Damus Trifarn
The Yellow Lantern Corps
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Posted - 2013.07.21 22:51:00 -
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After spending time with many fellow Sebiestors in the Republic and hearing their observations of successful transferring despite almost complete annihilation of the device, I considered the possibility that the implant is not the master device, but rather a bridge of sorts to serve as a main channel of information. The implant may take our consciousness, save it to an archive of sorts, and constantly uploads all memories and experiences to that archive, and when the implant is destroyed, the archive takes the latest save and uploads it to the next clone if it recieves no new information. This theory, however, does not explain how, after death, a clone body can observe and even communicate with other mercs before they decide to deploy once more. The observation within the dropsuit may be due to the implant uploading information through the nervous system of the user into the electronics of the dropsuit itself. The implant may be putting our consciousness into the dropsuit, giving the consciousness a way to observe in the event of the implant being destroyed. This consciousness running through the dropsuit may also be transmitting to the archive, thus giving our saved consciousness accurate information about cause of death even when the implant stops transmitting. The only way to ever stop complete transmission may be through absolute destruction of the dropsuit, and seeing as weapons capable of absolutely annihilating all particles of a dropsuit instantaneously have not been used yet in combat, the scenario may be viable. If this theory is true, though, then why not just put an implant inside a suit without a clone and fight? It would save us a lot of trouble and lot of money if we didn't need to mass produce bodies. I believe it may be due to the necessity of having a body there to take in stimuli in the event of dropsuit malfunction, or it may be due to the market. The earlier versions of implants may not have been able to connect to dropsuits and nervous systems as effectively to perform the functions listed above, so, in a scramble for money, companies made vast stores of clones to use with the implants, and the same companies are just putting the implants in clones anyways to not lose a fortune off of clones that can't be used soon enough to make a profit. After all, most of what happens in this universe happens for money. What plagues my mind, though, is who has access to this archive? I have never received stimuli of another entity inside my archive, if such a thing exists, but what if someone does have access to this archive, and what if they have access to multiple archives? After all we don't know exactly where this technology came from, so what if someone manipulated our discovery of it? Can our minds be manipulated to obey a single person? Is there someone or someones out there with access to an immortal army to use at any time? Am I a slave unaware of his chains? While this does sound crazy and may be nothing more than an imagination gone wild, these thoughts will always haunt the thoughts in the back of my head...... right next to my implant. |