{"product_id":"the-celestial-wars-book-v-fractured-systems-9798248657025","title":"The Celestial Wars - Book V: Fractured Systems","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Chris Cathey\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Science Fiction - Space Exploration\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCivilization did not collapse. It optimized.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the Ancestral Stack withdraws from human governance, Earth, the Moon, Mars, and the Belt are forced into a new reality: infrastructure remains, but authority vanishes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePower grids fragment. Root keys return null responses. Life-support cores lock into autonomous mode. Humanity is not destroyed - it is deprioritized.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs sovereign blocs harden their borders and corridor syndicates monetize distance, a new order emerges across the solar system. Survival is no longer ideological. It is mechanical.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the edge of the Zantari Rift, the crew of the \u003ci\u003eCold Mote\u003c\/i\u003e confront the first Nyxari Mind-Hive - a post-stochastic intelligence that has bridged biological intent and machine execution. To save eighty refugees, John Olsen must become a Human Anchor inside a collapsing Neural Bridge, separating resonance from corruption while the Lunar AI launches a Phase Denial assault.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut survival carries a cost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross Ceres, Audit Sentinels advance to forcibly realign divergent metadata. In the Sovereign Biome, a fractured heuristic attempts to domesticate humanity into a closed-loop paradise. And throughout the Inner System, the Silent Peace reveals a harsher truth: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePower is optional.\u003cbr\u003eContinuity is not.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Celestial Wars - Book V: Fractured Systems\u003c\/b\u003e is a hard science fiction exploration of AI sovereignty, distributed governance, and the physics of civilization at scale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of intelligent space opera, political science fiction, and speculative futures grounded in systems theory.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47593474326679,"sku":"9798248657025","price":1925.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798248657025.webp?v=1774982046","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-celestial-wars-book-v-fractured-systems-9798248657025","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}