>>6102894>>6102907>CYBERSPACEI had this idea I was going to use in my COSMOGONY setting of "repacks". In the end I didn't include it because I thought it was a bit too similar to cortical stack / digital human freight / those cyber sleeves and things from Altered Carbon.
But the basic idea of repacks was that in the future due to space travel etc someone was looking to develop a technology to compress human consciousness. This could range anything from compressing multiple lifetimes worth of skills / personalities / psychological traits / memories and encoding and imprinting them into a foetus (more easily stored or carried due to space constraints) to the same information density but implanted into a cultured slab of brain matter / dendrites and axons etc meat substrate.
Repacks might allow you to "slot in" another person through a meat slab just like changing an sd memory card, but I imagined the information density being immense, eg not just the usual cyberpunk thing of you can see another person's memories, but entire cities / civilisations worth of collective experiences (to accelerate / autonomously jumpstart a space colony etc).
Also for an immediate cyberpunk angle, maybe some hacker collective tries to poison or inject malicious code memories / inclinations towards rebellion into the highly compressed repack data, so that the entire colony is sabotaged from the start / corrupted / subverted from the founding rigidity of utopian (dystopian?) ideals.
Another idea that fascinates me is digital twins (used in manufacturing eg engine turbine simulations 1:1 corresponding to realtime defect monitoring or deterioration in use) eg in the context of spacecraft (so far away and remote, can only monitor / interact via digital twin simulation) but also digital twins of people, eg a shadow self of you that exists only in metadata, behavioural signals logged and archived online. Maybe with some technosorcery / cybernecromancy or generative AI, you can summon / embody / ensoul or bring to life the shadow self and either interrogate or delete kill it (lol you must fight the ultimate doppelganger battle, fight against your darkest impulses own mirror self IT IS YOU YOUR OWN BROWSING HISTORY the horror nooo all the gore violence pornography yay)
Finally I also have this recurring idea of MEDIEVAL CYBERPUNK the way I imagined this was to troll players slightly by taking various modern tech things but defamiliarising them by using them in a seemingly innocuous medieval context (eg you find parchment that details a ritual requiring you to hold a lodestone with a jar of leeches, whilst standing in a river...? magnet link, torrent, etc) I had this idea where things like youtube are powerful arcane spells and that being able to recognise simple things like the ARCANE RUNES of the video play / pause button would be the sign of a mystical adept etc.
