C L O N I N G
H U M A N S
Cloning has made intricate advances over the years since the ban on human cloning was lifted in 2037. Medically, it was the best case scenario for anyone who was the victim of a burn or was in need of an organ transplant. The advances in cloning even became noticeable in the agriculture and consumer districts, where artificial wombs grew genetically engineered slabs of muscle and fat for consumption. All in all, the actual world of cloning was entirely revivified the moment that the NeuralNet connector was created. It bridged the worlds of the biological and the digital, allowing our own brains to become the computer we always lugged around.
As technology progressed, the chip itself became something of a divine intervention, as an update and successful test allowed for the partial download of an individual’s memory. The issue was re-uploading the memory, but that was hardly a problem when it was found that if grown into a clone during the process of their growth, then it would allow for a constant access buffer and act as immediate external memory. Therein, a mind and personality can be transferred from one body to the next, so long as it is biologically compatible, IE, a clone. Furthermore, a brainscan is needed to be taken of the brain as it is electrically active, either artificially induced or otherwise, in order for the personality to be recreated appropriately. As the technology caught on and offered the world an effective alternative to veritable immortality, advances were made in the process of cloning that it no longer took a decade to grow a clone into a usable state, but instead took only months.
An artificial growth hormone was created, in tandem with a plethora of medications and therapies, that allowed the growth of a body to be accelerated to adulthood in less than ten months. The clone was stored within a tank, an artificial womb, and suspended in a shock absorbing fluid polymer until the memories were ready to upload. From there, and it is still a practice used today, the clone is required to spend a few days in the hospital after consciousness is booted back up to allow the individual to readjust to their new body and perceptions.
Recently, however, a new process of cloning was employed to allow for the creation of a new body in less than three days. Gel Suspension Printing, or GSP-Cloning for short, is a method in which the appropriate tissues for a body are grown from stem cells separately as a paste and an advanced 3d biological printing machine begins to construct the new body from the ground up within a tank of specially designed nutrient gel. The gel ensures the new tissue is suspended securely and is fed during the three day process of construction, healing and growth. The nervous system is one of the first to be constructed as it uplinks directly with the Net transceiver which begins to run active physical diagnostics the moment the body is capable, solidifying the tissues and compositions by supplying movement and other essential facets to healthy development. After which, the body is supplied with a concoction of choice drugs to further help everything set in place. The body is given a week to fully adjust to its accelerated growth and healing before it is removed from the tank and the memories re-uploaded.
The individual is required to remain at the hospital for a week as stated earlier before they are permitted to leave once more. The patient is of course prone to experiencing identity issues as the body they once had will not match the body they now have. They may be a bit shorter, their grip may not be as strong, they will be more fit, no scarring of any kind, and in many ways it is as though god had pressed the reset button and they began again. This can cause many types of personality errors and mental incongruity, as well as dysgraphia and dysmorphia. These usually fade in time with counseling, activity, and various forms of therapy, but can supply lasting effects to an individual. Unfortunately, however, due to the advent of telomere limitations, the process of cloning is lawfully restricted to two clones, as any more will result in a breakdown of the body and loss of quality of life, thus limiting each individual no more than two resurrections.
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A N D R O I D S
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The revival process for Androids is comparatively much more simplistic. As their minds are usually entirely digital, a backup is simply taken every three weeks and uploaded to their personal NET server storages. Laws prevent both Human and Android minds from being awoken and emulated simultaneously, as there is only one copy allowed to be active at a time. When they are deceased, as in their body no longer supports processing function, a signal is sent to the United Autonomous Androids and the schematics are brought up. A copy of the housing is created with utmost care and once finished the mind is simply reuploaded for the machine to be turned back on. Unfortunately, due to the acceleration of bitrot in the copying of complex minds and filesystems, a sentient operating system can only be copied twice, and since each mind is custom tailored for a specific housing, it limits each android to no more than two resurrections.
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I N S H O R T
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When a character dies, your character will automatically lose the last two weeks of their memory. This is due to the NeuralNet implant being unable to process, copy, read or write memory that hasn’t been defragmented yet in the form of dreams, which takes around two weeks to do so. There is a three day waiting period between the character’s death and the time you are allowed to play them again, which at the end of the period, you will be respawned at the hospital or the United Autonomous Androids Headquarters and can either opt to remain there for RP or you can resume RPing elsewhere. Your character is fundamentally limited to two revivals, both Human and Android.
While a character may find an old journal, reading it will not jog any recent memory, as the memory within the two weeks has ceased to exist completely. During the three day waiting period you are allowed to apply for a secondary character and can play them in their stead.
W H A T T O E X P E C T
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There is a broad range of problems that your character can expect to have, humans and androids alike, during or after a cloning or reconstruction. They can have anything you creatively wish to apply, save for the exception of random insanity, all the way to simply issues with sensory or otherwise to major issues with heart problems and hormonal imbalances. However, if you choose to operate in the default, your character will simply experience Dysgraphia, which is a miscoordination with the limbs, Dysmorphia, which is a dissociation with your personal perception of your body, and their senses are going to be rather sensitive to any stimuli. This will lessen over the next few days, but as the mind grows used to its new, pristine body it will slowly adjust back to what it is used to.