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=== What is the deal with the [[Key Program]]? Is it software or hardware? Is this connected to The Angel Without a Face series? ===
* The [[Key Program]] seems to be software, housed on one copy of [[Noah Fulmer]]'s mobile phone. In this sense it shares the trait of being software driven sentience, similar to the [[Data Angel]]. Where it differs however is that the [[Data Angel]] was constructed artificial intelligence with a limited set of functional parameters available to it, while the [[Key Program]] is apparently a software version of a [[Brownshirt]] volunteer that permanently altered his form to perform his task as the key program. The [[Data Angel]] also originated from a different plane of existence to humans, and was sent by another entity to build a bridge between the planes, this would suggest they are probably unrelated.
=== What is with the age differences? [[Cristina Thompson]] is in her early thirties, so if she has an adult daughter she must have met [[Conn Thompson]] as a child. Why do the ages of various versions of [[Laura Thompson]] seem to jump around? ===
* Hey, anything is possible here. Cristina may look early thirties, but with the advanced medical discoveries from the destruction of the [[Regeneration Core]] on [[The First World]], she may actually be somewhat older. Her personality indicates a mental age more typical of an older adult, with greater cynicism borne from experience. As for why different versions of Laura seem to vary in age anywhere from being a child to a young adult, this could be explained by differences between realities. As shown by the [[Temporal Bacteria]], temporal displacement can happen in one reality entirely independently of the other realities around it. As a result, anything from taking a different quantum decision branch to gravitational distortions since the birth of each universe may slightly alter the passage of time, leading to displacements in their respective time-lines of years, or even millennia.
* The age aspect has been explained in 'Our Final Acts (Part 3)', where it has been confirmed that some citizens of [[The First World]] have achieved clinical immortality. From 'Our Final Acts (Part 8)', the backstory of both Conn and Cristina was explained further, indicating they both met in their late teens, with Cristina becoming pregnant at roughly 20-21 years old. It also transpired that both Cristina and Conn undertook the immortality treatment after travelling to [[The First World]] while [[Laura Thomson]] was a teenager. Both Conn and Cristina lived for a number of decades subsequent to their immortality treatment, with Cristina continuing her work as a civilian consultant to [[Command]].
