So how does soul killer work? (Spoilers)

[Bastila Shan]

I’m confused about how soul killer kills Vs soul at the end when V talks about it with Johnny with Alt in the arasaka mainframe. I picked the ending where Johnny gives V back her body and V lives a while longer in her mansion with Judy.

[Nessazina]

soul killer has completely digitized V mind and left the body as an empty shell.
And then the data is copied onto the chip that controls the body.

[Bastila Shan]

So what V doesn’t feel like V any more? So technically Vs mind is just a cloned consciousness of original V?

[Roderick]

Originally posted by Hoboslayer:

So what V doesn’t feel like V any more? So technically Vs mind is just a cloned consciousness of original V?

Bingo. It's basicly in the name. Soulkiller activly scans your brain to copy the bio-electrical functions to a chip. In this prozess, the brain dies. It kills you while making a copy of you.

[=]THC[= Ugly Bastard]

Originally posted by Roderick:

Originally posted by Hoboslayer:

So what V doesn’t feel like V any more? So technically Vs mind is just a cloned consciousness of original V?

Bingo. It's basicly in the name. Soulkiller activly scans your brain to copy the bio-electrical functions to a chip. In this prozess, the brain dies. It kills you while making a copy of you.

I think there's a dialog between V and Johnny which pretty much summs it up to this.
Either V or Johnny talks about it felt when they used Soulkiller on Johnny and it really sounds like the copy process "rips out" the neural network out of the brain leaving nothing but an empty body behind.

[󠀡󠀡aynhse]

"Soul Killer" doesn't actually destroy the soul, it simply digitizes it and stores it as an Engram. From there Arasaka can do literally anything they want with you and they have 100% legal right to do so, it even states they can in the contract in the devil ending
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2333762781

What happens to the body is a different story as Johnny's version(aka our version) didn't just take a portion of your soul but it took the entire thing meanwhile the 'newer' version only takes a portion of it and thus the person doesn't just die on the operating table, as evidence with Saburo still alive after the procedure and even after dying he still had an engram and such. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2319922386

In Johnny's version it wasn't expecting the engram to be uploaded onto a living host which is why the relic was killing us. In the 'newer' version it appears to grant the same thing (rip yorinobu in devil ending) but it's simply optional now instead of mandatory like in Johnny's version.

In Johnny's version the host was expected to be dead or whatnot while in the 'Newer' version it takes that into an account and allows for the engram to be uploaded onto a living host without killing them but it's still clearly present on the engram as shown with Yorinobu.

In the ending though Alt simply removes both Johnny's and V's souls from the body and grants them a choice, either follow her to beyond the wall or go back to the body. The body has been prepared for Johnny's soul and not V's so returning back to your own body gives you a few months of life meanwhile Johnny would be perfectly fine and able to live into old age just fine with that body in it's current state in the ending. But no matter what option you picked Alt will have to rip out apart of your soul to finish the process for whatever reason. So Johnny and V will still be connected in some form or another even after they part ways, that's why you can still hear Johnny's words some endings even though the procedure to separate the two was done.

so there's your answer.

[Wabbajack]

Originally posted by =THC= Ruka:

Originally posted by Roderick:

Bingo. It's basicly in the name. Soulkiller activly scans your brain to copy the bio-electrical functions to a chip. In this prozess, the brain dies. It kills you while making a copy of you.

I think there's a dialog between V and Johnny which pretty much summs it up to this.
Either V or Johnny talks about it felt when they used Soulkiller on Johnny and it really sounds like the copy process "rips out" the neural network out of the brain leaving nothing but an empty body behind.

its on the side quest when V help a prisoner to crucify himself.

My opinion when someone just get "soulkillerd" the just copy their bie-electrical or something just as Roderick said. It maybe act like a person but its just a copy, theres no soul in it.