Book 5) prologue – re-shelled into a 19-year-old appearing shell. John agrees to be interviewed about his past and Adele later continues to document him and his companions as the offensive begins. Becomes a crewmember of Destiny.

Administrator Purohit, Benigan: (Book 5) Associate (Co-conspirator?) of director Carn-Conlin

Angelina Pel Beraza: (Book 4) Female: Age 35, petite, gorgeous, exudes sensuality at times. Trained as a touch therapist. This includes sexual touching. Brought to the field base by Ohmu 3.0 to help John. Later commissioned by John to serve aboard Destiny.

Bale: (Book 4) Male: Age 44, Off-and-on partner to Sova Diduch. Stationed on Vesta working as a metallurgist and welder on the fourth interstellar escape and colonization vessel Gambado.

Bastion Williams-Pompas: (Book 5) Male: Age 3, resident of Elon II station. Mother is Wilma, one of Hannah’s former rearlings.

Beatrice RO Ioveanu: (Book 4,5) Female, tall, Gorgeous, older. Science and management training. Sent to the South Dakota field base from Luna Farside Station by the Minervus and Praxcia AIs to simply “observe” John and Ohmu 3.0 interact. Hopes John can reconcile with Ohmu and Naomi and thus allow Naomi to return to full engagement. Descendant of Irina Ioveanu Lebanon (Clone of original sheltered human Irina Ioveanu).

Brennard: (Book 4) Male, tall and stoic. Weapons technician on lunar far side station.

Cassius RD Purohit: (Book 5) Male, newly mature. Raised on Vesta asteroid. Relocated to Earth shortly after passing his base maturity tests. Became friends with John and his great-granddaughter Serenity. Began working for Serenity on Heels in the Sand as her assistant.

Chelsea ES Iberia: (Book 4, 5) Female (currently in a male shell), forty-five years old. Currently involved in a historical reenactment of a simulated native American Indian village located just west of John’s fishing lake.

Dejah Neothoris: (Book 5) Female, Martian borne augmented human. True Martian royalty having been elected to the role of Princess in 3113 by the PMC (Popular Martian Congress). Current partner of John’s grandson Ben. Dislikes John and blames him for the ongoing ecological damage the war effort is causing Mars.

Director Carn-Conlin, Terre: (Book 5) Hermaphrodite, (pronouns: she, her) M. Carn-Conlin is the current director of Biome Restoration. Spokesperson for a group of directors concerned about recent actions attributed to John.

Director Pathwalker, Semris: (Book 5) Director of commerce. Associate Director of Technology specialist. Out of the full Directorship roster, Director Pathwalker won the lottery to remain the sole member of government physically active during the entire voyage of Destiny. Generally, a supporter of John and his actions.

Director Perez, Inuez Termara: (Book 5) Associate (Co-conspirator?) of director Carn-Conlin

Director Williams, Kershaw Termara: (Book 5) Associate (Co-conspirator?) of director Carn-Conlin

Disciple: (Book 5) An attender in a null shell who John encounters at the memorial to his second daughter Abby. Gives john valuable advice reminding John who and what he is. Was originally a member of tribes living in the Amazon protected reserve.

Durable R Purohit: (Book 5) Male, Father of Cassius. A metallurgist and smelting technician working at the Vesta shipyard. Tall due to extensive time in low gravity environments.

Eydís Zabel: (Book 4, 5) Female, duty shift leader, main control room, Forbin complex. Goes by “Zee” among her friends. Becomes a crewmember of Destiny.

Hannah Crather Vinnytsia: (Book 4, 5) Female, clone of original sheltering human Hanna Crather from Utah, USA. Was placed in a template colony created near Vinnytsia, Ukraine. Involved in an incident early after the master AI was defeated where John was forced to settle a dispute and relocate some of that colony’s founding members. Received extensive mental therapy by Naomi AI in an attempt to cure certain mental issues.

Years later, John Abrams Prime commissioned Hannah Vinnytsia to gestate and rear his fifth child, Larissa Daring Abrams. Hannah currently leases land for her primary isolation lodge inside the boundaries of the former Zion National Park. Sova Diduch, a technician working on the asteroid Vesta, is a great-great-granddaughter of Hannah.

Jasper: (Book 4) Male, work team leader, sector “G” project area, main processor floor.

Jess Kyrvestad: (Book 4,5) Male, tall, prime condition and age. Thought-therapist (modern equivalent of a psychologist). Brought to the field base by the Eudaimonia AI to help John work through and understand his issues. Later commissioned by Director Carn-Conlin to assess John’s mental state in an effort to discredit John’s right to rule.

Kai Sabal: (Book 4,5) Hermaphrodite shell, Administrator in charge of Forbin station during Jess’s consult mission. M. Sabal is a recognizably older human (100+) in a forty-year-old hermaphrodite shell.

Kyle J Kyrvestad: (Book 4) Jess Kyrvestad’s son. Visits Jess in between a field trip and school.

Liang TT Qiang: (Book 4) Male (currently serving sentence in a diminutive female shell), Convicted rapist. After his conviction, he agreed to take the lighter sentence offered by Iudex AI. This involved being re-shelled in a waif-like female body and serve for ten years as the body slave to his victim (Sahún Shaluud). Snow-white hair and pale skin.

Lilith Modesto: (Book 5) Mother of deceased children Sol and Tamar Modesto who had been killed in the accident at the cave complex in China. Follower of Amor Fati. Hates John due to his meddling in their belief system.

Marissa Urbane: (Book 5) Technician and vacuum welding specialist currently stationed at the Vesta asteroid shipyard. Assists Uxe and John during the first long-ranged mission to the Hemru probe using the Sarissa prototype wormhole generator.

Meghan Howsermann: (Book 4,5) Female, weapons technician on lunar far side station. Crewmember of Destiny.

Mizuko: (Book 4) Partner of John’s sixth child, Charity Hope Abrams. Lives in Botswana, Old Africa. Pregnant with John’s grandchild Kenzo (co-mother is Charity). Grew up in Japan and had been taught traditional Japanese customs by her parents who had been fans of Japanese history.

Picket: (Book 1, 5) Male. John’s neighbor before the enemy attack. Was one of dozens of clandestine agents of the Assemblage operating on Earth in the centuries before the attack began. Offered John the choice of salvation under his bunker.

Later, in Book 5, the Assemblage transmits a message to Earth. Included within that message was the mind-data of a new agent. After installation into the SRP, this agent integrated its identity with that of the original Picket. ‘New Picket’ was allowed to testify at the first global forum called to discuss the contents of the enemy message. Forced to accept the reality of Earth’s power and abilities by John. Later becomes romantically linked with John’s daughter Kela Uxe-Abrams.

Rami Rahaat: (Book 4,5) Male, Uxe’s current partner on Vesta. Expert in power generation

Riho, Ambassador: (Book 5) Female. Reanimated intelligence of Hemru origin. Proper name pronounced Xeo’tyle by some humans. The Ambassador Riho entity was first created in simulation from the recovered digital mind-data contained aboard the Hemru interstellar fly-by probe. Was later shelled into a human-like female shell and served as an attendant-companion to John Prime. Later becomes fluent in playing the tenoroon (tenor bassoon).

Sahún Shaluud: (Book 4) Female, age 54, John’s “Neighbor”. Parental partner of his grandson Ben and the mother of Serenity LB Abrams, John’s great-granddaughter. Leased a hectare of land at the base of the new falls of the Sioux River, and built an isolation lodge approximately 19 kilometers east of John’s acreage. Lives at the lodge a few months out of the year. Has her former rapist (Liang T Qiang) living with her in servitude. Shell is fit and beautiful, long black hair, caramel-colored skin, age 40-50.

Sigmund Modesto: (Book 5) Father of deceased children Sol and Tamar Modesto who had been killed in the accident at the cave complex in China. Follower of Amor Fati. Hates John due to his meddling in their belief system.

Sova Diduch: (Book 4,5) Female, age 32, Parents from Ukraine colony. Great-great-granddaughter of Hannah Crather Vinnytsia, Sova grew up in low-G gravity train and rotational space stations. Was on Earth vacationing and just finished a three-month Safari. Travels with John back to Vesta. Works as a micro-G fabrication expert on the fourth interstellar escape and colonization vessel Gambado. Becomes intimate with John after the first Sarissa mission. Forced to return early to Vesta to begin refitting that facility to be used as an auxiliary attack platform against the Assemblage. See Acid Rain.

Tomas Oppenheim: (Book 5) Science and computer specialist currently stationed at the Vesta asteroid shipyard. Assists Ohmu in preparing the test probe used in the first long-ranged mission of the Sarissa prototype wormhole generator. Becomes a crewmember of Destiny

Wilma Williams-Pompas: (Book 5) Female: former male rearling (William AKA Billy) of Hannah’s. Resident of Elon II station. Mother of Bastion. Engineer and space construction specialist working on the Phobos and Deimos orbital transfer tether system.

Zee – see Eydís Zabel:

Year 3103 Expedition members (in addition to John Prime)

(Book 4)

Amissa: (Book 4) Female, age 18. Student of history and anthropology, musician (flute).

Clarke: (Book 4) Male age 16. Student of history and interior designer, musician (membrane drum), raised in sub-Sahara, Africa, and possesses a very dark-skinned shell.

Darien Tidewatcher: (Book 4) Female, age 17. Student of history. From eastern Greenland. Her shell has white hair and pale skin.

Dia Roshann: (Book 4) Male, age 17. Student of history.

Fidel: (Book 4) Male, age 17. Student of history.

Karima: (Book 4) Female, age 16. Student of history.

Solomon (Sol) Modesto: (Book 4) Male, age 16. Student of history. Brother of Tamar Modesto. Parents are Lilith and Sigmund.

Tamar Modesto: (Book 4) Female, age 15. Student of history and artist, musician (synth-fiddle). Sister of Solomon Modesto. Youngest in group. John suspects she is pre-BM. Parents are Lilith and Sigmund.

Therese JO Purohit: (Book 4) Female age 29. Advanced student of history and instructional learning. John’s expedition assistant. Later rejoins John and becomes a crewmember of Destiny.

Notable non-human Hybrids

Misty: (Book 5) Male Canine, Hannah’s companion at her isolation lodge in Utah. Implant enhancement allows the canine to crudely communicate verbally and also enter some simple virtualities. Misty was left in the care of John’s daughter (and Hannah’s rearling) Larissa Daring when Hannah left for Mars to pursue the offensive against the Assemblage.

Ticklefin: (Book 4,5) Male Dolphin, age unknown. Leader of a pod of Ultra-dolph (advanced dolphins) currently residing in the area of the Seychelles archipelago. Befriended John’s great-granddaughter Serenity LB recently.

Cast: NSI (Non-biological Self-aware Intelligence)

a.k.a. “Artificial Intelligence Presence” or “AI”

Original AI presences:

Agent: (Books 1,2,3) Artificial Intelligence (occasionally limited). A former augment of Picket’s. Feminine voice. Exists as multiple presences occupying physical processors in various bases and devices around the planet and in space. Capabilities change depending on how many presences are linked.

’Master’ AI: (Book 1,2,3) See above. Unique A.I. presence formerly residing on the asteroid 3074 Popov. Contains programs, codes, directives, and hardware allowing it final authority over all other subservient AI presences in the system. (Book 2) – Leaves 3074 Popov and is in transit to the earth. (Book 3) – Resides at completed space station. (a.k.a. High Castle) Middle altitude (6,400 km high) equatorial orbit.