DELETE means you EXCLUDE it from the PROGRAM, ERGO, you may still have your character in the essence of FORUMS.
As I said, you can simply pretend that they are dead - it's whoever owns the character's RP.
Forum characters are especially defined only in roleplay (if you don't make in-game ships for them or delete those that they do have), so if you say they are dead, that is that.
' Wrote:I understand the ethics of Freelancer, we may be all 'Trent' but our intentions override his existence.
Due to roleplay, through which we can then say our particular Trent is dead (also by deleting the data that applied to him).