In the 43rd century, the concept of death affects individuals as a scale of severity across Alliance Space.

In the core worlds, progress eradicated death as a mandatory aspect of existence.

Mentality and sentience preserves and archives allow individuals to pause and resume existence as they please.

Further from the core, the infrastructure and progress lag enough that death remains a commonplace eventual aspect of life.

Even on the frontier, technological progress extends the duration and quality of life of most willing to work for it.

Meanwhile, explorers pushing into the Niecti star system learned the hardest way that death stalks the the ancient wrecks and sites.

Adventurers who can afford to may purchase clone insurance for their continued existence despite physical or mental ending, which requires regular updates of mental templates and matched genetic profiles.

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