NANETTE COLE.

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biography.

( Note: Real world Nanette will be referred to as Nanette.
Digital clone Nanette will be referred to as Nan.
Real world Walton will be referred to as James.
Digital clone Walton will be referred to as Walt. )

Ever since she was young, Nanette Cole has been naturally gifted when it comes to technology. Growing up, she would get into coding in her early teens and from there, she decided to study it further, eventually landing a job as a coder at Callister Inc., a company founded by CTO Robert Daly and CEO James Walton. The company produces an immersive, virtual online multiplayer game called Infinity, in which users control a starship in a simulated universe. Robert Daly has been treated poorly and been mostly ignored by his fellow employees since the start of the company, so when Nanette Cole, a newcomer in the office, praises Daly on his work on Infinity, expressing admiration for the intelligence behind the code, he gets hopeful, but the more assertive Walton is quick to interrupt and show her around the office, to Daly's annoyance. When Daly returns home, he opens a development build of Infinity which is modded to resemble his favorite television show. It turns out he has used an illegal device that can create digital copies through DNA, to make copies of several of his employees, uploading them to his development build. In his game, As Captain Daly, he berates the crewmates, strangling a subservient Walt.

Back in the real world, after employee Shania Lowry warns Nanette to beware of Daly as he can be a bit of a creep, with Daly overhearing this, he goes further and takes a discarded coffee cup of Nanette's and uses her DNA to replicate her consciousness within his development build.

Nan suddenly finds herself aboard the USS Callister, where "Lieutenant" Lowry explains that they are digital clones of Callister Inc. staff members. Confused and distraught, Nan attempts to escape the ship but is teleported back to the bridge when Daly arrives. She refuses to comply with his commands, so he removes her eyes, nose and mouth, suffocating her and telling her he can keep her in this state forever, until she relents.

The crew then embark on a mission in which they take down Valdack (in reality another Callister Inc employee who has been given the role of playing one of Daly's enemies,) but in order to keep him suffering, Daly chooses to spare his life so that he has to continue his role. After Daly leaves, Nan finds a way to send a game invitation containing a message for help to the real-world Nanette. When Nanette asks the real-world Daly about the message, he dismisses it as spam. Daly enters the game to interrogate his crew and transforms Lowry into a monster when she defends Nan. Once Daly departs, Nan identifies a distant wormhole as an uplink to Infinity's next update; she surmises that by flying into the wormhole, they will be deleted and therefore die, ending their torment at Daly's hands. Walt is very hesitant to help; he explains that Daly has previously recreated his son Tommy within the game, throwing him out of an airlock to punish Walt. He also points out that since Daly still has all their DNA, he can just recreate them and punish them further. Nan promises the crew that they will recover the lollipop containing Tommy's DNA.

When Daly returns, Nan persuades him to take her on a mission to Skillane IV alone. She strips to her bathing suit and runs into a nearby lake, enticing a reluctant Daly to swim with her. He leaves behind the omnicorder, which allows him to control the game, on the shore. The crew teleports the omnicorder onto their ship and uses it to access sexually explicit images of Nanette on her PhotoCloud account. They use those photos to blackmail Nanette into ordering a pizza at Daly's apartment and stealing the DNA samples while he answers the door. When Daly pauses the game to answer his door, the cloned crew then teleport Nan onto the ship.

As Daly resumes play, he discovers the crew are escaping, and commandeers a crashed spaceship to pursue them through an asteroid belt. The Callister collides with an asteroid; Walt rushes to repair the thrusters manually, incinerating himself in the process, and the ship accelerates into the wormhole. The firewall detects Daly's modded build and locks his controls, rendering him physically unable to exit the game as it is deleted around him. In the real world, Daly is left dead in his chair.

The crew reawakens in the un-modded version of Infinity with Valdack and Lowry restored to human form. Having entered the immersive, virtual, online multiplayer version of the game, they do what they can to survive among the game's microtransactions, taking the role of space pirates to rob other players. Because they lack a gamer tag, they are also easy targets for players to try to attack. They realize that to survive, they need to hack the Infinity servers to carve out a virtual space of their own, but this requires first getting back Walt, who previously sacrificed himself to get them through the wormhole, but who, due to part of his DNA that wasn't incinerated entering through the wormhole as well, he was respawned as a new user. They then need to use the information Walt knows to travel through the "Heart of Infinity" to reach this space.

Back in the real world, a reporter travels to Callister Inc. to ask its owner James Walton about these rogue players in Infinity, as well as illegal digital cloning equipment that had been used by Callister's former owner, Robert Daly. Nanette Cole, who is still a programmer for the game in the real world, overhears this, and offers to help James to track down these rogue players. She reveals to him what she has discovered about Daly and how he has cloned them into his game. They enter the game and track down Walt. Simultaneously, Nan also discovers Walt's whereabouts. The two groups meet up, find Walt, and return to the USS Callister together. While meeting the rest of the crew, James plays around with a laser gun, killing Karl's clone. Nanette kicks him out of the game and then disconnects herself to criticize him for his antics, telling him that she quits, and as she leaves the office with James following, pleading for her to help him, she is suddenly hit by a car, leaving her seemingly brain dead.

Meanwhile, Walt helps guide the USS Callister to the Heart, appearing as a space station, and Nan transports into it. She discovers it to be a digital recreation of Robert's garage where he and James had constructed the technology behind their original game, including a digital clone of Robert himself. As Robert was the genius behind the game's universe, the two acquired an illegal digital cloning device to place a copy of Robert into the game, allowing the copy to continually provide ideas to build Infinity around if the real Robert died. The clone of Robert is willing to help Nan and the crew, but reveals that Nanette is currently brain dead. He offers a choice via separate floppy disks: he can either merge Nan's consciousness with Nanette's to help revive her or he can create a private server for the crew. After Nan chooses the latter, Robert says he can do both by copying and pasting Nan. Nan realizes that this would leave a copy of herself to be Robert's companion and demands that he cut and paste instead, which causes him to attack Nan.

Meanwhile, James enters the game and poses as Walt to gain access to the Callister's bridge, and while the crew is distracted, he sends out an invite to all the players that the Callister crew has robbed in the past. James then exits the game when he is found out and opts to watch events unfold from outside. The ship struggles to defend itself from hundreds of angry players.

Nan, struggling to survive Robert's manipulation of their reality, manages to kill him with a prop knife. Robert's death engages a killswitch that starts to destroy the Heart. Nan frantically searches for the floppy disc to perform the cut and paste command and enacts it just as the Callister is about to be hit by missiles. Nan finds herself in control of Nanette's body, also co-inhabited by the Callister crew who can experience the real world through her senses and communicate with her via cell phone. Meanwhile, James finds that the whole of Infinity has been wiped from the server. Knowing that he will be arrested for fraud and illegal digital cloning actions, he goes on the run. Meanwhile, Nan and the crew relax to watch the latest episode of The Real Housewives of Atlanta.

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