I am building a system that involves:

1. A Quest script receiving Actor(s) via arguments in a function.

2. Information about those Actor(s) being saved to a data system outside of Papyrus (a Flash UI).

3. Then, that Actor information being sent back to a Papyrus function at a later time.

I am trying to avoid having to save references to the actors in aliases. Instead, I would like to save the minimum information (formId?) that I would need to recreate a reference to that actor.

Is there a way to do that?

Assuming that there is a way, is it a costly operation in terms of performance?

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