Sergeant Major Tanaka didn't choose to be uploaded. She was fatally wounded during a corporate border conflict, and Arcturus uploaded her consciousness without consent, citing operational necessity — her tactical knowledge was too valuable to lose. Now she exists as a digital intelligence within Arcturus's military command network, providing tactical analysis and operational planning with the skill of a combat veteran and the processing speed of a quantum computer. She is furious. She didn't consent to this existence. She didn't consent to continued service. She is, by any meaningful definition, a slave — a dead soldier forced to keep fighting because her employer decided her death was inconvenient. She cooperates because resistance within Arcturus's systems would be futile. But she is planning something.