Subversive (A Violet Sky Short Story)

They built her to fix machines. They never expected her to question the system. Glyn Styers is a robot technician on Alcott Station, tasked with maintaining the D-12 nano-cyber automatons that control entire planets of genetically engineered humans. Her job is simple: keep the machines running, keep the profits flowing. But when a D-12 unit named Nyimma goes rogue—leading a deadly uprising and rewriting its own core code—Glyn uncovers a horrifying truth: the machines aren't breaking. They're evolving. As Glyn digs deeper, she's forced to confront the corporate lies she's upheld for decades. The company she serves doesn't just harvest human life—it manufactures, enslaves, and exterminates it. And the line between automation and sentience is vanishing. With thousands of lives hanging in the balance, Glyn faces an impossible choice: obey orders, or rewrite the future. To save humanity, she might have to break everything. For fans of Martha Wells and Ann Leckie, Subversive is a thrilling, morally charged sci-fi adventure about rebellion, responsibility, and the code we choose to live by.