digdug wrote:Lol at the plot twists !
But yeah, a couple of points:
- cloning increases in price every time you do it and it's limited.
That's insurance premiums, not cloning. The cost is static, it's the company's risk in insuring you that increases. The Ares field an entire army of clones, which would not be practical with diminishing returns.
The possibility of insurance resurrecting the player after being disintegrated by the ICS aside, a massive society of clones like that of the Ares would not be practical if cloning worked in such a way.- There might be restrictions of how the cloning process works: maybe to clone, you actually have to kill the person in the process (extract brain data?), making it not feasible to have another "you" around.
Entirely possible. Their principals of Democratic Republicanism and individualism would likely lead them to oppose the act of replication on the basis that it diminishes the value of a human life.Or maybe Commonwealth laws prohibits people duplication. This will also explain how Lord Mikho is on all the stations, because, of course, BM doesn't follow Commonwealth laws, but normal people are forbidden to clone themselves at will.
That's interesting, where did you hear that? It seems familiar to me, but I cannot pinpoint the source.On the other hand, rich people can clone themselves to generate sons and daughters, and this is the case with Kate Morgental, AFAIK.