Cloning

## Cloning Facility Examination (Turn 8)

The recent discovery of what appears to be cloning facilities in site 7 has prompted concern at the highest levels of Atlantean government, as well as opportunity. Selica believes it of paramount importance to figure out how the cloning process works, as it will make manpower issues in a variety of industries and occupations much less dire.

### Completed

Selica triumphantly announces that the understanding and restoration of the cloning facilities has been a success. She informs you that you can now build your own cloning and false womb vaults anytime, and will also be able to produce a virtually limitless supply of new humans (so long as you have the resources) for whatever purposes you want, when combined with the memory implantation technology you have.

However, the facilities seem to require the oversight of an advanced Man of Stone intelligence to work at maximum capacity and efficiency which presents an entirely new set of obstacles to overcome, primarily that of Atlantean society not being at all tolerant of MOS or AIs in general.

### Rewards

Cloning and Iron Womb technology become available. 10% chance of catastrophic failure.

(Building cloning facilities unlocked)

(250 million clone can be produced per turn)

## Expand Cloning Facilities (Turn 10)

Your cloning facilities are impressive but you believe that they can be expanded more. This would allow to produce twice as many clones without sacrificing their genetic integrity.

### Completed

With the onsite corruption excised via Selica’s specialist team, and the addition of Thot and 2 MOS to Atlantis’ team, running the cloning facilities has become a full-time operation for the upcoming conflict, armies of personnel and the accompanying security moving in and out in huge numbers. Much of the facility has been unearthed, but in some locations the addition of millennia of earth and rocks has been in some cases added to, the more fragile parts of the huge facility now reinforced to protect them from orbital bombardment.

Thus, the idea of expanding the facility made complete sense, what with demand so high and the actual ability to fulfill said supply so low, and building even further underground made even more sense, despite the potential dangers of underground monstrosities . Adding to the chaos and hubbub now came large armies of construction workers and specialists aided by computers and digital schematics for the renovations and expansion plans, all covertly monitored and assisted by Thot, Raziel, and Lājevard to subtly remove obstacles, both human and natural.

## Inspect and Improve Cloning facilities

The last batch of cloned auxilia was a complete disaster with not even a tenth of the clones being valuable. Zerxes, Raziel, and Lājevard want to investigate the root cause of the error, and from there implement safeguards against a repeat. Or, in the case of deliberate sabotage, try and find the culprit.

### Completed

Zerxes and the AIs’ investigations proved quite fruitful, discovering several faults and errors in the cloning apparatus that resulted in the disaster of malformed Auxilia. They also uncovered evidence of deliberate sabotage, though they were not able to find the culprits. They recommend tighter security measures for the cloning facility be implemented.

## Minor Genetic Protocols (Clones)

While all of your clones have had any genetic errors corrected, you want to go a step further and begin applying substantial genome enhancement. It should be easy to introduce minor beneficial mutations to benefit all clones as a whole, regardless of their specialized roles in society. The recent contributions from Anasi and even Ogryn genetics will help immensely in this endeavour, as many Anasi features, and some beneficial Ogryn ones, are capable of being directly spliced into produced clones, resulting in a dramatic jump in quality.

### Completed

Due to a diverse mix of varying gene sets and grafted attributes, all future clones now have a much more robust genetic portfolio now. They are now on average taller (average of 2 meters), healthier, stronger and more adaptable than natural born humans, and are more resistant to certain poisons and radiation.