nick012000 Wrote:Why not just run a surveillance feed into a vat of handwavium, so that you can 'wave a computer or android, and generate a lookalike AI of the person you're trying to upload? It's what the Adamantine Rapier is doing, to automatically create a backup in the event he dies somehow (the fact that he's already got a mind-machine interface from his biomod just improves the quality of the surveillance feed, really). He's got a stream of his memories running into a vat of handwavium, in a jar that's connected to a blank android he designed to resemble himself, via a series of tubes and pumps that'd pump the handwavium throughout the android's systems. It's rigged so that if the feed cuts out for too long, if someone tries to dismantle it, or if the nonsapient AI running it determines that it's clear he's died, it'll automatically release the handwavium to 'wave the android and produce a duplicate of him.This is very risky. All he needs to do is go into a communications blind spot and he'll find there are two of him arguing about which has rights to his personal resources. Unless he has tested and debugged this "backup self" process the odds are that 'insane murderous clone' is one of the nicer things likely to happen.
If someone tried to do this in a game I was GMing I'd say something like the handwavium produced a peeping-Tom voyeristic AI that was into watching people, but not getting involved. And, if he died would never do the cloning process, because it was obviously 'too dangerous' out there. After all, he'd died already!
Or, an AI that's convinced it's him, but that he is only a meat puppet avatar, and that puppet needs to be 'fixed' so it does what the AI wants.
I'd recommend you tell a story with the Adamantine Rapier in it, doing the sort of things that might interest him in Fenspace. That is one way to take a character idea and see what needs working-on to get things so you're happy.
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