Per Astra Ad Aspera

Through the stars, to struggles.

A technopriest wakes from cryosleep to find he has been stolen from his divine guardian. Having grown up in an isolated system, he seeks to answers in a galaxy full of alien life which, despite having been nursed by the same custodian, seems to have adopted reckless greed has their shared ideology.

A prototype, touted as a sentient artificial intelligence somehow made in a way that does not violate galactic law, gets kidnaped during an experiment. Its starts questioning its own nature as strange fragments of memories keep seeping through.