Enmemorian (Digital Graveyard)

This article is a WIP created during World Anvil Summer Camp 2022 and contains incomplete sections. Please stay tuned!

Enmemorian, a virtual haven for the deceased and those who loved them, is an instanced settlement in the Net available for public and private visitations. It is crafted on one of the many meshes in the vast spanse of the Net.

Instances

At times, Net use can be heavy on some public access systems. To combat slowdowns in the virtual reality experience, many public venues have an instanced version, allowing for a maximum number of concurrent users to enter a location. When accessing a location with a group, it is recommended to first engage a link on one's companions' bioID codes in order to ensure that your group is not separated and split between instances.

The digital graveyard consists of the echoes of personalities, memories, and voices of people who have passed on beyond the physical realm. Not everyone exists here: only those who have donated their data for use in a collective, algorithmically generative interaction experience, whether for research, and/or familial comfort--or for general use in a CAGIS avatar--will be available for access. In Enmemorian, this involves grief counciling and post-mortem visits.
An individual's data is uploaded in a CAGIS avatar for familial, public, or commercial interactions, depending on what the participant specified in their end-of-life planning and estate management.   These people no longer actually exist of course; their memories are approximated into a believable recreation. Given appropriate permissions, data acquired from the deceased is used for research as well as to populate virtual spaces within the Net outside of Enmemorian.
Aside from being instanced, the graveyard settlement is procedurally generated depending on the users logged in at the time. No two experiences will be the same! New instances of "relatives" in the Net may also be created simultaneously for individual content, or for a multiplayer experience, such as a shared family meal enjoyed during a lost loved one's birthday or other memorial-style event.

Type

Virtual Village

Zone

Net

When You Can't Bear to be Apart

Loved ones can be visited and the algorithm stored with their uploaded content will generate an experience of virtually interacting with them in this alternate reality environment. Some people who have determined they cannot live without their lost loved one decide to upload themselves, and so until their physical body perishes, they are plugged in to the mainframe as well, enjoying their lives beside an approximation of the one they lost.

Type

Outpost / Base