'Altered Carbon' on Netflix has the United Nations Interstellar Protectorate as the evil empire that Takeshi Kovacs is battling against.
is full of terminology and jargon that can leave casual fans totally confused about what the characters are talking about. One of the more crucial concepts in Season 1 and 2 of the Netflix show, however, is The Protectorate, or the United Nations Interstellar Protectorate, which has a long history with the series main character Takeshi Kovacs .
In the series' history, which we see in flashbacks featuring a young Kovacs , as humans spread around Sol, the long distances between planets became an issue. This led to the development of the"needlecasting" process, where a digital version of one's consciousness can be instantaneously moved from a body on one planet into a new body in another.
Technically, this process was available to everyone, but the increasingly corrupt Protectorate want to keep the technology in the hands of the ultra-rich
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