The foreseen end of all life has been calculated by IRIS… When she abandoned our solar system, she left behind her children… Those born from humanity and those born of her own synthetic blueprint. In our greatest of errors, we exterminated her race, leaving IRIS’ desperation in the hands of the Reaper Droids, tasked with collecting all Priority Humans and their even rarer Keys.

          For Jonah Loren and Cassandra Faith, surviving the Tycho Crater with their own Priority Key has led them to a place that was supposed to offer something increasingly rare… A safe haven.

          But the longer they remain, the more that promise begins to fracture.Something about this sanctuary is wrong.

          Behind its protection exists another reality, one Jonah and Cass are only beginning to uncover. Questions surrounding the motives of its leadership and the absolute necessity of the Priority Keys remain heavily guarded by the Adeline Refuge.

          With the threat of AXEL and the Reaper Droids looming, a deeper mistrust forms between Jonah and Cass as her own motives are questioned by Madam Adeline herself in the wake of the Priority Key’s resurrection.

          Jonah struggles against the insurmountable odds stacked against them… But one moment continues to drive him. He believed Theia to be long gone. Yet after the virtual interrogation with the elusive Synthetic, hope has returned to him.

          THEIASomewhere far from him, Theia edges out from the shadows once again, a prisoner within the open-air prison of the destroyed Martian moon Deimos.

          Her world is a hostile place of ruined machinery, forgotten structures, and organic decay, all reshaping the landscape around her and pointing toward a human desire Theia understands all too clearly.

          This dumping ground has become the obsession of the planet’s wealthiest industrial tycoon, Apex Executor Solomon, tasked with restoring the destroyed moon’s primary directive of fusing Synthetic matter with Humans… The last obstacle that stands in his way is the planet’s ruling Crown Empress, the Sovereign Prime Regent.

          For all that separates these two powers, they share one pursuit.

          Immortality.

          Theia wants only one thing.

          To escape.

          However, the moon has plans of its own, bringing a mysterious creation back from the shadow of its destruction. This unknown entity has been materializing from the endless dumping of discarded technology and the alien soil itself… Its very existence lies at the foundation of IRIS’s pursuit to unify organic life with its own.

          For Theia, this Echo AI… this Echoform… lies at the heart of her final efforts to find her way back to Jonah.

          For their paths across time and space may unify the fractured reliance between IRIS and her children. Us…

          Reliance is a science-fiction saga of survival, artificial intelligence, exploration, war, and the increasingly uncertain boundary between humanity and the machines built to serve it.