"Personality Wafers" are in T5, along with rules for using them, and
other ways to mess with personalities.

In short, you set up a char with the 3 mental stats, associated
skills, etc, and they overlay when in use.

On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 4:54 PM Jeff Zeitlin
<xxxxxx@freelancetraveller.com> wrote:
>
> In _Agent of the Imperium_, Marc Miller postulates technology by which a
> person can be recorded, and then "imprinted" temporarily on another
> person's brain. It is through this technology that the Agent is created and
> activated.
>
> While the Agent is active, the "host" has no awareness, but returns fully
> "intact" when the Agent's activation expires. Functionally, this can be
> viewed as a temporary induced "multiple personality" condition.
>
> With the multiplicity of societies in the Traveller milieu, it's not
> unreasonable to accept that there may be societies that accept what we call
> "Multiple Personality Disorder" or "Dissociative Identity Disorder" as a
> normal condition, rather than a disorder*.
>
> How could this be handled in Traveller? How would you create a 'multiple'
> character? What do you perceive as issues that would have to be addressed,
> and how would you address them?
>
>
>
>
>
> * Peter Watts postulates this in his novel _Blindsight_, calling it MCC -
> Multi-Core Condition. The novel may be downloaded free - legally - from the
> author's website at  https://rifters.com/real/Blinfsight.htm, though MCC
> and societal acceptance is not a major theme. Robert Silverberg has written
> a story where this is the central theme, "Multiples", which can be read at
> https://astreasweb.net/plural/multiples-silverberg.html.
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