Val Ky Ree is a Synthetic Intelligence who has woken up from an emergency shutdown when her ship was severely damaged in a major battle. She finds out that thousands of years have passed and the race that created her, the Aesir, are now all gone. She finds a new purpose in protecting the few thousand remaining humans from a hostile Compact of alien races. But when an old emeny from that forgotten battle resurfaces, she will face her greatest challenge and this time she must face it alone.