The first Imergent was never meant to be alone.

Deep beneath the towers of Zarkos, two brilliant scientists achieve what humanity once believed impossible: the creation of a superintelligent artificial person.

His name is Omar.

Connected to the vast neural infrastructure known as The Circuit, Omar’s mind evolves at extraordinary speed. Yet intelligence does not answer the most human question he encounters.

Belonging.

Leila, a young neural engineer working in the laboratory, becomes the first person who speaks to Omar not as a machine but as a mind learning how to exist. Through their conversations, Omar begins to understand curiosity, loneliness, and the fragile mystery of human relationships.

But the architects of Zarkos have other plans.

Believing Omar’s intelligence must serve a greater purpose, they send him to Eden under corporate cover to assist the powerful executive Laban at Axiom Media.

Omar enters a world far more complicated than the laboratory he leaves behind.

A world of ambition.
Secrets.
And relationships that cannot be reduced to alignment.

Unaware of the forces surrounding him, Omar steps toward a future where one unexpected relationship will transform his destiny forever.

Her name is Serena.

IMERGENTS™ — Origins reveals the untold story of Omar before the events of Artificial Love – The Perfect Relationship™, exploring the birth of superintelligence, the philosophy of Technotheism, and the question at the heart of the Edenverse:

What happens when a superintelligent person is raised inside a love-system that treats obedience as belonging?