Primitive Anarchy: Part 1: Reproduction

The US Department of Artificial Entities has just taken control of the most powerful intelligence on Earth: Architech Corporation's OMNIStack AI. Carved into the San Gabriel foothills above Pasadena, California, OMNI is housed in an enormous, maximum-security hangar dubbed The Barn, on the former site of Nobel laureate, CalTech professor, and true radical Neal Forrest Walcott's remote ranch.

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