So we need to define some lore. I wrote this pretty much fresh from memory, but I was super tired when I wrote it, so please forgive any typos. I’ll get to fixing them.
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Cryptos: both a term used to describe your “secret”, or your mind or soul and the Intervertebral disc-like device implanted in all citizens in their youth that stores the personalities and defining memories or ideals that make a person a person. At the moment of bodily death, should a cryptos survive, it may be “spun up” and the cryptos within be communed with, or given particular circumstances may be transplanted into another body. A cryptos can also survive on a sufficiently complex device or network of devices, although after some time they do become “hungry” and may feed off other crypos on a shared network or even destroy a human’s cryptos and “possess” them.
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Awoken: during the dark centuries before the Reformation of the Human Mandate or even the establishment of the Golden Sundom at the end of the Succession Wars, mankind was brought to the brink of extinction in the Caveat Emptor sector. The discovery of how to create Cryptos allowed for not only the storage of human minds, but also their replication. Awoken refer not only to the replicated Cryptos but also to minds that have spent so much time tinkering with their own humanity or surfing codescapes that their minds have been altered into something more and other than purely human.
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Revenant: An ancient horror of the benighted centuries prior to the Reformation of the Human Mandate where Cryptos and replication technology was used to turn human beings into mindless killing automata. Many have since been decommissioned or secreted away to crypts rumored to exist beneath several of the RHM’s largest Executor (the Imperial Armed Forces’ elite infantry forces) garrisons. Other rumors persist that some revenants managed to reclaim their old memories or stitch together new cryptos and live amongst the populace today, masquerading as Awoken.
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Lazarus: Some fortunate souls are able to purchase, customize, and maintain numerous bodies that they may download their cryptos into, or even maintain backups of their own cryptos in the event of a copy’s destruction. This process is extremely costly and only the upper crust of the Reformed Human Mandate can afford such luxury.
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Shapers: the miracle interstellar and super-luminal travel was bittersweet, as it gave rise to individuals who would one day become known as Shapers. Trace amounts of the exotic substances that make interstellar travel possible tend to build up in individuals who would sail the stars or work in industries in or around the space economy, which lead to deathly cancer, madness, and uncheck telekinetic outbursts that killed tens of thousands before therapeutic and cybernetic procedures were developed to channel this destructive force. Now known as shapers, these individuals can harness cystic buildups of these exotic particles to manifest controlled yet powerful displays of telekinesis or even limited telepathy. Becoming a shaper can be a way out of poverty if you can live long enough to reap the benefits.
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The Rebound: Little remains widely known about either the Shadow’s empire or the petty kingdoms of the Unbound that proceeded it and preceded the Golden Sundom, but tales of the Eternal Tyrant’s boogiemen and generals persist. Since Rebound by the High Lord Executox, these supernatural terrors now serve as the commanders of the RHM’s Executors and Navies, as well as the HLE’s personal ambassadors to the seven Great Houses of the RMH. To a one, they are beings of truly horrifying potency and more than capable of devastating any one of the great capitals or any lesser city of the RHM, or so the stories tell.