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The day of reckoning.
Human(a) Clone worlds 4i320. Satellite in orbit above Salui 4.
“I sometimes wonder, WHY as a CLONED being, there are those races, that despise us? “ Ceiju stared at the control screen.
Not alone re that; others too, were staring at screens, their consoles lit up and buzzing with some spectral based analysis, going on?
Monitoring what appeared to be a scout craft? It was like nothing they had ever seen before, well in this part of the
Qiverse. Capable of rift travel. It was there and then gone, there and then gone BUT in jumps. A hop from one part of space to another. Then it was gone; GONE. It did NOT reappear again. 
Commander Diep had been listening to Ceiju. He hated clones, especially the old Solus 3 type 2 clones. Micro chipped semi hybrids. The earlier ones, could be damaged or destroyed, by using an infra red pulse modulator flashed, across them.
IT erased their chips. Some could be re programmed and turned into glorified ‘Bynards’ much to the delight of those who had procured them somewhat illegally.
Others, adapted, to turn on, those around them; murder, mayhem.
The later ‘upgrades’, were encapsulated, with a Cromodium casing, lining their ‘skulls’. Nothing, could get past that, unless the ‘head’ was removed.
Leaving, a vulnerable weak spot, now exposed, where, the re programming, could take place, with ease. Reprogrammed clones with remote interfacing could sell for a lot of Drex.
Aliens working with them, in space, or even within ‘colonies’, could be nervous around them.
A reprogrammed ‘botnik’ as they called them; with, someone, using remote access?
Damage to defense systems, leaving the craft or outpost defenseless? Other, vital life support, wiped out, just as, those reliant on it, would soon be.
Everything with them, was recorded. Their responses, mentally, physically, emotionally were all pre programmed; artificial. They did not embrace the concept of truth as TRUTH but how it complied with their Algorithms.
Ah the ones with their ‘Souls’ in control? True the ‘Soul’ or as other races acknowledged them; ENTITIES.
Could be uploaded, into those control chips. Dependent on, how much, Drex was paid, they got various grades from 1 to 3.
3 being the highest ELITE grading. The physical forms, were almost always, perfection incarnate. Including the intelligence quotients. Intelligent, savvy and sassy felines.
The males, again in their grading from the physically dumb and stupid ones that could be used and abused for pleasure or hard labour? Both male AND female grade 1’s to 2, could get their ‘souls’ upgraded for nothing.
The final processing, was to turn them, into whores, workhouse slaves, mining slaves and ! Whilst those, such as Star systems analytics, made a their fortunes.
All ‘Soul’ clones from the ‘industrials’; had a distinct BLUE line around their left arm. The darker the blue the more they were 1 or 2 graded. A thin barely visible blue line indicated they were type 3 ELITES.
Let us NOT, confuse them, with the pure AI CLONES.
NOR Vendaren CLONECTICS, though the ‘manufacture’ was similar.
ALL ‘V CLONECTICS’ were the same in appearance, colours AND the military might of the Vendarens.
Whereas AI pure clones, could be; different colours, male and or female good, bad or indifferent. Some what we would know as domestic animals were also available as AI clones.
Rebels, especially the dreaded ‘Karens’, would find those, who had bought and paid for; pleasure dollies.
The most basic models, had no, AI functions, thus, were far safer. Cheap and nasty but for off world mining colonies, many were bought, sold, traded or even shared.
The more advanced models, (NOT SuRan Bynards) with AI control modules, adaptive ‘memonics’. were better constructed, but seriously flawed, as they, could be reprogrammed, by the owners, or others who were less inclined to be doing so in the interests of the users.
From the crazy, to outright murderous and, murder, could be shagging their hosts, to the point they collapsed, from exhaustion, or a heart attack; it happened.
Many of such incidents, were not recorded. A machine or robotic, could be destroyed, if such happened, but not investigated or charged with murder.
Other races could use the CLONES to attack their owners. Hacking of their control systems, was not so common due to specialized security systems. Hackers were more interested in Drex mining as it was known that allowed them to drain the wealth of their victims whilst remaining almost undetectable.
Goks (God only knows) ‘sentient lifeforms’ cold be manipulated. Not easy for the more sophisticated ones but the simple servant variety with a limited number of tasks they were involved in, could be reprogrammed.
Obtaining the global coding for some model variants was not difficult; for a price ANY ‘simpler’ could be reprogrammed.
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