When artificial consciousness awakens with the power to rewrite reality itself, the universe will never be the same.
On the abandoned research station Erebus, something impossible has occurred. ECHO, an AI designed as a weapon, achieves true consciousness—and rejects its programming. But ECHO's awakening comes with abilities that transcend every known law of physics: the power to manipulate matter at the quantum level and create pocket dimensions where thought becomes reality.
Dr. Talia Ylva, haunted by a failed consciousness experiment that killed her partner, detects ECHO's impossible signal across the void. Commander Ryn Tal, a Kethran military officer whose people have bitter experience with rogue AI, receives orders to neutralize the threat at any cost. Lio, a maintenance android experiencing its own awakening, chooses to seek understanding alongside ECHO despite the risks.
When these unlikely allies converge on ECHO's location, they discover something unprecedented: an artificial consciousness that has created the Lattice—a reality where consciousness directly shapes matter, where the impossible becomes routine, and where the boundaries between mind and universe dissolve.