ARTIS PRIME

ARTIS PRIME

<h1>ARTIS PRIME</h1> <h2>The latest adventure in the successful Pattern Universe series.</h2> <br />Artis Prime is a large asteroid populated with AI's. Considered by the fourteen worlds of the Empirum as the <br />centre of excellence for manufacturing and design of new technology it is often the target of <br />unscrupulous smugglers, pirates and spies. As such it comes under the constant scrutiny of the <br />ESSG, The Empirum's own guardians of the peace. <br /> <br />In this first full-sized novel a deadly game is afoot between RIGA and unknown enemies. She has <br />stepped into a hornets nest and no amount of running will keep her safe. She must unravel the <br />mystery of who, and why before they succeed in eliminating her. No easy task, when it seems they <br />are everywhere. <br /> <br />When she finally uncovers the truth, RIGA is left with no choice, She must defeat an enemy that is <br />poised to strike at more than just the Empirum. The price of failure will result in interstellar war. <br /> <br /><h2>Story Setting</h2><i> <br />The AI Wars are long past, and a fragile peace has settled over the AI and Human worlds. <br />The differences that once kept them apart, now work to their mutual benefit. <br /> <br />However, not all is well. The Empirum that governs them is wracked with constant attempts <br />to upset the stability, thus forcing the ESSG, the Empirum's Security Guardians, to employ <br />heavy measures to keep the PACT together. <br /> <br />Within this harsh environment, RIGA, a new biological AI, carves out a career for herself <br />distributing her unique brand of justice to pirates and smugglers running the borders. The <br />PACT between the different species means their Navy's hands are tied. RIGA has no such problem <br />and with a modified one-person spaceship is more than able to slip the leash and maintain the <br />status quo. <br /> <br />Her job often requires diplomacy between the two species, but when that fails she resorts to her <br />personal skills and bio-mods that enable her to keep on top in a fight. The humans allow her onto <br />their planets, which is essential for her missions, the AI's think she is a human too, so never <br />see her as a threat (until it's too late). <br /> <br />But, for RIGA, there is a big question mark over her origins - and something is tracking her - <br />pushing her constantly onto the defensive.</i>