Do destroyed Ogres upload their brain to a server?

[ScarecrowKing]

I saw something about how the self-aware Ogres comsider their own survival in combat situations. This got me to thinking, and I'm sure I saw a canon reference to Ogres sending their 'mind' back to base, so it can be uploaded to a new body. Is this a thing, or am I watching too much Battlestar Galactica?

[Misplaced Buckeye]

Originally Posted by ScarecrowKing

I saw something about how the self-aware Ogres comsider their own survival in combat situations. This got me to thinking, and I'm sure I saw a canon reference to Ogres sending their 'mind' back to base, so it can be uploaded to a new body. Is this a thing, or am I watching too much Battlestar Galactica?

Actually I believe that was done in the later BOLOs, XXX and higher.

[43Supporter]

There's also a reference to this practice in the early days of the webcomic _Schlock Mercenary_: https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2004-08-23 .

That said: I have *not* seen it referred to in _OGRE_ proper.

[ScarecrowKing]

Thanks. Not sure where I saw it. Never read that comic, and only read a couple of Laumer's stories.

[ColBosch]

Yeah, it's not a thing in Ogre. Cybernetic brains in the setting are enormous devices and there appears to be no way to directly copy or transmit an Ogre's "program." GURPS Ogre goes into some detail as to how each cybertank's mind is based upon a "seed," and that Ogres are more raised than programmed.

[Tim Kauffman]

OGRE MINIATURES Page 11 "The Descartes Revolution" has some great stuff from it's early inception to the Factory States concerning "OGRE brains" and how they were used over time.

[Toltrin]

Originally Posted by ColBosch

Yeah, it's not a thing in Ogre. Cybernetic brains in the setting are enormous devices and there appears to be no way to directly copy or transmit an Ogre's "program." GURPS Ogre goes into some detail as to how each cybertank's mind is based upon a "seed," and that Ogres are more raised than programmed.

I can imagine the download bar being at 1% when rust starts to appear on it's chassis.

[Izzy_B]

Originally Posted by 43Supporter

There's also a reference to this practice in the early days of the webcomic _Schlock Mercenary_: https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2004-08-23 .

Everyone here who has imagined a Tagon's Toughs faction in Ogre raise their hand!