Preservationists defend the continuity and dignity of sentient beings across biological, digital, and uplifted forms. Their core claim is simple: once a mind can suffer, remember, and make claims on others, it must not be reduced to property.
The movement became a major moral force only after repeated scandals in upload abuse, biodrone exploitation, and uplift repression made substrate chauvinism harder to sustain. Preservationism is one of the setting’s strongest bridges between ethics and rescue practice.