And they face dilemmas no one has ever confronted before. They develop their own politics, ideologies and crazy hardware religions. The competition is fierce.ĭrowning in nostalgia for the lost world, the survivors create civilization after civilization, life after life, humanity after humanity. You can change your body every day, even every hour, providing you get hold of an appropriate machine before the others. They also are able to control gigantic industrial robots, sophisticated medical machines, mechs designed for hard labor, military drones, star troopers and even sexbots based on Japanese manga – as long as these machines can connect with the Internet. They are ageless and virtually immortal unless an ugly virus attacks them. Now those lucky (?) few find themselves deprived of physical bodies which were anihilated they continue to exist by floating around the Internet as digital entities. Only a small number of humans have managed to copy digitalized versions of their minds onto hardware. Imagine a world after a sudden cosmic catastrophe which has sterilized the Earth of all living things.
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