It's a powerful technology. It means that anybody can eventually do anything an AI is capable of.... all they need to do is undergo the transfer process, or get restored from backup. They can choose to live as a biologic, or a machine.... or even choose to be the shipmind of a spaceship. (That's the side of Eclipse Phase I was thinking of, not the eldritch abomination exurgent-virus driven element, even if TITANIC was part-named for the TITANs). Effective Immortality becomes majority attainable with ease.
Of course, that leaves 'other' questions to be answered about the Self and the like, and tracking down the bad-guys gains another layer of complexity.
And, well. Before she met the grandparents, she's had her arm broken, been slammed to a deckplate hard enough to dent the metal and had her eye zapped out by a tazer..... Getting kneecapped is the least of her troubles.
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Of course, that leaves 'other' questions to be answered about the Self and the like, and tracking down the bad-guys gains another layer of complexity.
And, well. Before she met the grandparents, she's had her arm broken, been slammed to a deckplate hard enough to dent the metal and had her eye zapped out by a tazer..... Getting kneecapped is the least of her troubles.
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