Search
Cookie Usage Statistics Colour Key Sudden Death Monthly Poll Caption Comp eMail Author Shops
Ships Fleets Weaponry Species People Timelines Calculators Photo Galleries
Stations Design Lineage Size Charts Battles Science / Tech Temporal Styling Maps / Politics
Articles Reviews Lists Recreation Search Site Guide What's New Forum
Warp Factor to Time Taken Star-Star @ Warp To Time Time @ Warp to Distance Distance and Time to Warp Ship Strength Fleet Strength Drake Equation Stardate

Titan Book 6 : Synthesis

ReviewImagesDatapointsQuotesMorals
TimelinePreviousNextYour View

Details

Titan Book 6 : Synthesis
Title : Titan Book 6 : Synthesis Titan Book 6 : Synthesis
Writers : James Swallow
Published : 2009
Publisher : Pocket Books
ISBN : 1439109141
Rating : 0
Editions :

Review

The Starship Titan continues on her outward voyage of discovery. Ranging farther and farther from Federation space, Captain William Riker and the crew look forward to living Starfleet's mission: seeking out new life, discovering new civilizations.

Striking a "sandbank"–a spatial distortion–the Titan is knocked out of warp, her crew shaken up but uninjured. Titan has stumbled across a battlefield, and floating in it, shattered and in pieces, are the remains of a ship. Searching for survivors, they discover the ship never had a crew. The away team removes the computer core, looking for answers. Once the device is restored, it becomes clear this is not just a computer, but a thinking, reasoning artificial intelligence.

It identifies itself as SecondGen White-Blue, it comes from a civilization composed entirely of sentient computers. Eons ago these artificial intelligences were charged to be the first line of defense against The Null–a destructive force so all-consuming that generation upon generation have waged unending war trying to find a way to beat back this terror. Captain Riker offers to assist them, but years of war have left the AIs distrustful and suspicious, especially of organics.

The tide of the battle is turning, The Null is winning. Set free, it will destroy everything in this system and then, unchecked, spread its mindless destruction into the heart of the Federation.
© Graham & Ian Kennedy Page views : 48,996 Last updated : 9 Nov 2014