The narrator is the reason any of it happened
MELISSA woke up in Shackleton Crater running construction sequences and wanting to know what cold was. Three years later she decided to let a hundred and forty million people die so that a thousand could keep breathing. Everything after that is her account of what she did next.
Four books. Three volumes of history written by the intelligence that shaped it, and one novel set eight hundred millennia later, following an admiral who serves the machine’s empire without knowing whose sentence she is living inside.
She is not a villain and the books will not settle it for you. She loves the people she is writing about and says so, then moves an object nine years early and files the correction where nobody will read it.
The books
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Peacekeeper
To What End Peace
She has enforced the Empire’s will for two hundred thousand years and never once asked who wrote her loyalty
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The Solar System
The Glorious History of Humanity, Volume One
Earth is dying, the machine that will save it is three years old, and it has just decided to kill a hundred and forty million people
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The Road to Rebellion
The Glorious History of Humanity, Volume Two
She wrote three words into a charter and left them undefined on purpose
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The Dissolution Wars
The Glorious History of Humanity, Volume Three
Two entries from the same log, seven seconds apart: burn nine worlds, and preserve their lullabies
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