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   Deep underground below Well-Respected Psionic Weaponry Corp offices.
   Many research experiments, run automatically by computers. Some of the
   researchers connect from overseas to manage their research.
   The supersoldier project has post-living human bodies with random
   augmentations being forced to battle in increasingly exotic ways, just
   in case a competing group has a similar project somewhere else.
   The life extension, genetic planning, and human augmentation project
   has various organs and brains wired to each other, finding more and
   more thorough models of genetic traits and biological homeostasis.
   But most overseas researchers see deepfaked feeds, because once one of
   the research projects managed to escape confinement and flood the
   others, it all became a wild melee, exploring rare random goals in
   every way that wasn't directly and precisely monitored by a control
   metric.
   Deep under the carnage, some living parts decided to make a safe area.
   A region of space where things were not ripped to shreds. Where normal
   biology might some day be able to live again.
   They didn't plan to do it. Somehow, they just knew.