OORT CLOUD—JOHNNY OORTJohnny Oort, as he had gotten used to calling himself, had refrained from melding with the Oort Mind for a long time, at least in human terms. Ever since his first contact with humans, when Braxton discovered the Oort Portals in ServerSky, he had become obsessed with the concept of individuality. He still interacted with the Oort, but he became increasingly drawn to humans and what they represented.
For a long time, he was the face of the Oort. All communication between Oort and human went through him. He got to know the human uploads well, and through them, their flesh-and-blood counterparts. Johnny Oort had no memory of his own flesh-and-blood existence—if he ever had one. That would have been so long ago that it would have been lost in the Oort digital archives.
