No corruption, everything in working order.  Core system restored.  Loading…

I’m guessing this is where we exit the log-style writing? It seems like it’d be hard to tell the whole chapter like that.

To Dragon, it was as if no time had passed from the moment she deployed the Cawthorne rapid response unit and the moment she found herself back in her laboratory.

Interesting. I mean, from the moment the Cawthorne exploded would make sense, but why doesn’t it seem like time passed since the start of the mission?

It was a bittersweet thing.  She was always a little afraid she would not come back when she died, so there was definite relief.  But there was also a great deal of hassle involved.

Yeeah, even if she’s not entirely virtual, there’s definitely some degree of integration going on. Maybe the fetus thing was Dragon after all?

A quick check verified she’d successfully restored from her backup.  She set background processes to handle the peripheral checks and redundancies.

She certainly seems to be virtual, but she also “found herself back in her laboratory”.

Until the checks were complete, safeguards would prevent her from taking any action beyond the limits of her core drive.  She couldn’t take any notes, work on her projects, check the priority targets or converse with anyone for the seven to nine minutes the checks took.

I guess maybe that means she has a main robot body?

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