You could slice this loads of ways.
For example, when Brains goes and looks at the cryogenic storage domes he finds, in almost every case, a bioroid chip, with a potential mind in it, instead of an embodied mind. The number of bodies is just enough for [[whatever]. Maybe there are the CHON supplies with each chip that would be needed to embody them? So, the "literate library members" almost all exist in potentia, rather than as living human bodies on ice.
The Boskonia prisoners 'on ice' would be another, quite nice, possibility (except from the viewpoint of the prisoners).
For real fun mix the two - mostly potential Literati as chips, some Literati embodied, some Boskone prisoners as this was a convenient place to keep people, and it could always be properly exploited later. If the Boskone didn't trust each other (quite possible) maybe only the faction actually wiped-out by Great Justice knew about Library Alpha, and the secret died with them.
If people aren't happy with a concept, as something in Fenspace, it makes sense to adapt it so it fits-in and should work.
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind
For example, when Brains goes and looks at the cryogenic storage domes he finds, in almost every case, a bioroid chip, with a potential mind in it, instead of an embodied mind. The number of bodies is just enough for [[whatever]. Maybe there are the CHON supplies with each chip that would be needed to embody them? So, the "literate library members" almost all exist in potentia, rather than as living human bodies on ice.
The Boskonia prisoners 'on ice' would be another, quite nice, possibility (except from the viewpoint of the prisoners).
For real fun mix the two - mostly potential Literati as chips, some Literati embodied, some Boskone prisoners as this was a convenient place to keep people, and it could always be properly exploited later. If the Boskone didn't trust each other (quite possible) maybe only the faction actually wiped-out by Great Justice knew about Library Alpha, and the secret died with them.
If people aren't happy with a concept, as something in Fenspace, it makes sense to adapt it so it fits-in and should work.
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind