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Hello! Taking over from Cyclone for a moment - characters don't have to be strictly of human origin; thus far we have a player working on an AI, though overall we'd rather have this be the exception rather than the rule within the cast proportions. Mental uploads and backups are also entirely feasible, although I imagine they would be limited in their diffusion as much of the original equipment has decayed along with the knowledge of its employ. You could, however, absolutely have a character who makes this kind of technology their domain, like a Daedalus creating automata in his image or something similar. 
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>I see. I bring it up mainly because I had an idea for a sort of antagonistic banished god who either made eir's own mythology centered around reasoning and data collection/transhumanism ideal, or assimilation, and whose creations use nanite solutions to lead armies of reanimated corpses--or at least bodies forcibly hijacked and resuscitated within a reasonable timeframe--to fight against the gods in the Marble City. That or a god of like spacetime since gravity is just a curvature in it, meaning gravity manipulation would result in a bit of spacetime manipulation as well. Albeit crude manipulation. Or possibly an Oracle god of sorts, one who uses probability and statistics to sort of fake precognition.

>Mostly though the idea of playing an antagonist who doesn't really want to see the mission parameters violated, and either works in secret or blatantly, is the idea that's tickled my fancy thus far. Barring that, I also have an idea for a god who is just as decadent as the others, but unlike them they wouldn't actually trust the clone of Zeus. Namely because it reeks of a plot on the God King's behalf. Perhaps a plot to weed out those who are disloyal, since Zeus has held power for centuries before this, which means he's probably employed some pretty ruthless and extreme methods in order to keep said power before.