So it really was the Empire. Which increased the chances that the Empire was somehow cooperating with TRIDENT. If Karkat's blood was indeed the way this body had been created, the Empire must have gotten it from them.

It was a strange feeling that filled her now. While she had highly suspected their involvement, to have it confirmed was something else.

"The Empire? Why are you working for them?" It made absolutely no sense to her. It was difficult enough to believe that Signless would act in such a way, but why would he do it in the name of the very people who had tortured and killed him?