Donovan's Gambit

In Donovan's Gambit, the first installment of The Donovan Ascendancy by Roger LeDoux, the narrative opens three hundred years after a galactic conflict, framed by an ancient AI named Zara. As the last remnant of Areidyanies technology, Zara serves as a "black box" of history, preserving the grim details of the Great War that the current peaceful civilization has sanitized and forgotten. Breaking her long-standing protocol of non-intervention, Zara decides to share the raw truth with a young...