ProdClone
ProdClone (Obsolete)
The name ProdClone stands for "Production Clone", and act as perhaps the most important industrial tool of the Technocratic Republics. A quick definition of a ProdClone would be:
Biomechanical, multi-purpose working unit, manufactured from highly modified human clones. Sentience is taken out at birth, point during which they are programmed to their specific tasks.
There are four kinds of basic Clone Models, worked and perfected over centuries of genetic experimentation, which are used to spring off the main 'Clone groups: ProdClones, WarClones, SpellClones, and HabClones, although the last ones have had little or no success within the nation (they were originally intended to serve as social entities).
The Clone Models are, during their vat-growing state, very similar to human beings, with the exception of a highly modified genetic code in certain areas -depending on the kind of 'Clone that will be created-. During the "birth" process -when they are taken out from the growing vats-, they are implanted with an artificial neural network, which suppresses will power and self-awareness, at least to the degree where it becomes useful -they still require a small amount of capacity in order to work as intended-. The same neural network is then loaded with the "New Mind" of the 'Clone, which contains every bit of information the unit would need to perform the desired work (for example, how to operate a crane, or how to differentiate between two different kinds of chemicals). The following step is to re-engineer the body, through the implementation of various kinds of wetware, thus effectively creating the perfect biomachine for the job. A rough estimate calculates the efficiency of a ProdClone unit to be from five to ten times that of a typical human worker.
The HP Protocol of 261 S.R. established that 'Clones do not fall in the "Human" nor in the "Sentient" category, and thus they can be traded as commercial/industrial/military goods freely.
Recent Troubling Issues
Within the World Station [[Omeldor-1], ten million ProdClone units to be disposed off have been detected to behave in a dangerously irrational manner, breaking all pre-established behaviour protocols and guidance implemented. Although further studies have to be made, the source of this problem has been already detected: The Omeldor-1's psi superbrain, known as The Corpus. This giant biomechanical organism was implanted with Psi-Seeds during it's construction by Der Angst engineers. However, the unexpected events that shook said nation in the coming future destabilized the Corpus. Although it was contained, recent events have shown that the brain is somehow bypassing the barriers and affecting the ProdClones. It is unknown if this is a merely accidental event, or if the Corpus has somehow managed to develop sentience and is trying to grasp control of the 'Clones weak neural system.
Studies have indicated that the 'Clones become harmless once they are removed from the Corpus' area of influence -that can be roughly measured as the first one hundred thousand miles around the Omeldor-1, which is located in the Kuiper Belt-. The units taken to Chasma Dominia for studies have shown normal behaviour, as long as they are not influenced by Corpus material, known as Fladd-2.
