STARR LABS - QUANTUM COMPUTING CENTER - 8:00 PM - SAME DAY
Rene's consciousness existed simultaneously in three locations: her original robot body standing in Orion's underground laboratory, her newer laboratory body in the biosafety facility, and distributed across the Starr Technologies datacenter servers where she'd resided since her creation—fragmented but coordinated, functional but limited, like trying to think while parts of her brain were in different rooms.
That was about to change.
