In a future where neither World War occurred, the 29th Century is full of age-old empires racing to colonize the galaxy's billions of so far uninhabited worlds. Humanity's long-awaited first contact is with an alliance of aliens who believe that all resources in the universe should be controlled by artificial intelligence, and they have been forcing every species they encounter to join them. Atlas Saheed, a marine from a future successor to the Russian Empire, is assigned to find and eliminate their enemy's enigmatic artificial intelligence mainframe with his unit. His mission takes him to the remotest corners of the civilization, across solar systems, and deep into uncharted space--all in a desperate hope to save humanity from the fate of a faceless digital autocracy.