Kasa Tkoth Sphere wrote:Emulated environments ("emvis") in the K-Sphere often involve intricately crafted stories beyond the capability of their Freed participants to represent by themselves. "NPC" characters in various games or stories typically come in two forms: either they are retrofitted Colonial Minds (minds originally created by the K-Sphere's overseeing AI for stress-testing purposes), or they are loaded into the participants' shared environmental data budget (that is to say, effectively, VRAM), not really "conscious" in any true sense but indistinguishable from it. Nonetheless, these minds are deleted or wiped in one way or another when the story ends, so that the Colonial Mind can be reused or the participants can use their environmental data for something else.
A few communities despise the notion that these characters — even the ones who were not really "alive" — are destroyed in this manner. With permission from those they visit, minds from these communities enter emvis about to shut down to retrieve as much information about them as possible. If exact data is not available, they copy historical records or even get verbal testimony.
The ultimate purpose of this is to reconstruct copies of lost characters and instantiate them in a safe environment with the intention of having it last until the K-Sphere itself shuts down. Some community members give up most of their data to safely store thousands of simplified characters at once. Such an act is seen as giving a well-deserved afterlife to the people — however fictional or p-zombie-like — who've played important roles in others' stories.
I'm not entirely sure if I understand this. The Emulated environments design AI-written stories and recycle the characters used in said stories, and people are triggered that those non-existing characters get recycled? Or are said characters actually real?
After the Azar Coup, the state of Iran put a full ban on all minority languages in the country that weren't Farsi. The ban wasn't maintained fairly at all, with most Iranic languages being spoken in public outside official capacity while speaking non-Iranic languages (most importantly Azeri and Arabic) could get you a ticket to a long stay in Prison and take away your children. The only non-Farsi languages exempt from these laws were Armenian and Jewish -which was done as a concession to the Jews that the IR had expelled in its 10 years of existence).







