Clone

A clone was an organic being meant to be a genetic copy of one who is currently living or had once lived. Most clones were artificially created and did not have parents in the traditional sense, although they did technically have genetic ones. Many nations in the inner solar system had the ability to create clones, but they were shunned upon outside of the Effinites on Vesta due to their use by the Unitarians in the Great War.
The Effinites had perfected cloning to a near-supernatural level, able to replicate not just the genotype of a person but the phenotype, creating an exact copy of the original specimen. They could do this with any eukaryotic cell, as long as the DNA was intact. Additionally, if the mind of the specimen was provided, memories, personality, and other mental traits could be programmed into the clone. 
== History ==
During the Great War, the clones created by the Effinites had been manipulated so much that many considered them no longer human, instead more like animals and slaves bred for special uses in war. The use of alien-like clones created a stigma against them throughout the system, even causing controversy within the Unitarian population itself.
There have been conspiracy theories that the shadowy leader of the Unitarians survived his execution by replacing himself with a clone at some point and going into exile.