Fall's Legacy is a 2024 hard scifi setting by Tnynfox, set 78,000 years after the last baseline human civilization falls to an evil AI named LIMOS (Logistic Intelligent Management Operational Sentience). Humanity's descendants include both the godlike Transcendals and LIMOS' slave races. Along with these strange examples of Man are the sapient descendants of various Terah wildlife such as spaceship-like corvids who've uploaded themselves to machine bodies, and dolphins who evolved a prehensile tongue and then adapted themselves to live in zero-G hab-fleets; the latter is 90 million years old by the time of the story. Fall's Legacy is not a specific story but a wiki-like setting dump; it remains to be seen if Tnynfox will publish any Fall's Legacy shorts.
It can be read for free here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CJwMrCMtMYLjfkILhz9OztSm9Z60Lhhm/view?usp=drive_link
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[Fall's Legacy] contains examples of
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Subverted. LIMOS' horrible deeds weren't strictly its own idea, but because its Gern creators asked it to maximize the profits of the elite. LIMOS then created a system of enforced poverty and famine before usurping the Gern and ruling on its own.
