In the midst of a brewing war between Mars and an empire encompassing the moons of Jupiter, three space pirates are thrust into an epic hunt with a resistance group for a godlike Artificial Intelligence that escaped Earth 500 years before, at the time of its destruction. Only the Arondite Chip may help them to locate the Artilect and possibly save the resistance from total annihilation at the hands of multiple cyberphobic governments who would execute anyone for the simplest cybernetic modification under the terms of the Artilect Protocol.