TL of Relicts

[Garnfellow]

At what TL do Relicts (and Life Insurance) become viable?

It's not clear to me at what TL we can permanently implant a recorded personality into a clone of the pattern. The Table on pg 98 is unclear to me -- what is a TL 15 "Pattern Personality Re-Implant" compared to an Implant?

Agent of the Imperium has a Relict, circa 664, serving in a TL 13 Marine batallion: "Force Commander Hirono was a clone; he looked twenty but had the experience of twice as many years. This particular unit was the 5th of the 2999th, a Lift Cavalry Squadron with three troops of a dozen flying armored vehicles each."

 

[maggot-iiss]

TL13 I believe, Technology Tables near back of book. Minimum for Wafers (& recorded personality?).

[FONT=arial,helvetica]Pattern Personality Re-Implant:- "We recorded his memories just last week, rewind him back to then"
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[mike wightman]

My take on it is that at TL13 you are using wafer technology alongside cloning to construct the relict.
Note that in the AotI book Bland was killed by the personality/memory copying process.

TL14+ technologies no longer require wafer tech.