Talk:Soulkiller

Consciousness Stuff
On this page, it says, "It is later revealed by the AI version of Alt Cunningham that the Soulkiller only copies the psyche and memories of a person, effectively killing the person in the process and does not transfer a consciousness to the engram or net."

However, on Alt's page, it says, "... due to Johnny disconnecting the physical embodiment of Alt Cunningham while she was still in the net, her consciousness was split from the engram leaving her mind stuck in the net while her body and consciousness laid dying in Johnny's hands,"'' which implies that if Johnny hadn't disconnected her body, her consciousness wouldn't have died along with it, and she would have been a normal engram like him.

So... which is it? Does Soulkiller transfer/copy the consciousness, or not? Because I'm seeing a lot of mixed answers across the Wiki. Mikotoh (talk) 00:56, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

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I am sorry to be critical of your writing but "Developed in a lab on the 120th floor of Arasaka Towers in 2013, the Soulkiller program creates an engram of a person's mind, and a modified version of it was used by Arasaka in their Secure Your Soul program, and they acted as if it would create a digital copy of their mind and make them immortal." is a run on sentence and also inaccurate. It was developed first by Alt at ITS, before she was kidnapped. Her original goal was to preserve the consciousness of dying individuals. It's Arasaka that made it into a weapon, and used it to kill netrunners. It was meant to kill anyone netrunning and save their engram for interogation. Then Hanako redeveloped it starting around 2035ish to start the "secure your soul program"
 * If you find any mistakes, feel free to correct them. At the end of the day, this is a community thing so mistakes are bound to happen. So thanks for the contributions. --Ryon21 Ryon21 Signature Image.png (talk) 18:08, 27 November 2022 (UTC)