Where do empty 'natural' Sleeves come from?

In Altered Carbon, Stacks are sometimes transferred to another Sleeve.

Eg. The little girl who dies and can only afford and old woman sleeve.

Other than convicts (who surrender their sleeve when they go on ice) and manufactured sleeves (synthetic or clone) where would you get what I call an Natural Sleeve?

If the sleeve was of use to its current stack, why would they give it up?

And of it were NOT of use to its stack (ie: dead) how would it be usable for someone else?

Could it be that someone traded up and traded on their old sleeve?

Best Answer

It wasn't clearly indicated on the show.

Sleeves were available for re-use on followings, Some are mentioned in the show, some are speculation and some are from the books.

Psychasec keeps an inventory made up of mostly jailed criminals.
Slaves from people who have pawned their sleeves for personal or financial reasons.
Rich and powerful do 3D print(although this is illegal).
And there could be some other methods, not directly shown in the series, yet.
- human trafficking.
- Boycott sleeves from storage and or cloning facilities.
- Bodies from people who've faced murder, accidents, and other violent activities.
- Soldiers who died in the war(bodies from the enemy, like the battle with envoys).
- Criminals who get shot and die on the action.
- selling unwanted babies.

Everybody we were seeing on a regular basis was rich and connected. I guess that would mean the average janitor, if they didn't have the money for a re-sleeve would just be put into storage or something then.

Most important thing to think about is, Everybody dies, but that doesn’t mean everyone gets re-sleeved. So actually amount of dead doesn't need to be equal to requirement for re-sleeve operations.

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Where do the sleeves come from in Altered Carbon?

Sleeves can be altered or produced with genetic and cybernetic enhancements for physical and mental augmentations, superior in strength, speed, reflexes, stamina, endurance, and senses. This can be seen when Reileen breaks into Fightdrome, as she is able to perform a massive leap effortlessly.

What is sleeve altered carbon?

Sleeve Death This is simply the name for when your sleeve gets destroyed or damaged. The mind lives on without the body--as long as your cortical stack isn't destroyed with it.

What is DHF altered carbon?

DHF is a person's mind, brain, and personality in data form. That data that gets stored on a cortical stack and inserted into a sleeve (body). It's what enables people to become effectively immortal in the Altered Carbon universe.

What is double sleeving?

Double-sleeving is when you take a trading card and put it in two layers of card sleeves. 2 sleeves, double the sleeves, double the sleeving! First, the card is placed in a Perfect Fit inner sleeve. Then, the card is placed in a regular sleeve.

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