Im curios to hear from the lore team on the effects that regeneration has on a society. The Loremakers Guide to Regeneration gives an excellent framework for how regeneration works, but doesnt really spend much time on how this technology affects people: their motivations and behaviors, the rules of civility, and culture. I was trying to think how such a fundamental shift would affect society, since many of our longstanding laws and morals would be deeply challenged by the fact that death is no longer final. Granted in 3 years legal systems would just be starting to catch up. Would execution as a punishment even exist? Would murder be as heavily punished as it is now? Would it make a difference if the murdered person ended up wiping? It seems hardly fair to put a person in prison for years if the person they murdered ends up testifying against them at the trial. The use of deadly force, both in defense of property and by authorities would probably be much more common and socially acceptable. For curiosity's sake: would regeneration be an immediate process? Does an IVS go down the longer it takes to regen someone or can they be kept "on ice" to serve a sentence? Could artificially lowering someone's IVS be a more "real" form of punishment since you reduce the chance that they will be able to regen in the future? It would seem that in general, people would value life less as death would not be final. Assuming a person imprinted before a dangerous mission, non-traumatic suicide (i.e. cyanide pill) would be a mostly viable means of escaping capture. High-risk economic activity would be seen as more viable. In fact, its likely that crime would explode for a period while society adjusts to the fact that being killed in the commission of a crime is no longer "the end". Things like blood-sport would probably return. Resources once considered too dangerous to extract would be actively sought out by those with the means to imprint/regen. Acts once considered extremely noble (i.e. captain going down with the ship) would be simply commonplace or even contractually required. In many cases, people would value things like their time and resources or the risk to their ability to imprint/regen over their life. That of course brings up the issue of what it takes for a person to regen, and what does society do about it when they lack the resources to do so? Would they stay dead? Would they wake up in debt to the Empire who "saved them", perhaps against their will. Perhaps the regeneration process itself is relatively cheap, but the imprinting process is expensive. It may take a couple 100k uec to create an imprint on a one-off basis, but regening from that imprint is a pittance by comparison. That could also be a great way for the UEE to compensate people for service to the empire: every citizen who completes a tour of service can imprint at UEE facilities for free. With imprint and regen having a cost associated with it, the chances of a highly-stratified society would increase exponentially. Having the facilities/resources to imprint people regularly would be of extreme value, especially if the cost of imprinting is high. It would explain how an authoritarian corporation like Hurston Dynamics could attract economically disadvantaged workers: Part of your contract includes monthly or weekly imprints...something you could never afford otherwise. What happens when someone dies after a major life decision and wakes up post-regen missing the memories of that decision? Suppose someone meets a new person shortly after imprinting. They fall in love, marry, have children...then that person dies. They would wake up post-regen having no memory of their own family. You could wake up from a regen in a situation that baffles you because you have no memory of how you got there. It would seem that going to an imprint facility regularly would be super important, and something that would be a major driver for economic activity. The truly wealthy would be those with the shortest gap time: the wealthy may imprint daily while the poor have weeks/months/years between imprints. Sorry, I know this has been kinda rambling, but its something Ive been wondering about more and more. The thing that really kicked off thinking about this topic was watching Upload on amazon prime. Its not really a great show but it covers a lot of similar topics. Id love to hear the lore team's take on regeneration and what it would mean for society.