Cybers

Cyber
Cybers, or ‘Cybernet Clones’, are the algorithmic duplicates of people living during the later years of the Great Expansion who used the quantum cloud with their cybernet devices. Although there was a long-standing prohibition against the creation of sentient algorithms, a number of hackers found a way to copy the entire throughput of the neurological processes of their cybernetic devices to create a virtual clone of themselves. When their human counterparts died in the Plague, these cybernetic clones survived, living as virtual, but identical, ghosts of their dead counterparts. As faithful copies of the real hackers and visionaries that died, Cybers were split down the middle by the formation of The Establishment. Utopian minded Cybers joined The Establishment, envisioning a world that was finally free of the need for a corporeal existence. While many of the personalities that already had a problem with organization/authority joined with those who still identified themselves as partially human to support the Exiles. After the Shakeout and the dissolution of these allegiances, cybers found themselves once again able to embrace the beliefs and friendships of their former selves, though in a Scape much different than the one they were used to. To adapt to these new conditions, a variety of different factions in the Scape sprung up with both Cyber and Sent membership based upon their prior worldviews and previous allegiances. Some of the most fervent Cyber supporters of the Establishment formed the Core, while diehard Exiles joined Central Command. But both groups represented only a small percentage of all the newly created factions, which found themselves in a scramble for the repositories of data and algorithms now hidden by the Shakeout.