Well... I don' like it... but you write too well for me to argue too loud. I *am* a bit curious why you'd have put *in* a "laser core/brain" device, if you were building a transtector - and what it would have been doing *before* you up and died. The other is more of a philosophical issue. I trust persistence of sentience across time in a brain. I don't trust it in Personality Transfer. There's also a bit of "They didn't have time to save the body, but they did have time for a complete save-the-personality brain scan? Bwah?
If you were just trying to avoid the use of The Breeding Thing, that's *easy* - starting with the possibility that the armor might just be Too Darn Thick; continuing through the fact that if there *was* anything with a genetic code, it would likely be part of your *brain* and, um, no? and finishing with the possibility that the result might be effectively entirely metallic *anyway*. (Heck, "turn into laser core" could *be* what Seibertronian handwavium does to brains.)
...but it *is* your story, and your character, and your story is good enough to do *far* more than this, so if that's the way you want to go, then go with it.
...and I really *do* use way too many *s.
If you were just trying to avoid the use of The Breeding Thing, that's *easy* - starting with the possibility that the armor might just be Too Darn Thick; continuing through the fact that if there *was* anything with a genetic code, it would likely be part of your *brain* and, um, no? and finishing with the possibility that the result might be effectively entirely metallic *anyway*. (Heck, "turn into laser core" could *be* what Seibertronian handwavium does to brains.)
...but it *is* your story, and your character, and your story is good enough to do *far* more than this, so if that's the way you want to go, then go with it.
...and I really *do* use way too many *s.