There were some disturbing implications for what must be happening to her each time she entered—maybe someone like Olivia could ignore the continuity of consciousness, but Lucky couldn’t. She wasn’t prepared to use a transporter if she died every time she stepped on the pad. Digital information cannot be moved. It is destroyed in one location and recreated somewhere else. The Pioneering Society understood this well—once a body was instantiated, it became a new individual completely divorced from the context of its previous lifetimes, even if the original had been destroyed only minutes before.