There's a passage in Special Modifications that indicates that droids can simply upload into new bodies. It doesn't really have a lot of detail on whether the new body has to be the same model, or whether all droids use compatible OS so R2 could just as easily clone himself into a Droideka (like changing morphs in Eclipse Phase). I can't say as I like this idea, as I strongly prefer SW droid personalities and memories to be hardware-linked for various reasons.

There's precedent for it in the original Marvel series with the Wheel's Master-Com, also included by FFG in Beyond the Rim.

.Sons of Anarchy droid style. 'Oh My! Please excuse my droid speeder bike gang, they can get a bit unruly'

That's too good to pass up!

There's a passage in Special Modifications that indicates that droids can simply upload into new bodies. It doesn't really have a lot of detail on whether the new body has to be the same model, or whether all droids use compatible OS so R2 could just as easily clone himself into a Droideka (like changing morphs in Eclipse Phase). I can't say as I like this idea, as I strongly prefer SW droid personalities and memories to be hardware-linked for various reasons.

Then there's IG88, models A, B, C & D.

Though admittedly I prefer the idea of 'personality' being hardwired to save from PCs doing a Bjork 'Army of Me' thang... Especially with Special Modifications introducing Droid building rules!

As a side note, in our Edge campaign my Pilot regularly downloads the Droid's memory into a back up. We discussed it as players and went with it,,,, of course if the Droids PC is destroyed, all we'd have to do is save up and rebuild him/it... yay we now have the Tech splatbook!

'We have the technology' (only players 35+ will get that reference)

I think there was talk about remaking that, with $6 million of modern money.....

So a wheelchair, a prosthetic arm, a glass eye, and a massive addiction to opiate pain killers? Six million doesn't really go very far today.

I forgot to mention it was going to be a comedy...

There's a passage in Special Modifications that indicates that droids can simply upload into new bodies. It doesn't really have a lot of detail on whether the new body has to be the same model, or whether all droids use compatible OS so R2 could just as easily clone himself into a Droideka (like changing morphs in Eclipse Phase). I can't say as I like this idea, as I strongly prefer SW droid personalities and memories to be hardware-linked for various reasons.

I wouldn't specifically disallow it, but if it were proposed, it could only happen with lots of workaround. There would be no "simply" part, for starters: you'd need specialized facilities and experts working on the "transplant" problem. And as you suggest, I would still require hardware-dependent personality up to a point. I think my inspiration would likely be something like Ghost in the Shell, where form and function are very closely linked to personality in robots, and where downloading minds between bodies comes with severe psychological consequences.

There's a passage in Special Modifications that indicates that droids can simply upload into new bodies. It doesn't really have a lot of detail on whether the new body has to be the same model, or whether all droids use compatible OS so R2 could just as easily clone himself into a Droideka (like changing morphs in Eclipse Phase). I can't say as I like this idea, as I strongly prefer SW droid personalities and memories to be hardware-linked for various reasons.

There's precedent for it in the original Marvel series with the Wheel's Master-Com, also included by FFG in Beyond the Rim.

Yeah, but that was more that the body was a terminal and the brains of the operation was really the station. At least that's how it read in the original comic.

Perhaps even more relevant to the thread, how long before they remake Short Circuit?

No disassemble Johnny 5!

"And resemble butterfly" (reference to soup on paper)