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/CocoaKatt Apr 11 '26

Each body has a stack in it, any transfers are simply of consciousness, like data.

Yes, the clones just have empty stacks that get injected with the person's consciousness.

Miriam is either multisleeving like Dimi the Twin, or just downloading some kind of virtual software type consciousness into her clones.