Editing City Series:Volume8a Chapter4 (section)

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'''Bodies and Subprograms

Generally speaking, no actual people exist within DT.

People’s actual Lives were once sent into DT, but the heat consumption required to preserve their Lives at a 100x boost was too great and it was deemed a waste of energy.

That led to a combination of the NPC Bodies and loading techniques being developed by the Three Sages and Archon Suedomsa.

'''This allowed the people’s Lives to be placed in an intermediary level built between DT and the outside world and they would remote control a Body placed within DT.

The technology was based on the Write Bring device used in Barrels. The Body was created from the visual data from the person’s Lives and a constant link is maintained with the Mind Lives controlling it.

This kind of Body became known as a PC Body.

The link to the PC Body’s senses allows people to use the PC Body like their own vessel and it feels to them like they are actually there.

Also, loading techniques allow them to temporarily load their Lives from the intermediary layer, allowing them to move more like they are accustomed to.

However, fully remote control of a PC Body is not possible. The PC Body can only '''“exist”''' by basing it on the person’s visual data and their '''Mind Lives must be placed within the PC Body for them to sense what it senses''', so there is feedback between the PC Body and the person’s Lives. That means any injury to the PC Body is also applied to the Lives in the intermediary layer.

There was an attempt to develop a means of backing up the Lives to avoid death in this fashion, but when identical data to a Lives-bearing lifeform is created, '''the erroneous one''' is destroyed through resonance and the duplicate data can never fully reproduce the abilities of the original data. In other words, '''the data can be fully reproduced but it still ceases to function for some reason'''. For this reason, it is forbidden to fully back up an existing lifeform, including people, even though cloning parts such as skin or flesh are done.

Also, while Word Mails can be rapidly transmitted through the intermediary layer, transmitting data-heavy objects such as people is forbidden because it is unknown if the breakdown and reconstruction process would be safe.

That process is only allowed at the Yard or the Visitor Administration Office where they have high quality Live breakdown equipment.

PC Bodies have been created and controlled like this for a long time, but since people’s behavior changes with the times, data on their action and sensory patterns continues to be collected. That leads to the creation of more subprograms, but it is said we will always be plagued by poorly made subprograms and situations the subprograms cannot respond to.

For a while, there were mass riots caused by the poor quality of the subprograms, but from the earliest stages, it has been strongly recommended to use a false name in DT in order to avoid undue responsibility and a shrinking citizenry.

If any trouble does arise, people can adopt a new name or even a new PC Body appearance to avoid social attention and misunderstandings. This is not a fundamental solution, but it is the best way currently known of cleaning up after trouble inevitably occurs.