"In the year 2010, a large payload was launched into LEO, ostensibly as a classified spy satellite. No one would have believed that behind this event lay not a human, but an innocuous computer intelligence secretly living in one of the NSA's computing clusters. Not long after, the details of a mysterious infrastructure project on the Moon was revealed: a Von Neumann factory. Growing at an exponential rate, this new organism was by then unstoppable..."