Lipid Polarity Drives

Lipid Polarity Drives are memory storage drives that can back up several brains per unit. Valhalla has three units, Bones, Crusher and Bashir. It is standard procedure to back up the memories of Valkyries going into space or into extremely dangerous missions. Though the memories cannot reconstitute a human mind, they can provide records for the other Valkyries.
The genetic sequencing of the drives was among Høtherus's first major accomplishments.
The structure of a hydrocarbon chain is zig-zagged. In a Polarity drive, these represent long chains of 1’s and 0’s. The polarity refers to the selective tagging of hydrogen atoms in the chain to become active or passive writing out binary code upon the molecule. This allows the near-atomic level recording of information in an extremely space efficient organic block. This is not actually the most efficient method of data storage, but it is the most reliable, as the other technologies are holographic memory, neuron based, and anything with a nervous system can change its mind, and erase or misrepresent data.
Each Phospholipid matrix looks very much like a large wheel of cheese. There are about 100 trillion atoms in a single cell of organic material, and about 5 trillion cells in a large wheel of cheese (thanks Google), that makes each drive capable of housing 500 quintillion gigabytes. Or in scientific terms- A lot.
== Spoilers ==
Dr. Niide used Beth's memories to create something like her when she died. It didn't end well.
== Behind the Scenes ==
Bones, Crusher and Bashir are the names of the doctors from the first three Star Trek series.
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