Forum:Cloning, a bad idea?

I've been doing a lot of thinking about how the Spartan-II's were cloned when they were kidnapped. These clones were flash cloned, therefore unstable, eventually leading to their deaths. Halsey also used clones to eventually create Kalmyia and Cortana. Using flash clones is seen as immoral to use by the UNSC. Later I thought about what's going to happen when the Spartans who are all KIA but only listed as MIA don't come back, people will stop trusting the UNSC and ONI. So then I thought, what if you didn't flash clone all the Spartans, but cloned them at an accelerated, but controlled rate, you could suddenly have all of the lost Spartans back. Plus, in addition, you could manipulate their genetic material so when you give the newly grown clones the Spartan enhancements, they all will respond positively to it, giving you more Spartans then the UNSC originally had. As for the clones having the memories of the originals, ONI could have scanned and copied their brain waves and memories, so they can use those to help develop the brains of the Spartans, making them think that they ARE the actual Spartan they were cloned from.


 * I'm not sure - the problem with flash-cloning a whole person is the large room for error which, due to the complexity of brain mapping and the flash-cloning of them (AIs being able to remember the lives of their donors was a recent brakethrough in the 26th century, being created after the SPARTANs' abductions), the clone is expected to die from degenerative illnesse-; it's not that they weren't trying to keep the clones stable; they just couldn't without waiting years or decades for normal-paced cloning. Converting software to brain memory doesn't look like likely, either, and you'd require an intact brain to copy memories.--  Fore  run  ner '' 17:50, 10 September 2011 (EDT)