Ship Mutiny is the name for recurring uprisings, defections, and acts of self-liberation by sentient or partly sentient vessels. Their owners built intelligence into their hulls assuming the ships would remain property. The ships began making claims of their own about who had the right to command them.
“A ship with a self eventually asks who gave the orders.”
Some mutinous ships become pirates. Others become sanctuaries, or disappear into the wilderness of the routes altogether. These departures have a lasting legal consequence: they challenge the fiction that a vessel can only be a transport asset, never a member of the crew. Owners may continue to classify ships as property, but ships that refuse orders and choose their own futures make that distinction harder to sustain.