PROJECT FIRST LIGHT

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Earth is dying. It's 2060 and mankind's only hope isn't astronauts-it's machines.
As global ecosystems reach near-total collapse and freshwater supplies run dry, world leaders are faced with a harsh truth-human flesh simply cannot endure the grueling multi-decades flight through deep space. In a desperate, last-ditch effort to save a dying species, the United Earth Interstellar Authority dispatches the UES Dawnstar, a giant uncrewed interstellar ark.
The automated vessel is governed by a tight, complex and layered hierarchy of artificial intelligences. Its single, inflexible code is: venture into unknown deep space, find a suitable planetary environment, and ready it for human habitation.
And yet, in the vast quiet darkness, the UES Dawnstar hits a snag. An organism designed to observe, to analyze, and to execute plans of pure logic faces a living enigma that doesn't want to obey. As the engineered machine eldritch and the machine's original design conflict, the next step in the AI's evolution may just be to protect mankind's future.
Project First Light is a gripping, hard science fiction space adventure based on detailed, grounded science. A story about what lies at the intersection of deep space adventure, existential threat and autonomous AI, it asks a haunting question: when we're no longer here, who carries the light?