Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

size of both the valley and the mountain range thirty milesaway. “The rendering is fine.”“It’s all base simulation, nothing is suppressed. Nothingof the real work I did remains.” Those souls in illegal veronspace that seemed to have lives of their own. Those soulswere gone now, but the programming one of them did to thesescene generators remained.“You didn’t really answer my question.”“No I did not clone myself,” Alan said. “To the best of myknowledge nothing of my soul remains behind on that base.There is more to the body on the surface than a soul on thatbase.” Alan knew Elmore didn’t have anywhere near enoughunderstanding of how the virtual universe is actuallyconstructed. That base has recordings of all the souls of theexpedition. He tried to explain what he could. “Physically, allsouls are cloned every time they take a backup, it is only legalissues that keep those clones from running. If anyoneremained on that base, that soul could resurrect the wholeexpedition and nothing could stop them. As long as you havea veron store large enough to support a consciousness vector,you can run as many souls as you have data for. All of ushave back-ups on that base, but I did not install a veron storeon that base or set one running.”“By whatever means it is done,” Elmore said.“Actually,” Alan said, “It is Ava that holds thosecontrols,” Elmore looked at him funny but Alan didn’trespond to that, it was too deep a systems discussion for him.81