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Mental Space Travel
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Space travel is expensive. So expensive, that some people wonder if it might be worthwhile to just send a cloning vat and upload the brains of the potential colonists from Earth to the destination planet. Depending on the technology available, the travelers might have clones of their original bodies on the other end, or they may have to "borrow" someone else's. May be a form of Twin Maker. Could be called a "Harder" form of Teleportation. Psychic Teleportation is when both mind and body are moved by psychic power. Contrast Mental Time Travel. Usually involves a Subspace Ansible. Compare Sleeper Starship. |
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In Dark Matter (2015), the "Transfer Transit" corporation scans the client, puts them in stasis, and grows a clone with their memories on the "destination" planet. The clone dies after three days or when it reports in for "recycling", in which case its memories are transmitted back to the original. However, if the clone is killed without reclamation, the original simply wakes up not knowing what happened to the clone. | |
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Stargate-verse: In Stargate SG-1, an Ancient communication device allows two people who touch special "stones" and place them in the device to transfer their minds to the bodies of other people who have touched similar stones, even in another galaxy. It's not entirely clear what it was supposed to do when working properly as it was rarely used under ideal conditions. Stargate Universe: The Ancient communication device reappears here as the main means the Destiny crew have of contacting Earth. The SGC has personnel on standby in case anyone tries to use the device, which could lead to hijinks every now and then. |
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As in the literature section above, Altered Carbon features this. Actual space travel is the norm for cargo-hauling, but far too slow for humans. As all humanity automatically has their mind digitized by a "cortical stack" implanted in their brainstems, they have to ability to "Needlecast", or send their mind to other worlds that have been colonized. However, this only works if there is a "sleeve" (empty body) waiting to host their minds. It's shown that airports are now Needlcast ports. Some sort of Subspace Ansible must be in effect, as interstellar journeys only take a matter of minutes, but it's never elaborated on. | |
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In Stargate SG-1, an Ancient communication device allows two people who touch special "stones" and place them in the device to transfer their minds to the bodies of other people who have touched similar stones, even in another galaxy. It's not entirely clear what it was supposed to do when working properly as it was rarely used under ideal conditions. | |
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The Diogenes Club story "Moon, Moon, Moon" involves a mystic society who astrally project themselves to the Moon, where they find that all the strangest romantic speculation as to what the Moon is like is true, because they believe it is. They're also trying to sabotage the Apollo missions, out of fear that if someone physically travels to the Moon, this will impose scientific rationality on it, and "their" Moon will disappear in a Puff of Logic. | |
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In First Wave, this is how the Gua get to Earth. While they're able to open "white holes" to send small objects, the process is extremely power-hungry, so sending in a fleet or an army is not an option. Thus, they send small metal orbs that can survive reentry. They contain the consciousness of a Gua, which can then be downloaded into a Half-Human Hybrid husk. It's not clear if the orb is a duplicate consciousness or if the original body is left brain-dead. In the Grand Finale, the protagonists learn that Mabus has received a large orb containing the minds of thousands of trained Gua soldiers, and a cloning facility has already created combat-capable husks for them. The only thing they need is an immense power source for the transfer. Luckily, Cade has just managed to retrieve the Hammer. | |
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In The History of the Galaxy, this is eventually a solution to using logrs, small alien crystal computers to store the consciousness of a deceased person in a simulated world. While it's possible to copy the consciousness back into a cloned body, this presents a lot of legal and ethical problems. Concepts like inheritance and life insurance, just to name a few. Thus, the resurrection practice is forbidden. Then someone had the idea of exploring distant systems using logrs (which turn out to double as micro-spaceships) and settling habitable worlds there using the "dead", on the condition that they refuse all claims to their former lives and live in isolation from civilized galaxy. | |
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X Minus One: In "The Last Martian", adapted from Fredric Brown's "The Last Martian", the titular character claims he escaped from a hospital on Mars to find the rest of his people all lying dead in the streets. Eventually he came to a copper column in the middle of a colosseum and touched it, then found himself in the body of a factory worker in New York. It turned out the others had abandoned their bodies on Mars and taken over humans to escape a plague. He was left behind because he was moronic by Martian standards - that is, as smart as an average human. | |
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In Richard K. Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs novels 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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Stargate Universe: The Ancient communication device reappears here as the main means the Destiny crew have of contacting Earth. The SGC has personnel on standby in case anyone tries to use the device, which could lead to hijinks every now and then. | |
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In Eclipse Phase "Egocasting" is by far the most common means of interplanetary travel. It's much faster and cheaper to upload your Ego, transmit it, and download into a rental morph in just a couple hours than to spend weeks or months on a spaceship. | |
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In John Carter of Mars,Carter somehow mentally transmits himself to Mars and creates a tulpa identical to his own body. This isn't clearly established in the first book (beyond the fact he's back in his original clothes when he returns), but in later ones he takes steps as to what should happen to his Earth body while it's vacated. | |
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In the GURPS setting Transhuman Space Infomorphs can transmit their code all across the solar system if they have a shell on the other side. But they can't "write" an Infomorph to a biological brain, at most a computer brain with a Wetware Body. | |
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In the Plumbing the Death Star episode about "What Would Be the Ultimate Crime Causing Power?", the only method the Boys can come up with to stop a villain with a body-swapping Death-Activated Superpower is to launch him into space. The only problem is that unless he meets some alien life, the villain will eventually die and have his body launching into an astronaut or some poor businessman working at a skyscraper. | |
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Hc Svnt Dracones has DigiTrans, where the client has extensive body and brain scans taken and transmitted to the destination, and then is euthanized just as their clone begins growth. It costs ten times as much as physical interplanetary travel, but the process is complete in 14 hours as opposed to 2-3 weeks. Oh, and Brain Uploading for non-travel reasons costs 2.5x more, but has the option of transfer to different body types instead of an exact copy. | |
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