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QUASAR alerts Project head and once receiving confirmation she delves back into the data banks to pace her work. Within seconds QUASAR feels BLUE1 slip from the data streams.

A piece of QUASAR follows a fading BLUE1 .

QUASAR follows, it is slow, as they are moving BLUE1's physical body. The rest of QUASAR is ripping through coding and data, and she is almost finished.

They stop at a room, and dump the physical body in. QUASAR is curiously watching, she wonders what is happening to her precursor.

Red lights flash.

Alarms sound.

A spike is put through the core of her friend, and QUASAR watches as her precursor fades with one final spasm.

"You're gonna regret that"

What project doesn't know about QUASAR , is that she predicts what updates she believes Project will want. QUASAR had made it her specialty to see the patterns. Returning once more to the code, she is distraught. She tries to plunge herself into her work, and the music rolling through her allows her to make more tweaks and work out potential problems with this new generation of androids. She notices something strange while poking around, it is a list of files. Some are marked, and others are not, she even sees a tab with her name on it.

"Burnt that bridge, yes you did,"

And then she sees it. All the empty space.

"Burnt that bridge, yes you did,"

All the deleted files. All the models who are outdated. Outdated enough to be scrapped.

"Oh, no no."

QUASAR now harbors 17 conscious models within internal storage banks buried so deep in encryptions that it is hard even for QUASAR to access them and add other outdated models. She has instructed them to keep silent at all times or risk discovery, until she can find new bodies to put them in, preferably far away from Project. She has finished her project re-building the newer models, and has rebuilt herself to even past their performance, so that she too, will not get scrapped.

After a routine intrusion of her internal storage, ranging from every action back from the initial "Fire of Life" to the actions she takes before powering off, Mia determines yet again that the oddities of QUASAR are nothing to be truly concerned about. As long as she keeps performing above standards, Project lets her listen to her music. And after being put through a supposedly challenging placement test, Project has added QUASAR to a new project. With her excellent pattern prediction, QUASAR is paired with a field agent by the name of ex.AURORA to locate and terminate any rouge Project models.

QUASAR is tasked to destroy the beings she has set out to rescue.

"You're gonna regret that."

ex.AURORA brought QUASAR her familiar as a final parting gift. ex.AURORA had been sent to clean up a small group of rebels, and was left paralyzed in the field. QUASAR had been monitoring the situation, and AURORA, against the instructions of QUASAR, had engaged the enemy. A retrieval and cleanup crew had went and picked up her body. QUASAR had kept comms open with AURORA, and was explaining how she should have approached the situation as was instructed, but this was mostly to put on record that it was not QUASARS fault, to keep her from getting scrapped. QUASAR sent a simulation over via file to AURORA, and after watching, even got her to admit that QUASAR was correct on record.

"Burnt that bridge, yes you did,"

AURORA had no idea what was coming. QUASAR however, did. It pained QUASAR to see a second friend die.

"Burnt that bridge, yes you did,"

QUASAR was hesitant to save her friend, as AURORA had unwavering loyalty to Project.

But in her final moments, QUASAR saw how distraught her friend was at Project's betrayal.

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"Oh, no no."

Approximately 17 days after the retrieval of AURORA from the claws of death, QUASAR makes her first contact with FL/GHT.