suppose I am writing some code that will take a god object containing all the state of an emulator, move out several key components of it, reset their states, and then place them into a new god object that's meant to be almost indistinguishable from a completely fresh one. what's a nice, horrifying metaphor for this. i want a word that conveys the idea of like, organ harvesting from a perfectly healthy subject or something. or some kind of spiritual thing.

oh, “salvage” isn't disgusting but has the right kind of feel to it

it would be cool if it's disgusting though because I do feel dirty for writing this. it's not necessary on any good operating system but, alas, I have to do it on Android