Ancillary Justice – A unique take on AI and a sprawling, complex galactic empire!
Breq used to be the Justice of Toren - the huge, complex AI that inhabited a colossal starship and all of its thousands of ancillaries in the service of the Radch, the largest of the human empires. Ancillaries are human bodies that were captured in previous Radchaai annexations (or colonizations) – those who resist…
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