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Trope-a-Day: Brain Uploading
Brain Uploading: Pervasive and universal, just about. The Eldrae, after all, being naturally unaging, find the notion of accidental death rather unpleasant, and so took to this technological...
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Trope-a-Day: Death Is Not Permanent
Death Is Not Permanent: The entire purpose of the noetic backup and reinstantiation technology. And given that people can keep redundant backups spread out across multiple star systems (a standard...
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Trope-a-Day: Immortal Life is Cheap
Immortal Life Is Cheap: This might be the case in the noetic-backup-having modern world – and to some degree is, when one can send deliberately-disposable temporary forks of yourself in...
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Trope-a-Day: Mercy Kill
Mercy Kill: Members of the military/intelligence community, people whose work takes them into galactic bad neighborhoods, and hell, even overly paranoid tourists who’ve been listening too much to the...
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Trope-a-Day: Resurrection Sickness
Resurrection Sickness: For the most part averted; being reinstantiated from a pre-mortem backup (or the use of a bug-out transmitter before actually becoming dead) leaves you with no memories of dying,...
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Trope-a-Day: Apocalyptic Log
Apocalyptic Log: A lot of the time, thanks to noetic backup technology and the ability to transmit mind-states out of all kinds of messily lethal situations, Apocalyptic Logs are the actual people...
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Trope-a-Day: Backup Twin
Backup Twin: What you acquire when your incarnation insurer thought you were dead, but it turns out you weren’t. (They do try very hard to not let this happen, but the trouble is, the more checking you...
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