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There could be one company that has developed this company and is offering the for the very rich. That way it wouldn't be freely accessible to anyone and could still be a part of the setting.
That company could officially just do it consensually and only move minds into new bodies with an agreement from both sides (would it be a switch or a takeover where one mind gets lost?) but then use the technology to transfer their employees/sharehodlers into new bodies if they want without regard for consent. They could even have a small security force made up of people who switch into super bodies when they have to fight but then go back into their own bodies afterwards to live a normal life without fear of being hunted.

Superbodies :) would there be cyborgs/full machines as well? Then they could transfer their minds into machines and back to their bodies

Cyborgs yes, full machines probably not, at least not ones that people can transfer their consciousness into

Edit: Maybe machines that can store a consciousness if necessary but not robot bodies that can walk the street

I was thinking more like shell bodies grown in vats, something with a shorter lifespan than normal humans (REPLICANTS!), but could possibly have cybertech in it to give it simulated powers. There's a new villain idea. This would be, as bowlofspinach said, limited and cutting edge tech, not available to the players.

Perhaps they upload a digital copy of a mind, much like an AI, and download it into an engineered body. I assume with the proper DNA sample they could grow a body to simulate a specific individual - this is definitely too cool for one of us. I would think a company developed this and has an agent or two, or a small team using this technology to advance their goals.

The AI needs to have this technology (probably hacked it from the company that developed it and built its own lab to make the bodies, then downloads a copy of its own, inhuman AI intelligence into the bodies so it can interact with the world as a human - imagine a machine trying to learn what it means to be human in one body, while simultaneously using another body to try to capture someone it considers a threat. ...and we may have just hit on the bad guy for my turn as GM.

You people and your Dystopia am I the only one that hopes for a better brighter future.

Probably.

You hope for a darker future Tao ?

I was coerced into dystopia by bowl, so I feel you cosmic ;)
Also, it could just be really limited by the fact that it destroys the previous mind at upload. This way, you’d have to kill yourself before the mind transfer occurs. Are we supposed to get the bad guys sketched now as well,

I hope for a more colorful future that includes all shades from light to dark, but I fear all those colors will be muted by mans own selfishness and greed.

Is that dark enough for you? ;)

Eh human nature BLEH thats why I want transhumanism or even posthumanism ^_^

By the way @thetaodaddy are you ok with you mom being in a human transcendence cult? I could have infiltrated the quarantine zone, first and foremost, to locate you and get you out (or something like that). That would give me a relationship of some sorts to every PC I think 🤔

Tell me about this cult.

I'm picturing her as power hungry, manipulative, probably morally bankrupt. She gives her son just enough love to keep him from plotting to overthrow her (as she would expect him to do, even though that's not his style.) I picture her wanting money and power.

Picture someone like Littlefinger from Game of Thrones (except as the Lord of a house), or Frank Underwood from House of Cards.

I wasn’t considering the individual motives actually. It was more about a group of people that believe humanity can transcend with the help of technology, so they built some sort of "virtual shared mind". This would be something like a mind reading implants all connected for super fast connections, but not really a hive mind yet. The believe is that humans are a part of a whole and achieving that hive mind would lead humanity to a god like state. Or something like that :) Turns out some sort of central proto- AI emerged from (or was added to) this network and is manipulating the interactions. Now some "cultists" think this is a sign and others are worried about the "black box" leader that just appeared. With the plague, this cult is very interested in supers, as they show different abilities. Could humanity have transcended without technology? Can these supers be the last piece for the human transcendence?

This is the general ideal loft, but of course there could be members trying to get some advantage from them. Could having Access to fast, long range "telepathy" with some fanatics be good for your mom’s corp? Is she after that emergent AÍ? Was she the one to hack the transcendence network with the AI program to manipulate them? Does she think transcendence and the plague are related and is trying to get her hands on a powerful bio-weapon?

CESN, if your cult is interested in studying supers, they might possibly work together with the criminal organization I'm part of.

Since that group is using supers even though they are generally very prejudiced against them, they might be willing to work with your cult. They wouldn't agree with their goals but in exchange for money or technology, they might be able to provide a super that got on their bad side to them for examination, either dead or alive

Maybe tao’s Mom is the connection between the two groups 😱

I think the mother character would fund that research for sure, provided she could get some tangible benefit for her personally or her company (insider information on competitors, etc.)

So maybe she's a member of the cult, but more of a financier, who just pays lip service to the cult to get them to do the things she wants in exchange for the tech and money they need to achieve their goals.

She could also finance criminal organizations (through multiple levels of plausible deniability).

Your mom definitely sounds like a feature.

Definitely. She sounds like she might have her fingers in everything. Not just the cult but possibly both my and Tracy's organizations as well

Why not? The more tangled, the better.

I just thought of an idea for Eli that I need some help with. Is anyone up for a PM and giving some suggestions?