[quote=@TheUnknowable]
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Memory transfer technology does exist and they would have brought slaves with them from other worlds, so maybe it managed to transfer some of its memory to you.
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Cool Cool, Now I just gotta choose what kind of civilization it was a part of. I was considering Either something close to earth in levels of technology like an interplanetary cyberpunk race, a young interstellar race who had just developed FTL before being attacked, or a mature interstellar species who fought in a war against the invaders.