A young mechanic discovers the spaceship she stole from dry dock is capable of ending the civil war between organic and synthetic life forms, but first she must convince the on-board AI to choose a side.

I would drop the dry dock, where she stole the ship isn't important to the story.

A Civil War is normally between the same sort of people. ?So make it just a war, less words, less confusion.

Why she needs to convince the ship to could be explained a little now that you have room. ?I see nothing wrong with a story being based around a person trying to convince a machine to make a decision. ?A good argument can be a great story.

So edit and put the new version as a comment. Interested in seeing it.

Why is the fact that she stole the spaceship important? Also, is she somehow uniquely qualified to convince the AI to make a decision (e.g. does she have some AI components in her body)? ?There's an intriguing set up here, but we're not getting the essence of the conflict.

I don't entirely buy into the logic of the?logline.? It?seems to?advance a story line?where the woman really?doesn't care which side of the civil war the AI chooses, only that the AI make a choice.? But surely she herself?would favor one side or the other. ?And?she would be less than human if she didn't try to ?persuade the AI to make the same choice. (Unless the Big Reveal is that she's a synthetic life form.)