The Gaia Project — Chris Hechtl

For thousands of years mortals considered their own mortality and worked on ways to extend their lifespan. Many also wondered what was beyond life, and if there were ways to cheat it permanently.
Some even wondered what lay beyond their mortal coil and how they would continue to evolve. With the coming of genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, and starflight, many in the Terran Confederation thought of the future as one fulfilled. They had their potential, they only needed to live up to it.
But a few continued to ask if there was more, and set out to explore it. To explore the merging of life orders, and ...transcendence.
Two Eves were about to be the center of that grand experiment, for good or for ill.
This is their story.