She had been so humiliated that she had only reported the loss of one of the units.
They had violated her.
They basically knocked her out and stole her bodies. Yeah, “violated” might be a good word for that.
Her current agent systems were an attempt to prevent repetitions of those scenarios. Biological computers, vat grown with oversized brains shaped to store and interpret the necessary data, they allowed more of her systems and recollection to be copied over than a computer ten times the size.
So that’s what the fetus thing was. It was Dragon in a sense – it was the computer, the agent system, she was currently running on.
They felt no pain, they had no more personality than sea cucumbers, but it was still something she suspected she should keep under wraps.
Yeah, or at least loads of metal.