How does projecting interact with your phsyical form? Options

[ShadowDragon8685]

As far as I know, if you're projecting and your physical body gets killed, you may remain astral for as long as you had hours to remain projected before dissipating, thus possibly giving you time to find allies and ask them to avenge you, find loved ones and say your last words, find some dark and twisted spirit and make a faustian pact to borrow an Inhabitation or Possession power and gank some other poor bastard's body, undertake an emergency Metaplanar Quest to find a Metaplane where astral forms don't dissipate, or just go and do something you always wanted to do but never would've because you wouldn't have survived it, like try to astrally fly to the moon, or go and tell off Lofwyr or Ghostwalker.

The only thing that's confusing me now is why isn't there an Astral Condition Monitor? (8 + Willpower/2) boxes would seem to be the right choice. If you take a stunball spell while you're Astral, the damage racks up on your normal Stun Condition Monitor; if you take leave of your senses and decide to massively overcast something, you take the Drain on your physical condition monitor, and so forth and so on.

How does that affect your projecting self, though? Do you suffer wound penalties for wounds you load onto one of your condition tracks while you're projecting? What about preexisting ones that were there when you projected? And what happens when your meat body dies; do you suddenly have no more wound penalties at all? Are you effectively invincible for the duration of your projecting time, able to go on an overcasting nova spree, chipping away at Great Dragons with Death Touch with virtual impunity, and able to summon the oversummoned spirit you've already dreamed of? Or are you completely helpless, unable to do anything but perceive that which is obvious and communicate with others?

And what if someone takes exception to your continued existence during your golden hours, and wishes to hasten your departure from existence? Can that Great Dragon turn around and blast you into dust, and if so, to what effect? You don't have any condition tracks any more, because you're a dead magician projecting, so it seems like even nailing you with a deadly Mana spell like Manabolt, or mauling you in Astral Combat, would be completely and utterly ineffective.

Basically, what the heck is going on with a magician when he's past the threshold of mortality and clinging to existence as a psychic projection?