Well, for one, there is the advantage of knowing who you are without any psychological hang-ups that can come from resleeving. Plus, there is the possibility that you are truly alive, whereas everyone who has been resleeved has been killed in some way, and all you're left with is a society of machines, which gives you a very distinct, philosophical advantage in that you have the sheer capability of abstract thought that it is believed no AI could ever achieve. Not that you're any smarter, but it's there nonetheless. And who's to say that when you are "killed" that your soul doesn't "resleeve" in a natural way (a form of reincarnation)? And as far as the Jovian Junta being a repressive regime, show me a regime in this game that isn't? You think the Titanians aren't? If I want to own a cornocopia machine and mass-produce my own goods and services and restrict access based on a customer's ability to pay, will the Titanians allow me to do that? Probably not. The least repressive regime I've been able to find would be the Extopians, who allow you to amass wealth and property as you see fit, though I can see where the need for an independent law that respected the rights of the individual and the rights of private property would prevent those that are particularly strong from undermining the neat libertarian approach. But at least there you can probably find more freedom to achieve more easily than you can in places where socialism is foolishly applied. Because I can see someone on Titan taking over quite a few of those machines with force, with nobody stopping them least of all the government.

But this premise is also wrong. Why? Why would immortals want to reproduce? Why would anyone want to go through the pain of reproduction? Transhumanism is quite possibly the most materialistic form of worship conceived, and materialists are the least likely to reproduce because it interferes with their good times. Europe, right now, is aging faster than they can reproduce, and they're being overwhelmed by Muslims who do reproduce. Transhumans cannot reproduce naturally, by definition. Indeed, all they can do is make new sleeves. Unless they're both willing to undergo what is needed to produce a new, viable, living being, completely without a Cortical Stack, which they'd have to be willing to do and that would require getting past the notion of having to bear a child or do so through a test tube, and then someone would have to raise it, but then we'd get right back into Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, where the new world is slowly dying and disintegrating due to the lack of fundamental cultural character required for any civilization to sustain itself. This belief that humanity would die out in a hundred years is such nonsense that if the Junta were truly interested in preserving humanity as well as it can, they'd be immediately concerned with where they're going to house all the people they'd end up having. Because with good leadership that focuses on preserving Humanity, they'd end up having to develop ways of securing themselves while at the same time exploring what's beyond the Pandora's Gates. But first, the Jovians would redevelop their culture of humanity. They'd have to if to survive. Militarization would have to be necessary for the same reasons in Battlestar Galactica the fleet had to be held under sway by the military if the human race as they knew it were to survive. It's really no different. In this case, humanity is surrounded by machines who seek their ultimate destruction. So they'd have to develop an anti-Transhuman culture that sees them precisely as they are - Machines only, but potentially hostile. Combined with a Judeo-Christian ethic, and the Jovians would end up becoming the most powerful faction in the solar system within 20 years. Character combined with a sense of purpose would drive the Jovians to do two things - slowly reclaim the system through economic, military, and diplomatic means while exploring for a new world to settle on past the Pandora's Gates. So you see, the Jovians are not the villains here. They are the underdogs in one sense, but also the gods if you will. Being a Flat or a Splicer is far better than being resleeved into something because you then become a machine. You're no longer human. And in the end, without a soul, without the spirit that drives men to achieve and to excel, to overcome, the transhuman is already extinct. Because it's easily distracted by the new; it must seek out the sublime in order to satisfy an emptiness which it can never fill as a Human can. Immortality becomes a curse, a refuge for the coward, but also a moving tombstone for such cowardace.