I disagree
Having the books in my lap i can quote im pretty good.
harp scifi, page 197, the basics of psionic says:
-psychic potential arises as a consequense of genetic peculiarites in the brain. Characters cannot train to bee become psionic users. They are either born with or without the potential.
In game terms that means that players that wish their characters to have the potential must purchase appropriate talents for their characters at character creation. i.e 1st level.
-Each psionic field is the result of different physiologiacl abnormalities., so disticnt talents must be purchased for each field.
Harp extreme, page 83,one off recording vs snapshots in time.
-If the process is a transfer, then the persons mind moves into cyberspace, leaving the body a empty husk.
-Medical science can preserve the body for a long time
harp extreme, page 90, downloading into the flesh.
-Downloaded into new biological bodies
-They could equally be unwilling hosts whose original personalities have been erased and replace.
-Once settled in the body,the character may develop all skills and talents normally permitted to a biological character. Including psionics.
Tintamar knowledge base: downloading into the flesh, harp extreme, page 90.
-this tech is suspected to be possible.
Here is my argument,
-you dont copy you transfer. If the transfer is illegal, then you copy>then you wipe the host mind>then you download.
-Argument for using psionics. The body are geneticly the same. Psionics are geneticly tied to the body you download into. Its still the same body, you still have all your talents and skill.
You still have acsess to psionics because that body are geneticly compatible for it. If you were to download to a body where the brain didnt have it. No psionics. If you download into a body with diff psioncs latent, you need develop those skills, but may never use the other psi. Due to genetic as established in the main book. Raw perhaps not rai.
-The knowledge base confirms the tech is out there(basicly), just illegal.
The rules support it, but i dont know if its intended to be supported.
The fun part are the rules about virtual chars and psionics, the tintamar knowledge base and how noone have transferred psionics into virtual chars. Proving again psionics are tied to a body. As already established in the main book.
Even the main book says its possible to download into biological constructs under the download form talent. And if its a clone, the genetic peculiarities would be there.
tldr:
The rules says psionics are tied to body(brain and genetics).You can download into a body.
The one thing that can stop it are a gm. Since there are no gm(or common sense) in this discussion, its rules as written legal. Rules as intended, probably not.
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