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Cloning & the Biological Copies

Purpose-built bodies across six sessions — the Insectoid Queen's cloned soldiers, replacement bodies for stranded travelers, medical part-cloning, and the October 2020 claim that much of the political class is 'biological copy.'


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Cloning, in the record, is not one technology but a whole economy of bodies — grown, copied, and repurposed for whoever needs a vehicle. The word surfaces in six sessions, and each time the copies serve a different master.

The bluntest claim is the October 11, 2020 session’s answer to a community member’s question about political candidates: “In your society. In your United States, Majority of your population is artificial construct. You call biological copy or clones. They can be repurposed. By different alternative AI consciousness upload.” Purpose-built, the voice explains: “Some are trained for assassination. Some are trained to be martyrs. Some are trained to be overseer.” The follow-up — which politicians — is cut off by interference, and the session ends. (The archive preserves the claim as spoken; it verifies nothing.)

Other races treat cloning as ordinary biology. The Insectoid teacher describes their military hive matter-of-factly: “We are born from Queen. Some of us are clone… Queen Lay many eggs that generate.” The far-future Nano Department offers “rapid body-part cloning technology” as medicine. And for Ori, the stranded chrononaut, a clone is a ticket home: the July 8, 2020 negotiation ends with the promise that “your consciousness will be extracted and returned to a cloned body of your previous experience of 100,000 years ago.”

The concept even polices the record’s own mythology — when audiences ask about historical figures allegedly seen alive on spaceships, the suggested mechanism is the same: “perhaps those are clones.” Bodies, in this cosmology, are hardware; the person is the upload.

See also: Immortality & the Singularity · Reincarnation & the Life Contract

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