Re: Medtech 2180 a la Fulton

kaladorn@fox.nstn.ca wrote:

> ** Again, I was sort of looking at the brainless or at least
> virgin-brain style of clone... such that the brain's neural pathways
> would be remapped to match that of the overlay being installed.
>

I think your possible missing something. To remap a brain to a virgin
brain so it will function like the old one requires phyiscal alterations
to the brain itself to represent the strengthened neural pathways which
have been firing in certain patterns for decades. (partly this is
enhanced
chemical links between specific neurons built up over years and years.)

A poor analogy is that you can map someone's "strength" to another body
without physically altering the muscle tissue in he new body.

Of course all this assumes that what goes into making a "character" or
"you" can simply be distilled to technical remapping and is not in part
made up of processes unmeasureable (spirit?).

> ** Clone them at 20. If we have a high level of anagathic tech, we
> could well have a clone soldier useful for 60 years... Make two or
> three when a promising soldier is twenty, with all development of
> muscles and such and brain pathways, make sure the mapping is
> reasonably accurate, and cold sleep them. Then revive and overlay as
> required. Periodic update periods would help lessen the transition
> shock.
>
>

You seem to assume that making soldiers of great experience will somehow
overcome the effects of modern and post modern warfare. I think there is
a
point where having a guy with a dozens (or 60) years of experience stops
buying you anything. In high intensity combat quality and experience
takes
you a good way, but not much further.You still have to have numbers
particlaulry on the lethality of the modern battelfield. Without numbers
you have NO susutainability. (And it's pretty clear from even a cursory
study of the cannon GZG timeline that numbers are still a factor in any
of
the big "real" wars of the future.)   If you are trying to find work
arounds to having "numbers" in the future I think it's realistically 
not
going to get you far. I'd rather have 30-40 guys of medium training that
work well together (Say a current well oiled infantry platoon from a top
regiment, non elite) than 6 "super" soildiers. (say SAS or delta)
weapons,
and tactics, and equipment being what they are, each loss of those 6
guys
becomes exponentially more severe and impedes mission success that much
more. Especially since training and experience acquired the good old
fashioned way through a military establishment that values the
dissemination of lessons learned and training, ca ensure more guys have
that experience even if not as as deep a level as our 6 heroes.

Happy Holidays.

Los