![]() ![]() When it transpires that the death of a prominent pro-party journalist might be related to South’s case, the head of state security decides that South should act as a chaperone for the foreign state visitor arriving to identify the remains of her late journalist husband, concluding that South’s overt averageness will make him the perfect loyal scapegoat should anything go wrong… ![]() Set in the future fictional single-party state of the Caspian Republic, When The Sparrow Falls follows Security Agent, Nikolai South, as an under-the-radar, unremarkably competent policeman investigating the mysterious death of two sisters. And when humanity learns how to transcend their own consciousness into the digital realm, the moral divide between the countries becomes a chasm. ![]() Quickly, empires with this new technology find themselves eclipsing those without it, with their sentient AIs leading them to develop their economy and technology exponentially.Īs the world falls in love with the fruits of AI’s labours, those with philosophical or ethical aversions to the machines start fleeing to places that aren’t reliant on them, only to become trapped in states crumbling from socio-economic ruin, their arguments lost in the excitement and practicality of the new technology. When the first state-sponsored artificial intelligence comes online, the great economic powerhouses of the world are suddenly thrown into a brand new kind of space race. ![]()
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