Quote Originally Posted by Kirutsuki View Post
what do you mean mix? (The entire process is that the Alexandrians use the regulators and the weapons to extract the entirety of the soul, put it in a blender, extract the memory and have that memory eventually go to the cloud for storage and eventually into Living memory while the soul is stored separately for usage with the regulators. And when a person with a regulator dies of old age, it's soul is processed the same way.)

But yea someone did mention that if the memory is kept in Living memory, that the soul would stay in a limbo until they can reconnect again. But I'm unsure if that's true.
It makes sense, but it isn't really stated directly to be the case.

And someone else mentioned that because they are just memories they don't go to the aetherial sea if they are erased as an endless, because it's just lines of code, so the soul has already gone it's merry way.

This is what I mean that the story should really try to explain what the actual is going on here.
Y'shtola, I think, says they just recreated what the Aetherial Sea does, but save the memories. When you die, your soul goes to the sea, memories are washed away, and the purified soul chill around until it's assigned (how, why, when, we don't know) to a new body.

Quote Originally Posted by Information Terminal
Second Stage: Separation
Mixed aether is put through the aetheric separator and divided into its soul and memory components. Soul aether is then conveyed to upper Origenics for final processing, and memory aether to the Meso Terminal (route and location classified).
Nothing stops them from releasing the souls instead of processing them into soul cells. The memories are saved in Meso Terminal, and souls sent to Origenics. Remove the origenics part, souls go for reincarnation, poof.

Who said they soul is in a limbo? In game, or was it somebody on the internet? I don't remember anybody saying that during the story but I may have missed it.

Also, Endless obviously don't go to the aetherial sea, they're memories. Souls go to the sea, memories are just discarded.