Is it possible for a Transhuman mind/infomorph to survive in a morph/shell they are jamming in the event of their original morph's death? On 197 of EP Core it says that if a shell dies, the user is dumped back to the original morph. Is the opposite also true? Could a fork continue to operate that shell after the death of the originating morph or would the shell turn into a derelict? My suspicion is that the latter is the case, but I have a character idea that involves the former and I was wondering if it would be at all plausible, if incredibly traumatic for the character.
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Jamming and Death
Sun, 2015-02-22 17:44
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Cripple X
Jamming and Death
Sun, 2015-02-22 21:43
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ORCACommander
I think the shell goes
I think the shell goes derelict since its all instruction coming from the origination point. after execution there is nothing stored locally.
Sun, 2015-02-22 21:51
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Cripple X
Figured as much. Thanks.
Figured as much. Thanks.
Mon, 2015-02-23 02:43
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uwtartarus
Yeah, you can jam bots and
Yeah, you can jam bots and drones that lack the cyberbrain to hold an ego, but I bet if you kill an operator mid-jam, it would leave a gamma (delta?) fork, the defective 'ghosty' ego-trace. Interesting plot stuff arises from this.
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Mon, 2015-02-23 03:44
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ShadowDragon8685
I would say no. Jamming doesn
I would say no. Jamming doesn't transfer any of you to the drone, it's VR teleoperation, the way Riggers remotely (or directly) control vehicles or drones in Shadowrun, and the negative effects of directly jamming a drone that's destroyed in EP are analogous to dumpshock.
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Mon, 2015-02-23 05:08
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Pyrite
uwtartarus wrote:Yeah, you
I agree that this should be sometimes possible, and is closest you get to the first suggestion of the OP.
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Thu, 2015-02-26 17:57
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Aurell1an
To re-state what's been said
To re-state what's been said above in a way that helps me fit the concept into my limited headspace: jamming is like using a computer via remote desktop: not one byte of that computer's memory is on YOUR computer, it just looks like it is. Now imagine that that remote computer isn't controlled through a screen, mouse, and keyboard, but a complex (by 2015 standards) array of sensors that effectively comprise something like a transhuman sensorium.
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Sun, 2015-03-01 03:35
#8
FrankManic
uwtartarus wrote:Interesting
Scary plot stuff. A few echoes of a human mind replaying the last commands sent to it from the real thing. I'd definitely let players try to talk to whatever vapor was left in a drone after the operate died.
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