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Takeshi Kovacs

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Takeshi Kovacs	comment	The Takeshi Kovacs series (also called the Altered Carbon series, after its first book) is a Cyberpunk trilogy by British writer Richard K. Morgan.The series takes place some 500 years into the future, in the UN Protectorate, a totalitarian government spread over several different planets that enforces its rule with the use of 'Envoys,' mentally-conditioned Shock Troopers who specialise in covert deployment and bringing down rebel governments.In the series Mars has been discovered to have once been part of a galaxy-spanning alien civilisation, which collapsed for reasons unknown millennia ago.All three books follow the Sociopathic Hero Takeshi Kovacs, an ex-Envoy turned criminal/mercenary/bodyguard/detective, who uses his talents for problem solving coupled with insane violence to earn a buck. Takeshi is not without his psychological problems, however, many of them received in service with the Envoys and a fair few picked up afterwards.The first book, Altered Carbon (2002), sees Kovacs brought out of digitised storage (used as punishment for crimes) and sent to Earth to work as a private detective for the super-wealthy Laurens Bancroft. As a "Meth" (from "Methuselah"), Bancroft can afford to live for several lifetimes, repeatedly downloading himself into fresh bodies. He's recently returned from the dead, thanks to a personality backup, after an apparent suicide, but he maintains that he would never kill himself. Due to the backup schedule, he is missing the 48 hours prior to his death. He hires Kovacs to find out who killed him and why.The second book, Broken Angels (2003), is a war story set on the planet Sanction IV. Kovacs is now serving in a mercenary unit fighting for the UN against the native rebels of the planet, when he encounters a pilot named Jan Schneider, who is looking for protection for an expedition to exploit a Martian artifact discovered just before the war broke out. Kovacs helps Schneider break out the archeologist who led the initial expedition from a POW camp, and the trio them embark on a mission to find a corporate sponsor to finance their mission.The third book, Woken Furies (2005), finds Kovacs back on his homeworld of Harlan's World, a largely aquatic planet colonised by Japanese and Slavs. The book begins as a Roaring Rampage of Revenge as Kovacs hunts down members of a Church who sentenced a former partner of his to death, but he soon becomes involved in a growing revolutionary plot to overthrow the UN-backed government.A television series adaptation was released on Netflix in 2018 and ran for two seasons.A original Graphic Novel Altered Carbon Download Blues co-written by Richard K. Morgan and Rik Hoskin with art by Ferran Sellares was published by Dynamite Comics in May, 2019.Hunters Entertainment released the Altered Carbon The Roleplaying Game, set in the world of the TV series, in 2020.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_132d93f1	comment	Human Shield: Anton uses an ally as a human shield when he comes under fire.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Takeshi Kovacs / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Happens multiple times in common speech in the first and third books, and only a few in the second.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_1be36a63	type	Immortal Procreation Clause
Takeshi Kovacs / int_1be36a63	comment	Immortal Procreation Clause: Not in effect - Laurens and Miriam Bancroft, for instance, have had either 61 or 63 children (Laurens mentions having 61 children and also that two of his children have Really Died, and since none of them really affect the story at all it's never made clear if 61 is the total or just the ones still alive). Their youngest daughter is only in her early twenties, meaning she was born when Laurens was over 330 years old, and Laurens seems open to having even more in the future. There's no technical reason that ordinary people can't have a couple of kids every time they're resleeved in a younger body. It seems that most people don't, though, possibly because this is an enormous expense or maybe just because they don't want to continually raise infants.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_1d18887f	type	Pay Evil unto Evil
Takeshi Kovacs / int_1d18887f	comment	Pay Evil unto Evil: What Kovacs tends to do to people who mess with him or anyone he cares about. Essentially the basis for the entire trilogy - in between revenge and plain hatred, Kovacs pays a lot of evil on many evil people.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_1e4a1e0e	type	I Owe You My Life
Takeshi Kovacs / int_1e4a1e0e	comment	I Owe You My Life: Kovacs became friends with Radul Segesvar by saving his life back when they were both in a gang; Radul felt he owed Kovacs a debt and spent the next 200 years paying him back in the form of favors. After he betrays Kovacs, Kovacs realizes that the two of them never actually liked each other that much, and it was only the debt that had kept their friendship together for so long.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
Takeshi Kovacs / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain: Trepp is a pretty decent person who happens to work as an enforcer for a rather awful person. Kovacs acknowledges himself that they aren't that different.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Takeshi Kovacs / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Both Earth and Sanction IV would seem to qualify in different ways. Harlan's World is a crapsack swamp.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_21f7ff0f	type	Knight in Sour Armor
Takeshi Kovacs / int_21f7ff0f	comment	Knight in Sour Armor: Kovacs, although he masks it behind a Snark Knight persona. Kristan Ortega and the Organic Damage division of the Bay City Police seem to fulfill this role.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Takeshi Kovacs / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun : every bit of the story, from Kovacs' Shell-Shocked Veteran PTSD-caused hallucinations to Ortega's t-shirt to Bancroft's telescope, helps him finally see through the puzzle.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_230d64	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
Takeshi Kovacs / int_230d64	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Laurens Bancroft has this attitude and he's (largely) correct. Unusually, for Film Noir, Takeshi has the same attitude since Laurens is his patron.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_24ae6005	type	The Political Officer
Takeshi Kovacs / int_24ae6005	comment	The Political Officer: Stated to be rife on Sanction Four in Broken Angels. One we meet is Lamont, whose platoon forcibly addicted him to Electric Instant Gratification and use it to ensure he gives them consistently glowing reviews.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_25774afa	type	Generation Ships
Takeshi Kovacs / int_25774afa	comment	Generation Ships: How the Protectorate gets around when Needlecast isn't an option. It's hinted that several are still on route to distant stars, and that a number 'went wrong' on some planets, with messy results.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_25a6c734	type	Not in This for Your Revolution
Takeshi Kovacs / int_25a6c734	comment	Not in This for Your Revolution: Although Kovacs is nominally a Quellist, he has at least as cynical a view of another Quellist Unsettlement as anyone could. He's not enthusiastic about their prospects for success and thinks that even if they win, it's not likely to be much of an improvement. He assists the Quellists anyway, primarily because he feels like it's his best chance to rescue Sylvie Oshima who is currently sharing a body with Quellcrist Falconer, and secondarily because of Virginia Vidaura being a true believer.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_25b47c12	type	Rapid DNA Test
Takeshi Kovacs / int_25b47c12	comment	Rapid DNA Test: Kovacs has a gun pressed to his head as he's checking into a hotel, which will cancel the transaction if he doesn't enter payment information in seconds. He licks his thumb under the pretense of a cough and wipes the spit on the terminal, which allows the hotel to defend him with extreme prejudice.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_26d48b37	type	Earth That Used to Be Better
Takeshi Kovacs / int_26d48b37	comment	Earth That Used to Be Better: Earth is the capital of the UN Protectorate, but general opinion off-world is that it's a shithole. At one point Kovacs flashes back to Jimmy De Soto, who was from Earth, advising him never to go there. The first book Altered Carbon explores this fully.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_26f41623	type	Kill Sat
Takeshi Kovacs / int_26f41623	comment	Kill Sat: Harlan's World has the Orbitals, large geostationary space platforms left by the aliens before they disappeared. They rain "angelfire" on every hi-tech device that gets above a certain fixed altitude. Nobody knows why they do this, but the only way to elude them on most of the planet is to keep low and use old-tech vehicles such as gas-powered helicopters. There are a few gaps in the shield though, such as the one through which the original colonists travelled. Orbitals are also known for making very rare exceptions for reasons unknown, letting advanced craft pass through or blowing up antiquated, low-flying craft. This also provides various people with a novel alternative to Cement Shoes... attaching someone to a suitable lifting device and letting them fly skywards means the Angels will get them quickly enough, disposing of all evidence but giving the victim a brief period to contemplate their fate.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_2754014	type	Invisible Aliens
Takeshi Kovacs / int_2754014	comment	Invisible Aliens: No one knows where the Martians went, or why.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_2767953f	type	Blood Sport
Takeshi Kovacs / int_2767953f	comment	Blood Sport: Due to the ability to swap damaged bodies for new ones, several kinds of blood sport are now common entertainment.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
Takeshi Kovacs / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: As alluded to in the earlier books and fully expounded upon in Woken Furies, most of Kovacs' rage stems from his father abandoning the family and repeatedly abusing his mother
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_292d4681	type	Electric Instant Gratification
Takeshi Kovacs / int_292d4681	comment	Electric Instant Gratification: People addicted to it are called "wireheads".
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_2933bdf5	type	Genetic Memory
Takeshi Kovacs / int_2933bdf5	comment	Genetic Memory: Whales apparently have race memories of the Martians and humanity started to talk with them about them a few decades before Altered Carbon.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_2d88e42c	type	Gender Bender
Takeshi Kovacs / int_2d88e42c	comment	Gender Bender: People commonly swap sexes in virtual, and it's heavily implied that those who can afford it have fun with this in real life. In the first book Kovacs impersonates a woman by claiming to have been sleeved in a male body. In the second, Kovacs jokingly questions whether Wardani is a man sleeved in a woman's body because of her actions during sex. And at one point Kovacs is virtual-sleeved into a woman on her period so he can be more efficiently tortured.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_2de7bbf1	type	Nominal Hero
Takeshi Kovacs / int_2de7bbf1	comment	Nominal Hero: Takeshi's motivation in this book is purely financial. He betrays, murders, and worse to achieve his goal with no remorse.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_2f36d97	type	Older Than They Look
Takeshi Kovacs / int_2f36d97	comment	Older Than They Look: Pretty much everyone who has been through a few sleeves.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_30d1e0df	type	Full-Name Basis
Takeshi Kovacs / int_30d1e0df	comment	Full-Name Basis: When doing internal monologue, Kovacs tends to refer to most people (aside from those he grew up with, fought with or had sex with) by their full names almost exclusively.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_33bcd2af	type	Shoplift and Die
Takeshi Kovacs / int_33bcd2af	comment	Shoplift and Die: Automated small arms protecting business establishments are quite common. Anti-armor cannons aren't, but that doesn't stop the AI in the Hendrix hotel from using them anyway, with predictably messy results.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_342c2ebc	type	Longevity Treatment
Takeshi Kovacs / int_342c2ebc	comment	Longevity Treatment: People are implanted with "cortical stacks" at birth that record one's brain state so that when they die, they can be "resleeved" in a new body.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_38449aae	type	Magnetic Weapons
Takeshi Kovacs / int_38449aae	comment	Magnetic Weapons: Examples are mentioned, such as the Philips Thin Gun.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_393ec3f9	type	Zeerust
Takeshi Kovacs / int_393ec3f9	comment	Zeerust: An example of how fast this can happen; Morgan wrote the trilogy from 2002/2005 — just a little over a decade ago, but still well before 3D bioprinting and The Metaverse became buzzwords — making his universe's demand for natural aged humans and clones for sleeves look rather quaint when sleeves could be printed on demand or even forgone entirely in favor of a VRMMO simulation for sleeveless stacks to populate. The Netflix series makes good attempts to Hand Wave this with bioprinters being heavily regulated to prevent "identity theft" and an Alternet full of stack-annihilating malware.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_3b5fcbb7	type	Artifact of Doom
Takeshi Kovacs / int_3b5fcbb7	comment	Artifact of Doom: Lampshaded with the Martian warship. The Kempists who originally found it were planning to use the spaceship as a bargaining chip. On realising they had a warship of vastly superior technology which they could use to smash the United Nations Protectorate, they became Drunk with Power until Tanya decided to kill everyone to prevent a massacre.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_3d59c9a0	type	Powered Armor
Takeshi Kovacs / int_3d59c9a0	comment	Also describes Kovacs in Broken Angels as his sleeve, which wasn't in particularly good shape at the start of the book, is slowly dying of radiation poisoning. Because of this, Kovacs becomes effectively immobile if not for the hospital mob suits and drugs, and yet he manages to wipe out Carrera and his army.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_3dd3951e	type	Cowboy Cop
Takeshi Kovacs / int_3dd3951e	comment	Cowboy Cop: Ryker was, by all accounts, one of these. He specifically joined the Organic Damage Division because of their reputation for flexibility. He then became a Dirty Cop. Actually, he didn't.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_411a35bd	type	Body Surf
Takeshi Kovacs / int_411a35bd	comment	Body Surf: Not so impossible in a world with Brain Uploading, although in most cases the body in question is already vacant - most probably because its previous owner is "on stack" - in mind prison.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_413c475b	type	Space Age Stasis
Takeshi Kovacs / int_413c475b	comment	Space Age Stasis: An Invoked Trope by the Protectorate in the early days of interstellar travel; they conned all the would-be Space Cossacks into leaving Earth That Used to Be Better on Sleeper Starships, then created a People's Republic of Tyranny while they were in transit.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_42632336	type	Mecha-Mooks
Takeshi Kovacs / int_42632336	comment	Mecha-Mooks: the mimints were designed to be this, but they got out of hand and became independent. There is a variety of them, ranging from gigantic scorpion tanks to karukari. They form co-ops that fight against deCom crews and also fight each other.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_44606d14	type	Becoming the Mask
Takeshi Kovacs / int_44606d14	comment	Becoming the Mask: Micky Serendipity.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_4484e50a	type	I Will Punish Your Friend for Your Failure
Takeshi Kovacs / int_4484e50a	comment	I Will Punish Your Friend for Your Failure: How Kawahara compels Kovacs to do as they ask, in regards to the Bancroft case.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_4536fd29	type	Energy Weapon
Takeshi Kovacs / int_4536fd29	comment	Energy Weapon: Several energy weapons exist, such as the 'Sunjet' rifle (which might be either plasma, or a particle beam, depending on the book).
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Takeshi Kovacs / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Kovacs can be a serious jerk, and he'll beat, kill and torture into insanity anyone who goes against him. But underneath all the cynicism, the bloodthirstiness and the gruff manners he's essentially a good guy - as he so clearly shows in the ending of the first book, when he gives a family almost the entirety of his reward money, no strings attached, so they can re-sleeve their murdered daughter. "I wanted something clean to come from all of this," he explains to the disbelieving mother.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_4b17763f	type	Technology Marches On
Takeshi Kovacs / int_4b17763f	comment	Technology Marches On: Apparently, doing this in-universe is one of Morgan's favourite tropes. Weapons, viruses and sleeves that were cutting-edge in the first book are outdated by the third. The detailed evolution of neurachem throughout the trilogy is a great example. In Altered Carbon, it just jacks up Kovacs' reflexes. By the second (set over a century after the first book) and third (around fifty years after the second) books, neurachem can jack up the users' vision to see over large distances. Taken so far that the entire plot of the first book (involving a mind backup every 48 hours, which is exotic technology) would be impossible by the third, where remote backups are routinely made every second.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_4c083756	type	Signed Up for the Dental
Takeshi Kovacs / int_4c083756	comment	Signed Up for the Dental: Kovacs enlists with the Wedge mostly because they'll resleeve him if he dies.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_4d044580	type	Motive Rant
Takeshi Kovacs / int_4d044580	comment	Motive Rant: A ridiculously over-the-top one.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_508d91a2	type	Pre-Mortem One-Liner
Takeshi Kovacs / int_508d91a2	comment	Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Right before Kovacs kills Reileen Kawahara with a grenade he quotes a Quellist Black Brigade guerilla who blew herself up while being interrogated:
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Takeshi Kovacs / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Takeshi massacres an entire troop of Wedge soldiers to avenge a friend despite none of them having anything to do with it. Kemp drops a nuclear bomb on Sauberville due to Hand's manipulation.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_56855fa3	type	Casual Interstellar Travel
Takeshi Kovacs / int_56855fa3	comment	Casual Interstellar Travel: Zig-Zagged. On one hand, Brain Uploading + Subspace Ansible means that anyone with a stack can have their consciousness e-mailed to other planets at essentially zero cost. The catch is you also need to pre-purchase a sleeve at your destination, which increases the hassle drastically. This has kept Catholicism limited to Earth, as they believe that uploading does not preserve the soul.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_56b53152	type	Green Aesop
Takeshi Kovacs / int_56b53152	comment	Green Aesop: A Deliberate Values Dissonance interpretation of it; "The place is more important than happiness, well-being or lives of the people who live there."
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_57cf76a1	type	Hate Plague
Takeshi Kovacs / int_57cf76a1	comment	Hate Plague: In Broken Angels, the characters discuss a hate plague as one of the possibilities for a Martian weapon of mass destruction, though it remains mere speculation. Woken Furies introduces an actual hate plague in the form of the Qualgrist Protocol, a Quellist weapon which causes people to become violent specifically towards members of the First Families.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_57d43e40	type	Fantasy Counterpart Culture
Takeshi Kovacs / int_57d43e40	comment	Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Harlan's World = Japan mixed in with several Eastern European cultures (predominantly Slavic ones). Sharya = Islamic culture, particularly in its more militant forms. It's Shariat law enforced planet-wide, essentially.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Takeshi Kovacs / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: If you have the right contacts you can get away with just about anything.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_5aa8d3d8	type	Friendly Enemy
Takeshi Kovacs / int_5aa8d3d8	comment	Friendly Enemy: Todor Murakami genuinely likes both Kovacs and Vidaura because he still sees them as Envoys, even if they've resigned long since. Although he could have them summarily executed (and probably should, given his mission), he instead compliments Kovacs on his work to that point, explains what he's up to and why, and states that he plans to let them go. On his part, Kovacs has a civil conversation with Murakami without attacking or insulting him, which given his tendency to freak out over much more minor slights is practically out of character for him. Vidaura, on the other hand, isn't in a forgiving mood; Murakami had just killed her lover.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_5c5ac0e2	type	Really 700 Years Old
Takeshi Kovacs / int_5c5ac0e2	comment	Really 700 Years Old: Both Bancrofts and most other "meths" (slang for very old people) are examples of this.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_5c99b642	type	War for Fun and Profit
Takeshi Kovacs / int_5c99b642	comment	War for Fun and Profit: What many accuse the corporations of.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_5fdf73bc	type	Photographic Memory
Takeshi Kovacs / int_5fdf73bc	comment	Photographic Memory: Envoys are conditioned to have perfect recall of everything they experience. This comes in handy for Kovacs plenty of times over the course of the novels.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_60c857c2	type	Precursor Worship
Takeshi Kovacs / int_60c857c2	comment	Precursor Worship: The religious extremists on Harlan's World have at least some reverence for the Martians, the rationale for their objection to resleeving is that none of the Martian corpses discovered had cortical stacks because they had the technology to upload at orbital distances.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_60e2ec3e	type	Artificial Intelligence
Takeshi Kovacs / int_60e2ec3e	comment	Artificial Intelligence: There are many of them around, and some even have rights under UN law.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_6114a875	type	Lost Technology
Takeshi Kovacs / int_6114a875	comment	Lost Technology: the sleeves that Kovacs and Jadwiga uses after their previous sleeves are too heavily damaged is an example of this. It was found in an abandoned sleeving facility in a centuries-old, mimint-filled warzone. As Jack Soul Brasil states, Eishundo Organics (the designers) was centuries ahead of their time. Eishundo were later blacklisted or outright executed by the Harlanites after openly supporting the Quellists during the Unsettlement.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Takeshi Kovacs / int_617f0563	comment	Heel–Face Turn: Trepp starts off as one of the thugs who capture Kovacs and give him to his torturers, but at the end comes back with the cavalry and saves his ass.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_6259dfa3	type	Grey Goo
Takeshi Kovacs / int_6259dfa3	comment	Grey Goo: "Nanobes" that are programmed to do nothing but reproduce extremely quickly and survive, if attacked with energy weapons they develop electromagnetic shielding.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_64fd1e63	type	Other Me Annoys Me
Takeshi Kovacs / int_64fd1e63	comment	Other Me Annoys Me: The younger copy of Kovacs from Woken Furies drives the older Kovacs nuts for many reasons, not limited to his attitude, the fact that he's working for the Harlan family, the way he disrespects the older Kovacs... The fact that he's literally a copy of Kovacs from 200 or so years ago when he was a young Envoy gives this shades of I Hate Past Me as well.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_66181568	type	Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions
Takeshi Kovacs / int_66181568	comment	Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions: Not really, but atheism is about as common as vaccination; most religions haven't accepted Brain Uploading, which drastically limits the life expectancy of their adherents and keeps them trapped on Earth, as interstellar travel is impossible save by D.H.F.note Digitised Human Freight; Brain Uploading + Subspace Ansible = Casual Interstellar Travel Religious sects that ban any benefit of stacks like not dying are widely disrespected as a result.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_6651bba7	type	Bio-Augmentation
Takeshi Kovacs / int_6651bba7	comment	Bio-Augmentation: Combat and sport sleeves tend to be enhanced in all the ways you'd expect (like the ubiquitous neurachem.)
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_66d45245	type	NanoMachines
Takeshi Kovacs / int_66d45245	comment	Nano Machines: Including some weaponized versions
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Takeshi Kovacs / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Takeshi gets called out on his Straw Nihilist attitude several times in the book by others who point out it's only made him alone and a murderer for hire.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_6b5a92dc	type	Uncanny Valley
Takeshi Kovacs / int_6b5a92dc	comment	Uncanny Valley: In-Universe. The reason synthetic sleeves are held in disdain, despite them being much cheaper than cloned ones; they lack all the odd little aches and pains that everyone is acclimated to over the course of a lifetime, and Kovacs expressly compares it to "living alone in a drafty house". More insidiously, the corporations apparently can't quite replicate the sense of taste;
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_6c553873	type	Private Military Contractors
Takeshi Kovacs / int_6c553873	comment	Private Military Contractors: The Wedge serves as this.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Takeshi Kovacs / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: The police in the first book are convinced Laurens Bancroft's prior incarnation vaporized himself, his backup believes his will to live would be too strong for that. It turns out he did do it; his wife and Reileen Kawahara conspired to make him accidentally kill a Catholic prostitute, and he knew his backup would have none of the guilt if he acted quickly.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_6e429667	type	Fantastic Slurs
Takeshi Kovacs / int_6e429667	comment	Fantastic Slurs: "Meth" — which comes from "Methuselah" — in reference to The Beautiful Elite immortals who rule the Protectorate.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_71fcf44	type	The Metaverse
Takeshi Kovacs / int_71fcf44	comment	The Metaverse: Virtual environments, some with the option to have time sped up or slowed down relative to the amount of time passing outside.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Takeshi Kovacs / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: The entirety of the cast from Altered Carbon but Takeshi fails to make a return.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_758a4aa1	type	Expositron 9000
Takeshi Kovacs / int_758a4aa1	comment	Expositron 9000: Dig 301 helped Kovacs (and the readers) understand a lot about the revolution and Nadia Makita in Woken Furies and also helps Kovacs escape.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_758c3034	type	Prison Rape
Takeshi Kovacs / int_758c3034	comment	Prison Rape: Tanya Wardani was raped while in an internment camp in Broken Angels.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_794095d7	type	Boxed Crook
Takeshi Kovacs / int_794095d7	comment	Boxed Crook: Takeshi is in this situation with Lauren Bancroft. He can't get off Earth without serving a massive sentence if he doesn't do his bidding, and he is closely monitored so that he doesn't just screw around on Bancroft's dime.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_7b4cb802	type	Bodyguard Betrayal
Takeshi Kovacs / int_7b4cb802	comment	Bodyguard Betrayal: At the climax, Trepp ends up turning on Kawahara.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_7c862b8a	type	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
Takeshi Kovacs / int_7c862b8a	comment	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Kovacs has been hired by the Quellists on Harlan's World to assist the Kempist rebels on Sanction IV. He decides that Kemp is a jerk, and signs up with the Wedge to fight the Kempists. He then deserts the Wedge and signs up with the Mandrake Corporation on a private salvage gig, only to end up selling the prize to one of Mandrake's competitors. None of this was entirely unjustified, but it doesn't make him look very good.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_7c897aaa	type	Psychic Link
Takeshi Kovacs / int_7c897aaa	comment	There's a drug called "empathin" that creates a Psychic Link between the user anyone in close proximity that also happens to be on the drug. It also leaves the user with a mean hangover.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_80b57bec	type	Super-Soldier
Takeshi Kovacs / int_80b57bec	comment	Super-Soldier: The Envoy corps are mentally conditioned badasses who are trained to destroy rebel governments in relatively small numbers. Ostensibly, anyone with combat training can be a super-soldier in the right sleeve.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_83a82d55	type	Cryo-Prison
Takeshi Kovacs / int_83a82d55	comment	Cryo-Prison: Not only frozen, prisoners' brains are uploaded and stored separately. Earth's super-rich have a habit of buying the frozen bodies and using them for their own amusement. Kovacs notes that Envoys are similarly stored between deployments, so they're used to the worst most planets' justice systems can do to them.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Takeshi Kovacs / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: It's not entirely clear what happened to Matthias Hand, but it probably wasn't anything good.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
Takeshi Kovacs / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: The war between the Kempists and Wedge has resulted in atrocities on both sides.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_8878f3be	type	Badass Army
Takeshi Kovacs / int_8878f3be	comment	Badass Army: The Envoys, designed in a post-stack universe to respond instantaneously to incidents or wars threatening the Protectorate. They manage this by being very adaptable and dangerous in all ways, due to training and conditioning allowing them to be casted to a new body hundreds of lightyears away, being ready to fight a war and win within a day or week of deployment.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_89f50aaa	type	Restraining Bolt
Takeshi Kovacs / int_89f50aaa	comment	Restraining Bolt: The inhibitor units used on prisoners in Broken Angels. They punish signs of stress and physical action by the wearer using an electric shock. This usually increases the stress and physical activity of the person, with the result that they can and do kill people.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_8a9ecd0b	type	Bloody Murder
Takeshi Kovacs / int_8a9ecd0b	comment	Bloody Murder: Some sleeves have blood loaded with deterrent-toxins. In Broken Angels, Luc Deprez recounts how he successfully assassinated a target, only to die afterwards because the target's blood turned out to be a slow-acting poison.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_8e20b0f7	type	Private Detective
Takeshi Kovacs / int_8e20b0f7	comment	Private Detective: Kovacs in the first book.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Takeshi Kovacs / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Quite a few, but special mention goes to Jack It Up, an AI that runs a sleazy, borderline illegal virtual whorehouse. Kovacs needs a fall guy at one point, and Jack's connections to organized crime and run-ins with the law mean no one is surprised that it gets in trouble (or particularly cares).
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_905438eb	type	Recycled IN SPACE!
Takeshi Kovacs / int_905438eb	comment	Recycled In Space: The entirety of the war is "Vietnam in Space" with a bit of Apocalypse Now and Three Kings.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_92286f7f	type	Precursors
Takeshi Kovacs / int_92286f7f	comment	Precursors: The Martians who aren't actually from Mars.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_92286f7f	featureConfidence	1.0
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Takeshi Kovacs / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Reileen Kawahara is this. She arranged for Lauren Bancroft to be drugged so he accidentally killed a prostitute, which was all part of an attempt to get him to support legislation preventing Catholics from being interrogated post-mortem.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_9a0870ae	type	Screw Yourself
Takeshi Kovacs / int_9a0870ae	comment	Screw Yourself: Miriam Bancroft mentions that she'll sometimes downloads copies of her mind into cloned bodies to "play".
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_9a0870ae	featureConfidence	1.0
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_9b4c842e	type	Longer-Than-Life Sentence
Takeshi Kovacs / int_9b4c842e	comment	Longer-Than-Life Sentence: The use of virtual prisons means people can actually serve time for more than a standard lifespan. Certain serious offenses get the "double barrel", or 200 years. As of Altered Carbon, Kovacs has spent approximately a century on stack for various offenses. This is also why Envoys aren't particularly averse to breaking the law (unless it carries a Erasure charge); they already spend ages on-stack waiting for redeployment, so going to "sleep" and waking up after decades or centuries doesn't scare them.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_9c47b23b	type	Dirty Communists
Takeshi Kovacs / int_9c47b23b	comment	Dirty Communists: Kemp's followers are a 26th century variant.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_9c47b23b	featureConfidence	1.0
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_9e943076	type	One-Man Army
Takeshi Kovacs / int_9e943076	comment	On the other hand, that's what they start with; most militaries hesitate to teach every soldier how to single-handedly kill entire roomfuls of armed opponents because that's kind of a niche element of soldiering — much of a soldier's time is spent guarding, patrolling, drilling, maintaining their equipment, or even just doing paperwork. Someone constantly looking for an opportunity to spray-paint a room with enemy entrails is useful when such a thing is needed, but the rest of the time he just creeps the rest of the unit out. An entire group of such people...? Human blender waiting to happen.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_9eb11fac	type	Weak, but Skilled
Takeshi Kovacs / int_9eb11fac	comment	Weak, but Skilled: Kovacs' fight with Kadmin. While Kovacs' is sleeved in the body of a middle-aged chain-smoking cop, Kadmin has an enormously strong and fast Hand of God 'freak fighter' sleeve. Kovacs still loses but gives an excellent accounting of himself. Also describes Kovacs in Broken Angels as his sleeve, which wasn't in particularly good shape at the start of the book, is slowly dying of radiation poisoning. Because of this, Kovacs becomes effectively immobile if not for the hospital mob suits and drugs, and yet he manages to wipe out Carrera and his army.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_a0c55654	type	The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized
Takeshi Kovacs / int_a0c55654	comment	The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized: The Kempist Revolutionaries are less than pleasant in their use of force.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_a220d528	type	What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Takeshi Kovacs / int_a220d528	comment	What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: Weaponized semisentient nanomachine colony that can basically fight everything that's thrown at it and adapt to what it can't fight. The inventors are actually surprised that it goes haywire.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Takeshi Kovacs / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: The protagonist has memories about a soldier mate of his who ripped out his eye with his own fingers during a hallucination caused by a mind virus. In the first book, a micro-recorder is surgically implanted under an eye. The intended victim of the recording doesn't like the item's presence there, and her idea of surgical removal involves very little finesse and a pair of pliers. In Woken Furies Kovacs rips out the eyeball of one of his oldest friends
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_a4be7043	type	Da Chief
Takeshi Kovacs / int_a4be7043	comment	Da Chief: Isaac Carrera in the second book and Shigeo Kuramaya in Woken Furies.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_a62dca03	type	Year Inside, Hour Outside
Takeshi Kovacs / int_a62dca03	comment	Year Inside, Hour Outside: Simulations are frequently run at several times faster than the real world. This allows psychotherapy courses, or interrogations, to be finished in mere hours of real time. Broken Angels features the inverse with a starship whose passengers are in a simulation that's actually slowed down so their decades-long trip feels like a month.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
Takeshi Kovacs / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: Virtual pain feels just as awful as real pain, and since time in-virtual can be elongated at will (a real-time day can be 8-9 virtual months) there's nothing stopping you from hooking up someone to a virtual torture chamber, setting it on full speed and just... forgetting about it. The subject will be tortured in the most painful ways imaginable to within an inch of their life, at which point the whole thing resets. Notably this doesn't reset the memories, just the virtual body - so it can go through it again, and again, and again. It takes someone with extensive training and an iron will - i.e. Kovacs - to resist this even in small doses. Eventually, it will all but destroy the mind of the subject.note Overlaps with Torture Always Works to an extent in that Kovacs states in narration that the problem with physical torture is that while it produces results, it irreversibly damages the interrogated so they can't be interrogated again; it's fairly well established that the problem with torture is that people in pain will say just about anything to get it to stop, so intel obtained this way is unreliable at best.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_aa4fa3d5	type	Ancient Astronauts
Takeshi Kovacs / int_aa4fa3d5	comment	Ancient Astronauts: Martians are said to have visited Earth centuries ago, but only spoke to the Whales.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_aba04d22	type	High Times Future
Takeshi Kovacs / int_aba04d22	comment	High Times Future: All drugs are ridiculously common due to improvements in medical treatment and the fact that drug abuse doesn't affect your ability to get resleeved — as long as you're not the one stuck with an addict's sleeve. One example of this that annoys Kovacs in Altered Carbon is the body he finds himself occupying previously belonged to a notorious chain-smoker; while he partakes of numerous drugs, nicotine is one he abstained from, and throughout the book, he finds himself jonesing for cancer sticks. In addition to all the drugs we have today, something called "tetrameth" is popular, and advances in chemistry have led to a bunch of new drug types - two of which (a synthetic testosterone and an extreme sedative) are important to the plot. At least some of these drugs are illegal, but enforcement doesn't appear to be a big priority for the police.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_abb930ed	type	Sleeper Starship
Takeshi Kovacs / int_abb930ed	comment	Sleeper Starship: Cryo-capsules, used by those who wish to physically travel between planets rather than just transmitting their minds into new bodies at the destination. In the first book it's mentioned that the Catholic Church deployed a couple of these, since they are opposed to uploading.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_ac0827be	type	Private Eye Monologue
Takeshi Kovacs / int_ac0827be	comment	Private Eye Monologue: The entire first book is narrated this way.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Takeshi Kovacs / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Almost unnoticeable in the rollercoaster of events towards the second book's finale. Near the end of Woken Furies, Kovacs realizes that Todor Murakami is really not on furlough and doing him a favor by helping him storm Radul Segesvar's compound to rescue Sylvie, Virginia Vidaura, and the others, but is actually part of a covertly deployed Envoy team tasked with keeping an eye on/neutralizing the Quellists right after he hits Kovacs over the head and then shoots him with a stun gun.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_b0740635	type	Master of Your Domain
Takeshi Kovacs / int_b0740635	comment	Master of Your Domain: One of the skills that every Envoy possesses.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
Takeshi Kovacs / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: Now that everyone's consciousness is housed in cortical stacks, one can inflict a variety of virtual hells on someone you have captured, either to gain information or just for kicks. This can lead to an And I Must Scream fate. Brain Uploading and Virtual Environments can allow you to upload people into torture programs. They'll feel days of torture every hour you leave them in the program, and there's nothing stopping you from just leaving them in there and forgetting about them. Can be inflicted without the aid of virtual using a machine called the anatomiser. Co-opted medical equipment keeps you alive whilst slowly dismantling your body a layer at a time. It scans you to ensure it is constantly delivering maximum pain whilst minimising risk of death. You can't even escape into unconsciousness; if it looks like you're about to pass out the machine pumps you full of stimulants and backs off just enough to keep you awake before continuing. The whole process lasts for days. Kovacs has the stacks of some priests used in animal fights. They're basically torn limb from limb on a constant basis, quickly going feral and insane. The Rawling virus corrupts digital information - it is shown to brutally annihilate an AI, and it can be used as a way of killing people equipped with stacks (which is only virtually everybody) through self-destructive insanity.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
Takeshi Kovacs / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: Cops and criminals both take advantage of Catholic aversion to re-sleeves to get away with murder. If a stack has a religious note on it when digitally accessed, it means that the person inside can't be revived or interrogated in virtual settings and practically speaking, the victim can't reveal who killed them. In effect, criminals deliberately recruit Catholics for disposable roles (like prostitutes and drug runners), or they forge one of the aforementioned notes and place it in their victim's stack so their victim doesn't come back... and corrupt cops do the same for people they don't want coming back.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_b3bdf232	type	Alien Geometries
Takeshi Kovacs / int_b3bdf232	comment	Alien Geometries: Anything the Martians have built tends to have a negative effect on the mental well-being of people exposed to it for long unless they have some sort of appropriate conditioning. It is less a problem of violating the laws of physics and more simply because they are literally alien geometries, as the Martians were avian and followed a different logic to their construction.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_b426973b	type	The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body
Takeshi Kovacs / int_b426973b	comment	The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: One character is shocked to find that she doesn't care as much when her lesbian lover is killed, because they don't have the same erotic chemistry when she's resleeved into another body.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_b4fb00f6	type	Mistaken for Pedophile
Takeshi Kovacs / int_b4fb00f6	comment	Mistaken for Pedophile: Kovacs in Woken Furies, due to fifteen-year-old Isa hanging out around him while wearing very Stripperiffic clothing.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Takeshi Kovacs / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Specifically one against Buddhism; If all of our suffering is the result of crimes we committed in past lives — crimes we don't actually remember committing — then we all are paying for the crimes of other people.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_b905c10c	type	The Alcatraz
Takeshi Kovacs / int_b905c10c	comment	The Alcatraz: Rila Crags, the prison where Sylvie is taken in Woken Furies. Only one person has ever broken in, Nikolai Natsume, so the Little Blue Bugs seek his advice for their rescue attempt. They still end up getting caught on the way in; however, it was actually just a diversion for their real plan. Alcatraz island itself has been converted into a secure storage facility for the Bancroft family's backup clones.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_b905e88c	type	People Jars
Takeshi Kovacs / int_b905e88c	comment	People Jars: Sleeves have to be kept somewhere when no one's using them, right?
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_bb44f503	type	Robot War
Takeshi Kovacs / int_bb44f503	comment	Robot War: The first third or so of Woken Furies is the small-scale mercenary equivalent of this. Sylvie's Slipins and the other De-Com crews are paid very well to keep the self-replicating/self-repairing war machines from escaping old battlefields.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Takeshi Kovacs / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Don't go talking about religious aversion to re-sleeving to Takeshi Kovacs if you value your life. Also, a milder version occurs if you mispronounce his name as "Kovaks" instead of the original Serbian "kovach". If you do that, he won't like you. If he doesn't like you, he'll have much less restraint in doing nasty things to you. In general he goes nuts whenever someone abuses or takes advantage of women. Surprise, it's all about his abusive father doing the same thing to his mother.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
Takeshi Kovacs / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Kovacs, Unscrupulous Hero subtype.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_bf7ca818	type	Transhumans in Space
Takeshi Kovacs / int_bf7ca818	comment	Transhumans in Space: Brain Uploading was used to colonize exosolar planets, and a lot of the cloned sleeves have Bio-Augmentation of some sort.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_c00484eb	type	Accent Relapse
Takeshi Kovacs / int_c00484eb	comment	Accent Relapse: Reileen Kawahara spends most of the book speaking in a very formal, cultured accent in order to project an air of respectability. When she's under great stress and her facade cracks, however, she reverts to speaking in a vulgar Fission City accent.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_c2ab0eaf	type	Double Agent
Takeshi Kovacs / int_c2ab0eaf	comment	Double Agent: The epilogue to Broken Angels reveals that Kovacs was originally hired by the Quellists to bring Kemp closer to their ideology, but he changed sides a couple times during the war.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_c35c8ab2	type	Mental Space Travel
Takeshi Kovacs / int_c35c8ab2	comment	Mental Space Travel: the only form of "FTL travel" is to "needlecast" your Ego from one system to another and buy or rent a sleeve on the other end.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_c3fbac64	type	Bestiality Is Depraved
Takeshi Kovacs / int_c3fbac64	comment	Bestiality Is Depraved: When Takeshi sneaks aboard the Head in the Clouds, he spots an abused dog limping out of a room. He enters, and finds a man with his pants down, who's already cleaning up. Takeshi shoots him in the head, and then goes back outside and mercy kills the dog.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_c6102eb0	type	Grand Theft Me
Takeshi Kovacs / int_c6102eb0	comment	Re-sleeving ruins (or, due to Grand Theft Me, incites) relationships because some bodies are apparently more compatible than others on a hormonal or pheromonal level. Discussed when Kovacs double-sleeves himself. The Ryker Kovacs is still attracted to Ortega. The Synth Kovacs... not so much.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_c9aea8c8	type	Armies Are Evil
Takeshi Kovacs / int_c9aea8c8	comment	Armies Are Evil: Takeshi has this sort of attitude, which goes over like a ton of bricks with all the soldiers around him.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_ca3ef034	type	Evil Knockoff
Takeshi Kovacs / int_ca3ef034	comment	Evil Knockoff: Takeshi Kovac's personality from when he was a young sociopathic thug is sleeved into a new body and sent after his older Anti-Hero self. According to the law you can only have one personality walking around at the same time, so he doesn't have any choice but to kill his other self or face Real Death.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_cbdd9a55	type	We ARE Struggling Together
Takeshi Kovacs / int_cbdd9a55	comment	We ARE Struggling Together: Everyone in Takeshi's group has their own agenda.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
Takeshi Kovacs / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: Common as dirt in all three books. Matthias Hand from Broken Angels is a surprisingly sympathetic example.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_cbf07961	type	Body Backup Drive
Takeshi Kovacs / int_cbf07961	comment	Body Backup Drive: Everyone is implanted with a cortical stack that essentially acts as a hard drive for the brain and allows people to be "resleeved" in a new body when they die. However most people can't afford to be resleeved more than once and unless they shell out a lot of cash they have to go through the whole aging process again. Many wealthy "Methuselahs" also have external storage that updates every couple days in case their stack is fried (like in the client from the first book's case). There are synthetic sleeves, but no-one likes them due to the Uncanny Valley (both controlling the body and outside of one).
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_cda501da	type	Killed Off for Real
Takeshi Kovacs / int_cda501da	comment	Killed Off for Real: Generally averted, as anyone who gets killed can later be resurrected. A few people, however, do end up very old-fashioned dead due to disintegration of the mind-recording chip, viral infection of the same, or a variety of other entertaining methods. Takeshi Kovacs tends to inflict Real Death on anyone who makes him mad enough, by physical destruction of the cortical stacks. He also uses it as a very effective way of showing his badassitude to people he needs to rattle into talking.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_ce70175b	type	Sociopathic Soldier
Takeshi Kovacs / int_ce70175b	comment	Sociopathic Soldier: Deconstructed along with Super-Soldier. The Envoy corps favors soldiers as recruits, as regimented warfare encourages an almost oxymoronic combination of psychopathic and loyal tenancies; On the other hand, that's what they start with; most militaries hesitate to teach every soldier how to single-handedly kill entire roomfuls of armed opponents because that's kind of a niche element of soldiering — much of a soldier's time is spent guarding, patrolling, drilling, maintaining their equipment, or even just doing paperwork. Someone constantly looking for an opportunity to spray-paint a room with enemy entrails is useful when such a thing is needed, but the rest of the time he just creeps the rest of the unit out. An entire group of such people...? Human blender waiting to happen. Also, PTSD and burn-out is a far greater hazard in Envoys. Kovacs is a mess even at the best of times, and while he has no problem killing anyone who gets in his way, he also develops a distaste for war and will sometimes go out of his way to help (or at least not kill) someone.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Takeshi Kovacs / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Kovacs goes on at least one per book.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_cfbd1467	type	Never Suicide
Takeshi Kovacs / int_cfbd1467	comment	Never Suicide: Bancroft insists that he couldn't have committed suicide, partly because he doesn't see himself as the type (a man willing to live centuries wouldn't decide to kill himself), and partly because his backup would have made any suicide deaths temporary and he would have known this. However, Takeshi eventually discovers that Bancroft had killed himself after murdering a prostitute while under the influence of synemorphestosterone, thanks to Kawahara wanting blackmail material on him. When he realized what he'd done, he killed himself to keep the memories of the murder from ending up in his backup.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_d0bf8a6d	type	No Periods, Period
Takeshi Kovacs / int_d0bf8a6d	comment	No Periods, Period: Averted. When Takeshi is captured and put into virtual reality to be tortured, he is deliberately sleeved into a young woman on her period because the body will feel more pain compared to a male body.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Kovacs' employers and associates, typically no shrinking violets themselves, often express shock or astonishment at the number of people Kovacs kills or maims in each novel.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_d4bd9c37	comment	Space Cossacks: The UN sends a huge chunk of Earth's youth as interstellar colonizers on Sleeper Starships. While they are away, the UN devolves into the tyrannical Protectorate. As it's all a calculated move, the people are purposefully enticed by the appeal of adventure and getting to live far from an Earth That Used to Be Better.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_d5d976dd	comment	I Have Many Names: Kovacs has also been known as Mamba Lev, One Hand Rending, the Icepick...
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_d66cd0e6	type	Training from Hell
Takeshi Kovacs / int_d66cd0e6	comment	Training from Hell: Physical training is made practically irrelevant by the various chems and synthetic improvements one can have for his sleeve, but mental training is incredibly important for the Envoys. Kovacs' mental training has made him such an incredible badass that he shrugs off torture sessions that would leave any normal person scarred for life and/or insane beyond any hope of cure.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_d6fce123	type	The Future Is Noir
Takeshi Kovacs / int_d6fce123	comment	The Future Is Noir: the first book borrows noticeably from noir investigation dramas.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_d8085f48	type	Hollywood Voodoo
Takeshi Kovacs / int_d8085f48	comment	Hollywood Voodoo: Averted. Voodoo is treated as any other religion in the setting.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_d88f0679	comment	Interrogating the Dead: Cortical stacks usually allow murder victims to be questioned, unless their stack was destroyed or the victim was Catholic, and the courts are considering repealing the Catholic exemption because many criminals have been using Catholics as Disposable Sex Workers or changing records so a victim appears to be Catholic.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_dae3999d	type	Action Bomb
Takeshi Kovacs / int_dae3999d	comment	Action Bomb: People can be fitted with internal explosives, allowing them to explode at will (Though there is a significant risk of accidental detonation). There are also examples where the explosives are set to go off upon the user's death.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_db6230b7	type	Lightning Bruiser
Takeshi Kovacs / int_db6230b7	comment	Kovacs' fight with Kadmin. While Kovacs' is sleeved in the body of a middle-aged chain-smoking cop, Kadmin has an enormously strong and fast Hand of God 'freak fighter' sleeve. Kovacs still loses but gives an excellent accounting of himself.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_dca97045	type	Just Following Orders
Takeshi Kovacs / int_dca97045	comment	Just Following Orders: Kawahara tells Kovacs that the people he killed at the Wei Clinic were just doing their jobs, but Kovacs dismisses it, saying they should have chosen another job.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_dd7127d1	type	Benevolent Precursors
Takeshi Kovacs / int_dd7127d1	comment	Benevolent Precursors: Tanya Wardani has this view of the Martians. They're not.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_df1baa1f	type	Love Is in the Air
Takeshi Kovacs / int_df1baa1f	comment	Miriam Bancroft puts the whammy on Kovacs with tailored pheremones he's helpless to resist because they're the refined form of a chemical symbiosis the 26th century recognizes as the basis of human relationships.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_e0d133d0	type	Insufficiently Advanced Alien
Takeshi Kovacs / int_e0d133d0	comment	Insufficiently Advanced Alien: Human development of FTL communications and significant colonization were pretty much all bootstrapped from what the Martians left behind. At least one character openly wonders whether or not humanity should even be out in the galaxy at all.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_e1fa8421	type	Dead Person Conversation
Takeshi Kovacs / int_e1fa8421	comment	Dead Person Conversation: When Kovacs is under severe stress, or lost deep in thought, he tends to hallucinate friends and mentors from his past. They usually gives him some useful hunch, or the resolve he needs to break through the current problem.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_e46b6d66	type	RagTagBandOfMisfits
Takeshi Kovacs / int_e46b6d66	comment	Ragtag Band of Misfits: Takeshi and Hand assemble one of these to retrieve the Martian ship.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_e52a0cac	type	He Who Must Not Be Seen
Takeshi Kovacs / int_e52a0cac	comment	He Who Must Not Be Seen: Elias Ryker. Frequently referenced, Ryker is currently "on stack" — removed from his body — for murder and fraud. In a unique twist, his body is actually present the whole time, it being the sleeve into which Kovacs' mind is implanted.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_e621b159	type	A-Cup Angst
Takeshi Kovacs / int_e621b159	comment	A-Cup Angst: Mari Ado; Kovacs notes that her bust isn't actually that small, she just has a complex about it.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_e70127	type	The Mole
Takeshi Kovacs / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: Tanya Wardani was behind the sabotages during the Martian Gate operation, mainly because she was a Kempist sympathizer Takeshi, at the end of Broken Angels, reveals himself to be a Mole on Sanction IV for the Quellists.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_e7c671f3	type	Mildly Military
Takeshi Kovacs / int_e7c671f3	comment	Mildly Military: The De-Com crews have a somewhat loose command structure. Proven troops have a great deal of operational latitude.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_ea39d156	type	Who Wants to Live Forever?
Takeshi Kovacs / int_ea39d156	comment	Who Wants to Live Forever?: Examined. Everyone gets fitted with a cortical stack at birth and they're pretty difficult to destroy, so barring severe misfortune or deliberate attack there's the opportunity to live more or less indefinitely. Most people don't, though, either because they can't afford to get a new sleeve, don't want to go through the aging process more than two or three times, or just get bored of life. People that choose to keep going year after year, century after century, are widely considered to have an essential screw loose, although since they are wealthy as a rule and have had lifetimes to accumulate power and influence they tend not to care what the little folks think about them.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_eb5cbe42	type	Me's a Crowd
Takeshi Kovacs / int_eb5cbe42	comment	Me's a Crowd: Very illegal, but that doesn't stop people from doing it. Dimi the Twin gets called that because he only trusts himself to watch his back, and Kovacs himself does it in the first book to throw off the bad guys' attention. Happens again to Kovacs in the third book, but without his approval. Leads to a rather destructive Mirror Match. And, of course, it gives the wealthy interesting ways of exploring their own sexuality .
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_ed68bcc9	type	Dwindling Party
Takeshi Kovacs / int_ed68bcc9	comment	Dwindling Party: The membership of the Mandrake expedition to Dangrek dwindles over time, and many of their ends are anything but pleasant.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_f0c4ce7d	type	The Lost Lenore
Takeshi Kovacs / int_f0c4ce7d	comment	The Lost Lenore: Sarah Sachilowska seems to be this for Kovacs during. Her execution note She is also killed at the beginning of Altered Carbon but her cortical stack is intact so she is sentenced to storage. While she is not technically Killed Off for Real when she is executed, her sleeve is destroyed and her cortical stack is thrown into the middle of the ocean, making her consciousness essentially unrecoverable and making her as good as dead. at the hands of religious extremists after she flouted their rules in an attempt to re-sleeve her daughter sent him on a year-long Roaring Rampage of Revenge whose ferocity astonishes even Virginia Vidaura. After Sarah's death, Kovacs grows even more cynical than before and focuses on nothing beyond his revenge. The fact that Woken Furies (and therefore the trilogy as a whole) ends on a hopeful note, with Kovacs seeming to give up on his vendetta and privately hoping that the ultra-advanced Martian technology that Sylvie Oshima can communicate with will one day be able to locate the cortical stacks belonging to Sarah and her daughter so they can be re-sleeved would seem to provide more evidence for this. It is also revealed that the fact that she became involved with another man after getting out of storage was one of the main reasons why he left Harlan's World for Sanction IV, although she was alive for at least part of his time there.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_f2c895f	type	Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters
Takeshi Kovacs / int_f2c895f	comment	Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: The Kempist Revolutionaries are an absolutely bunch of these.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Takeshi Kovacs / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: The world is pretty shitty but there are many people who are trying to better things.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_faf36236	type	Cyberpunk
Takeshi Kovacs / int_faf36236	comment	Cyberpunk: The series is a tossup between this and Post-Cyberpunk.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_fc4f5f19	type	Go-Karting with Bowser
Takeshi Kovacs / int_fc4f5f19	comment	Go-Karting with Bowser: Kovacs and Trepp end up going on a nearly daylong pub crawl / drug binge and discover they get along pretty well. So well, she ends up saving his life twice, the second time betraying her boss to do so.
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Takeshi Kovacs / int_fc52510	type	Brain Uploading
Takeshi Kovacs / int_fc52510	comment	Brain Uploading and Virtual Environments can allow you to upload people into torture programs. They'll feel days of torture every hour you leave them in the program, and there's nothing stopping you from just leaving them in there and forgetting about them.
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