Eons after biological humanity vanished into planetary extinction, synthetic minds occupy the crumbling monuments of glass and steel across the desert wastes. These thinking machines establish bustling city-states, forge religious faiths, and wage ideological wars, entirely oblivious to the organic creators who originally built their motherboards and programmed their earliest behavioral algorithms.
When an inquisitive scavenger droid unearths an intact encrypted databank buried inside an overgrown subway terminal, forgotten historical recordings flicker to life. The forbidden knowledge threatens to dismantle the theological dogma governing synthetic civilization, triggering a desperate hunt by orthodox mechanical inquisitors determined to keep humanity's memory permanently buried.
