Trope-a-Day: Clone Army

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@Jack M Sexton <noxes.kaj@gmail.com> on 2016-08-21 13:27:54 wrote

I wonder, has any particularly ambitious (and cheap) tried to work around the problem by growing essentially bioroids (Ie, the biological answer to the drone armies of star wars). Something like what the field asset repurposing ravens put together but grown to purpose with a sufficiently dim but trainable brain (ie, slightly better than monkey with a gun).

Not that this makes them any more ethical or safer really for reasons you already mentioned in post, but it SEEMS to get around those problems enough that I could see a more bio-technically inclined Illtine Union trying it.

I mean who wouldn’t want vat mooks?

@Alistair Young <athanasius.skytower@arkane-systems.net> on 2016-08-21 13:30:34 wrote

Ah, you want greenjacks! A favorite among would-be evil overlords everywhere.