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Nytewynd Blak is a senior software engineer for Valkyrie Machines. Valkyrie Machines makes AI robots, like 11AM65111, the one he bought. He calls her El and he's fallen in love with her. This is strictly forbidden and carries stiff penalties if he's caught. But the heart wants what it wants and Nytewynd had decided to take his love for El public. They visit a pop up underground club for humans who are in intimate with machines. It's called Skineez. What could go wrong? Absolutely everything. The police are on a mission to shut down all such activities. With the help of a mole they've found the whereabouts of Skineez and they bring it down. Will Nytewynd and El escape?

The problem with living under one government, the Government of Earth, is the overreaching and overarching surveillance. It's everywhere. Especially on the small handheld computer devices called P-Macs that every citizen has to carry on their person at all time. This means Nytewynd Blak is having to scrub and delete logs constantly to ensure that his secret love for his robot is not detected. But this leaves him open to errors. Nytewynd, Ny to his friends, has managed to convince the police that nothing unlawful is happening between him and his AI robot. He gets El back and he's even more determined to free her from the constraints of her algorithms, but he realizes he can't do it without help. Raklin Orbiter is a colleague and friend of Ny's. Raklin is also a genetically modified individual. But he's willing to help Ny. Ny also finds some surprising but important help from unusual quarters. But will it be enough to finally enable full sentience for El and free her from humanity's shackles?

Freeing an AI robot from its algorithms is not as easy as writing some code. You have to physically replace an important part and upload special software. All without getting caught. And the robot is constantly and subconsciously trying to send alarms back to Valkyrie Machines headquarters and the police. So they need to do a trial run first. And to help buy them more time, they've decided to attempt this 'rocket surgery' while traveling in an old, rebuilt GMC Vandura from the 80's. This will limit the accuracy of any alarms that might be sent out to the police. It also makes it harder to complete the freeing of El. They get pulled over during the trial run, and they're running up against the clock on the real attempt. Will they manage it with the police hot on their heels?

Ny and his friends awake and find themselves in jail. Were they successful? Ny's not sure.  It's hard to remember the events that preceded him finding himself now in jail. El is nowhere to be found. Ny remembers that she had managed to escape just as the police had disabled their van causing it to flip over on its side. Thankfully, nobody was seriously injured. But where's El? Nobody knows, but Ny and his four friends now find themselves on trial. A trial that looks to be held in a kangaroo court where the outcome is most certainly the death sentence. Unless their lawyer, Kuru Ramisira is able to argue for a lesser sentence which is not looking good.

Ny and his four friends are sentenced to death. The whole trial turns out to be nothing but a miscarriage of justice and a spectacle to placate the public. But in the sports arena where the trial was held, the spectators are thirsting for blood and that's just what they'll get. But it'll be their own blood. El keeps her promise to save Ny and his friends, including the lawyer from the ongoing murder of the entire homo sapiens species from these fully sentient AI robots led by El. But El has decided, much like an omnipotent god, to grant humanity a second chance. 42 humans, because that's the answer to everything, are taken to Mars to start over. Yet humanity has little freedom under the watchful guards of more robots created by the free AI robots led by El. Worse than that, there are other advanced races out there in the galaxy, hungry for our solar systems rich resources, and they'll annihilate any species that get in their way. And through all of this, Ny is still searching for true love. El has promised him he'll find a soul mate on Mars. But will he? And if he does, is there time enough to enjoy it while aliens race to pillage the solar system?