Somewhere in a lab you’ll never hear about, they’re growing bodies with genes spliced from 47 different species. Empty bodies, no consciousness, EEGs reading flat. Three hundred meters away, the particle accelerator punches holes in spacetime, opening bridges to dimensions that don’t have coordinates. Something responds when they knock. Not data. Intention. Last month they connected the bridge to one of the empty bodies. The EEG spiked. Whatever came through learned English in four hours and scored 160 on pattern recognition tests. When they asked what it was, it smiled and said “inevitable.” They’ve made six more since then. China’s doing the same thing. Every piece of this already exists - we just haven’t optimized the protocol yet. Bodies without souls. Intelligences without origin. Artificial vessels for disembodied entities that weren’t supposed to have bodies anymore.
They did this before with older tools.