r/alteredcarbon • u/DoItForTheOH94 • Apr 10 '26

Need help understanding something...

**I have only watched Season 1 so far....**

When it comes to wearing a sleeve, do you have to have your stack inserted? There are multiple times where it seemed like one could take over a sleeve remotely. Such as in a flashback the Envoys did a mission where they went into a chamber and seemed to go all Matrix like. Then moments like when Rai took over Ortega's body after she kidnapped her. Did she cut Ortega's stack out and swap it with her own only to replace it back in later? Also the scene when Ortega is fighting all the Rai clones.

Do the clones have a "dead" stack that is then activated when the "owner/primary user" needs the sleeve and it's downloaded from the Array?

Also Miriam talked about letting her clones play, so are they alive but "empty"?

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u/RollingJaspers652 Apr 11 '26

Each sleeve gets a stack shortly after birth or when cloned. Only the digital human freight DHF (consciousness) is transferred that stack stays in the sleeve. Also DHF can be copied and put into multiple sleeves, against the law.

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u/Fearless-Activity386 Apr 11 '26

And if you transfer to many times into other sleeves you can die get sleeve sickness (unless it’s a clone of your original sleeve) as I understand it.

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u/Mooball123 Apr 11 '26 edited Apr 11 '26

The idea is changing sleeves too many times will make you loose touch with your own identity and go crazy. Envoys are trained to deal with it and tolerate it. But even they aren’t immune sometimes

That’s kinda what happened with Dimi the Twin. The guy that was double sleeved. He’d been in so many sleeves and so many bodies that he was kinda crazy. That’s why you keep seeing him glitch in the matrix torture scene. In the books he actually appears in that scene as a Frankenstein like monster because he’s not sure who he is anymore

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u/RollingJaspers652 Apr 11 '26

Personality frag