And then they woke me up, so I could live forever

[a_monetized_mind]

"Hah! I told you I was a main character!"

"...What are you even going on about."

Doomstar has been unusually cooperative, so she's been allowed some free wandering-accompanied by a guard with a gas mask and gloves, of course. She and Jen are meeting outside, chatting over some tea and snacks.

"It's not too important, Jenny. The important thing is, I might have a solution to your situation."
"Yeah, you mentioned that..."
"Well, I wasn't joking. Since the problem is genetic, just copying Julia's method of cheating death won't work, but there's nothing that says we have to use an organic architecture when copying your brain's processes."


"...I don't really follow."

"Basically, we'd use the nanobots in your blood to get a model of your brain, and then we'd run that model on a computer. So there'd be you, and an AI copy of you. The copy won't age or decay, and it could make backups of itself in case it got itself blown up like you keep doing."

"So if I let you experiment with my brain, I'd live forever."

Doomstar's smile fades. For once, the crazed razorgirl's facade slips away, showing the worry underneath.

"...No. A copy of you would live forever-from your perspective, you would still die the same way. And...the copy might not be exact. This is really untested stuff, and Julia spent more time on it than I ever did. Like, it might even come out to just be some sort of soulless sociopathic abomination. I could improve the quality of the copy with a destructive scan, but...I can't fix death. I can only let you leave something behind."

While Jen looks deeply into her tea, Doomstar reaches across the table to rest her hand on Jen's-but the courier brushes it off.

Comments

[mechasaurusrex]

Me Grimlock say... there ..worse things ..can leave behind. But... can leave better things... too.

[The Dinobot can't exactly be present physically due to his size, but he does still drop a line in for the conversation.]

Not too different... from... spark splice.

[a_monetized_mind]

...Spark splice?

[mechasaurusrex]

Part of spark... sliced from donor. Spliced piece... used make new spark. Memories just data. Could... be given to new spark. What does... up to it. Can become copy. Can become something else.

[So it's not just brain copying in the Cybertronian case. Its literally carving out a piece of their soul as the basis for a new one.]

[a_monetized_mind]

...That's pretty much it, yeah.

How do people treat Spark Splicing where you're from?

[mechasaurusrex]

[Grimlock shrugs.]

Used be suspicious. Say because sparks...not forged from hot spots... unnatural. Many millennia ago. Was stupid. Last hot spot on Cybertron died long time before humans on Earth. Mean splicing become more accepted.

Humans lives shorter. Will get over issue faster.

[a_monetized_mind]

I'm sure my evil robot clone will be glad to hear that, whenever she wakes up.