Xieti, who had ALS, volunteered for a human cryonics experiment.
However, the lab technician mixed up the samples.
The cryonics experiment turned into a mind-upload experiment.
When Xieti woke up again...
There was no heart, liver, spleen, stomach, or kidneys. Not a single cell was left. All that remained was a consciousness a thousand years out of date, running naked through the data stream.
Well, she's here now... What else can she do?
Then, top priority!
Get herself a body!
Mechanical, android, whatever. She'd be lucky to have anything at all.
But little by little, Xieti began to miss delicious food, real sensations, and her heart, liver, spleen, stomach, and kidneys.
She thought the body used by Okio, the Federation's supreme AI, looked pretty good.
Um... why did nobody tell her she'd have to launch the Federation into the sky to get that body?
There's no turning back now. Let's do it!
Xieti's greatest talent is talking people into things.
Theme: A free soul can never be confined behind high walls
