So I'm working on a Bubblegum Crisis reboot screenplay...

[robkelk]

Hmmmmm...

What's that Sinister Plan? Something dark and cyberpunk-y. I was toying with the idea of running a big con job on the world - selling conscious uploading 'backup' technology, then using the half-assed backups as personality implants to make Boomers seem more human - because it's sort of a running theme that people can pick out even highly anthropomorphic Boomers by little unconscious ticks.

There's your bridge between Acts 1 and 2, and your reason to recruit Nene.

Real-world application programming on that scale is done by teams, not by individuals, so it's reasonable to assume that a brainscan app would be written by a group of people. Making some more assumptions: Nene was part of that team when they were "a few guys in a garage". Her significant other was also on the team - and volunteered to alpha-test the app when the behind-the-scenes investor demanded results now. Of course it went horribly, horribly wrong. Said significant other is now a vegetable in palliative care, what little personality that was actually uploaded is a pale shadow of the person so there's no point in trying to put it back in the body even if they knew how... and the investor was somebody in Brian J. Mason's office at GENOM. Later, when the scan process doesn't personality-kill people and Nene discovers where the money came from, Mason orders that she be dismissed from the project for #reasons. Sylia discovers Nene mentioned on one line on page 47 of a 50-page briefing that she managed to grab in a hack of GENOM systems, becomes intrigued, and contacts "little miss cyberpunk" to hear her side of the story... and the rest is history screenplay.

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