I wonder, if a person has no time, or very little, but they don't want their human body anymore, and I mean really doesn't want it anymore, would the B'Nari be willing to give them a nice mechanical body for free? Or would they just get a "stock body?" The whole "beggers can't be choosers" thing? I know they deliberately overcharge the super-wealthy who don't want to die because "death is for peasants", or just want designer bodies, but I always wondered about that?
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I seem to vaguely remember that they use the overcharging of the super wealthy to fund new bodies for people who needed either new ones or rebuilds but couldn't afford it, and that there was a choice between mechanical and organic. But I could also be remembering incorrectly.
You are correct. B'Nar can print you an entirely new body [organic ones are a little more of a fiddle, what with using your original DNA and scrubbing out the flaws as part of their standard health practices] whenever its necessary.
Synthetic bodies are cheaper and they do have a "standard edition" that can perform most of the things an organic one could, minus the necessity of eating/drinking/breathing or "organic life support". This is what's usually used for emergency cases when the B'Nari are involved.
In all cases, a brain backup has the choice to opt for body types upon restoration, or to have just the data saved [video, olfactory, tactile, and audio without the emotional data] and their backup purged from storage. What the B'Nari call a "true death".
What happened to this particular bean is seen as completely atrocious and the B'Nari are completely on their side.
They have an... interesting view of what counts as life.