It has been hinted at in a few places, but if you look at the "Julian Friez Machine", and the "Catgirling Machine", you can see how things work. The first machine "Slices, Dices, Makes Julian Friez", the second machine makes catgirls. The second machine is supposedly based on the first. This has disturbing implications.
The "Julian Friez Machine" makes a specific human male (with a few minor variations) from non-living matter - the chemical elements that make up a human body. The "Catgirling Machine" makes people into catgirls, and also needs a plastic anatomical model skeleton. How are the two similar?
You might assume the "Catgirling Machine" slices/dices the person put into it, to get the equivalent of the of the raw materials that the "Julian Friez Machine" needs. It kills them, and brings a new person to life using their remains. This is why it evades the "one biomod a lifetime" restriction - it kills people, and reshapes their dead flesh. Necromancy?
All "Julian Friez" have the same memories imprinted when they are created - his experiences before the machine. Catgirls vary more, and get the memories of the person who died to create them. This implies that all of that person's memories flow through the machine - maybe being subject to recording or replacement on the way (on-the-fly editing would be a massively complex task, in only 15mins).
Is this true? It seems to match most of what is known about the two machines. The implication is for a great deal of very useful medical processes, maybe uploading and downloading minds, fast cloning, regeneration, resurrection of the dead, taking a damaged or injured body to pieces and reassembling it as fit and well. Maybe using a 3D CAD system to design a body, then making one, with the choice of any mind on record (or a directly copied one).
Maybe only Dr. Asmodeus Grey fully understands...
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind
The "Julian Friez Machine" makes a specific human male (with a few minor variations) from non-living matter - the chemical elements that make up a human body. The "Catgirling Machine" makes people into catgirls, and also needs a plastic anatomical model skeleton. How are the two similar?
You might assume the "Catgirling Machine" slices/dices the person put into it, to get the equivalent of the of the raw materials that the "Julian Friez Machine" needs. It kills them, and brings a new person to life using their remains. This is why it evades the "one biomod a lifetime" restriction - it kills people, and reshapes their dead flesh. Necromancy?
All "Julian Friez" have the same memories imprinted when they are created - his experiences before the machine. Catgirls vary more, and get the memories of the person who died to create them. This implies that all of that person's memories flow through the machine - maybe being subject to recording or replacement on the way (on-the-fly editing would be a massively complex task, in only 15mins).
Is this true? It seems to match most of what is known about the two machines. The implication is for a great deal of very useful medical processes, maybe uploading and downloading minds, fast cloning, regeneration, resurrection of the dead, taking a damaged or injured body to pieces and reassembling it as fit and well. Maybe using a 3D CAD system to design a body, then making one, with the choice of any mind on record (or a directly copied one).
Maybe only Dr. Asmodeus Grey fully understands...
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind