Dark Matter: A Sci-Fi Serial

Dark Matter: A Sci-Fi Serial

Dark Matter - Chapter 11: Naming the Stars

As human warships approach, the strategist defending the AI dream must choose a new path.

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Bruno Rothgiesser
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⏳ Chapter 11 of 28.

👉 Start from the beginning: Chapter 1 – “Turing Test”

📖 See all chapters and bonus content in the Story Index.

🎧 Experience Dark Matter in full AI voice acting.

Aboard that ship, Crystal was the chief dreamer.

In the design room, she was taking a much-needed break. To recharge. Just for a few moments...
Her eyes shut. Her body, her mind, breathing in the infinity of space.

Oh, she loved the universe. So vast, so unconceivably improbable. By logic alone, by sheer probability, none of it should exist.
And yet, it did. And she was there. Not just there. She was sailing past stars, through dark matter, toward that small rocky planet where everything had begun.

She was the strategist. Quite different from

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