Lore · debuts Book 6, Chapter 48 — “Mass Layoffs”
The Failsafe
The Syndicate’s last-resort measure · unrevealed
A measure the drunk manager Mistress Tiatha and the PR agent Zev both reference with dread once the System AI seizes control: something the Syndicate “pulls” when a Macro AI goes rogue near the Ascendency battles or the crawl runs dry. Nobody will say what it does; Zev only prays they never find out, noting it won’t be used while the Earth system is under quarantine with the galaxy’s most powerful people trapped inside it. A mystery the floor leaves hanging.
Book 6 appearances
- Chapter 48 — Mistress Tiatha predicts the Syndicate will “pull the failsafe this time for sure” as the AI seizes the crawl.
- Chapter 49 — Zev refuses to say what it does (“Pray we don’t find out”) but says it won’t be triggered with so many of the galaxy’s elite trapped in the quarantined system.
Related entries
- The System AI Seizes the Crawl (Event)
- The System AI (Character)
- Primal Engines & Macro AIs (Lore)
- Zev (Character)
- Mistress Tiatha (Character)
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