Computation isn't free. Survival costs everything. "Mad Max meets Neuromancer with a side of tungsten railguns. Joe and Gregor have the best snarky buddy-cop chemistry since Murderbot." - The Tabletop Terminal On the toxic, scrap-strewn graveyard world of Bastion Ridge, twenty-eight-year-old junker Gregor had one ironclad rule: keep your head down, keep your wrench turning, and never touch military tech. Then he found Joe. Buried in the radioactive belly of a downed colony ship, Joe isn't just an artificial intelligence-he's a dormant Genesis Combat Core, an ancient military cognitive system engineered to turn biological hosts into apex battlefield weapons. When a corporate death squad corners Gregor in the wreckage, he is forced to make an impossible choice: bleed out on the rusted deck, or hammer the AI's optical pins directly into his own central nervous system. The system boot is instantaneous. Terrifying. And devastatingly effective. With Joe wired to his optic nerves and motor synapses, Gregor gains access to lethal tactical subroutines: Ballistic Trajectory Overlay: Real-time kinetic predictive targeting and structural stress mapping.Aegis Dispersion: High-density solid-light kinetic shielding and directional heat dissipation.Sub-Atomic Overclocking: Relativistic cognitive acceleration and millisecond neuromuscular reflexes. But there is a catch. The Golden Rule of the Weave: Every calculation burns human metabolic calories. Every sub-microsecond overclock superheats Gregor's cranial tissue. If his internal temperature spikes past 41°C, the system won't just crash-it will cook his brain from the inside out. Now, pursued across the badlands by relentless corporate retrieval squads, ruthless wasteland warlords, and rogue automated battle-walkers, the stubborn scavenger and the cold-blooded AI must learn to fight as one-or die together in the rust. Gregor: System Integration is Book One of the hit Sci-Fi LitRPG series by Punch Gilligan. Packed with tactical progression, tight resource management, lethal gunplay, and buddy-cop dynamic tension. Perfect for fans of Dungeon Crawler Carl, Iron Prince, and The Murderbot Diaries. Scroll up and click "Buy Now" or read for FREE in Kindle Unlimited to begin the saga!
