[ he keeps forgetting that most people don't have the experiences of stacks and sleeves like he does. actually, so far, he hasn't met a single person who deals with them — almost like he might have dreamed it all. at least he'd think that if he didn't still feel the scar for his stack at the back of his neck, along with being in a body he wasn't born in. ]

Yeah, uh — back where I come from, if something happens to the body, it's just organic damage. A person's entire consciousness is just data — long as that's undamaged, a person can switch from body to body, usually if they have the money for it. But if you destroy the data, person's gone for good. Real death. [ as it should be. ] But from what I hear, that shit's not the case here, so it sounds like no one's got backup anyway.