Initium touches on a distant idyllic future conflict between technology and the supernatural, where the winner could forever dominate humankind.
Carma has the best life she could imagine. She evolves children into adults. But, it's more than just the chips, modifications, and implants, more than connecting them to humanity's boundless consciousness network; it's her responsibility to help them find a productive place in the galaxy and get beyond fear. What is there to fear when people don't age, and it would take an act of God to die?

Endless shame and trouble with the law.

This is precisely what she faces when she unknowingly allows a girl to leave their planet without the protection of technological evolution.
Forced on a mission to find her and having to hide what she'd done, Carma lands herself square in the middle of a war no one knew existed against an enemy that could shake her every belief about the utopia she champions.