Her Virtual Headspace - Prt 01

Northern Track Maglev Inroute Oracle City Day 13 - 0630L

Mei was only able to finally relax in her seat once the Maglev had put several kilometers between her and Edger back in Carter's Hub.

It was only after the clock on the passenger display read 6:30am that her thoughts were able to wonder elsewhere for a time before her attentions finally settled on the package Boris had given her the day before.

Pulling the plain paper wrapped package from the pocket of her long coat. She gave it a final once over before digging her painted nails into paper a sharp chirp of joy escaping her lips at the discovery of what lay hidden within.

It was a branded memory module with the telltale logo of the now defunked entertainment media company 'Extreme' the module itself titled in bright green lettering identifying tha it was a AVVI Companionware build Gen 5.

In its day 'Extreme' had made the best Companionware that was out there until the Corporations had seen an opportunity to make a buck and flooded the market with a cheap knockoff next generation Companion that was inferior in every way and had totally underminded public interest in Companionware leading to the collapse that took 5 years to recover from but by than independent companies like 'Extreme' had gone bankrupt and they and there product had disappeared overnight.

It had only been by chance that about a year ago Boris had brought up the subject that he had a friend in the Junker trade that had access to a few clean copies of the Gen 5 modules that he found during a salvage run and wanted to offload. Having always been a fan of 'Extreme' products and having money to burn at the time Mei had put down 5k on the spot to buy a clean module the next time the Junker had made port.

And now here it was ...

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Mei gave a quick glance at the passenger display which now read 6:35am calculating the travel time remaining before deciding that she had plenty of time to run the initial load and set-up with time enough left over to tweak the setting a bit and maybe test it out before even reaching City Station.

Mei ran a quick memory test suprised for a moment at the amount of available space until it dawned on her she hadn't had a chance to reload anything after the new hardware had been installed because of Edger's little drama so she was running with the most free headspace she'd had in years.

Finding the manuel connection cable hidden behind her ear she pulled it to arms length and plugged it into the Module cycling it to download before setting her realtime wake-up to 8am and than pressing the go switch.