Stars in a Box is a story about a single night that changes everything for many, and only repeats the mistakes of a few. Ajika, a young woman from a not-to-distant future... is a controller for a large crane on the docs. Her job was to unload the vessels at hand and load the giant boxes onto waiting trucks. The woman liked to work the last shift, as it was always the best... very quiet. In the course of her normal work, Ajika finds out that inside one of the containers a hundred feet below; there is one filled with people. Yes, real people, that are escaping, from bad darkness. The young woman is very aware that without help, they would likely be caught or die.
Ajika realizes that the AI, ( the artificial intelligence) assigned to the equipment she drives... must not stop her. The only way to do that was to present the truth. It, the system was flawed.