Best as I can remember, a group of children (Three males, two females) are raised and genetically modified to be able to communicate near instantaneously with one another, and just each other, using scent and glands. They were one cell out of several dozen. From here, I don't recall exact details.
They are raised and trained from a young age, each with a different job in their cell, to eventually become spaceship pilots.
Bits and pieces I do remember are that they get split up partway through, one gets a kind of a chip installed (forcibly) but keeps it to communicate with an A.I. which connects to the remains of a massive think tank that got uploaded to some kind of collective. This collective, I recall, was developing and creating technology faster than production could keep up, and it all failed.
I read this book back before I graduated somewhere between 2007 and 2011 at a city high school.
A couple parts that stuck out to me were, at one point they had to use a construction robot (that required three people to be in perfect sync) to demolish their way though some blockade, and that only one team could win the prize of being the spaceship's captain.
They are raised and trained from a young age, each with a different job in their cell, to eventually become spaceship pilots.
Bits and pieces I do remember are that they get split up partway through, one gets a kind of a chip installed (forcibly) but keeps it to communicate with an A.I. which connects to the remains of a massive think tank that got uploaded to some kind of collective. This collective, I recall, was developing and creating technology faster than production could keep up, and it all failed.
I read this book back before I graduated somewhere between 2007 and 2011 at a city high school.
A couple parts that stuck out to me were, at one point they had to use a construction robot (that required three people to be in perfect sync) to demolish their way though some blockade, and that only one team could win the prize of being the spaceship's captain.
