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VI Tech

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Factions Likely Involved in Creation & Maintenance

  1. Aleris Systems Collective (0105 - Aleris Aleris)
    • Involvement: As the sector’s academic-technocratic hub, Aleris would absolutely experiment with neural mapping, cognitive storage, and VI frameworks.
    • Role: Likely the source of the original technology — though strictly experimental.
    • Spin: They insist it’s “research only,” not meant for practical immortality.
  2. Obsidian Dynamics (0309 - Koryth Koryth anomaly)
    • Involvement: Shadow-researchers in precursor relics; they may have cracked part of the code needed to stabilize uploads.
    • Role: Could secretly sponsor the PC’s creation — or attempt to reclaim them as a “lost asset.”
    • Spin: They don’t see VIs as “people,” just tools.
  3. Greenflow Biotics (0207 - Malyth Malyth Prime)
    • Involvement: More biologically oriented, but dabbling in bio-synthetic neural scaffolding to host uploads.
    • Role: May provide the android body or life-support substrate.
    • Spin: For them, a mind upload is the ultimate “biotech prototype” — a fusion of code and flesh.
  4. Crucible Reliquary Holdings (0505 - Aurix Aurix)
    • Involvement: Religious custodians of the Crucible Gate. Their interest comes from a spiritual angle: is an uploaded mind a “soul” or a “ghost”?
    • Role: Might sustain such tech in a controlled monastery-lab, seeing it as either divine proof or heretical temptation.
    • Spin: Officially denounce uploads, but secretly keep them for “theological study.”

Factions Likely Opposed to VI Existence

  1. Koralis Senate & Agro-Collective (0404 - Koralis Koralis)
    • Practical, conservative, resource-focused.
    • See mind uploads as “resource thieves”: consuming infrastructure but contributing no new bodies, no labor, no children.
    • They would lobby to outlaw them.
  2. Virellian Concord (0705 - Virellia Virellia)
    • Aristocratic and obsessed with legitimacy.
    • Uploads threaten inheritance, lineage, and political succession — what if an old noble just reappears in an android body?
    • Likely to push for legal rulings declaring uploads “non-persons.”
  3. Valdoran League (0004 - Valdora Valdora)
    • A cultural bloc tied heavily to agrarian, guild-based values.
    • They distrust “soulless copies,” seeing them as dangerous abominations that don’t respect the cycle of life and death.
    • They would refuse to recognize VI rights.
  4. Verdant Strains (0208 - Emerald Grave.2 & jungle systems)
    • Animist, jungle-tribal outlook.
    • Consider uploads to be “ghosts in stolen shells.”
    • May react violently if one is discovered in their territory.

Ambiguous / Divided Factions

  • Pilgrim’s Star Logistics (0505 - Aurix Aurix)
    • Practical merchants. If uploads can legally operate ships without requiring life support, they’d be all for it — but not if it jeopardizes contracts.
  • Virellia Spire Media (0705 - Virellia)
    • Fascinated by the narrative drama of a returned dead person. Some factions of Spire Media would promote uploads as revolutionary “human stories,” others would spread panic about soulless machines.

Narrative Tensions for the PC

  • Legal Status:
    • Some systems will legally register the PC as “property” (an asset of the corp that made them).
    • Others may recognize them as a “civil entity” — but not as the same person they once were.
  • Religious Debate:
    • Aurix and Verdant Strains may treat the PC as a walking heresy.
    • Crucible Orders could split between protecting or destroying them.
  • Corporate Greed:
    • Whoever funded the project may claim ownership of the PC, framing them as stolen IP.
    • Rival corps want to dissect them to replicate the process.
  • Personal Hook:
    • The PC’s old identity may still have debts, obligations, or enemies. Do those apply to them now?