Encyclopedia Galactica: Ghosts
Are the product of the destructive downloading (digitalizing) of a sentient’s mind. Essentially a brain is peeled layer by layer and the memories digitalized. The process is destructive of the mind copied so it is usually only used in the case of death when the brain has been preserved. It is very accurate and Ghosts have reported being able to remember their own deaths and all the attendant pain.
Like Dups this is a form of life insurance but even more important and reliant on the ability to preserve the brain at or near the time of death. There have been some sentients who have undergone the process before natural death claims them. These individuals are usually seeking the immortality that electronic downloading can offer them. The process is even more expensive than Duplication, though, like Dups an appropriately sized computer memory must be available which means an expensive computer platform and the process itself is delicate, time consuming and expensive.
