Adrenaline flooded her body as she realized this was it, the reason for everything. Her heart thudded so hard it was difficult to breathe. She clenched her fists and forced herself to remain calm. The UN kept a rigid control over the number of scanners and printers each country had access to, their possession treated as seriously as MI registration. The fear had been the weaponization of the technology, that any one country could print millions of soldiers in a few hours and destabilize the entire world. The government’s plan was smarter than that: they would flood the solar system with people and claim it for themselves, sidestep the rules and regulations of Earth in one quick move. The president’s much-lauded agreement, her Piece of Paper signed by the UN regulating uploads, was nothing but that: ink on a document. If Harper accomplished this, she would control everything the solar system offered; from minerals to water to food, she’d rule it all.