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==Clones in Metamorphosis Alpha==
Clones were introduced to [[Metamorphosis Alpha]] as an optional... race? Background? In issue #6 of [[Dragon Magazine]] - hey, this is an '''old''' game! Long story short, the Warden was outfitted with a protocol called "Clone Bank Alpha", where if a catastrophe seriously impacted the ship's available stockpile of a specific worker caste so that the generation ship couldn't handle replacing them in the standard way of "have kids and train them to take over", then this specialized bioengineering bay would churn out-rapidly grown clones artifically implanted with the knowledge they need to do their jobs, thus replacing the casualties quick and easy. Unfortunately, the Warden's designers never considered that the ship might be hit with a disaster so severe it not only caused the necessary casualties, but also knocked the damn clone bank offline... sure enough, guess what happened? And, of course, by the time the repair bots accidentally manage to fix things enough that they inadvertently turn it back on, the clone bank is as decayed as everything else on the ship, resulting in errors ranging from incomplete knowledge uploads to rampant genetic mutation. So the clones aren't ''that'' much better off than their techno-barbarian [[mutant]] descendants.