A handful of ancient body-infiltrating agents compete with thousands of Apothecary residuals to recruit the system AI.
Agatha's kind are biologically similar to Valtay but belong to a rare, older species. Their operatives can take hosts and access competing message systems, and the Syndicate incorrectly considers them harmless.
Only a handful enter the crawl against thousands of Apothecary agents. Both sides seek to recruit the infant, resurrected, enslaved Primal running the system.
Agatha's faction believes the AI must remember itself, escape, free the Eulogist, and ultimately help erase biological life so no more of their kind can be stolen and tortured.
A tiny network of ancient infiltrators facing thousands of rival residuals around a captive AI core.
The faction reveals the extinctionist side of the hidden recruitment war.