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A squeel echoed in the arena, as the crowd went mad as the AZ-Pop Star began singing one of her fan-favorite hits, and soon almost all the corporate clones that made up most of the audience where singing along the choir, while often the non-clones either smiled or frowned upon this mix of corporate clone-consumer music -with a corporate brand approved "rebellion" as it's message-, which mixed with heavy use of drugs and chems -legally handed and sold by the same corporation to their clone workers-, in some concerts that some said felt more like some sort of religious ritual to the enthralled crowd.

Meanwhile, Lysbeth "Lys" Graph -CHZ-038- couldn't be more happy.

"WE LOVE YOU ZIMU STAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!" she screamed, along her friends of the ZIL-774 Orbital Laboratory.

The aFra corporate clone worker of Azimuth Pharmaceuticals had spent almost all her savings and vacation days on this trip -her first time ever somewhere planetside- along with her friends -clone like herself- to attend to this concert. She loved the new sensations of the wind in her face, and the smell of the newly aiersformed atmosphere, and as well the sight of plants growing outside of hydroponic decks, but she had to recognice, she first feel a bit weird under the influx of natural gravity.

This was as well the first time she was somewhere that wasn't owned by her parent corporation, Azimuth Pharmaceuticals -it only hold majority rights on this colony!-, and she felt so ready for adventure, she even went to a non-corporate owned shop -of course she didn't buy anything there! it would have been so weird!-, and went as a tourist to a biological born neighborhood. As in ZIL-774 almost everybody where aFra artificial humans, except for the biological human officers and lead scientists, she was surprised at the diversity of faces and factions there -being specially weird for her to see the large amount of children in a school -She of course knew of children, and had seen countless photos, images and films with children, and there was even a couple of them in the Orbital Laboratory, but she never had seen so many of them in a place together! And they all look so different!-

But all these interesting, wild new sensations where nothing compared to their plan to assist to the massive Zimu Star concert. Mind you, is true she had assisted to her fair share of Zimu Star concerts -like any good aFra!- in the Orbital Laboratory. But this was different.

This wasn't the vainilla flavour Zimu Star, Clone Azimuth-Pop Star, that they had seen in her tours to ZIL-774. This was the legend. The best Zimu Star of them all -and they where all great!-

Rebel Zimu Star.

She had heard the snares and negative comments of some biological humans and clones of other corporations, that Rebel Zimu was a poser, and that her rebel message was written by Azimuth Media in a carefully constructed message as a let out to their clones, in a corporate-brand approved type of rebellion that didn't really challenged the system. But she didn't believed them. And she felt such a rebel for attending the concert -almost like the mythical rebel clones of the past, of who they spoke in whispers among themselves!-.

And she wasn't the only one. In this concert, there should be at least 30,000 more aFras as well challenging the system, hearing the Rebel Star. How could that be fake?

"WE LOVE YOU ZIMU!!!" she choired, while Tiffany "Turnip" Turner -TRP-007- hold up a sign they made: "aFras of Orbital laboratory ZIL-774: REBEL ZIMU BEST ZIMU EVAH"

They had pushed throught the pit of the Arena, to get closer to the stage. In a magical moment when Zimu Star looked in their direction, they felt special. As if Zimu Star was signing only for them. Thought part of the magic of the moment was lost by Nikka Nyi -KNY-144- flashing her boobs, and some jerk biological human boy taking photos.

"What did you do that for?!" Lys said to Nikka, who winked at her. "I was feeling a Rebel. Aaaand I have heard, Rebel Zimu have the greatest backstage parties of all the Zimu Star. And I intent to get us a ticket there!"

"You think you could get us there?!"

"Only the most elite groupies can get there! Of course I can!" Nikka bragged.

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Three aFra -corporate clones of Azimuth Pharmaceuticals- from Orbital Laboratory Zil-774 enjoying a concert of the AZ-Pop Idol, Zimu Star planetside.