Perverting the course of history

soul TRANSFERENCE

If someone’s soul-base/foot is weakened (as above), and then falls off or is torn off, attaching the base to a (new) body is difficult because the soul’s base/foot doesn’t have enough “grip”. Grip can be further impaired with chemicals that make the soul (and/or body) slippery.

One high-tech approach to a weakened base/foot is to “amputate” the weakened base, and graft the soul onto someone else’s soul, such as an adult, toddler, or animal. (See “Soul transference with an amputated base/foot”.)

soul TRANSFERENCE with an amputated base/foot

High-tech methods can “graft” a soul (missing a base/foot) onto an existing soul:

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  Adults can accept another person’s soul and awareness. As described in “Accepting new awarenesses”, their souls are merged together, followed by their awarenesses.
  

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  A toddler can have a soul grafted on. The very-weak soul attached to the toddler is subsumed by the more-dominant graft. Awarenesses are merged.
  

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  A friendly medium-sized animal, often a pet, can have someone’s soul grafted to theirs. The larger person’s soul ultimately dominates, though personalities and awarenesses are still merged.
  

soul TRANSFERENCE during times of war

The battlefield produces many dead bodies, with destroyed brains, backbones, and hearts. Recently-dead bodies can be “sewn together” Frankenstein-like, replacing damaged vital organs, so that the bodied can be “reinvigorated”, and people’s souls can be attached. Many of the bodies also have amputated limbs; new limbs are grafted on with a lower-priority, usually after the war.

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  Having their soul transferred to the body of a friend or relative, or perhaps the toddler of a friend/relative.
  

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  Having their soul transferred to a “reinvigorated” and/or “pre-owned” body from the battlefield... those damn used-car-salespeople double-speak terms. Bodies with amputations and limb-replacements are bargain-basement-priced.
  

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  Having their soul attached to an animal, and then having the animal’s body augmented.
  

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   The military gets first priority on battle-hardened (augmented) bodies.
   

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   They have priority for “reinvigorated” bodies from their original race.
   

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   And then priority for “reinvigorated” bodies from a similar race.
   

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   Usually, erect-standing and thick-tailed bodies are prioritized to the military since military equipment often required two legs and manual dexterity.
   

As a general rule:

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  Four-legged bodies are seen as “primitive” and undesirable to some races/cultures.
  

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  Augmented animal bodies are less desirable because:
  

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  Animal bodies are (often) inherently seen as “primitive”.
  

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  Animal bodies don’t have built-in speech centres, requiring augmentation and/or implants.
  

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  Animal bodies don’t usually have the necessary finger dexterity to manipulate objects and/or type.
  
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  The brains of animal bodies can’t think as well. Animal-body brains can be augmented over time. However, people who are used to thinking only with their brains get extremely confused when their souls are first transferred to animal bodies. They may be incoherent for weeks or months.
  

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  The smaller brains of animal bodies requires enlargement of the person’s brain, or their soul will eventually wither.
  

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  People with animal bodies find it difficult to drive cars, go shopping, and have non-animal children.
  

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  Animal bodies are “difficult to drive” emotionally, with strong urges to eat, sleep, run, hunt, and chase busses. It’s like driving a stick-shift car versus the ease of an automatic transmission.
  

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  Animal bodies don’t live as long.
  

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  In some societies, animal bodies are used as punishments, so they bear an associated stigma.