 The woman (later identified as simply "Raven") told him that in her time, all of humanity is jacked into a virtual reality network called Perfect, and cannot jack out, leaving them to wither and die as their physical needs are left unattended.Determined to answer Raven's plea for help, Rand focuses his research on projecting a person's mind to Perfect.When two test subjects died using his experimental technology, Rand's project was terminated and the use of the technology forbidden.