Aberrant clone

"*Another complete failure. While the subject's base genetic code remains intact, the physical expressions have been…unsettling.*"
―Lead Ethron Cloning Technician
The **aberrant clones** were genetically flawed clones of prime clones. After Asolas escaped from Kilamengard, Gorgeth Bierack attempted to create more powerful and obedient versions of whomever he took interest him for Program X. As a result of an imperfect cloning process, however, numerous clones were engineered and ultimately discarded due to their physical deformities and mental instability. The experiment was rarely corrected by the lead cloning technician because of how difficult and complex the process was. By 2007, hundreds of failures were secretly stored within the cloning facility of Eznius City on the planet Suezeus. By then, however, Bierack used human DNA to finally succeed in creating a stable clone.

## History

### Origin

"*We are still left with hundreds upon hundreds of abject failures. While they no longer try to kill anything that comes near them, they are nearly insensible.*"
―Lead Cloning Technician, Eznius Cloning Facility
The aberrant clones came into existence as a result of clandestine project to successfully clone an individual. Bierack tried using templates like Asolas and Bierack himself to clone, but they proved to be impossible, Bierack tried cloning many other species and was unsuccessful. Bierack then tried cloning humans for the first time when he kidnapped future members of Alpha VI, used them as templates from which the required DNA samples for cloning would be harvested.

Many obstacles hindered the project's success rate, however. First, the scientists resorted to using the accelerated cloning process, an experimental procedure that produced full-grown subjects in under a few weeks; the drawback being that all clones bred through this process would inevitably succumb to madness due to their rushed growth cycle. Another dilemma that confounded the cloning technicians was the difficulty of cloning specific species, especially the Zathuram, Asolas. In 2007, Bierack realised that he had not tried to clone humans before, so he secretly tracked Tom Thompson's location and kidnapped him as well as some of his friends. After a while, Bierack successfully created non-aberrant clones. By then, it had long been believed that clones could not be successfully created from any species besides humans. There was no definitive explanation for this phenomenon, but Bierack theorised that humans being weak-minded and pathetic beings was the reason for their possibility to be able to be cloned. The third and most problematic obstacle was memory. In order for the clones to utilise their inherent powers and combat skills, their memories would have to be imprinted on their clone's own brains, thus transferring his knowledge and experience to his clone. But through this, the clone would also develop an identity crisis as a result of possessing the memories and emotions of another person.

Despite these obstacles, Gorgeth Bierack proceeded with his plans and the initial results produced a batch of hundreds of aberrant clones, all physically deformed and mentally unstable, and none of whom were considered successful by his standards or his lead cloning technician. The aberrant clones were put into suspended animation within their cloning tanks; the mistakes in their design would be gradually corrected, resulting in less flawed clones. Meanwhile, Asolas personally trained several promising test subjects in the hopes that at least one clone would prove sufficient enough to become a new assassin of the Apex Brotherhood.

## Powers and Abilities

Despite their many genetic flaws, the aberrant clones possessed their genetic template's powers. But due to the psychological damage that they suffered in the cloning process, the clones would never be able to utilise their genetic template's abilities in a concentrated and focused way of combat.