Death

Death in Starmourn will work like this:

All players have an internal neural replicator (INR) that is continuously updating itself with a full model of your current brain activity.

Players will all also have a sample of your DNA at a cloning facility, which are all run by the Atarsids, who turned to cloning to replenish their devastated species after the Third Cleax War, and are the foremost experts in cloning now. Players select a particular cloning facility to be their default one, and can change it whenever they wish.

Every time a player lands on a planet with a cloning facility (which exist on most civilized worlds), or sets foot on a space station that has a cloning facility, their mindsim will upload a copy of their current brain scan from their INR to the cloning facility’s network.

When a player dies, they'll be resurrected at a cloning facility with the amount of xp they had the last time your brain scan was backed up. If they feel like that gap is too big, and they died in a way that saw their INR survive, they could go back to where they died, retrieve their INR, and get a good portion of that xp back.

However, anyone can retrieve that INR, and if they choose to use it on themselves, they’ll get a good portion of that xp for themselves, though less than you’d get back if you used it yourself. Or, they could choose to sell it back to the player that died, or to someone else. That’s a nasty thing to do, of course, but Starmourn’s full of space villains (some of them are probably reading this now).