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« on: November 20, 2017, 03:05:15 PM »
There could be another approach, where the stability and functionality of the clone is based on time and resources. The most rudimentary cloning setup could pump out quite a few relatively unskilled "flash clones" in a short period of time, with a high rate of deformities, emotional instability, and other mutations. Those would be useful for unskilled labor or as a last-ditch attempt to hold the line in the face of impending raids. Increasingly complex medication and longer cloning times would result in higher-tier clones, culminating in nanomachines and gene therapy to create superhumans for the end-game, but creating such a clone would involve a cocktail of high-tech drugs and nanobots, and the better part of an in-game year, while flash clones would only take a week or two.