Citizens who cannot afford re-sleeving or do not want to be re-sleeved have their Cortical Stacks placed in a storage facility after sleeve-death, where they can remain indefinitely.īecause of the nominal ability to revive anyone who dies, sleeve-death, so long as the cortical stack remained intact, was reduced to a lower level of legal concern, akin to property damage.
Placing the dead in new bodies, called "Re-sleeving", can be accomplished by simply downloading consciousness in a new Sleeve after death as long as the Cortical Stack is intact after sleeve-death. Over time this technology would become a method of immortality for those who could afford it. This method of transmitting consciousness off-world, called Needlecasting, allowed instant travel to anywhere in the Settled Worlds that otherwise would take centuries to reach by traditonal means. By downloading the human consciousness they were able to transmit it to a waiting body or "Sleeve" on a distant planet. Cortical Stacks were originally developed as a means of interstellar travel to reach these planets. All citizens within the Protectorate have a cortical stack implanted when they are one year old.Ĭortical Stacks are composed of a non terrestrial metal left by an Alien Civilization along with astrogation charts mapping several habitable planets within the galaxy. Cortical Stacks serve as a receptacle for the human consciousness or Digital Human Freight (D.H.F.).
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