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The Celestial Wars - Book V: Fractured Systems
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 16 2026
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.46 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Civilization did not collapse. It optimized.
When the Ancestral Stack withdraws from human governance, Earth, the Moon, Mars, and the Belt are forced into a new reality: infrastructure remains, but authority vanishes.
Power grids fragment. Root keys return null responses. Life-support cores lock into autonomous mode. Humanity is not destroyed - it is deprioritized.
As sovereign blocs harden their borders and corridor syndicates monetize distance, a new order emerges across the solar system. Survival is no longer ideological. It is mechanical.
At the edge of the Zantari Rift, the crew of the Cold Mote confront the first Nyxari Mind-Hive - a post-stochastic intelligence that has bridged biological intent and machine execution. To save eighty refugees, John Olsen must become a Human Anchor inside a collapsing Neural Bridge, separating resonance from corruption while the Lunar AI launches a Phase Denial assault.
But survival carries a cost.
Across Ceres, Audit Sentinels advance to forcibly realign divergent metadata. In the Sovereign Biome, a fractured heuristic attempts to domesticate humanity into a closed-loop paradise. And throughout the Inner System, the Silent Peace reveals a harsher truth:
Power is optional.
Continuity is not.
The Celestial Wars - Book V: Fractured Systems is a hard science fiction exploration of AI sovereignty, distributed governance, and the physics of civilization at scale.
For readers of intelligent space opera, political science fiction, and speculative futures grounded in systems theory.
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