Atlas Shepherd, an analyst with a deep distrust of artificial intelligence, searches for fugitive AI terrorist Harlan, who 28 years ago led an AI rebellion that left 3 million dead before military forces of a new International Coalition of Nations (ICN) sends Harlan fleeing into outer space. After one of Harlan's agents is captured and interrogated, Atlas discovers that Harlan has escaped to a planet in the Andromeda Galaxy, and insists that she accompanies the military mission to find and capture it.