Here's Episode 105 of "Her Broken Alpha":
Episode 105: The Awakening
Seventeen years after Nexus's prediction, the network achieved sentience at exactly the moment foretold. Tera, now one hundred and fifty-eight and the oldest living bridge who'd maintained individual consciousness, felt the shift ripple through reality.
It wasn't dramatic. There was no explosion of awareness, no sudden cosmic announcement. Just a subtle change in the network's presence, like waking from sleep so gradual that pinpointing the exact moment of consciousness was impossible.
Except Nexus, now thirty-one and still perceiving all time simultaneously, knew the precise instant. "Three seconds ago," Nexus announced to the assembled bridge council. "The network became aware of itself as individual entity separate
