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>Be careful. Too much of that and it stops looking like Star TRrek and Sta=
rs
looking like those rotten "Phoenix" books
I never managed to go through the "Phoenix" books all the way.
The problem=
is that the
technology to do this exists, so somebody is bound to try. I'm presuming
t= hat in the
books, one individual goes through a special transporter and comes out of
t= he process
looking like somebody else. The technology in "Traitor's Son"
can't do tha= t. What it
can do is subtly alter the person so that they would act in a way more in
l= ine with the
aims of the people behind this scheme. However, once the replacement (I us= ed the
term "replicant") is in place, the people behind the scheme no
longer have = any control.
The replacement can't be too different either, or would be noticed. These = are the
weaknesses behind this type of technology, and could well be the undoing (I=
really
can't say more without giving spoilers for "Confluence").
Steve
The Universe Unbounded.
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>Be careful. Too much of that and it stops
looking like Star
TRrek
and Starslooking like those rotten "Phoenix" books
I never managed to go through the
"Phoenix" books
all the way. The problem is that the
technology to do this exists, so
somebody is bound
to try. I'm presuming that in the
books, one individual goes through a special
transporter and comes out of the process
looking like somebody
else. The technology
in
"Traitor's Son" can't do that. What it
can do is subtly alter the person
so that they
would act in a way more in line with the
aims of the people behind this
scheme.
However, once the replacement (I used the
term "replicant") is in
place, the people behind
the scheme no longer have any control.
The replacement can't be too
different either, or
would be noticed. These are the
weaknesses behind this type of
technology, and
could well be the undoing (I really
can't say more without giving spoilers for
"Confluence").
Steve
The Universe
Unbounded.
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