Rogue Starship

When famed archaeologist Gav Gendin uncovers an ancient starship wreck, containing a stasis pod and a living, once-thought-extinct alien, it should be his crowning achievement. Instead, it leads to disaster and Siv Gendin, his son, being cryogenically frozen. A century later, Siv awakes to a declining world, where survival means doing whatever it takes. With the aid of a snarky, sentient AI named Silky, Siv becomes a top procurement specialist, enslaved to the Shadowslip Guild. They offer him freedom for a seemingly impossible mission: retrieve a young girl with extraordinary abilities. Rival criminal guilds, governments, and extremists will go to war for her, as she could reshape human civilization, potentially restoring the golden age Siv knew. But Siv must defy the Shadowslip and risk everything to keep her safe. The Benevolency Universe, once guided by a superintelligence called the Benevolence for over 3,000 years, now struggles to maintain its starfaring civilization and recover lost technology, as enemies multiply. The Benevolence kept secrets that could shape humanity's future.