VI Tech

Factions Likely Involved in Creation & Maintenance

1. Aleris Systems Collective (0105 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 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 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)
   • 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)
   • 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)
   • 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)
   • 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 (0208.2 & 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)
  • 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)
  • 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?