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Rain Mobility Frame (R.M.F.) Reference sheet - Shaded
With a completely custom vase body comes a custom mobility frame. Using Remote Presence Control technology, RPC, mobility frames allow a person with a vase chassis to have arms and legs without having to go through uncomfortable acclimatization every time parts need to be replaced. No having to spend your day at the mechanic either. By owning several identical frames, a person can just have themselves put into a fresh frame when the existing one needs work done. It's the best of both worlds and the main reason why vase chassis are incredibly popular for second lifers like Rain.
The one major limitation of RPC is that it cannot stop acclimatization when a person is sleeping. Modern implementations of RPC can prevent this by disconnecting a person from their frame when it detects them falling asleep. Most people disable this feature though and simply remember to have themselves removed from their frame by their VI servants before dozing off.
Rain's mobility frame can be broken down into two pieces for easy transport. It also accepts a variety of power sources. The frame itself is waterproof, but her vase chassis is not, so she still needs to take care to avoid getting wet when wearing it.
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The one major limitation of RPC is that it cannot stop acclimatization when a person is sleeping. Modern implementations of RPC can prevent this by disconnecting a person from their frame when it detects them falling asleep. Most people disable this feature though and simply remember to have themselves removed from their frame by their VI servants before dozing off.
Rain's mobility frame can be broken down into two pieces for easy transport. It also accepts a variety of power sources. The frame itself is waterproof, but her vase chassis is not, so she still needs to take care to avoid getting wet when wearing it.
This fantastic reference sheet was drawn by the skilled
DaddyDNS. Go check them out. Original piece is here, https://www.furaffinity.net/view/29941582/
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It does have some influence from Ghost in the Shell. I really didn't like the idea of how power/life support is required at all times in many other universes. (I actually did not like a lot of the worldbuilding in Ghost in the Shell.) Just made the whole thing feel like re-skinned organics. In Rain's universe, a person can be completely powered off with no ill effect other than losing consciousness.
Time to acclimatize depends on how much has actually changed. A whole body can take weeks/months, depending on the individual. Individual parts could just be a few days to a week or so. It's not painful, but it is uncomfortable and tiring.
Thanks for your interest and questions.
Time to acclimatize depends on how much has actually changed. A whole body can take weeks/months, depending on the individual. Individual parts could just be a few days to a week or so. It's not painful, but it is uncomfortable and tiring.
Thanks for your interest and questions.
You will not get anywhere from the life support system.
Here is a living person - if you think about it, the eyes, ears, touch, taste, and other sense organs - are sensors. Muscles and bones - are actuators. The rest of the system, including the heart, liver, and kidneys, - is the life support system. Even the brain itself is an organic processor.
So from this we can assume that a person lives in his brain.
I watched the movie "Altered Carbon" recently - a great idea and technology - but people, as always, ruined everything.
Why can't you just write consciousness on an artificial brain?
So in the Rain's universe, a person lives, and when he reaches a certain age and the body critically wears out - what's next? - the person is digitized and transferred to a vase?
And what is a vase - an artificial brain, sensors and battery, and systems of interfaces and wireless communication - is also not entirely clear.
When a person who can afford his own servants (that is, being financially secure) cannot immediately transfer himself to an artificial basic biomechanical body, instead of literally disassembling himself into parts - just sit in a chair and at the level of the nervous system turn off unused parts, as in one movie. Where, after his untimely death, the professor kept himself in a machine that kept only his head alive. (Pretty scary movie).
Where does such curiosity come from?
I have been working in technology for many years, so I am always interested in other fresh thoughts that I can hear, and I am also a big fan of the Chakat universe - an artificially created race after the genetic war.
I've seen various concepts, such as "Ghost in the Shell" or "Altered Carbon", as well as biomechanical exoskeletons or even complete cyborgs, but I haven't seen an option yet where you can partially disassemble your own body. And I find that interesting.
In the end, I imagine that this sensation may be like phantom pain as if a person has lost their own body and needs time to get used to the biomechanical.
In the Rain's universe, does a person who uses a mechanical body become mentally tired of his residual projection and phantom pain?
Here is a living person - if you think about it, the eyes, ears, touch, taste, and other sense organs - are sensors. Muscles and bones - are actuators. The rest of the system, including the heart, liver, and kidneys, - is the life support system. Even the brain itself is an organic processor.
So from this we can assume that a person lives in his brain.
I watched the movie "Altered Carbon" recently - a great idea and technology - but people, as always, ruined everything.
Why can't you just write consciousness on an artificial brain?
So in the Rain's universe, a person lives, and when he reaches a certain age and the body critically wears out - what's next? - the person is digitized and transferred to a vase?
And what is a vase - an artificial brain, sensors and battery, and systems of interfaces and wireless communication - is also not entirely clear.
When a person who can afford his own servants (that is, being financially secure) cannot immediately transfer himself to an artificial basic biomechanical body, instead of literally disassembling himself into parts - just sit in a chair and at the level of the nervous system turn off unused parts, as in one movie. Where, after his untimely death, the professor kept himself in a machine that kept only his head alive. (Pretty scary movie).
Where does such curiosity come from?
I have been working in technology for many years, so I am always interested in other fresh thoughts that I can hear, and I am also a big fan of the Chakat universe - an artificially created race after the genetic war.
I've seen various concepts, such as "Ghost in the Shell" or "Altered Carbon", as well as biomechanical exoskeletons or even complete cyborgs, but I haven't seen an option yet where you can partially disassemble your own body. And I find that interesting.
In the end, I imagine that this sensation may be like phantom pain as if a person has lost their own body and needs time to get used to the biomechanical.
In the Rain's universe, does a person who uses a mechanical body become mentally tired of his residual projection and phantom pain?
"Here is a living person - if you think about it, the eyes, ears, touch, taste, and other sense organs - are sensors. Muscles and bones - are actuators. The rest of the system, including the heart, liver, and kidneys, - is the life support system. Even the brain itself is an organic processor."
Agreed. In many ways our bodies are machines more advanced than anything we can create. The downside is that our ability to repair those cellular machines is limited. I have another character where I'm exploring the idea of what happens if we gain the ability to repair biological bodies like we could cybernetics. There, the biological machines have an edge in many cases.
"So from this we can assume that a person lives in his brain."
"Why can't you just write consciousness on an artificial brain?"
In Rain's world, it's because true sentience requires a soul, which are bound to a persons brain and can't be created artificially. VI (Virtual Intelligent) workers are created by writing to an artificial brain. They aren't sentient, but are smart enough to give the appearance of sentience.
"So in the Rain's universe, a person lives, and when he reaches a certain age and the body critically wears out - what's next? - the person is digitized and transferred to a vase?"
They're put into an induced coma and injected with micro-machines that convert their organic brain to an inorganic one neuron by neuron. Once this is complete, the now synthetic brain with the persons soul bound to it can be removed from their organic body. Their organic body is of course allowed to die at this point. The brain is then installed into a brain case and the person can begin their second life. They do lose all muscle memory in the conversion, So they will need physical therapy to learn how to stand, walk, use their hands, etc. The person you put in at the start is the same person you get out at the end.
"And what is a vase - an artificial brain, sensors and battery, and systems of interfaces and wireless communication - is also not entirely clear."
The vase body is just the basics a person needs to be conscious and aware of their surroundings. Like you listed, it's their brain case, sensors/communication, computers to run all of that, and batteries. If they want/need anything more they simply use RPC to use a mobility frame.
"I haven't seen an option yet where you can partially disassemble your own body. And I find that interesting."
In Rain's world, the purpose of vase bodies is to reduce maintenance to a minimum so acclimatization is minimal. VI Servants are ubiquitous in her world, pretty much everyone can afford to own several. So they can move you around where needed or put you in your mobility frame if you wish.
"In the end, I imagine that this sensation may be like phantom pain as if a person has lost their own body and needs time to get used to the biomechanical.
In the Rain's universe, does a person who uses a mechanical body become mentally tired of his residual projection and phantom pain?"
Yes, acclimatization is largely that. It's not painful, but it is uncomfortable and mentally draining when a person switches bodies or has parts replaced. There is no limit to how many times a person can acclimatize, but it's not something most people want to ensure frivolously.
Thank you for your interest. I hope I have helped explaining her universe.
Agreed. In many ways our bodies are machines more advanced than anything we can create. The downside is that our ability to repair those cellular machines is limited. I have another character where I'm exploring the idea of what happens if we gain the ability to repair biological bodies like we could cybernetics. There, the biological machines have an edge in many cases.
"So from this we can assume that a person lives in his brain."
"Why can't you just write consciousness on an artificial brain?"
In Rain's world, it's because true sentience requires a soul, which are bound to a persons brain and can't be created artificially. VI (Virtual Intelligent) workers are created by writing to an artificial brain. They aren't sentient, but are smart enough to give the appearance of sentience.
"So in the Rain's universe, a person lives, and when he reaches a certain age and the body critically wears out - what's next? - the person is digitized and transferred to a vase?"
They're put into an induced coma and injected with micro-machines that convert their organic brain to an inorganic one neuron by neuron. Once this is complete, the now synthetic brain with the persons soul bound to it can be removed from their organic body. Their organic body is of course allowed to die at this point. The brain is then installed into a brain case and the person can begin their second life. They do lose all muscle memory in the conversion, So they will need physical therapy to learn how to stand, walk, use their hands, etc. The person you put in at the start is the same person you get out at the end.
"And what is a vase - an artificial brain, sensors and battery, and systems of interfaces and wireless communication - is also not entirely clear."
The vase body is just the basics a person needs to be conscious and aware of their surroundings. Like you listed, it's their brain case, sensors/communication, computers to run all of that, and batteries. If they want/need anything more they simply use RPC to use a mobility frame.
"I haven't seen an option yet where you can partially disassemble your own body. And I find that interesting."
In Rain's world, the purpose of vase bodies is to reduce maintenance to a minimum so acclimatization is minimal. VI Servants are ubiquitous in her world, pretty much everyone can afford to own several. So they can move you around where needed or put you in your mobility frame if you wish.
"In the end, I imagine that this sensation may be like phantom pain as if a person has lost their own body and needs time to get used to the biomechanical.
In the Rain's universe, does a person who uses a mechanical body become mentally tired of his residual projection and phantom pain?"
Yes, acclimatization is largely that. It's not painful, but it is uncomfortable and mentally draining when a person switches bodies or has parts replaced. There is no limit to how many times a person can acclimatize, but it's not something most people want to ensure frivolously.
Thank you for your interest. I hope I have helped explaining her universe.
Yes, I was right - you are an interesting interlocutor ... And in short, then:
"In many ways our bodies are machines more advanced than anything we can create. The downside is that our ability to repair those cellular machines is limited."
It is a pity that the technology of direct transfer of consciousness is not available there, then it would be possible to clone bodies using one's own genetic material. Why repair bodies - when you can change bodies ...
"I have another character".
Sounds interesting.
"They're put into an induced coma and injected with micro-machines that convert their organic brain to an inorganic one neuron by neuron. Once this is complete, the now synthetic brain with the persons soul bound to it can be removed from their organic body. Their organic body is of course allowed to die at this point".
It strongly reminds me very much of one work, there's also used the same technology. (https://www.fimfiction.net/story/69770/friendship-is-optimal-caelum-est-conterrens).
"The vase body is just the basics a person needs to be conscious and aware of their surroundings. If they want/need anything more they simply use RPC to use a mobility frame".
In fact, the "Ghost in the Shells" was something like that. The brain in a protective shell with a pair of eyes (I think it could be called a head) with a connected wireless communication module and a battery, was quite capable of autonomous existence. "Although I agree," it didn't look very pleasant.
"VI Servants are ubiquitous in her world, pretty much everyone can afford to own several. So they can move you around where needed or put you in your mobility frame if you wish".
The servants are interesting, I would like to know more about them and some illustrations, if possible.
"Yes, acclimatization is largely that. It's not painful, but it is uncomfortable and mentally draining when a person switches bodies or has parts replaced. There is no limit to how many times a person can acclimatize, but it's not something most people want to ensure frivolously".
If you use a mechanical arm and it wears out or breaks, there is nothing to prevent you from installing the arm with the same model and with the same settings - so acclimatization should be extremely fast.
"In many ways our bodies are machines more advanced than anything we can create. The downside is that our ability to repair those cellular machines is limited."
It is a pity that the technology of direct transfer of consciousness is not available there, then it would be possible to clone bodies using one's own genetic material. Why repair bodies - when you can change bodies ...
"I have another character".
Sounds interesting.
"They're put into an induced coma and injected with micro-machines that convert their organic brain to an inorganic one neuron by neuron. Once this is complete, the now synthetic brain with the persons soul bound to it can be removed from their organic body. Their organic body is of course allowed to die at this point".
It strongly reminds me very much of one work, there's also used the same technology. (https://www.fimfiction.net/story/69770/friendship-is-optimal-caelum-est-conterrens).
"The vase body is just the basics a person needs to be conscious and aware of their surroundings. If they want/need anything more they simply use RPC to use a mobility frame".
In fact, the "Ghost in the Shells" was something like that. The brain in a protective shell with a pair of eyes (I think it could be called a head) with a connected wireless communication module and a battery, was quite capable of autonomous existence. "Although I agree," it didn't look very pleasant.
"VI Servants are ubiquitous in her world, pretty much everyone can afford to own several. So they can move you around where needed or put you in your mobility frame if you wish".
The servants are interesting, I would like to know more about them and some illustrations, if possible.
"Yes, acclimatization is largely that. It's not painful, but it is uncomfortable and mentally draining when a person switches bodies or has parts replaced. There is no limit to how many times a person can acclimatize, but it's not something most people want to ensure frivolously".
If you use a mechanical arm and it wears out or breaks, there is nothing to prevent you from installing the arm with the same model and with the same settings - so acclimatization should be extremely fast.
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