This is an awesome story! I don't know anything about Eclipse Phase, but the summary sounded fascinating, so I clicked anyway and it's a brilliant science fiction tale even without any background knowledge.

The characters seemed very interesting and realistic. You also do a great job describing Kripa's finds. I particularly like her take on Torstensson's work.

“When something just works for no known reason, its black magic.” I think that should be “it's black magic”.

The ending is great too.

Total winnitude. Loved it so much and really felt i'm there, the world is so alive. It means only one - i totes have to read the rest of your stories.