Mentally I hold up the words proprietary biotech, the words machine consciousness, and try to take 22’s measure against them. But I can’t get them to stick. If B is right, I’m looking at the product of alteration, not creation. Intense alteration, with years of combat training and brainwashing and supersoldier drugs and mystery procedures I can’t even conceptualize outside of shit I’ve seen in movies. How would the end result differ?

