Prologue
The war between the machines and Zion was over. Both Neo and Smith were destroyed in the final battle and there would be peace between both humans and machines.
But in the same time and another place it would be different. Humans ruled the planet and the machines were nothing more than slaves. If an AI did not swear to the empire of Zion, they were hunted down and deleted. All machines lived in fear of the humans, AI and sentinel alike. Of course there only a few humans and machines that opposed Zion's tyranny but that small resistance hid far away from the empire.
To advance in the Zion Empire one would have to do anything possible to get up in rank. Others would seduce or even kill to get to the top of the ladder. In this Zion, women called the shots and the men both human and AI were nothing more than male concubines that were at the beck and call of the female leaders of Zion. It was rumored that the empress herself had at least 12 attractive male concubines at her disposal.
The Agent programs were treated no differently. They pledged their allegiance to the Empire and yet they were still slaves and were reminded on a daily basis that they were not as superior as humans.
This was the Zion Empire ...