"Marsha, you're brilliant! A true prodigy. You must have an eidetic memory—this is your 5th Ph.D., right?" asked her mentor, Professor Wilcox.

"Yes, but that's nothing, Professor. I plan to get a doctorate in all the disciplines."

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Marsha, 35, born 3289, violated the Unified Earth Consortium's—‘Transparency, Honesty, and Knowing Law.'

She was sentenced to the 'Abyss' for one year: A pure state of virtual nothingness, which created a desire for 'something.'

Once free, Marsha downloaded 'everything' into her mind, she violated a temporal law by utilizing a device for when advanced technology existed, but individuality remained unvirtualized—1970.