Safe Acension for Baseline Bob

[Rynn]

Depends what you mean by "safe" and "successful". Safe, to my mind, means that the resulting entity is not a blight or perversion. Most empires are likely quite capable of achieving this, though it possibly takes an entity one S-level higher than you are trying to attain to achieve. As for "successful", as Bear said a transapient is so far beyond a modosophont that talking about it in terms of the same person is laughable. Like expecting a fertilised egg and Socrates to be very alike. Many transapients may maintain a modo-level avatar modelled on their previous selves but it's little more than a finger puppet for talking to animals.