>>9366688I always thought it would be cool to have some Combiner called Theseus who’s constituent members were each are killed off and replaced in turn until none of his original components still exist.
Maybe even take it a step further, with him having been around so long that even his original replacement members have all gotten replaced at least once. Existing as a sort of living legacy Combiner.
Alternatively, keep even more faithful to the original thought-experiment:
>Theseus’s members aren’t dying, instead they’re being transferred over to a more dangerous front of the war, where another combiner, let’s call him Ephemeron, has been losing members and needs experienced replacements.>Gradually one by one each of Ephemeron’s original components die and Theseus sends over another one of it’s members to replace them, while they train up a new combiner member to take that bots place in Theseus.>Eventually all of the bots who make up Ephemeron have been replaced with former members of Theseus and all of Theseus’s components have been replaced by newer members.>Now there’s a combiner call “Ephemeron” who’s identical in make-up to the original configuration of Theseus, and conversely the combiner currently known as “Theseus” is now made up entirely of different members then the team who originally formed him. >Is “Ephemeron” still Ephemeron or is he Theseus? Is “Theseus” still Theseus or is he a completely new and different combiner. >If it’s the later two options, when did the switches occur? Was it when the last member of the original Theseus transferred over, was it when they crossed the 50% replacement threshold, or did it occur when the very first member transferred? 