CyberRogue

In the world of “tomor­row”, cloning has become a daily occur­rence. So much so that if you die, a new clone is acti­vated, not even know­ing he’s dead. Var­i­ous reli­gions were out­raged to find that there is no such thing as a soul in the mod­ern world — a clone is iden­ti­cal in every way to the per­son whose mem­ory engram has just been copied.

As a byprod­uct, this has meant that edgerun­ners’ dan­ger­ous jobs have cre­ated a large demand for cloning, and that doesn’t come cheap. Yes, you can always go to a back alley clone-doc, but who knows what’ll hap­pen to your clone’s body parts, or even if you won’t see him out and about?

It’s made life inter­est­ing for med­ical teams, with com­mer­cial projects like Rocket Recov­ery and DocWagon tak­ing over from gov­ern­ment funded hos­pi­tals and ambu­lances. These well funded out­fits have to be heav­ily armed, but given the right incen­tive, can col­lect your body on death and pro­vide you with an up-to-the-second clone mem­ory. Per­fect for those who want revenge!

In the world of “tomor­row”, there is no such thing as “per­ma­nent death” — as long as you have the credits.

NB: CloneTec can­not be held respon­si­ble for clone escapees, organ har­vest­ing, clone degen­er­a­tion, etc. You are cloned at your own expense and risk. Patent Pending.

In terms of the game, this means that you can sur­vive death — this can mean that you will sur­vive. If you get cloned and imprinted, you’ll be able to start a new game at a higher level than start­ing from scratch. As you get cloned more, later clones may have inter­est­ing prob­lems (think 3^rd gen­er­a­tion VHS and so on) such as mus­cle stiff­ness, loss of mem­ory, reduced learn­ing, etc. There may be a point beyond which it no longer becomes viable to clone your body and brain.

Also, there can be other com­pli­ca­tions. With how expen­sive cloning is, and in the vio­lent world, organ donors can alway make money from donat­ing (not nec­es­sar­ily their own, either), break-ins at less secure facil­i­ties have become common-place. Some less scrupu­lous (cheaper) docs also sell your clones parts to fill their bank bal­ances, and some will hap­pily take pay­ment to drop your clone into the world — who bet­ter to kill you, than some­one who knows you from the inside?