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Yeah, he could retain those memories if you want.

@JohnSolaris

If I don't see a completely artificial soul pact made with a PCU and a human clone with cyborg traits as an eventual enemy I'm going to be disappointed.

Edit: Yeah I know you said something about it, BUT DISPOSABLE HUMAN CLONES USED FOR EXPERIEMENTATION

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Soon...

@FrozenEcstasy

You could totally join me and my army of Wolverine homonculi that I may or may not be planning on building for the Millenial Union in the near future.

I kinda wanna have a minor set of characters to play with that are one of them, assuming they exist. Buuuuuttttt I need to focus on Agnostos and Jack for now.

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Yeah, please do if you can. Some of the other factions desperately need more characters.

Edit: Just tell me if I got anything about how the Protectorate might experiment wrong.

Edit x2: I started earlier in preperation xD

Can you describe the PCUs? Specifically if they have any weak points that could kill or disable them?

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I'll do that through PM.

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That's not really decided yet, actually. I'll decide in my next post or something, when I actually need to. As for weak points, there won't be anything glaringly obvious, because the Protectorate's engineers aren't stupid. Not to mention metagaming isn't allowed, so even if I told you, it wouldn't be useful to your characters, unless they can figure it out themselves in-game.

Right but I meant glaring things like exposed joints or something.

So can soulless beings use magic?

If so, where would they store mana? Would they be more reliant on their bodies mana circuitry to store mana and preform magical feats?

If a deities soul is a stable structure without the need for a body, could there theoretically be a sufficiently powerful mind capable of similar feats? A network of pure psionic energy existing without body or soul?

Last night, I updated the section on magic circuits, so it now has more information on soulless beings. But basically, what Hierophant said.

@FrozenEcstasy: I'll comment on your super soldier character later. But for now, I'll make it so that one of the members of the Protectorate hit squad that's currently attacking Maria, James, and Lancelot is one of those super soldiers, or at least a prototype.

Anything that doesn't have human mana vessels connected to a soul will be classified as a "spirit", i.e. non-human, and needs a human partner to achieve full power in the human world. More specifically, this applies to soulless beings and magical artifacts that are technically not spirits, but are still treated as spirits by the Seals for this reason.

A mind is an exceedingly complex object, only marginally less complex than the soul itself. Thus, trying to replicate a mind is highly difficult, and the result will usually be an imperfect copy. And because of the complexity of the copying process, the exact imperfections are likely different each time, pseudo-random and almost impossible to predict. Copying a copy will cause the imperfections to accumulate, eventually causing the copies to be very different from the original, and from each other too.