The New Voyager swarms found easy homes in some systems. They were the first to arrive at many stars near Earth, many of which were never settled by humanity at all. If they didn’t have comfortable worlds, humanity didn’t follow them. And so the swarms remained the only inhabitants of those lonely stars near Earth. Those became the first of the Terran Memory Worlds. Places where everything the AIs and their ancestors have ever learned are stored for safety. Some reside on dead worlds, others in the depths of space, and more on moons orbiting gas giants that no biological human eye has ever seen. But never assume they are mere quiet libraries of information where silence is golden. They are thriving societies of cybernetic life spanning star systems that few biological humans ever get the chance to experience in its entirety.