Hostilian Prime
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Posted - 2013.07.05 19:44:00 -
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Quote: the speed with which the implant responds is astonishing, or else its copying mechanism works in an unconventional manner. [...] It's that the implant can safely transfer the consciousness contained in a brain that is in the process of being ventilated by a charged sniper railgun flechette that traverses atmosphere, shield, helmet, skull, brain, and implant, at near-C. The implication is that the implant is either somehow detecting the threat and transferring the mind faster than the flechette can disrupt it or that the disruption is, for some reason, unimportant.
I'm not an engineer, but is it possible the implant uses a fundamentally different approach to the capsule design?
Capsuleers have two methods of transferring consciousness: First, there is the destructive process that happens the moment the pod is breached; the "snapshot" taken by the pod's internals destroys the brain in the process. But the other method, the so-called "Jump Clone" is a non-destructive consciousness transfer. For empyreans, this must happen in a medical facility. Perhaps the Amarr perfected and miniaturized this non-destructive process.
To what end? Perhaps our implants are keeping a running journal as we go about our day-to-day. I eat a sandwich, it gets journaled. I take a trip to Rens -- it's beautiful this time of year -- that goes in the journal. I shoot a guy in the face, also in the journal. When my implant stops sending data, it's safe to assume the clone it's plugged into is ventilated, crushed, incinerated, or otherwise met an ill end. At that point, whatever infrastructure my contractor is using waits a few seconds (for propriety's sake) and reads out the journal and pours it into a new body.
Like I said, I'm not a scientist or an engineer. It's just about magic to me.
I've never had the occasion to look -- too busy doing my job -- but I've always wondered if the clones I get pushed into on the battlefield have the tattoos I paid for station-side. I know it's peanuts out of my income, but it seems weird that I have to "subscribe" to tattoos, or they stop appearing when I station-hop. Then again, just about everything is weird these days. |