Ok, okay, oooohhhhh kkkkaaaaaaayyyy.
(EDIT - TL;DR Quantum Entanglement Communications using the Quantainium maguffin to void the pitfalls of Entanglement while not getting rid of them completely, to be able to broadcast your consciousness and nervous system state via Quanum back to the hospital spawn point you set your chip to Entangle to, so you can get a new clone body but have some pitfalls in that your nervous system (which the brain containing the memories and consciousness up to that moment, really, is just a part of) cannot be copied perfectly each time and that's where the degradation comes from, not the DNA in the clone process.)
1) Down state, I get. You is hurt, you need medic. You go to medic or medic comes to you. Got it i'm banged up but can still boogie. Cool.
2.1) Dead State A, I get. You are out of action and without medical assistance you 'aint getting up, you wait for help. No moving. So you wait. Gotcha.
2.2) Dead State B, I do, but don't, get. You don't have any friends so you could wait forever no one is coming to put new batteries in you. So you respawn with a clone you have left at the last Me Factory you passed. Erm... But my memories...
3) Permadead, I get. When you dead, you dead. Pass your stuff to whoever is your favorite person and carry on like nothing happened apart from you have a new face/gender/people don't seem to remember who you were and say you were your own kin/best buddy etc. Get it.
So it's 2.2 I don't get... I look at this, and I also run into a plot hole with the Transference Of Consciousness issue.
At first I was thinking like okay I get storing my genetics in a hospital for a photocopy to be made when I kop it, no issue there... But with the example given in 2.2 above, where I have to give up on a body and respawn at the Me Factory and then go to my ex-self and pick up all my garbage again, I get a plot hole:
So imagine the scene: I am flying my ship through some bumhole system no one cares about, and detect on long range a gas cloud. I don't care, no one does, but I take a look just for the hell of it because I am playing a computer game and it's a boring Sunday Afternoon...
A whole moon is hidden in the gas cloud. So I touch down, and bumble off in my X1 to see what the ground is like. I find a cave and have go Spelunking, well wow it's
crammed with unobtainium. But a Cave Crab bumps me and I fall off a ledge - 50ft later I'm dead on the ground. No one is coming, I can't tell anyone where this is, any logical explanation for my rescue doesn't work because it's a place no one knows about and no one knows I'm here... I have no choice, I have to respawn, I abandon my body, it is now dead, like version 2.2 dead.
...So I open my fresh eyelids after I am re-gened from the DNA at the Me Factory (I try not to count how many blinks I do, I lose count around 340) and I want my ship back. I want my X1 and I want all that Unobtainium and I'm going to take a hella big hammer with me to smash that damned cave crabs shell in. But how would my New Me know where my dead self is? Even if a synaptic image was taken at the point of dumping my DNA with them, that's my knowledge
up to that point. No cave, no moon, no gas cloud, my toys are lost to the 'Verse.
I, the player, am the omnipotent knowledge pool the game can't get around. So how can I get my knowledge of my travels from my corpse into my new meat puppet?
So I thought back to games and other sci-fi I have played and seen with similar concepts... The first I thought of was the Soul Catcher Chip, from Hostile Waters, which recorded a consciousness at point of death and duplicated it to be used for automation in fighting vehicles in the game:
View: https://youtu.be/jJz4ApY5PmY?t=41
I also remembered my old copies of 2000AD, with Rouge Trooper and his Bio-Chip buddies who were killed in action but their minds were captures in a similar device, this was from a computer game based on the strips:
View: https://youtu.be/bNYej-Jh5OA?t=386
But the above two examples need a physical chip to be taken from the dead back to the Me Factory to put my personality and memories back in...
But then I thinks to myself, what do we have which is already a concept in the game, which could help transfer data from one almost impossible place, to another?
Quantum. Or more specifically, Quantum Entanglement Communications.
en.wikipedia.org
TL;DR Quantum Entanglement can make two sets of particles react the same way no matter what distance apart they are, as far as they are concerned they are two halves of one whole, so you joggle (or whatever) one 10ft away from the other it should joggle (or whatever) the same way. You move a mile away, the quantum entanglement should still make that happen. And because they are two parts of the same whole, it should be instant effect, no matter the distance. At least that's how I understand it, I might be way off here. Anyway:
Imagine I have dumped my DNA at the Me Factory, and my "SoulSaver" chip is entangled with that facilities receiver. Now, when I die, the chip will broadcast my memories and consciousness back to the Me Factory by taking a detailed analysis of my whole integrated nervous system to be reloaded back into a new Meat Puppet. Plot hole Closed. Unlike the Comm Towers, pirates can't infiltrate the signals or knock out a tower to make a coverage black spot. But, there must be a down side to this.
There is a paradox in Quantum Entanglement which says by taking a reading of the information you are trying to pass along the link, it collapses it before you can get the information. Although we may have Quantum Mastery by the time we get to the 2900's, this may still be a failing of Quantum Entanglement Communications, and may only be good enough due to Quantanium to pass a snap-shsot of your nervous system for reintegration before the link fails - so if you have lost an arm or a part of your nervous system is damaged or not accessible for reading and transmission by the chip, you won't get it back in your Meat Puppet due to the entanglement collapse not allowing for a better image of your brain, and the lost functionality will have to be replaced with prosthetic augmentation. This will also keep the desire for your re-gened meat puppet to have physical issues which may require tech augmentation prosthetic.... Here, we can say, the copy process from your dying brain through Quantum is not absolute, too due to Entanglement Collapse. You get a limited number of goes, and each time the snap-shot is a little more corrupted, perhaps a limb, perhaps some stamina as someone with MS fatigues much faster... until your mind copy cannot work with the meat-puppet even if you look like Darth Vader, more machine than man, and the Perma-death arrives... In addition to that, make process kill the nervous system while it's copying and broadcasting and it explains why there are not 200 of yourself running around the 'Verse.
That's how i'd do it. Quantum Entanglement Communications. Mastery of Quantum is already in the game and Quantanium is a suitable Maguffin to bypass Entanglement collapse not entirely but by just enough to allow the drawbacks of the mechanic to remain. Entanglement means it's a specific 1 to 1 communication with the receiver you set it to and is a one-shot comm, so Comms towers will still be a separate thing as well as moving mass data by ship. Range and network coverage will not be an issue as it is not using traditional comms it's using a quantum effect. And it would be totally secure so no pirates capturing your essence as it goes back to respawn, and you keep all your memories closing that plot hole.
Happy to discuss this idea with anyone who wants to :)
after each reclaim you will have one ship part missing to the point that after multiple death and even stripped from all vital parts it wont be considered a ship even by Drake standards hehe.
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