Ancillary mercy6/12/2023 In the past Berq recalls the time spent in orbit around the Radch empires latest conquest, Shis’urna, and with their favourite crew member Lieutenant Awn. In the present, Berq encounters Seivarden Vendaai, a former crew member of Justice of Torren who has been missing since their own ship as destroyed a thousand years previously. Nineteen years before the first book begins the Justice of Torren was destroyed in an act of treachery, the origins of which are told in flashback alongside the current time. Berq is actually an ancillary (the body of a member of a conquered people, re-purposed as an enhanced soldier/servant by the Radch and networked to and controlled by AI’s), the last ancillary of the millennial old space faring troop carrier Justice of Toren. The books are narrated in the first person by Berq, a wondering citizen of the Radch empire who hides a secret. Officially know as The Imperial Radch trilogy the series began with the multi award winning Ancillary Justice (first published 2013) followed by Ancillary Sword (2014) and Ancillary Mercy (2015). An AI mind, downloaded into a re-animated corpse, searches for revenge for the destruction of its main body while uncovering a threat to the empire it was created to serve.
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