Goonhub
09-28-2025, 12:20 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-28-2025, 12:27 AM by Egregorious. Edited 2 times in total.)
I will agree that strange reagent is a thematic failure at the moment. The name and creation is alchemical, while the usage is space-age medicine - but that's fairly trivial, and the same mechanic could work better in the setting just by saying "nanites, son" or explaining that it repairs neural pathways damaged by recent braindeath.
However I do not think SR is a straight upgrade to cloning, frankly. The cloning defects were added to make cloning require more work to keep someone in pristine condition, since no work has to be done during the actual revival process. While SR has all that work frontloaded, you have to fix all the problems that caused the person to die in the first place. That's not a strict upgrade, that's just changing where the effort is involved.
However I do not think SR is a straight upgrade to cloning, frankly. The cloning defects were added to make cloning require more work to keep someone in pristine condition, since no work has to be done during the actual revival process. While SR has all that work frontloaded, you have to fix all the problems that caused the person to die in the first place. That's not a strict upgrade, that's just changing where the effort is involved.