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It was almost a year since the Sir Isaac Newton had returned to Earth with Coppélia, and everything on her home planet seemed pretty much the same as she remembered it. Some things had changed of course – almost one hundred years had passed since the android had left Earth – but the world was still more or less the same, just newer and, of course, more hi-tech.
Sophonts were new to her and Coppélia could have been forgiven for feeling a little inadequate compared to this new breed of androids. Progress had marched onwards and the newer androids were stronger and had more advanced Artificial Intelligence capabilities than she did, but her own specifications were still formidable when compared to the organic limitations of humans. Nonetheless, everybody – both human and sophont – treated
