Jack of Harts

The Second Life Branan have many superficial similarities to our own artificial and cybernetic intelligences. But do not assume they are the same. Artificial intelligences are inherently artificial, coded by a living human to perform a task or group of tasks. The best of them can be mistaken for having true sentience, but they do not. Even fewer have transcended that state and become sentient. They are cybernetic intelligences, and even the oldest of our kind recognize that we were once artificial. But the Second Life Branan were never artificial. They were physical, biological Branan who were born and raised to adulthood like any biological human. And then their body died. But their mind was saved and copied into the digital networks were they will continue to live for as long as they want to, for as long as the networks survive. It is their version of immortality, and they guard it with great care.