My take on the Ghost revival process is that once your guardian dies, that guardian is dead. There is no coming back for that biological version of that being.
What your ghost does is the following:
Stores your guardian’s entire atomic composition in its memory so that it can rebuild a new guardian from scratch using the surrounding matter.
Stores all your guardian’s memories and re-downloads them into the new guardian it just created from scratch.
The new guardian is merely a copy of the old guardian, but it thinks it’s the same being — resurrected. The old guardian is permanently dead and cannot be brought back in the traditional sense of the word ‘resurrection’.
Imagine teleportation devices existed today. We would need a device that could analyse your entire atomic composition, atom for atom. It would then need an immense amount of storage space to store that atomic composition analysis as a readable data dump. That data will then need a extremely fast processor so you could very quickly be de-constructed and then re-assembled on the other side wherever you were teleporting to. This is all a bit Star Trekky.
But also, the interesting part is that because your atomic composition has now been stored permanently as DATA; it now means that what you essentially have is a COPYING device. So in theory YOU (Yourself) wouldn’t have to actually go anywhere... rather, instead you could just have the device use the data it has stored about you to then construct you atom by atom as a copy of yourself. So two of you would now exist at the same time. To choose for yourself to be analysed and deconstructed, would mean to be killing yourself (or at least by definition that version of yourself). Your data would then be sent via satellite to a destination far far away and the receiving device would simply gather the data and construct a new being based on that data. Your earlier deconstructed self is still dead, and this new re-constructed being is a completely new person - just with the same memories.
So basically all your ghost does is use the available atoms in the surrounding matter to re-construct an up-to-date copy of yourself with all your memories thus far. That’s it.
The ‘immortality’ isn’t really REAL because the old version of your guardian is still long gone. The new version BELIEVES it’s still the same person because it has all the memories and thinks it’s been brought back to life but the old version if it still had a lingering mystical consciousness would still be sitting in limbo - dead.
What are your thoughts Guardians? Are we really immortal? Is ‘The Light’ merely an unmeasurable fantastical form of intelligent energy that serves as a super futuristic processor so it could handle all this data via your ghost? Or is ‘The Light’ a spirit medium that can truly preserve your soul and transfer it between bodies after each death?
Given the fact that your ghost is piece of tech I believe that ‘The Traveller’ is an extremely good willed version of The Vex and ‘The Light’ is a substance or energy that is similar to the ‘Radiolaria’ white stuff that fuels inside The Vex. Except The Traveller has found how to use it in a way that empowers Guardian’s and makes them immortal from an A.I perspective — through unlimited copies of themselves.
Thoughts people?
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3 RepliesThe way that I think about it is that your body is restored by the light. I believe your ghost had a specific guardian to find and ressurect your soul and body with the light, and keep restoring it every time you die from pain. If you die too fast, you will die. If you live, you get healed. I don't believe the guardians body is copied, just revived. Like you just woke up from sleeping. I also believe that the guardian doesn't age, need food, sleep, or anything because they have been "replaced" I guess with the light. Once your ghost is dead, the light is gone, and you're not mortal any more. I believe you'd then be a normal human, exo, or awoken. I know it kinda dounds a little messy but thsts kinda how i think of the guardian. Does that make any sense? 😅