Biont Encoding Protocol
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Biont Encoding Protocol
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A Biont Encoding Protocol, or 'BEP', is a systematic
way of encoding a
biological physical structure into a software emulation of that
biological structure. It is typically designed to prevent loss of
information deemed valuable to the function of the biont it encodes,
and almost always includes significant detail data on the brain and
nervous system analogues of the biont, if applicable.
A few of the Sephirotics
have their own preferred BEP format. The
Biovirate's
BEP formats are often considered the most broad-ranging in
descriptive capability, and because of this many of them continue to be
used despite the defeat of the Biovirate in 6009 A.T. Those of the
Zoeific
Biopolity are similarly broad-ranging. The BEPs of the
Negentropics are highly compressed in a truly loss-less manner. Most
Sephirotics use multiple BEPs, often specialised in various ways, for
example:
* Non-sophonts vs sophonts.
* To-be-virched
versus to-be-reconstructible.
Or any of many other alternates.
Most BEP's are modular, using different internal
encoding methods for
different portions or subsystems of the subject biont (for example, far
less data is typically required to describe a bone than a brain). It is
also not uncommon for BEP's to have templates for generic members of
specific species or other generalised groups of bionts, allowing the
amount of data required to encode a specific individual to be reduced.
Some variants of Biont Encoding Protocols only include enough data to
replicate the mind-state of the biont in question (assuming
'mind-state' has meaning in relation to the given organism). Others are
full replication templates for nanotech reconstruction of the biont.
Others are yet more modular, describing, for example, how nerves are
constructed in general, then the routing of the nerves for a given
species and individual.
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In some polities the physical construction of the bionts who live there
has been modified to allow that polities BEPs to be used on them in the
most optimal manner.
