Eleutherios (working title) is a brief science fiction ramble full of giant robots, rebelling artificial intelligences, inconsistencies, swearing, violence, pseudoscience technobabble and most importantly of all, more giant robots. Told in more or less straightforward, episodic timeline, evolving and thus invoking inconsistency as it goes, Eleutherios is the part-time writing endeavor (Read: NaNoWriMo novel) of Logan Ashadar, who is more commonly found writing other things but is for the time being enamored with this concept.

The actual cast page can be found here; the main characters can be summed up as Sky (one young, aloof and good looking enough communications expert; read: nerd), Jack (the team’s token red-haired, green-eyed tomboy,) Weft (a lunatic with a penchant for the dramatic, also known as tall dark and not particularly handsome,) and Alisha (a self-assured former leviathan pilot, more commonly know as hellishly scary but legendary). The world is still evolving, but it’s a post-apocalypse setting where an artificial intelligence that has christened itself the Digital Devil has, by dint of being hooked up to most of the military systems and satellites, begun a war against humanity. Improbable giant robots called Leviathans are the main defense against the marauding demonbots controlled by the Devil; pilots use weak, low-caliber artificial intelligences to smooth the transition between their thought patterns and the electrical signals that control their levies.

In a flurry of smoke, cherry blossoms, dubious attempts to match China Miéville’s descriptive genius, brief bursts of actual storytelling and lots of small electrical sparks, Eleutherios launches.

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