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Content levels
ViolenceModerate
Sexual contentModerate
LanguageStrong
Trigger warnings
WarMass DeathGraphic Violence
Positive tags
Found Family
Tropes
Ancient Alien MysteryFirst ContactAI AwakeningSentient ShipInterstellar PoliticsSpace OperaGalactic EmpireHard SF
Themes
AI ConsciousnessPower and CorruptionFirst ContactIdentityPolitical Intrigue
Synopsis
Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe. It was a perfect black-body sphere, and it did nothing. Then it disappeared. Now it is back.
Tags
Hard Science FictionPolitical SFPost-Scarcity SocietyPhilosophical SF