Echoes of Earth
“The most frequently utilized was the ability to speed up or slow down the internal clock, so that one could compress a thirty-year period into an hour, if necessary, or speed up one external day and make it feel like three. Engrams could also shut themselves down when necessary for a brief time, although the process was discouraged; it was too much like death, to suspend one’s thoughts completely, and few were prepared to take a chance on never returning. After all, who knew? The theory of the ...soul had taken a beating in the twenty-first century, but no one was immune to the superstitious leftovers of the past.One facility that hadn’t been included, although it had been raised several times, was the ability to clone individual crew members. This had been deemed too problematic for missions such as these. If someone was copied, that created an immediate imbalance in resources; why should one person have more than their fair share of processing time than the others? The situation would be unsustainable.MoreLess
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