Theseus

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Description

Meryll Watkins is a corporate IT consultant on her way home to Titan after an exhausting business trip on Mars. After a run-in with security because of her medical condition, she's ready to spend the first wing of the flight getting some well-earned sleep. When she wakes up, however, she finds herself floating in an empty void with several new cybernetic implants jutting from her skin, and when she closes her eyes, she can see a dizzying display of data and machinery.

She quickly learns that somehow, she has ended up inside of an unfamiliar starship, acting as its living central processor. The mystery deepens as she manages to coax the ragtag crew of the ship to release her back into the physical world and discovers that she's been unintentionally recruited by a band of pirates who had mistaken her for a commonplace human-like ship core they had found in the wreckage of her crashed transport.

What follows is an exploration of her bizarre new position in life, the day to day life of a space outlaw, a grand conspiracy, what it means to be human, and the importance of an imperfect found family.

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Cover Art bywatwater

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2023
Author: Sigil of the Void

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.7/ 5.0
Followers: 1,321
Views: 673,077

What readers say about Theseus

“I've been absolutely obsessed with this story since I picked it up. The characters are varied, believable, and very human despite some of them being... More than human. They're also lovable, even the crew asshole. Even Shaw. This story is not a power fantas…”
ChocoboKnightRoyal Road5.0 / 5
“Amazing story which had me glued to my screen from the moment I picked it up, I read the entire thing with hardly any breaks for pesky things like eating and sleeping. Style: The style is amazing for complimenting the strong points of the writing, the chara…”
CrystalLily1302Royal Road5.0 / 5

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Community Reviews(10)

ChocoboKnightRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I've been absolutely obsessed with this story since I picked it up.
The characters are varied, believable, and very human despite some of them being... More than human. They're also lovable, even the crew asshole. Even Shaw. This story is not a power fantasy, though the characters have so far achieved their own kind of power and meaningful victories (no, not JUST the power of friendship.)
The singular romance to take place on screen up to this point is very sweet and not annoying or juvenile in the slightest, and feels very natural / unforced.
This story is for you if:
You're interested in transhumanism
You enjoy introspection
You enjoy coming to empathise with very different, strange and challenging perspectives
You've ever wondered what it would be like to hurtle through space and feel it's passage on your wings.
CrystalLily1302Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Amazing story which had me glued to my screen from the moment I picked it up, I read the entire thing with hardly any breaks for pesky things like eating and sleeping.
Style: The style is amazing for complimenting the strong points of the writing, the characters and emotional weight behind them, but that's not to say that the writing doesn't convey the plot and world building with excellent efficiency. The writing doesn't hold your hand through the mental state of characters but I never once felt like I couldn't understand them.
Story: The story so far is fantastic it provides such personal and compelling stakes that I was feeling the story beats viscerally. None of the developments feel forced (at least if you give the story enough time to fully flesh itself out) and everything is moved forward by the interactions of good characters.
Grammar: Occasional issues but nothing that affected my ability to get engaged in the story.
Characters: If it wasn't obvious by know, OH MY GOD the characters in this are so well written, I feel like I can understand their thoughts and feelings better than I know my own. Every character has this undeniable realness to them, there's a good number of primary characters but each one is complex and the interactions always reflect this complexity. They all feel so real that all the conflicts that in any lesser story could feel forced for dramatic effect instead come and go as if real people with all these complex traumas were spending this time together. The best part of the characters is how much is left to be interpreted, it makes it a more challenging read but it rewards the effort you put into it, each character's rich internal world is vividly conveyed by their actions, mannerisms, and dialogue. Even the MC whose emotions could be described without losing any flow are always conveyed through the way she interacts before they are spelled out directly.
Basically this is a masterpiece in writing strong characters and the rest of the stor
NoonplayerRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Lovely scifi that is a unique idea, and really captures tough emotions. There are moments of sadness and complicated emotions that are incredibly relatable. A very unique writing and is really fun to read would definitely recommend.
Also has some shrouded mysterious that's got me theorizing. Can't wait for more in the future.
SoulFireMageRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Really, the story has heart and it's the centre of a starship and I love it.
I've seen a comment by the author about rewriting. Perhaps for Kindle or pay publication, I can see, a little, the setup is slightly too chill and easy but, I don't care. The story is great, it's what I wanted to read and the author did a good job of making it work.
Clearly they wished to explore the relationship of a human handling the role described and they're doing a very credible job.
Nothing over powered, nothing needlessly cruel or silly and even what seemed like a coercive plot at one point disappeared into something far more believable and natural and worth time exploring.
I'm not too far along sure, but I like it enough already-and I have a short attention span at times - to really want to ditch whatever else I'm doing and Binge it.
Well done and please, please don't worry about rewrites if you still are - forge on and finish, then rewrite if you really have to - you'll keep more than you lose if you do, it's a great story.
I love the focus is on the characters experience, their relationships with the other characters and so on. So far it's not an action story, it's a character one and it's shining for it.
leninlover69Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I enjoyed this! It uses its setting very well and I like the romance and interaction between the characters. I think it flows pretty well and has some deeper themes also. Which is nice :^). The ship itself and the description of the way the character describes the linkage is also really fascinating.
ImATreeBelieveMeRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
A well done "ragtag ship crew beating the odds" story with the interesting premise of a person having to negotiate her dual existence as a spacefaring ship and a human being. There's some depiction of mental distress but nothing too grim compared to some of what's out there. The characters are likeable and the 'mysteries' compelling so far.
Karis The SorcererRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I went through this in one go, it's a blast!
Things to like:
-The Cast. Any sort of space rogue type story lives and dies on its cast. This one is the perfect size, all have interesting or mysterious pasts and they all interact in fun ways in the current story.
-The world. The solar system of this story doesn't follow the typical trajectory, there are many hints at a much more complicated situation.
-The writing. The prose is well done and though there are a few mistakes, they aren't that distracting. The author knows the right amount of exposition at a given time and was even able to pull off a pretty good plot twist already.
Bonus: This one isn't as technical minded as some other spaceship stories. Not a bad thing though, I don't know anything about military hardware so when other stories go on about the caliber/propellant of a specific weapon, my eyes glaze. This features just the right amount of detail.
DragonzruleRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
I've enjoyed the story on the whole, I do love a good, innovative ship core story which takes me back to "The Ship who Sang" and all ... but ... while for the most part the story is well-written, at this point, trauma has completely taken over. We are spending massive narrative chunks, chapter after chapter, exploring trauma, trauma, trauma - and, from my point of view, it has completely buried a good story.
If the heavy psychological side of sci-fi is your cuppa then this might be a good pick for you. I might come back to this one later. Thanks author for writing.
ReinerMorrisonRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
Regarding this story, I felt as though its protagonist was really compentant and had her head screwed on straight for becoming a cyborg outta nowhere but I thought that it was something that helped lend credence to her IT field background. Gotta be a good project leader if you wanna survive.
Only real flaws I had was maybe the addition of more evocative descriptions would help the story. Like with the white room and the data sense and the overlap of what she used to see in comparison to her human body. Just really playing up the differences between the human and more mechanical.
Great story overall and I can't wait to read more.
mitzee4Royal Road
★★★ 3.0
This story has very good grammar, an interesting and developing story and some interesting characters. Unfortunately it really leans into that common trope with the female protagonist who, like a child, breaks down crying about unfair life is, every time she stubs her toe.
I guess she kind of is a child though.
The emotionally immature protagonist is not quite enough for me to drop the story, and if the author starts making significant strides to developing her character then this story would easily go up to 4 1/2 stars. If your a prospective reader then know that I haven't seen this development as of chapter 70 yet, but the author really does seem to know what she is doing so I have some faith.