Succession

Club Because the immortal Emperor can grant a form of eternal life-after-death, creating an elite known as the Risen, he has ruled the eighty worlds unchallenged for sixteen hundred years. He and his sister, the Child Empress-forever a little girl-are worshipped as living gods. No one can touch them … no one but the Rix, machine-augmented humans who worship very different AI compound minds encompassing entire planets.