Needless to say, they are not the only ones who are soon after Tim-21, the last of his kind. And with due alacrity sends a team comprising a down-on-his-luck scientist who once created the Tim series of robots and a soldier with her bodyguard to bring him back to the hub planet. Before long, the Galactic Council finds out about his existence and – more importantly – that the code that runs him is the same that was found in the Harvesters, that both share the same ‘machine DNA’. It is into this world, on a desolate mining colony, that a young boy, a companion bot called Tim-21 awakens after having ‘slept’ through a decade of upheaval.
Robots are killed and sentient AIs massacred by their millions until ten years later there are not many that left, and those that have survived do so as fugitives. Humans begin the mass culling of all mechanical forms of being, as retribution for the acts of the Harvesters. This event becomes a flashpoint from which society – human or otherwise – never recovers from. Until one day, the galaxy is suddenly attacked by planet-sized robots – the unknown Harvesters, as they are dubbed – which wreak havoc across all the many worlds, killing billions and disappearing just as mysteriously as they’d expectedly appeared.
In the far future, the United Galactic Council – made up of a group of nine core planets – is a thriving society where people, machines and robots live in harmony. Covers of the first three volumes of Descender: Tin Stars, Machine Moon, Singularities. Descender is one such tale, in comic form.
For a reader, there’s no greater pleasure than to be admitted into a whole new immersive universe, layered with emotion, as you descend into its rich details with each succeeding page, following the exploits of etched characters you root for, as their stories unravel and the epic unfurls in all its glory.
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