25 As his private ship zoomed through hyperspace, Florian sat on the bridge and read through Smoke’s scientific and medical files. It had taken him a long time to get acquainted his new product, but it had been worth it. What he saw made him cringe, particularly a paragraph from the opening page: [Date purged]: System update to ocular nerves and central nervous system via cybernetic implants, which are switched on. Breakthrough in our in-house memory construction and deconstruction. Product can no longer speak without synapses activating preprogrammed responses. Product able to predominantly perform head nods, shrugs, and shakes. Unless access code of [purged] is administered, product will be quiet and emotionless. In the event access code is administered, product will experience extrem

