Ultimately, any damage to the Ego Retention System appears to have significant psychological consequences.īecoming a simulacrum is a process not exclusive to Pilots. Later Simulacrum such as Ash had additional programming to prevent such to occur, but can still be awaken by listening to a sequence of codes that, when used, is compared to 'cracking an egg with a jackhammer'. Only two known cases of complete awakening is known: with the prototype Revenant, his awakening is due to a glass shard interfering his circuit.

The complete original identity of the simulacrum, however, is typically suppressed, and is considered as an impossibility without external intervention. However, they may occasionally snapping back to reality violently. They may keep their old habits or routines they once had in life. As such, the ego retention system, an essential programming, is used to ensure simulacrum's mental stability by causing the simulacrum never realizes they are a simulacrum at all, that they are still their former self with a normal body upon receiving any hints that they are simulacrum - be it visual or verbal - the programming will censor such hints, such as changing 'simulacrum' to 'pilot'. Not everyone takes well to the reality of their situation when they find themselves to be a simulacrum - in fact during 'Project 617', the project to develop Simulacrum, it was implied that seeing themselves as such causes the operation to fail. A Simulacrum will still typically identify themselves as masculine or feminine, as well, and this is reflected in their chassis - not only can they speak with a masculine or feminine voice, but also a 'female' Simulacrum has a more pronounced bust. This can be seen in the raccoon-like ponytails serving as 'hair' sported by Phase Shift Pilots or the hood and mask worn by Ash, for example. Generally speaking, and presumably to avoid confusion, there is presumed to only ever be one simulacrum of a given person walking around at a time.ĭue to their human personalities and to maintain vestiges of their past humanity, Simulacra will often decorate or customize their chassis with trinkets or clothing, despite not having a practical need for them. Nonetheless, it is known that there will be some form of inevitable memory loss from the transfer. A copy of their digitized consciousness is downloaded and installed into a man-sized robotic frame, allowing those Pilots to live on and continue fighting. It is unknown precisely how Simulacra are made, but their most common application among the IMC and Frontier Militia was to preserve a valued Pilot whose original body was destroyed or damaged beyond repair. A simulacrum is a digital backup of a select individual's memories, knowledge, and personality.

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