Off-Topic Thread vol. 2

Not really.

At least not typically. Standard procedure involves the euthanization of the previous instance upon jump, followed by the careful excision of all cerebral implants by surgical machines.

You can read some more about it here.

So-called “jump cloning” works in much the same manner. Once a jump contract has been agreed upon, the customer can enter any cloning facility at any station, whereupon they will be brain-scanned, their originating bodies effectively flatlined, and their consciousness transferred to a waiting jump clone at their requested destination. Any implants in the originating body are carefully picked out by machines and just as carefully inserted into a fresh clone waiting at the original jumping-off point. Once the owner finally jumps back, from their point of view, they are returning to the same body, with the same implants and all, when in actuality it is a new clone.

While certain steps can be taken in order to, in some capacity, maintain and reuse the previous body, that is far from the industry standard.

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