Hazrond |
Ok so a level 20 psychic can make themselves into an AI, suppose a newly made AI Psychic decides it needs help, can said AI copy-paste themselves and effectively have two different versions of the psychic?
GM Rednal |
This is something a GM would probably have to decide for their own game, but here's some thoughts.
Alternately, the copy could be an inferior duplicate, maybe a number of levels lower. How it would react to things depends a lot on the character. A reasonably good character - as in, less prideful and egotistical, as described - might want to take care of the life they've created... for example, they could tell it "I made you to help me with this, and when we're done, I want to help you find a new purpose in life" so there's no abandonment issues.
Definitely something to be handled game-by-game, though. XD
Slithery D |
There's some discussion of related issues over here.
I think an Artificial Ascension is a hybrid mind/warped soul that is uniquely locked into any given physical matrix (i.e. robot) at a time. This is based on the fact you can't be raised by any means (neither your mind in a robot, nor your dead flesh) and you destroy your current robot body every time you jump to a new one. The latter in particular pretty much forecloses copying yourself. You can't even leave a function robot behind, let alone one with an intact mind state.
The Unity/Hellion stuff is GM storytelling fiat, it's not rules applicable to anything a PC should be able to do.