Mind Drive

Mind Drives, formerly known as the Memory Drives, are cybernetic implants used on Sanctum to transfer the consciousness and memory of Primes from host to host.

Overview
The Memory Drive technology was created by Becca Franco and was the precursor to the Flame. She provided the technology to Eligius III Exploration Team in order to log their memories as they explored space. It was reversed-engineered by Dr. Gabriel Santiago, in order to upload an entire mind, thus creating a new technology, known as the Mind Drives.

Unlike A.L.I.E. 2.0, the Mind Drive can hold an entire consciousness. When Josephine died, her boyfriend Gabriel and her father Russell started working on ways to bring her back to life. Since Josephine's mind was already stored in her Mind Drive, Gabriel began experimenting on how to upload her mind into a new host. After many unsuccessful tests, he finally figured out that for it to work, they needed to use a fully developed host brain that can handle the entire file size; and they had to clear the host's consciousness. This hypothesis succeeded and Gabriel was able to bring Josephine back to life using the Mind Drive technology.

Following this breakthrough, the original families (the Primes) to settle on Sanctum took advantage of the Memory Drive technology to store their entire consciousness in the Mind Drives. Following a Prime's death, their Mind Drives would be used to transfer their consciousness into a new host - essentially keeping the Prime alive. Like the Flame, only nightbloods are compatible with the Mind Drive; and are therefore the only ones who can serve as hosts for the Primes.

Notes and Trivia

 * This is the third type of mind interacting chips shown in the series. The first were the City of Light Keys created by A.L.I.E. and the second was A.L.I.E. 2.0, a.k.a. the Flame, created by Becca Franco.
 * Chronologically, Mind Drives were created before the other two chips.
 * Unlike A.L.I.E., which is a true artificial intelligence (machine intelligence), the Mind Drives store a real person's consciousness.
 * Josephine's Mind Drive is stored in Simone's necklace.
 * It took Gabriel 25 years to jailbreak the Mind Drive.