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* [[spoiler:Quellcrist Falconer]]'s fate after the attack on Millsport at the end of the Unsettlement: [[spoiler: her body vaporized, and her mind trapped in a Martian data storage system for ''three hundred years'']]. One of the downsides of having the technology to back your mind up somewhere.
* The Qualgrist Protocol from ''Woken Furies'', a [[spoiler: [[HatePlague bioweapon]] from the Unsettlement developed by the Quellists]] that uses GeneticMemory coupled with a symptomless virus to [[spoiler: create a pheromone-based biological response in anyone carrying the right genes who got infected, so that they are compelled to try and kill anyone with Harlan family genes]]. While the Unsettlement was an example of TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized, the fact that [[spoiler: Nadia Makita ultimately deploys the Protocol ''while hallucinating'' and while she's unsure whether or not she's real]] ensures that the events following the conclusion of the novel will almost certainly be bloody and horrible.
* The Qualgrist Protocol from ''Woken Furies'', a [[spoiler: [[HatePlague bioweapon]] from the Unsettlement developed by the Quellists]] that uses GeneticMemory coupled with a symptomless virus to [[spoiler: create a pheromone-based biological response in anyone carrying the right genes who got infected, so that they are compelled to try and kill anyone with Harlan family genes]]. While the Unsettlement was an example of TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized, the fact that [[spoiler: Nadia Makita ultimately deploys the Protocol ''while hallucinating'' and while she's unsure whether or not she's real]] ensures that the events following the conclusion of the novel will almost certainly be bloody and horrible.
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* [[spoiler:Quellcrist Falconer]]'s Quellcrist Falconer's fate after the attack on Millsport at the end of the Unsettlement: [[spoiler: her body vaporized, and her mind trapped in a Martian data storage system for ''three hundred years'']].years''. One of the downsides of having the technology to back your mind up somewhere.
* The Qualgrist Protocol from ''Woken Furies'', a[[spoiler: [[HatePlague bioweapon]] from the Unsettlement developed by the Quellists]] Quellists that uses GeneticMemory coupled with a symptomless virus to [[spoiler: create a pheromone-based biological response in anyone carrying the right genes who got infected, so that they are compelled to try and kill anyone with Harlan family genes]]. genes. While the Unsettlement was an example of TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized, the fact that [[spoiler: Nadia Makita ultimately deploys the Protocol ''while hallucinating'' and while she's unsure whether or not she's real]] real ensures that the events following the conclusion of the novel will almost certainly be bloody and horrible.
* The Qualgrist Protocol from ''Woken Furies'', a
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* Takeshi Kovacs [[spoiler: murdering the entirety of his former Wedge unit in revenge.]] The fact it's in revenge for [[spoiler: the horrific mutilation and day-long execution of a friend]] only makes it worse.
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* Takeshi Kovacs [[spoiler: murdering the entirety of his former Wedge unit in revenge.]] revenge. The fact it's in revenge for [[spoiler: the horrific mutilation and day-long execution of a friend]] friend only makes it worse.
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* The very real possibility discussed in FridgeHorror that all of the re-sleeving is really just cloning and brainwashing rather than a transfer of "you."
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* The very real possibility discussed in FridgeHorror that all of the re-sleeving is really just cloning and brainwashing rather than a transfer of "you.""
* Takeshi Kovacs [[spoiler: murdering the entirety of his former Wedge unit in revenge.]] The fact it's in revenge for [[spoiler: the horrific mutilation and day-long execution of a friend]] only makes it worse.
* Takeshi Kovacs [[spoiler: murdering the entirety of his former Wedge unit in revenge.]] The fact it's in revenge for [[spoiler: the horrific mutilation and day-long execution of a friend]] only makes it worse.
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** People's minds are backed up on in-brain memory and easily transferred to another body (or 'sleeve'). Major societal change from this? AFateWorseThanDeath is now standard procedure. They're JackBauerInterrogationTechnique {{Lotus Eater Machine}}s, pretty much.
** [[spoiler:Quellcrist Falconer]]'s fate after the attack on Millsport at the end of the Unsettlement: [[spoiler: her body vaporized, and her mind trapped in a Martian data storage system for ''three hundred years'']]. One of the downsides of having the technology to back your mind up somewhere.
** The Qualgrist Protocol from ''Woken Furies'', a [[spoiler: [[HatePlague bioweapon]] from the Unsettlement developed by the Quellists]] that uses GeneticMemory coupled with a symptomless virus to [[spoiler: create a pheromone-based biological response in anyone carrying the right genes who got infected, so that they are compelled to try and kill anyone with Harlan family genes]]. While the Unsettlement was an example of TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized, the fact that [[spoiler: Nadia Makita ultimately deploys the Protocol ''while hallucinating'' and while she's unsure whether or not she's real]] ensures that the events following the conclusion of the novel will almost certainly be bloody and horrible.
** All of Kovacs' hallucinations/memories of Innenin and the viral strike there, including but not limited to [[EyeScream Jimmy DeSoto clawing out his own eye]]. Arguably, what makes this truly nightmarish is not the event itself, but the fact that Envoys are conditioned to have [[PhotographicMemory perfect recall]] and so can't truly forget anything they experience, even if they also have the conditioning to lock away trauma so it doesn't destroy their psyches.
** [[spoiler:Quellcrist Falconer]]'s fate after the attack on Millsport at the end of the Unsettlement: [[spoiler: her body vaporized, and her mind trapped in a Martian data storage system for ''three hundred years'']]. One of the downsides of having the technology to back your mind up somewhere.
** The Qualgrist Protocol from ''Woken Furies'', a [[spoiler: [[HatePlague bioweapon]] from the Unsettlement developed by the Quellists]] that uses GeneticMemory coupled with a symptomless virus to [[spoiler: create a pheromone-based biological response in anyone carrying the right genes who got infected, so that they are compelled to try and kill anyone with Harlan family genes]]. While the Unsettlement was an example of TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized, the fact that [[spoiler: Nadia Makita ultimately deploys the Protocol ''while hallucinating'' and while she's unsure whether or not she's real]] ensures that the events following the conclusion of the novel will almost certainly be bloody and horrible.
** All of Kovacs' hallucinations/memories of Innenin and the viral strike there, including but not limited to [[EyeScream Jimmy DeSoto clawing out his own eye]]. Arguably, what makes this truly nightmarish is not the event itself, but the fact that Envoys are conditioned to have [[PhotographicMemory perfect recall]] and so can't truly forget anything they experience, even if they also have the conditioning to lock away trauma so it doesn't destroy their psyches.
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* The very real possibility discussed in FridgeHorror that all of the re-sleeving is really just cloning and brainwashing rather than a transfer of "you."
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* Richard Morgan, major proponent of modern HumansAreTheRealMonsters sci-fi, can reach NightmareFuel levels through sheer cynicism.
** People's minds are backed up on in-brain memory and easily transferred to another body (or 'sleeve'). Major societal change from this? AFateWorseThanDeath is now standard procedure. They're JackBauerInterrogationTechnique {{Lotus Eater Machine}}s, pretty much.
** [[spoiler:Quellcrist Falconer]]'s fate after the attack on Millsport at the end of the Unsettlement: [[spoiler: her body vaporized, and her mind trapped in a Martian data storage system for ''three hundred years'']]. One of the downsides of having the technology to back your mind up somewhere.
** The Qualgrist Protocol from ''Woken Furies'', a [[spoiler: [[HatePlague bioweapon]] from the Unsettlement developed by the Quellists]] that uses GeneticMemory coupled with a symptomless virus to [[spoiler: create a pheromone-based biological response in anyone carrying the right genes who got infected, so that they are compelled to try and kill anyone with Harlan family genes]]. While the Unsettlement was an example of TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized, the fact that [[spoiler: Nadia Makita ultimately deploys the Protocol ''while hallucinating'' and while she's unsure whether or not she's real]] ensures that the events following the conclusion of the novel will almost certainly be bloody and horrible.
** All of Kovacs' hallucinations/memories of Innenin and the viral strike there, including but not limited to [[EyeScream Jimmy DeSoto clawing out his own eye]]. Arguably, what makes this truly nightmarish is not the event itself, but the fact that Envoys are conditioned to have [[PhotographicMemory perfect recall]] and so can't truly forget anything they experience, even if they also have the conditioning to lock away trauma so it doesn't destroy their psyches.
** People's minds are backed up on in-brain memory and easily transferred to another body (or 'sleeve'). Major societal change from this? AFateWorseThanDeath is now standard procedure. They're JackBauerInterrogationTechnique {{Lotus Eater Machine}}s, pretty much.
** [[spoiler:Quellcrist Falconer]]'s fate after the attack on Millsport at the end of the Unsettlement: [[spoiler: her body vaporized, and her mind trapped in a Martian data storage system for ''three hundred years'']]. One of the downsides of having the technology to back your mind up somewhere.
** The Qualgrist Protocol from ''Woken Furies'', a [[spoiler: [[HatePlague bioweapon]] from the Unsettlement developed by the Quellists]] that uses GeneticMemory coupled with a symptomless virus to [[spoiler: create a pheromone-based biological response in anyone carrying the right genes who got infected, so that they are compelled to try and kill anyone with Harlan family genes]]. While the Unsettlement was an example of TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized, the fact that [[spoiler: Nadia Makita ultimately deploys the Protocol ''while hallucinating'' and while she's unsure whether or not she's real]] ensures that the events following the conclusion of the novel will almost certainly be bloody and horrible.
** All of Kovacs' hallucinations/memories of Innenin and the viral strike there, including but not limited to [[EyeScream Jimmy DeSoto clawing out his own eye]]. Arguably, what makes this truly nightmarish is not the event itself, but the fact that Envoys are conditioned to have [[PhotographicMemory perfect recall]] and so can't truly forget anything they experience, even if they also have the conditioning to lock away trauma so it doesn't destroy their psyches.
