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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.…