The Engrammic Backup Unit
07 Jun 2020Maggie Oz
As each Generational Clone relies totally on their single EBU to be able to relife, extreme measures are taken to ensure their survival and recovery. Made from the highest quality and precision machined components each EBU is a hand made masterwork of technology.
They are almost indestructible.
They can withstand temperatures as low as absolute zero and as high as 20,000 degrees C.
They can withstand the vacuum of space or the extreme pressures of the outer layers of a gas giant.
They cannot be shot, blown up or damaged in any way by weaponry short of a nuclear explosion.
They can only be loaded or wiped using an EBU reader, which are only found in the Re-life centres.
When an EBU detects the cessation of life signs of the host, it enters a recovery standby mode.
In this mode, it sends out a signal giving its galactic coordinates. This signal is compatible with the Nav Beacon Network.
The unit then shuts down to conserve power. In this state, it will maintain the data for many years.
The Re-lifeing Facility that the CG was born from maintains a constant "search and rescue" unit for all of its clients.
On notification of the demise of a client, they can swiftly have a rescue team in the last known location within hours. They simply need to scan the Nav Beacon to determine where to start to look for the EBU. An FSS scan will be detected by the EBU which will then enter a beacon mode where it transmits a homing signal. Recovery is then quite straight forward.
If a CG believes they may be in jeopardy it is possible for them to switch the EBU into "breadcrumb" mode.
In this mode, the unit will transmit a location to EVERY Nav Beacon it comes across. So if a GC is abducted, a trail of positions will be left at every Nav Beacon that they are carried past.
This mode uses significantly more power though and outside of the body where the EBU draws power from the biological systems, the power will run down after around 24 hours. The EBU will then shut down completely and use whatever power it has remaining to sustain the data.
After around 3 days in this mode, the data will sustain corruption and become useless.