Dave Haddock · Narrative Director

The idea behind that was, as with the Death of a Spaceman thing, the idea was that this wasn't the key to immortality, that your body would still be degrading. So we tried to come up with a way to justify that, because on the surface, they're bioprinting a new version of you. It would seem like, well, if I got my arm cut off, they would just print me with a new arm or regenerate me with a new arm. So the idea with this was this notion that the brain is tricked into believing that, well, I got my arm cut off. So even though technically when I regenerate I have a functioning arm, to my brain it suffered such extensive damage that it thinks that it's dead and useless. So that aspect of it carried over. That way we were letting the body still degrade through these.

Will Weissbaum · Lead Writer

Yeah, that the imprint is capturing so much more than just a DNA sample would indicate. A DNA sample doesn't have your cool scar that you got when you were 12 years old. That's not in your DNA. That's just on your face. But imprints carry that information with them and carry on. If you want to go have plastic surgery to have that removed in a Calliope machine or something like that, that's still an option. But the imprint itself remembers your current version of you.