Chapter 2: Grand Director Galileo.
Journal
I have been the head of this program for a few years. Actually, now that I think about it, it has been several decades. I keep saying a few years because there is that sense of a restart date that is put into us when we are resurrected from organic death. This is my second body. The body is synthetic. I could have chosen a younger appearance, but I did not want to fool myself. There is no point in creating some discontinuity. I will look fifty-five for as long as I exist. My body is new and based on my original body appearance. I could have chosen another appearance, but I have to look in the mirror and don’t want to see someone else’s face. Instead, I selected my old ugly mug. Big grey beard, lots of facial wrinkles, and a bigger forehead but still a strong shock of hair on the head. My big belly still has some muscle in it. I am a custom-made android.