![]() There are two decent cautionary tales about Godseeds. The one Godseed technology that IS explained, SNARE, consists of a nanite injection that slowly eats the brain, replacing it with computronium and uploading the old consciousness into the very first layer, then the software component ascends you, but (mostly) only if that's what you really want. Like others have said, it's good to present a technology and just say what it does rather then describe precisely how it works every now and then. I actually don't have a problem with this. The vast majority of Godseeds exist as passing references, or are used in stories but completely unexplained. But Godseeds open up the possibility of doing it privately, or even against the will of the transcendee. In OA there are a number of technologies under the broad heading of 'Godseed.' Think of them as "ingest/inject/insert/install here to break the SI:1 barrier." Now, every original ascension happened more or less through trial and error and best guess, but later on ascensions are usually done under the supervision of a transapient of the level you're trying to reach or higher, because ascensions can and sometimes do go horribly wrong. Granted, this is much less of an issue after the Expulsion when just about everyone lives in highly artificial, and controlled, environments. The roundabout and lost point was that it'd take a lot of effort to make the world safe for even intelligent rats. You'd need the resources of a national government to make it happen prior to about the 1870s or 1880s, and a very large, well-organized private organization (like the Boy Scouts of America) prior to about the 1960s or 1970s.īut with cheap cars, cheap scrap iron, and cheap telecommunications, it becomes something so simple and casual that random people can arbitrarily decide to do it on a whim. No one would imagine it happening except as an expression of some incredibly deep and important religious motive. 100 years ago, let alone 200, holding such a festival in such a location would be an incredibly expensive undertaking. Which probably explains a lot.įor example, consider Burning Man festival. ![]() Plus, again, I can understand monkeys (probably the least hardware changes needed) and dogs and even cetaceans (though those dolphins are hardcore) I may even see birds, but what genius decided to provolve ferrets? Rats? Squid? Tiger-Kangaroo hybrids? Bloody Dinosaurs?Once it becomes cheap and easy, all you need is a handful of loonies and an AI that finds it an entertaining challenge.
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